Although skies over Culver City have been spotlessly blue all day, City Councilman Steve Rose — who has no known training as a meteorologist — looked heavenward this afternoon, and he reported seeing cloudy terminology passing persistently overhead.
For weeks, Mr. Rose said, this newspaper and others in Culver City have been guilty of language-mangling.
[Editor’s Note: See earlier story, “A Lifetime in the Making, Weissman Joins Candidates Field,” Sept. 26.]
Andy Weissman, who announced last week he will contend for one of the three City Council seats next April, did something unique on opening day of his campaign.
The radiance emanating last evening from the shining faces of the historian Julie Lugo Cerra and the president Cathy Zermeno — the color of Ft. Knox gold and the size of the sun — eloquently told the story of two ladies who were in the midst of staging the Party of the Century in honor of Culver City’s birthday.
An evening that was the quintessence of community celebrations — exactly on the date of Culver City’s 90th birthday — will skip the intermediary stops and go directly into the history books and family albums.
The tone of this evening’s City Council meeting was considerably lowered when a spotlight item — appealing a Planning Commission rejection of a proposed neighborhood car wash and convenience store — was postponed for seven weeks, at the appellant’s request.
Rescheduled for the second week in November, the philosophically fascinating subject of the proximity of two alike businesses is certain to trigger a lively debate.
As everyone knew, judging the success of yesterday’s second half of Culver City’s 90th birthday party would be trickier than the first half.
With hundreds crowding into and around The Culver Hotel last Thursday night the bottom line was an obvious as a lopsided election.
It is over in Culver City for The Jungle.
Regarded by its fiercely loyal customers as the finest nursery of its kind on the Westside, The Jungle is the latest commercial victim of pending light rail in the Washington-National triangle.
Forced to move by the Metropolitan Transit Authority in anticipation of the arrival of light rail service — in three or four or five or more — years, the Saez brothers will turn out the lights on Sunday, Nov. 18, 11 days before Thanksgiving.
In a community where territorialism is a siren-sounding priority, the Redevelopment Wars — which may outlast the 116-year long Hundred Years War — have marched into virgin space.
The ever-popular Redevelopment Wars crossed the supposedly scale-proof wall separating Culver City from Los Angeles at last night’s City Council meeting.
At the end, however, the City Council overrode the powerfully argued protests of 17 (mostly Mar Vista) residents who live near the proposed mixed-use/office complex at 12402 Washington Pl.
When the mother of alleged killer Scott Ansman stepped into the elevator this morning at the Airport Courthouse, she repeated, for verification, the date of her son’s next court appearance to the uniformed man beside her.
“Nov. 6, isn’t that right?” she asked the National Guardsman, who requested anonymity.
When the soldier replied “That’s right,” Mr. Ansman’s mother said tenderly, “That is his birthday.”
It seems to some of Andy Weissman’s friends that the entirety of his life has been prologue for the official announcement that he issued this morning from his law offices in the Meralta Building:
In January, he will become a candidate for the City Council election in April when three of the five seats will come open as the result of term limits.
