About Culver City:

Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 38,816, 16,611 households, and 9,518 families. The community is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles but also has a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.

Since the 1920s, Culver City has been a significant center for motion picture and later television production, in part because it was the home of MGM Studios. It also was the headquarters for the Hughes Aircraft Company from the 1930s to the 1980s. National Public Radio West and Sony Pictures Entertainment now have headquarters in the city.

In the 1990s, Culver City leaders launched a successful revitalization program in which it renovated its downtown as well as several shopping centers in the Sepulveda Boulevard corridor near Fox Hills Mall. Additionally the influx of many art galleries to various parts of the city prompted the New York Times in 2005 to praise the new art scene and call Culver City a "nascent Chelsea."