Ocean Charter School – Terence Pearce Venice History Banned From The Boardwalk – Jeffrey Stanton ————————————————- Ocean Charter School Dear Beachhead, I am absolutely shocked and appalled at the recent decision of the LAUSD […]
Letters
Post Office Sale Terms Omit Historical Protection; Rally Scheduled for Tax Day, April 17
By Greta Cobar The Venice post office is currently for sale for $7.5 million, and the closing day for bid submissions is April 23. The draft covenant regarding historical preservation would allow […]
Venice Homeless People File Claim Against L.A. City
People whose personal property was seized without notice and destroyed on March 7 on 3rd Avenue filed claims for damages against the city on March 28, said Attorney Carol Sobel. The claims […]
Chain Envelops Independent Newspaper
No it’s not an April Fools Day joke. The 40-year-old independent newspaper, the Marina del Rey Argonaut, has been sold to a newspaper chain, Southland Publishing, Incorporated. The Argonaut was founded by […]
Where’s the Transparency? – L.A. Confidential
By Jim Smith When City Controller Candidate Cary Brazeman expressed shock that the city of Los Angeles was corrupt, I was reminded of the scene in the film, Casablanca, when Inspector Renault […]
Plantations of Prisons – California’s Biggest Crop
By Mary Getlein Jason stood before us, a 30-year-old Latino man. He was here to tell his story of growing up in East L.A. and how he met Javier Stauring, who changed […]
The War Against Women
By Jack Neworth Women of Venice (actually, all across the country) it’s time to wake up as decades of progress are about to be rolled back. At the risk of sounding like […]
The More Things Change…Carol Fondiller Strikes Back from the Archives, March 1985 – Wombs: Property of the State?
By Carol Fondiller I’m holding a picket sign again, my feet hurt again, and people look past the sign that I picked up from a pile of signs, something about abortion being […]
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
A conversation With Darryl Cherney, Earth First! Activist And Producer Of Daring New Documentary: Who Bombed Judi Bari? By Margot Pepper Before global warming permeated contemporary consciousness, Earth First! activists Judi Bari […]
Venice Observes 70th Anniversary of Horrific Incarceration of Venice Japanese-Americans With Memorial Event and Hama Suchi Fundraiser
By Phillis Hayashibara Esther Chaing, proprietar of Venice’s oldest sushi restaurant, Hama Sushi at the Venice Traffic Circle, will host three fundraisers at her restaurant on April 25 on behalf of the […]
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