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 […]
New Healthcare Law Provisions Take Effect
By Roger Linnett Many new aspects of the Patients Protection and Affordable Care Act, which the president signed on March 23, 2010, are now in effect and much more soon will be. […]
Labor Day Sidebar: Why we got a day off
Labor Day was adopted in September of 1894 to try and ameliorate nationwide hostility towards the administration of President Grover Cleveland. Cleveland had ordered U.S. Marshals and 12,000 federal troops into Chicago to break a wildcat […]
New Book by Venice’s Poet Laureate – REVIEW: The Collected Poems of Philomene Long
By Jim Smith Philomene Long is back. The works of Venice’s poet laureate, who died three years ago, are more accessible than ever thanks to the publication in August of The Collected […]
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 […]
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