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May 17, 2013 at 8pm to June 2, 2013 at 11pm – Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
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Empowerment Congress West Board Meetings 3rd Monday of the Month
May 20, 2013 at 6:30pm to November 18, 2013 at 8:30pm – DWP Crenshaw Community Room
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Parent Education
May 20, 2013 at 6:30pm to May 19, 2014 at 8:30pm – KOAS Network
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"BOBBYWOOD: No Love for Lucy", a Theatrical Performance by Bill Ratner
May 25, 2013 from 2pm to 4pm – Institute of Musical Arts
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Metro Board approves full funding for a Leimert Park station
One day after the city council voted partial funding, the Metro board approved the Leimert Park stop on the Crenshaw line.Leimert Park plays to its own beat
Leimert Park has long been known as a haven of African American culture and arts, but the community may be in for big changes in the coming years.Leimert Park rail stop gets a green light from L.A. City Council
The L.A. City Council voted Wednesday to partially fund a stop at Leimert Park on the Crenshaw Line.Forum
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Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?
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MLK Kingdom Day Parade Celebrates Recent American Hero
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Rodeo Ralphs to be Redeveloped!
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KCRW: Warren Olney's Which Way, LA - County supervisor race goes uncovered by the media
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Curbed LA - West Adams on the down low in 2007
LA Observed - WeAd is the black WeHo in 2007
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NPR: Leimert Park's Struggle with Identity in 2006
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Next Stop: Leimert Park. Los Angeles celebrates added stop on Crenshaw Line
Posted by enhager on May 23, 2013 at 10:30pm 0 Comments 0 Promotions
The MTA Board with a 10-1 vote approved stops at Leimert Park and Hindry on the Crenshaw-LAX Line the day after the L.A. City Council…
ContinueMy Reason To Relay
Posted by Pamela Garrett on May 23, 2013 at 12:08am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Like most of us, I know too many people whose lives have been touched by cancer. Quite frankly I believe that cancer is big business which is why in all this time scientists and doctors have not come up with a cure. In the meantime I've started participating in the annual Relay for Life event.
They are held in communties across the United States. I will be participating in the Baldwin Hills Relay For Life…
Continue Magic Johnson at the Crenshaw Farmers Market with mayoral candidate Wendy Gruel Sat. May 18
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The Crenshaw Farmers' Market tomorrow.
It's Every Saturday from 10am-3pm.
Magic Johnson & Wendy Greuel open the Bfit Wellness Fair at
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Farmers Market Saturday May 18th.
Come by at 10 o'clock to see our beloved LA Laker legend and Wendy Gruel, who could become the first women mayor of LA.
Bring your E-waste to the market for safe collection and disposal.
Also at the Market: "Ask the Dietitian" is back with a yummy recipe… Continue
It's Every Saturday from 10am-3pm.
Magic Johnson & Wendy Greuel open the Bfit Wellness Fair at
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Farmers Market Saturday May 18th.
Come by at 10 o'clock to see our beloved LA Laker legend and Wendy Gruel, who could become the first women mayor of LA.
Bring your E-waste to the market for safe collection and disposal.
Also at the Market: "Ask the Dietitian" is back with a yummy recipe… Continue
FREE Community Brazilian Dance Party...Sat., May 18th 1- 3:30pm Class and 3:30pm - until??? FREE Dance Party
Posted by Erica Bowen on May 17, 2013 at 11:02am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
This Saturday artists from Bahia, Brazil are ready to dance with you! All ages are invited to move to the rhythms of Brazil. The FREE Community Dance Party begins at 3:30pm.
Want to learn the correct movements for Brazilian Samba and Samba Reggae? Join the 1pm Samba Workshop with Slleyk da Bahia(Olodum). The workshop is $30 at the door or $25 in advance. No charge for children under 7.
Located at:
Casa Cultura Yoga and Dance
1623 Centinela…
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Movement on Crenshaw
Posted by Nina Schneider on May 6, 2013 at 5:47pm 6 Comments 3 Promotions
If you try to avoid the traffic on Crenshaw as much as I do, you may not have noticed that progress is being made on the demolition of the former Rent-A-Center, Rite Aid Pharmacy, and another empty storefront at Rodeo Road. I've attached a few photos that I took a couple of weeks ago. Since then, the building to the north of Ralph's (Comet Clea…
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The California African American Museum Celebrates National Children’s Book Week with Heads are Turning, Children are Learning Literary Event
Posted by Terri Dixon on May 13, 2013 at 9:08am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
The California African American Museum (CAAM) will celebrate National Children’s Book Week with the literacy event Heads are Turning, Children are Learning on Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Event co-hosts include actor Thomas Hobson of The Fresh Beat Band; actress Niketa Calame of The Lion King (animation); and actor Donis Leonard, Jr. from Showtime’s House of Lies.
