Nostalgia-sniffing residents yearning for former times — when men wore stovepipe hats, ladies' dresses skirted the ground and the Culver City News shlepped original stories instead of recycling old ones borrowed from rivals — welcomed the City Council's return to dysfunctional form last night. Whether it was good news depended on one�s perspective on this evening when the Council faced an agenda of middling issues.
For the first time in weeks, the kids reverted to squabbling over who spilled a saucer of sour milk, or something like that.
For those without a scorecard, the City Council's favorite weekly game pits the strict constructionists — Steve Rose and Carol Gross — against the other three who favor a more relaxed interpretation of behavior rules.