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Isadore Hall Just 48 hours after announcing his campaign for Congress, state Sen. Isadore Hall already had amassed a war chest of well over...

A unique winter series, Architecture Talks, featuring conversations by internationally recognized professionals based in Culver City, opens on Sunday afternoon at 2 at the Exceptional Children’s Foundation, 86-9 W. Washington Blvd.

Back by popular demand after a sold-out run last year -- standing room only -- The Latina Christmas Special at Theatre Asylum features three Latina comediennes telling three personal Christmas stories of holidays past. Sandra Valls, Diana Yanez and Maria Russell return to deck the halls with guacamole in nine performances the next three Fridays and Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 5, at 6322 Santa Monica Blvd.

This afternoon at 3 o’clock, Clippers Coach Doc Rivers will join Pocket Protein co-founder Mark Long and volunteers at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank to pack thousands of bags of fresh fruit and other healthy food items. The Food Bank (www.lafoodbank.org) is at 1734 E. 41st St., East L.A.

For the next two weekends, the Blurred Vision Theater Company of Culver City High School will be staging the classic Chekhov play, The Seagull, at the Robert Frost Auditorium at the north end of the campus. The lights go up on the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts students on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7, and on Sunday afternoon at 1.

[Editor’s Note: Contributors to this story include sanmarinotribune.com and Erin Letarte of SaveTheSanGabrielMountains@gmail.com] Tomorrow at 12 noon, President Obama is scheduled to announce at Bonelli Park, San Dimas, his plans for using executive order to create a San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, nationalizing 350,000 acres of public land. That represents about half of the area that draws three million visitors annually.

The School Board today is seeking qualified, interested persons to serve on a committee of community leaders that will serve as the Independent Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee for the implementation of the District’s Measure CC school facilities bond program. Applications are being accepted for 10 more days, until 4:30 on Friday, Oct. 17.

With Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, starting this evening at 6:29 and continuing for the next 48 hours, when Shabbat begins, an appropriate prayer arrived from Diane and Herb Rosenberg ...

Dr. Carter Dewberry’s OC Cello Choir will return to the Gaslamp Restaurant, Long Beach, on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 7 o’clock. Her performance is to celebrate the launch of The Cello Challenge, a four-month training program for cellists throughout Southern California to improve their technical skill, music theory knowledge, artistry, and sight-reading ability.

Long-suffering residents of the Crenshaw District are about to see a transportation dream spring to life. Construction for the Leimert Park underground station and an underground tunnel – in grave doubt for years -- is expected to begin later this summer. Long-term traffic reconfiguration will be implemented on Crenshaw Boulevard to support the construction of the station and tunnel, where two lanes of traffic will be maintained in each direction.