By Karl Abrams I’m concerned with the Spontaneous Poet that dreamy visitor who drives in to our Coastal Venice by the sea, without warning bringing peace in character and freedom of spirit, […]
Poetry
CHANGES The Venice Boardwalk looks the Same But the Faces have Changed- Where are all the old Kings and Queens of Venice? Joseph playing belly dance music and telling all the gals; […]
The Ballerina Clown Turns 25
Above the entrance to the CVS Pharmacy is a sight that will persuade you to get back on your meds. RoadsideAmerica.com By Delores Hanney It’s as emblematic of Venice as Mickey Mouse […]
Getting Around
By Delores Hanney Always flush with imaginative ideas and the cash to fund them, Abbot Kinney – the milieu-maker of Venice, California – liked to do things with a flair. One of […]
VNC Monthly Meeting: The Great Storage Bin Debate
By Jamie Virostko It was a particularly long night at the VNC monthly meeting on January 22nd with the Winter Shelter Storage Program Motion taking over an hour of the night’s minutes. […]
El Bordello Alexandria
By CJ Gronner I’ve walked by the big, crazy looking gargoyle house on Westminster and Speedway for years, always wondering what the story of the place could possibly be. I finally got […]
Normal Is Dead
By CJ Gronner I am thrilled to report that my good friends at the Venice Beach Freak Show are getting their own reality show on AMC, called, appropriately, Freakshow, which starts airing […]
Our Venice Skatepark – A Diamond in the Rough
By CJ Gronner Happy New Year, People! In the interest of shining a light on the things that are still awesome about living in Venice in 2013, I recently dug a little […]
John Mooney Blows Moonlight Glass in Venice
By Greta Cobar Venice has always fostered creativity, having drawn and inspired countless artists in endless media for over a hundred years. One such current story of bewildering, shining and colorful beauty […]
Book Review: The Lure of a Land by the Sea
By Greta Cobar Long-time Venice historian Delores Hanney did it again: published yet another wonderful Venice memoir, made up of over thirty “vignettes,” as she calls them. With grandiose vocabulary and in […]
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