Culver City News

I met Hank Aaron once. He was in Anaheim. This was long after he had retired from the Milwaukee Brewers, long after he had broken Babe Ruth's career home run record in 1974 while playing for the Atlanta Braves.

Detectives capped an extensive investigation this week with the arrest of two men for allegedly human trafficking of three females - including a 16-year-old - who were forced into prostitution in Los Angeles and Orange counties, police announced Friday.

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 Culver City Times member Poppalarge makes it two weeks in a row -- putting previous champion Luis Lopez on notice that there's a new kid in town -- by correctly identifying the artwork as a new ... (more)

A Capitol Pavilion escapee who fled to California where he is accused of robbing a bank has been indicted in U.S. Middle District Court on an escape charge.

Cinema still from the movie Les Intouchables starring Anne Le Ny, Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy.

To promote the new season of Arrested Development dropping Sunday, Netflix took the Bluth's Original Frozen Banana stand on the road and over an ocean, beginning earlier this month in London and continuing to New York City and finally Los Angeles, where it has been all week.

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 Wetlands -- an area adjacent to Culver City and of great importance to residents of the city.

These are the new and old sounds coming from my corner of Culver City. What have you been listening to? This song by Parquet Courts is sturdily constructed with angular but melodic guitar lines and a chanted chorus that fishhooks into the reptile brain.

When the fashion industry references the Nineties, words like grunge, Jean Paul Gaultier, plaid, hard-edged and Kate Moss spring to mind.

Jeffrey Weinstein once swept through 19 Denver restaurants in six hours, a feat that most people would characterize as gluttony.

A person prepares to head up stairs to his boarding gate on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at Ontario International Airport.

Northbound traffic on the San Diego Freeway will be blocked just after midnight Sunday and Monday nights, and remain closed until 5 a.m. Monday and Tuesday, Metro officials announced today.

Attorneys representing several cities and San Bernardino County opposed to a plan to modernize Los Angeles International Airport say they are in the process of filing a lawsuit against the agency that oversees LAX.

In 2012, Rebecca Rudolph and Catherine Johnson produced Masters of Architecture at L.A.'s Architecture + Design Museum, working with photographer Meiko Takechi Arquillos.

Looks like school will be in session again, this time in Conejo Valley with Public School 805 , the third outlet from the budding gastropub chain that's opened already in Downtown and Culver City .

The NBC singing contest said Friday that Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will return for "The Voice" Season 5, joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.

The J. Paul Getty Museum is currently offering an exhibition of the photography of Culver City resident Ed Rucha, including the images from some of the 16 photo books Rucha produced between 1963 and 1978, including Twentysix Gasoline Stations , Some Los Angeles Apartments , Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Pacific Coast Highway .

At last night's Culver City Council meeting, the councilmembers unanimously voted to introduce a ban on single-use carryout bags.

Rapper Macklemore, left, and DJ Ryan lewis pose backstage at the MTV Movie Awards in Sony Pictures Studio Lot in Culver City, Calif., on Sunday April 14, 2013.

A bomb squad and other emergency units responded to a Culver City building Wednesday morning after a report of explosives.