During the literary event, renowned children’s author and…
Continue FREE Performing Arts Summer Camp for Teens | CITYstage
Posted by Lauren Munar on May 8, 2013 at 8:38pm 0 Comments 2 Promotions
Join CITYstage for a week of free DANCE, MUSIC & THEATRE instruction for teens.
Registration is now open for CITYstage Summer Camp and it's FREE!
Parents - Get the kids out of your hair for a week this summer.
Kids - Get out of the house and learn dance, music and theatre!
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Continue DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SPEECHES, SERMONS TO BE DISPLAYED AT CAAM IN RARE SHOWCASE
Posted by Terri Dixon on May 1, 2013 at 2:41pm 0 Comments 2 Promotions
Hundreds of digitally preserved speeches, sermons and correspondence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be on view at the California African American Museum (CAAM) May 5 -11, 2013 as part of an unprecedented effort to showcase the work of the civil rights leader.
With the help of…
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89.3 KPCC event on "invisible" health conditions: rheumatoid arthritis, chronic migraine headaches and chronic fatigue syndrome
If you live in the Los Angeles area, please join 89.3 KPCC on Saturday, May 13 for a panel discussion on what makes a medical condition "invisible": What is unique about the suffering of someone who has R.A. or chronic migraine headaches? What challenges does that person face in communicating her or his condition to a health provider? And is this a matter of public health?
Conditions like cancer, heart disease and AIDS strike fear into the…
Thanks a million to the Empowerment Congress North Neighborhood Council!
On Thursday, May 2, the Empowerment Congress NANDC neighborhood council voted to award a $2,000 grant to ECCLA's 22nd Annual Teacher Awards. We honor K-12 educators who go above and beyond the call of duty at an elegant event at the Natural History Museum of L.A. County. With all of the challenges facing education, this is our opportunity to highlight the many teachers who do extraordinary work every day with very little attention or recognition. We hope to stream the event live, so stay…
KPCC asks: Which term best describes immigrants living in the U.S. illegally?
The Associated Press Stylebook and several newsrooms have dropped the term "illegal immigrant." On the AP website, a top editor clarified, "The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term 'illegal immigrant' or the use of 'illegal' to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that 'illegal' should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country…
LACGC's 15th Annual Family FunFest: Volunteer Opportunities Available!
The Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic is proud to announce its 15th Annual Family FunFest, a mental health awareness event open to the community to commemorate Children's Mental Health Awareness Month. This year, FunFest will be…
South LA meet on $3 billion parcel tax for street repair - TONITE
Glenn Bailey, Vice-Chair of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition reports:
Tonight the "on the road" public hearing on the proposed $3 billion street repair parcel tax will be held in South Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. (agenda below and attached). I hope your Neighborhood Council will be represented.
We all agree that many of our streets need some serious repair work -- the question is whether asking homeowners of modest means to pay $3,500 more on…
LA Streetsblog - LA Mass Transit News
LA Streetsblog will be off today for Memorial Day weekend
Just a quick note that we’ll be taking today off to celebrate the Memorial Day weekend. Have a safe, happy holiday and we’ll see you again on Tuesday.Yes Virginia, there will be a Leimert Park station on the upcoming Crenshaw/LAX Line
It’s time to declare victory in the battle for a Leimert Park Metro station. In an exceptionally fast-moving turn of events — by government standards, anyway — the Metro Board has voted today to fully fund what had been considered optional Crenshaw/LAX Line stations at Leimert Park and Hindry Ave. The move comes just one day after the L.A. [...]Sometimes, You Just Need to Set Aside the Data and Explore an Area by Bike
Some of the participants in the South L.A. Mobility Advisory Committee's ride gather for a post-ride photo outside TRUST South L.A. Sahra Sulaiman/LA Streetsblog There’s a cool new group on the move in South L.A. called the Mobility Advisory Committee. Spearheaded by representatives of TRUST South L.A. and Community Health Councils, with support from the LACBC, it [...]Breaking news — Metro board votes to fully fund Leimert Park, Hindry stations on Crenshaw Line
Steve Hymon of the Source reports that the Metro Board has just voted 10 -1 to fully fund what had been considered optional Crenshaw/LAX Line stations Leimert Park and Hindry Ave. The move comes just one day after the L.A. City Council voted to spend a total of $55 million in future Measure R fund for [...]Santa Monica: Improving Bus Service is an Imperative to Meet Our Sustainability Commitments
From "Life-Cycle Assessment for Transportation Decision-making" report by Mikhail Chester, Juan Matute, Paul Bunje, William Eisenstein, Stephanie Pincetl. This week a UCLA research team (that included our own board member and contributor Juan Matute), published their findings on life-cycle green house gas emissions impacts, energy use, smog & respiratory particulates of public transit compared with driving, [...]Culver City Times
Where Am I in Culver City? Game 055
Every other Friday, I'll post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.'
