By Ronald K. Mc Kinley In most major cities there are ordinances stopping or restricting the feeding of the homeless. Las Vegas, “home of Lost Wages,” was one of the first. A […]
To feed or not to feed, that is the question?
Cinco de Mayo Pancake Breakfast
Venice’s own Fire Station #63 will hold its annual Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, May 5, from 8 am until noon at the firehouse at Venice Blvd. and Shell Ave., next to Beyond […]
Santa Monica College Students Blind-sided by Campus Police
By Roger Linnett Santa Monica College has joined the list of places where the police have used pepper spray for crowd control under questionable circumstances. A dubious honor to be sure, SMC […]
Ocean Front Walk: Vending or Free Speech
By Greta Cobar As expected and predicted, enforcement of the new Ocean Front Walk (OFW) ordinance regarding vending is starting to dwindle and become selective. While most vendors selling mass-produced, for resale […]
POed at the PO
Song by Suzy Williams COME AND SEE! A TRAGEDY! THE VENICE POST OFFICE BY THE SEA THE BRIGHTEST JEWEL IN OUR CROWN NOW THEY WANT TO SHUT IT DOWN TAKE THE HEART […]
How Peter Douglas Saved Venice and the California Coast
By Jim Smith Peter Douglas, who was the chief guardian of the California coast for the past 40 years, died April 1. It would have been much better for Venice if this […]
Venice is for the Birds
By Vanessa Cabello It’s not too often I think about birds. From time to time I spot and admire birds in the wild, but I have never really paid much attention to […]
They’re Walkways, not “Side” walks
By Fred Owens Venice – maybe it doesn’t say so in the tourist hype about all the weird people on the boardwalk and all the ultra-cool people on Abbot Kinney – is […]
Scene of the Crime: Marker Unveiled Where Japanese-Americans Were Taken to Camps
It was 70 years later, to the day, that more than 100 Venetians gathered in support of a handful of Japanese-American survivors of the Manzanar Concentration Camp. In 1942, they had been […]
No one ever said it would be easy: Saving the Venice Post Office
By Jim Smith In spite of a lawsuit brought by the Coalition to Save the Venice Post Office, the Postal Service has plowed ahead with efforts to sell the historic building and […]
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