To accurately classify the class-challenged Kenny Turan, picture the middle-brow movie reviewer perched, pertly, on the considerable lap of the regrettable – and aptly named – Al Gore. Surely gore is what springs to the fore when you think of the No. 1 American dupe for the enduring comedy sketch known as global climate warming change. Taken seriously only by … Read More

First in a series Four months have passed since an evening in January when the Dr. Ira Diamond-led Homeless Committee of Culver City went out in the dark to count the street-living homeless. For reasons related to multi-tiered crisscrossing directions and dense bureaucracy, the count, by a County agency, still has not been released one-third of a year later. Culver … Read More

On the 187th anniversary of the publication of Mary Had a Little Lamb: Midway through her fourth term in Congress, Culver City patiently waits to derive any detectable benefits from continually electing U.S. Rep. Karen (Oh, It’s Nothing) Bass. As a mature woman of grace, enviable articulation and admirable self-discipline, Ms. Bass is setting strikeout records in Washington where Democrats … Read More

Newspapers this morning overflowed with yawning emptiness regarding the identity of the latest Irish Catholic or Italian Mormon terrorist to wreak fear in the quivering hearts of normal people in Manchester, England. In the wake of last night’s 10:30 terrorist attack at a concert in England, anonymous law enforcement officials revealed that a cluster of potential Catholic and Mormon ruffians … Read More

Judging by the depth of tributes at last evening’s memorial for Scott Wyant at the Vets Auditorium, he knew — closely — more persons than any man in America. Some people collect friends. What separated and distinguished Mr. Wyant was that he vigorously invested in them, and they, equally, in him. Friendship with Scott Wyant was a two-way street. Wyant … Read More

Second in a series   Re “On the Road with Councilman Eriksson” City Hall’s recently approved ban on polystyrene usage by restaurants has brought a spray of bonus developments – spawned in part by City Councilman Goran Eriksson — that should be further pleasing to environmental activists. “When we began talking about a ban,” Mr. Eriksson said, “it was only … Read More

Second in a series Re “Prop. 64 to Bring New Police Approach”   The nearly impossible city-by-city chore of supervising/governing/chasing the production/consumption of now-legal marijuana hands every local California police agency an impossible assignment. This is the most unmanageable, distasteful task officers have faced since some were told a few decades ago to root out unpopular sexual activities in private … Read More

Second in a series   Re “Talking Marijuana at City Hall” Since Culver City residents were invisible at the first meeting of the Marijuana Task Force, here is a bone for uses, growers, sellers and others to gnaw at: Given the enormity of the development of regulations applying to Culver City residents after voters approved Prop. 64, police Lt. Manny … Read More

[Editor’s Note: The second meeting of the Marijuana Task Force will be Saturday morning, June 3, 10 to noon. Jesse Mays, assistant to the city manager, said the meeting will be in Council Chambers.]   While the Marijuana Task Force plunges into a mudcaked pool of potential regulations for Culver City now that the drug is legal, a curious question occurred: … Read More

Second in a series   Re “Jim, Diana Solomon Were F.O.S.: Friends of Scott Wyant”  [Editor’s Note: There will be a memorial service for Scott Wyant on Sunday evening at 6:30 at the Vets Auditorium.] In the week that his friend Scott Wyant, surfer extraordinaire,  has been gone, Jim Solomon has been swimming in difficult memories. Hardly anyone could have … Read More