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 […]
Venice Art Scene Heavyweights Square Off Over Proposed Mural Ordinance
By Roger Linnett What had begun nearly a year ago as a way to replace the current ban on new murals in the city of L.A. and jump start the moribund municipal […]
Community Improvement Projects Approved at July VNC Meeting
The VNC yearly sets aside part of its budget from the City of L.A. for use by local groups. The annual Community Improvement Projects for 2012 were presented by the Neighborhood Committee […]
Venice is a Poem
By Mary Getlein I walked on the beach, the sun was shining brightly, sweet winds blew over our heads. We looked up: sea gulls riding wind currents over our heads! I was […]
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