By Jack Neworth For days after the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School the National Rifle Association was oddly silent. They even shut down their Facebook page and stopped tweeting. (The […]
Sticking to Their Guns
John Mooney Blows Moonlight Glass in Venice
By Greta Cobar Venice has always fostered creativity, having drawn and inspired countless artists in endless media for over a hundred years. One such current story of bewildering, shining and colorful beauty […]
SwamiX Speaks
It’s not wise, or even smart, to take anything personally. Of course, you have to be at a certain level of awareness to appreciate that attitude and perception. Incidentally, Buddha stated the […]
Party for Swami at Bill’s
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 […]
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 […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.