Garth Sanders

The second half of Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival concert season opens classily tomorrow evening at 7 in the Courtyard of City Hall. Two-time Grammy-winning guitarist Albert Lee is the soothing, and sometimes rocking, headliner.

No matter the tempo of last week’s performers or next week’s, you will need skates tomorrow evening when Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival reaches the halfway mark of its six-week season. At 7 o’clock in the Courtyard of City Hall, Brenda Lee Eager, subbing for the originally scheduled Barbara Morrison, brings her spectacular Motown, rhythm and blues show to Downtown.

The weather and the mood will be dramatically different tomorrow evening at 7 when the 19th edition of Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival – the title is longer than some songs – heads into its second week in the spacious Courtyard of City Hall.

Former Mayor Chris Armenta today formally announced his candidacy for the state Assembly seat presently held by Holly Mitchell (D-Culver City). In a special election on Sept. 17, Ms. Mitchell is heavily favored to win the state Senate office recently vacated by Curren D. Price Jr., after he was elected on May 21 to represent the 9th District in South Los Angeles on the Los Angeles City Council. Mr. Armenta’s candidacy is based on...

The inaugural season of Westside Baseball is nearing completion, with less than one week remaining in the regular season. Westside Baseball is a combination of the long-standing Westchester Babe Ruth League, along with players from Culver City, and elsewhere. Games are held primarily at Bill Botts Field and Ivan Miller Field.

Dateline Leimert Park Village – That Friday morning was a moment to relish. Melida and Company choir harmonized to the sounds of “Get on Board,” while the Rev. Cecil Murray and Pastor Kevin Sauls galvanized the crowd with grateful prayers at a 9 o’clock gathering to celebrate the advent of a train station stop in Leimert Park Village.

Editor’s Note: The flame of bitterness between incumbent Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich and challenger Mike Feuer – who handily won the arch 5 primary – is heating up by the hour, less than two months before the May 21 runoff. The recent Trutanich ethics complaint against Mr. Feuer now is followed by a Feuer ethics complaint against Mr. Trutanich.

Further cementing the strong base of support he has attracted in the 9th District race for Los Angeles City Council, state Sen. Curren Price (D-Culver City) last night won the official endorsement of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. After Mr. Price’s narrow win in the primary last week, the endorsement was expected since he is a member of the party establishment. Curiously, the party leaders refused to choose between either Democratic candidate for mayor, Eric Garcetti or Wendy Greuel.

A magical season that yielded more victories and rewards than expected from a team largely of underclassmen came to a close last night in the north San Fernando Valley, far from home.

The artwork of Emma Juncosa, a junior at Culver City High School, a student in the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts program, recently was juried and selected as part of a nationwide exhibition for the New Hampshire Institute of Art's "High School Drawing" exhibition.