Culver City

Jun 16 2011

Les Brown to open Saturday session

What separates successful businesses from their counterparts?

Simply put, the successful ones have insight into the overall economy, their industries and how they fit into the mix, said Attorney Shaune Arnold.

How can more business owners join these ranks and ensure the success of their ventures? The answer, she said, is education.

Apr 20 2011

Private fundraiser

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Traffic is expected to particularly heavy throughout West Los Angeles and Culver City tomorrow to accommodate President Barack Obama's fundraising visit to the Southland.

Obama is scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport at 2:30 p.m. He will attend at a fundraiser at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, where he is scheduled to speak around 4:30 p.m., then attend a private fundraiser at a Brentwood restaurant.

Apr 15 2011

Fundraiser at Sony Pictures

CULVER CITY, Calif.—President Barack Obama will be at Sony Pictures Studio in Culver City April 21 for a fundraiser for his re-election campaign.

Tickets are $250 for general admission, $2,500 for VIP seating and $100 for those under 40 years old and can be obtained on his campaign's website, Barackobama.com.

The trip will be Obama's sixth to the Los Angeles area since being elected president.

Obama announced April 4 that he is running for re-election, the same day the fundraiser in Culver City was announced.

Gregg Reese  |   OW Staff Writer
Apr 14 2011

At Roberts & Tilton gallery

“How do you find a center core, calm place to create a painting in which there are so many variations, be it cultural, gender, sexuality?” —Kehinde Wiley

Superstar painter Kehinde Wiley returned to his native Los Angeles Saturday night for the opening of his ongoing exhibition at Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton gallery, titled “The World Stage: Israel.”

Apr 4 2011

Neighborhood residents have objected to the new route

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Metro will begin testing a train car today along a portion of the new Expo Light Rail Line that is nearing completion between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City.

The train will run primarily along Exposition Boulevard from the 23rd Street Station near USC, according to Metro.

An empty Metro Rail train car will be pulled by a high rail vehicle from the Blue Line junction at Washington Street down Flower Street, then west on Exposition and Jefferson Boulevards. The procedure will include clearance and overhead testing.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.