Noon Saturday, April 10 Venice High School Rededication of Myrna Loy statue Noon: Ceremony; 1-3pm: Souvenirs, Reunion Court, Myrna Loy Films in Auditorium, Live Music, Food Booths. Free The Myrna Loy Statue […]
Book Review: The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama
Review by Jack Neworth For those born before the time period known as the Sixties or for those who lived through the decade but whose memories have faded from time (or psychedelics) […]
From the Beachhead Archives Nov. 1977: Remembering Bingo: “Daughter-of-Darkness, Sister of Light”
By Carol Fondiller People gathered on the rocks at Brooks Avenue Beach to remember a very important person. The people who are moving in and building Valley-sized houses on Venice lots, whimpering […]
Praising Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States, and The People Speak
By Erica Snowlake It is good to recall Ms. Thelma Trotty, the first teacher who blew (enlightened) my mind. She taught high school history in the late seventies in upstate New York […]
Women Speak Out! From Howard Zinn’s “Voices of A People’s History of the United States”
Emma Goldman, the Lithuanian immigrant, feminist orator, agitator, and anarchist, arrested in 1917 on conspiracy charges of “inducing persons to not register” excerpted from a 1908 speech in San Francisco before the […]
Historical Status for 7 Dudley Advances
Historical status for the building that housed the Venice West coffeehouse (see photo, right), the Potpourri coffeehouse, the Vox Populi coffeehouse and Sponto Gallery was approved by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs […]
Reflections of a Survivor
By Jack Neworth Whenever Oscar, the golden retriever, and I go for a walk, it’s obvious who’s walking whom. I’m just the schnook holding the leash. Once, Oscar befriended a wise-looking, elderly […]
The Decade From Hell
By Jack Neworth Without question, 2000 to 2009 represents one of the worst decades in our history. The 1860s with the Civil War, and the 1960s, with Vietnam and the assassinations of […]
From the Beachhead Archives: CALL SOMEPLACE PARADISE, KISS IT GOODBYE – Reprinted from January 1980, Number 121
By Anne Alexander Where else could a stroll along the beach bring you face-to-face with Arnold Schwarznegger, Vietnam war novelist Ron Kovic, the author of a massive volume on Teeth, or Cher’s […]
From the Beachhead Archives: CRUD Conspiracy – Jan. 1970, #12
By Carol Fondiller Stepped on any broken bottles lately? Have you noticed that the new trash cans on the Ocean Front Walk have been burned? Are you afraid to go on ocean […]
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