69 Years Later: Returning to the corner of Venice and Lincoln Blvds on April 25, 2011, Japanese-American camp survivors and friends gather to launch a reminder of their ordeal. Top row (standing): […]
Are you safe from a Tsunami on Abbot Kinney Blvd.? Not Hardly!
How Can They Screw Up Something As Simple As Tsunami Signs? The City of L.A. is doing us a favor by posting more Tsunami warning signs. Problem is, they’re inaccurate, and possibly […]
A Southerner Looks At Venice
By Alexandra Howard (Alex has been the Beachhead’s intern and is now returning for a new semester at Oberlin College.) From the land of Jack Daniels, Confederate Flags, Country Music, and jesus […]
Michael Linder Puts Venice Radio On The Air
By CJ Gronner Venice has its own brand new radio station now, folks – KVB, online at KVB.FM, streaming dance tunes and Venice news and fun stuff, 24 hours a day. I […]
We Are Venice… Who Are You?
By Ian Dean We have a question to all the newcomers to this town. Who are you? We see what you do, how much money you make, how much power you have… but […]
Ibrahim and Diane
By Greta Cobar Ibrahim and Diane, two of the most enduring performance artists on the boardwalk, who have been here longer than most of us have been around, are going to leave […]
Inside Daisy Clover’s Venice
By Lynne Bronstein I first found out about the existence of Venice, California from a novel. Gavin Lambert’s Inside Daisy Clover, published in 1963 (and filmed in 1965 with Natalie Wood, Robert […]
The Great L.A./Venice Oil Heist
By Patrick McCartney Research by Arnold Springer, Charles Feick and Moe Stavnezer. (Originally published in the Feb. 1985 Beachhead) The oil site the City of Los Angeles leased out in 1964 on […]
Obscure Facts About Venice
Venice was incorporated as a city, not in 1905, but on Feb. 17, 1904. The original name for the city was not Venice, but Ocean Park. Today, Ocean Park is the name […]
WHEN VENICE STOPPED A (POLICE) RIOT BY STOPPING A PARADE
By Carol Fondiller The Establishment Parade vs. the “People’s Parade” but first, background. Background is all. I remember the parade that didn’t happen in Venice. Those nasty un-patriotic beer swilling pot smoking […]
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