By Enyaj Pitchford I sat down to have a chat with Stan Mitchell, creator of the award winning Venice America film. I was delighted to find Stan to be a great historian […]
VENICE AMERICA By Stan Mitchell, Part One
THE VENICE WEST A New Venice Live Music Venue That Celebrates The Old Venice – by CJ Gronner
Hi Venice! It’s been a while! I’m still handling family affairs in Minneapolis, but when I heard there was a new cool live music venue opening this month in Venice, I had […]
Nature Boy in Venice
by Gerry Fialka “Nature Boy,” one of the greatest songs ever written, was composed by Eden Ahbez, who hung out in Venice for a while in the 1950s and ‘60s. He slept […]
AFRICAN AMERICANS DECLARED EMANCIPATED – AGAIN
By Naomi Nightingale – Social Justice Activist, Save Venice Community Organization. Celebrated by many African Americans since June 19, 1865, Juneteenth began in Texas as the day the news was received, two […]
Arnold Springer & Fred Dewey
by Gerry Fialka We die with the dyingSee, they depart,And we go with themSee, they returnand bring us with them excerpt from T.S. Eliot, 4 QuartetsI know nothingI live in the Eternal […]
Trust We Will
by Alan Rodman We rented a portable black and white tv set from a repair shop in the summer of 1968, just in time for me to see the success of the […]
REMEMBER OUR HAPPY DAYS
Once upon a time the Rolling Stones sang,“What a drag it is getting old…” What they should have sang was, what a drag it is BEING OLD! The Israel Levin Senior Center […]
JUNE 2018 ISSUE OF THE BEACHHEAD
VENICE BEACHHEAD JUNE 2018 ISSUE
VENETIANS VISIT DESERT
By Henry Rosebuds Ms. Suzy Williams and Mr. Gerry Fialka of Venice, and Mr. Hank Rosenfeld of Ocean Park, visited Ms. Nancy Cain and Mr. Paul Krassner, one-time Venice residents, now of […]
DEMETRIUS TAHIM 1935-2018 – The Venice ‘Godfather’ and King of the Beach Healers.
DEMETRIUS TAHIM 1935-2018 The Venice ‘Godfather’ and King of the Beach Healers. Demetrius was born in New York and moved to Venice over 40 years ago. About 25 years ago he founded […]
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