By Jim Smith Peter Douglas, who was the chief guardian of the California coast for the past 40 years, died April 1. It would have been much better for Venice if this […]
Venice is for the Birds
By Vanessa Cabello It’s not too often I think about birds. From time to time I spot and admire birds in the wild, but I have never really paid much attention to […]
They’re Walkways, not “Side” walks
By Fred Owens Venice – maybe it doesn’t say so in the tourist hype about all the weird people on the boardwalk and all the ultra-cool people on Abbot Kinney – is […]
Scene of the Crime: Marker Unveiled Where Japanese-Americans Were Taken to Camps
It was 70 years later, to the day, that more than 100 Venetians gathered in support of a handful of Japanese-American survivors of the Manzanar Concentration Camp. In 1942, they had been […]
No one ever said it would be easy: Saving the Venice Post Office
By Jim Smith In spite of a lawsuit brought by the Coalition to Save the Venice Post Office, the Postal Service has plowed ahead with efforts to sell the historic building and […]
Daniel Kaufman – Art at the Speed of Heat
By Roger Linnett Most art is the result of painstaking effort that can often take weeks or even months to complete. Daniel Kaufman was never the kind of guy who could sit […]
Like Father, Like Daughter
By Jack Neworth For the last years of his life, legendary comedian, satirist, social critic and best-selling author George Carlin lived in Venice. Actually he, his wife Brenda and young daughter, Kelly, […]
Stop Drinking Soda
By Marisa Peck Sometimes feeling our best involves doing more, and sometime it involves doing less. We are going to focus on a friendly foe in our midst; a culprit who offends […]
Swami X Speaks
I feel like I’d like to live but I look forward to death. Death has no fear for a man or a woman whose love has become impersonal and endless. In death, […]
Poetry
Andrew’s Alley – Krista Schwimmer In Rhyme – L.E. Mintz What must be said – Günter Grass What We All Must Say – Jim Smith But Don’t See Me – Ronald K. Mc Kinley Our Lady […]
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