By CJ Gronner The 8th Annual Other Venice Film Festival was another success – and a blast – this year, featuring wonderful work from our own local filmmakers, as well as entries […]
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Interview with Artist Ray Packard
By Mary Getlein Raymond Dean Packard was a Venice artist from 1975 to 1989. He is a renowned water colorist and oil painter who did hundreds of beautiful paintings of Venice.Beachhead: Beachhead: […]
Beat Legend Michael McClure Reads at Beyond Baroque
Michael McClure of Beat Generation fame celebrated his 80th birthday at Beyond Baroque, Oct. 20. McClure was a fictionalized character in the Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels and Big Sur, all written by […]
Snoopin’ Around – The Story of David Asper Johnson and The Argonaut
Reviewed by Jim Smith Sometimes those who report the news have the biggest influence on shaping the news in the first place. Probably no one had a bigger influence on the the […]
Poetry
Burning to Read – Hal Bogotch Let’s take it easy – Jim Smith The Magic Cape – Majid Naficy 90291 – Venice USA – Tina Catalina Corcoran In the Bathroom at the Hotel Cornell – krista schwimmer […]
Venice Memorial to Japanese-Americans Incarcerated During World War II Moves Forward
By Don E. Geagan and Suzanne Thompson In a time when we are consistently threaded by the loss of public space and facilities, such as the Venice Post Office, a very special […]
Reading of Moby Dick Celebrates Whale Migration
“Whenever it is a damp drizzly November in my soul …. then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can,” — Herman Melville, Moby Dick The […]
Venice Art Crawl
By Anne Alvarez The Venice Art Crawl, which is held every third Thursday of the month, has revamped and brought our community closer through the Venice Art Scene. November 17{6p.m-11} Hotel Erwin, […]
Post Office to Venice: “No Hearing”
By Greta Cobar and Jim Smith A letter has arrived from an official of the U.S. Postal Service in Washington telling us that the Venice Post Office will be vacating its historic […]
Letters
Park Plan Perils People’s Picnics – David Busch Big Wheel Confirmation – Max Carlish Protests Spirit of Venice Awards – Lisa Green —————————————— Park Plan Perils People’s Picnics Dear Beachhead, Increasingly, neighborhood […]
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