By CJ Gronner Abbot Kinney Festival day always feels like a real holiday in Venice. That crackling, electric buzz in the air, some traditional stuff that happens every year, and that rushing […]
The Solid Gold Subway
By Jim Smith The most expensive subway money can buy will one day run down Wilshire Blvd. all the way to the sea, or at least Westwood, if the Metropolitan Transit Authority, […]
Advertures Along the Venice Art Crawl
By CJ Gronner Last month was the second Venice Art Crawl, and everyone absolutely adored it. I kept hearing, “This is how First Fridays USED to be!” all evening, and they were […]
Getting out the vote November 2: This is no time to sit on the sidelines
By Roger Linnett It’s a fact that voter turnout for midterm elections is dismal at best. The conservatives are counting on this to win next month. The country, especially their base, has […]
Tired of the same old thing from the Republicans, and the Democrats?
You do have more choices, even it the mass media won’t tell you about them. There are six ballot-qualified parties in California. Two are to the right of the Republicans: the Libertarians […]
Main Street – The Garden Spot of Venice?
By Jim Smith As many as 80 people spent a Saturday last month building a garden on the slope of the Rose and Main St. parking lot. The strip fronts Main Street […]
First Friday, for Who?
By CJ Gronner ‘On my last First Friday I realized this: There are way too many food trucks, they are so marginally talented and they need to drive to Bakersfield and stay […]
Dumping Sidebar: United Nations Declares Sanitation A Basic Human Right
Sanitation and safe and clean drinking water is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared July 28, voicing deep concern […]
If you have to stack ‘em, you’ve got too many cars
It all began when Restaurant Developer Fran Camaj, otherwise know as ADC Development of Beverly Hills, applied to the city of Los Angeles for a permit to demolish the existing structures at […]
Putting Labor Back in Labor Day
By Roger Linnett The one thing in this country that we should be talking about but aren’t, especially considering it’s Labor Day, is jobs. Real jobs, too – not menial part-time jobs or […]
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