CJ Gronner Every town needs a newspaper, and The Free Venice Beachhead has been the one for Venice, California since 1968. I joined the collective staff in 2009, after writing a story […]
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Third Annual Venice Community Sleep-Out
By Mary Getlein The third annual Venice sleep-out went on without a hitch. Beyond Baroque lawn was filled with tents and people sleeping, talking, laughing, and eating. The performance stage was filled […]
For Alice Gruppioni, who died here
For Alice Gruppioni, who died here she came here for her honeymoon she left, to go to her funeral a sun-kissed shore, that’s what they call Venice so many people have come […]
Sixth Annual Philomenian
By Mary Getlein The Sixth Annual Philomenian was a big success this year. You would think that after all this time, people wouldn’t be as interested in Philomene Long’s poetry, but they […]
PRISON NATION
By Mary Getlein Eugene Debs said it best: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is […]
One More Time
By Mary Getlein I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou’s powerful memoir of her childhood in Arkansas, where a man was killed for raping Maya and she was shocked […]
To Be A Poet
to be a poet is to be a waiter you wait for inspiration you wait for that ray of sun that illuminates, explains some piece of life that eluded you before: […]
Little Free Library
If you walk around Venice, you might notice little boxes in front of houses. On closer examination, it says “Little Free Library – Take a book, leave a book.” Apparently this is […]
The Killings in Connecticut
By Mary Getlein Michael Moore (of Bowling For Columbine) told the story of a crazy man who went to a school and tried to kill some children, but it was in China […]
What Have They Done to the Rain?
By Mary Getlein What Have They Done To The Rain? was written by Malvina Reynolds. Malvina’s song was protesting nuclear testing on the people and livestock of Utah in the 1950s. Most […]
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