This time, the question is: Do you know where in Culver City this patriotic geometry is? If you know, enter your response in the comments box of this post! I'll reveal the answer in two…
Where Am I in Culver City? 54 Solution: NoseGo Mural at the Branded Arts Building
Every other Friday, I post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.' Two weeks ago I asked: Do you know where in Culver City this cosmic dog is? …
Culver City Gymnasts making extraordinary accomplishments!
The men’s and women’s gymnastics teams at Broadway Gymnastics School (BGS) in Los Angeles, CA just completed their 2012-2013 competitive seasons with amazing leaps of improvements. Several gymnasts were able to obtain scores high enough to skip levels…
What Is Culver CIty Listening To? 003
These are the new and old sounds coming from my corner of Culver City. What have you been listening to?
Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time
This song by Parquet Courts is sturdily constructed with angular but melodic guitar lines and a chanted chorus that fishhooks into the reptile brain. At two and a half minutes it's an epic for the band. Most songs on their newest album, Light Up Gold, are perhaps half as long, earning Parquet Courts a…
A Look at Area C of Ballona Wetlands: Part One
In March, I reported that the Annenberg Foundation has proposed to build a $50 million interpretive center and make other improvements in Area C of the Ballona…
Rancho Park Online
Your duty as a citizen -- pick your shade of grey
Tomorrow's election day. We've been bombarded with mail and tv, millions of dollars worth, and it still seems to me (and I usually try to follow these things) about very few tangible effects for the neighborhoods.(Interestingly, almost all the millions on the mayoral campaign have come from our neighbors on the westside.) The differences between the mayoral candidates are…
New Blood at Saint Johns - and Some May Have Been Spilled
It's located in Santa Monica but it's a big hospital Rancho Park adjacent, and it's just undergone a total architectural overhaul largely funded by Patrick Soon Shiong, an LA billionaire with an amazing background. (Briefly: Chinese parents, born in South Africa, educated in Canada, became a surgeon in LA, got UCLA professorship, resigned UCLA professorship to found startup which exploded, now may be richest man in town, …
Bike Safety for Westwood Blvd
Westwood Blvd has been designated a backbone of the LA 2010 Bike Plan Network and targeted for the extension of now fragmentary bike lanes.
The many cyclists who ride this corridor everyday, along with those would-be cyclists who have been afraid to get out there under current conditions, have welcomed this news. The stretch between Santa Monica and Pico presents particularly dangerous conditions for cyclists as now configured. This…
Homeless people in Rancho Park
I do not understand why there are so many homeless people in our neighborhood. I know most of them have been here for years and have no where else to go, but why do they come specifically to Rancho Park?
WHOLE HOUSE SURGE PROTECTORS
The utilities in the Cheviot / Rancho area are old and outdated resulting in outages like we had earlier this week. A whole house serge protector provided by DWP will prevent electrical panel burn outs caused during incidents like the one this week. DWP will install a protector when the power enters your home. The added charge is around $3.99 a month extra. Our oven panel burned out several times and the appliance repair company recommended a house surge protector. . We haven't had…
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O'FARRELL AND CHOI CANDIDATE FORUM - TUES. 5/14
It will be held on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at Dorris Place Elementary School. The address is 2225 Dorris Place, Los Angeles 90031. The event will take place in the auditorium. Spanish translation will be provided. Light refreshments will be…
KPCC asks: Which term best describes immigrants living in the U.S. illegally?
The Associated Press Stylebook and several newsrooms have dropped the term "illegal immigrant." On the AP website, a top editor clarified, "The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term 'illegal immigrant' or the use of 'illegal' to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that 'illegal' should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally."
The decision has been applauded by Latino and…
TONIGHT: Echo Park Chamber:Candidate Forum for CD 1 and 13
Echo Park Chamber:Candidate Forum for CD 1 and 13
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