By Greta Cobar In this day and age, and especially here in Venice, we would like to think that the last thing we would witness would be a socio-economic, racist hate crime. […]
Racism Alive and Well in Venice
Bonin’s Plan for Ice Rink on Venice Beach is Back! Again!
Water is life; water is sacred. by Lydia Ponce CD11 Representative Bonin refuses to cease and simply give up the excessive and arrogant idea to put an ice skating rink at the […]
Millie Mimms has Passed Away
Millie Mims has passed away. Brian Connolly: When I was homeless on the streets of Venice Beach there was one woman who fed the poor along the ocean who was a very […]
Venice Music Fest Collage
LAPD Memorial “End of Watch”
by Joe Delaplaine This weekend, July 3-6, 2015, under the big metal “V” of the Venice boardwalk stands a traveling memorial to LAPD cops killed in the line of duty since 1907. […]
Oil Spill Reaches Venice
Environmental disaster from the May 20 Santa Barbara oil spill has reached Venice. The ruptured 24-inch pipeline, owned by Plains All American Pipeline, spilled 105,000 gallons of crude oil, some of which […]
Long Live Millie Mims!
By Suzy Williams In honor of International Women’s Day and the corresponding Beachhead March issue, I would like to shed some fresh Venice daylight on a remarkable and real woman, Millie Mims, […]
Venice Beach: The People’s Beach
By Peggy Lee Kennedy Why did the City of Los Angeles close the people’s beach from midnight to five in the morning? I have heard it all: the gangs, the homeless, drugs, prostitution, […]
Bird Totems of Venice: The Cormorant
By Krista Schwimmer I first met the cormorant up close and personal on the same day the Space Shuttle Endeavor flew over Venice Beach. On September 21, 2012, my husband and I […]
Bird Totems of Venice: The Pelican
By Krista Schwimmer What a marvel it is, indeed, to witness the effortless glide of the American White Pelican, coasting along Venice, even turning at times to soar with prehistoric presence over […]
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