A Correspondent

Saturday, Aug. 2, will be South L.A. Demo Day for a special group of inner city teenagers when they meet on the USC campus, the Salvatori Computer Science Center Room 101, at 941 Bloom Walk. With state schools Supt. Tom Torlakson as special guest, the teenagers who belong to Urban TxTers -- shorthand for Urban Teens, inner city teens, eXploring Technology (TxT) – will be participating in marketing day.

Dateline Pasadena -- 1. "Tensions at PCC threaten school's reputation" LA Times article - July 20, 2014. Hate to break it to you, reporter Jason Song. Our reputation is already in the toilet. President Mark Rocha said it himself. Perhaps if faculty, students and staff laid down and let the Board of Trustees and administration do whatever it wanted, no one would be the wiser.

[Editor’s Note: In conjunction with today’s announcement that the City Council will consider a formal recommendation at its Monday, July 28, meeting to designate the historic Culver City Ice Arena a Cultural Resource, here is the background from City Hall as to how this came about.]

We Tell Stories, an acclaimed children’s storytelling theatre company, celebrates the County public library Summer Reading Program, “Paws to Read” with five different performances reflecting animal tales at the Julian Dixon Library, 4975 Overland Ave. Shows are interactive, multicultural and educational, blending laughter and literacy for fun-filled afternoons for parents and children alike.

The politics of love and the people of politics. A house party and a political party. Emotions run high and power struggles unfold in two of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre’s recent productions, featured in an online double bill screening happening on Thursday evening at 7 o’clock.

After a year of absence, the Exchange Club’s 4th of July Fireworks Show will resume at West Los Angeles College on the evening of Friday, July 4. Gates open at 4, and the fireworks begin at dusk. In prior years, the event was held at Culver City High School. However, construction last year and this at the high school necessitated ...

Editor’s Note: Infuriated by the latest outburst from Pasadena City College President Dr. Mark Rocha, a longtime Santa Monica College professor delivered an extraordinary rebuttal of Dr. Rocha’s anti-shared governance style at last Thursday’s meeting of the PCC Board of Trustees. He preferred not to disclose his name.

The 11th annual “Cruisin’ Back to the '50s” Culver City Car Show, which will take place in two weeks, on Saturday, May 10, 9 to 3. Four hundred classic cars and hot rods are expected to be on display in downtown along Culver and Washington boulevards from Ince Boulevard to Duquesne Avenue, as well as vendors and music performances scheduled throughout the day.

Maybe it was better that season ended lopsidedly two nights ago for the Culver City High School girls basketball team. No tightness or heartbreak as the game wound down. They turned out the lights on the Lady Centaurs’ magnificent 31-5 season, their first CIF title in 35 years, on Tuesday evening far away in West Hills.

[Editor’s Note: We are indebted to the community activist Rebecca Rona-Tuttle for informing us this afternoon that former School Board candidate Claudia Vizcarra introduced a petition earlier today. The text is reproduced below.]We respectfully ask the Culver City Unified School District School Board to pass a policy to make the new print (and the online version) of Culver Currents into bilingual publications. We need ...