By Anne Alvarez Friday December 21, the Mayans’ supposed “Doomsday,” had many expecting cataclysmic and transformative events worldwide. However, for local poet and astrologer SwamiX, the date had a much greater and significant meaning, a time […]
Party for Swami at Bill’s
Poetry
Limerick regarding the current American Debt Crisis and Impending Global Crisis, by TravelinMaam The Empty Place of Eddie, by Majid Naficy Here we stand, by Aryn Youngless Where Silence Becomes Light, by Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS […]
Circumstance and Opportunity
By Ronald McKinley There is a bike parked just left of the multi-use utility pole on the corner of cold and homeless. We mill about; I mean “we”, not French for more […]
Venice – Where Art Meets (White Collar) Crime
By CJ Gronner If you had left Venice even a year ago, and returned today to stroll down Abbot Kinney, you might think you got lost and wound up on Robertson or […]
Stand Still for the Apocalypse
By Chris Hedges Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds […]
Letters
Letters: Dear Beachhead – by Daniel Carrillo, Weott State Prison Dear Beachhead – by Ron Lowe Dear Beachhead – by Charles Thomas —————————– Dear Beachhead, Sending this letter in response to let you and […]
Santa Monica Should Give Its Los Angeles Neighbors a Fair Voice on the SM Airport Commission
By Martin Rubin The City of Santa Monica has basically ignored the complaints of Venice residents for more than two decades. They moved takeoffs from over Santa Monica to over Venice. Los […]
California Coastal Commission Silences Pacific Gas & Electric’s Airguns
By Krista Schwimmer On Wednesday, November 14, 2012, the California Coastal Commission unanimously and vehemently denied Pacific Gas & Electric Company a permit that would have allowed them to conduct a high […]
The Venice Drum Circle (Free Expression)
By Ronald McKinley The police routinely stop the Venice Drum Circle. The time is never the same, sometimes sunset, sometimes not. Sunday, November 25, at 5:10 P.M. the circle was stopped. The […]
Commissioner Burke Speaks to Beach Curfew
By John Davis The most fundamental resource the California Coastal Act protects is access to the beach, day or night, by anyone, of any color, or of any income bracket. The beach […]
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