By Jim Smith We live in a world shaped by history. It is hard to escape our personal history – parents, aunts, uncles – and others who want to shape us in […]
The Coverup continues – Book Review: Watergate – A Novel
Swami X Speaks
I never met, however, I remember, vividly, fiercely and formally, Oscar Levant. He was a brilliant pianist, close friend and interpreter of George Gershwin’s music, as well as a master wit and […]
Poetry
Venice – 1963 – KL Bratton Ode to Tom Waits – L.E. Mintz Untitled – Roger Houston Belly-up – Vanessa L., Lexi, Eric, and Frankie That Woman – Joanna Silva Pink Cloud Poem – Philomene Long […]
Zev Comes to Venice
By Anne Alvarez Have you ever wanted to ask a city official: “Can you provide an accurate accounting of the money generated by the City-Owned, County-Operated parking Spaces in Venice – and […]
Venice in the 1970s
By Sam Schatz I moved to Venice when I was 17 years old from freezing cold Pennsylvania. It was the weather, the ocean, and the bohemian lifestyle that made me fall in […]
Fighting back against a faceless bureaucracy
By Jim Smith Nancy Williamson lives a few blocks from the Venice Post Office. For the past 10 years she has visited the building several times a week. “I’ve never gone into […]
Letters
No Curfew – Eddie Wall La Fortuna Market – Ty Allison Anne Alvarez responds —————————————- No Curfew Dear Beachhead, As a proud member of the Venice community, I feel like the curfew […]
Google says “No comment” to 5,000 Venice Employees
By Greta Cobar When recently asked about the rumor that they plan to buy the building currently housing Gold’s Gym and increase the number of employees to 5000, Google’s response was “no […]
Metro Bus #733 Adds Stop at Abbot Kinney and Venice Blvds.
By Roger Linnett When the Metro Rapid #733 bus line began last year it stopped at the corner of Venice Blvd. and Venice Way as did the Local #33. Then last fall […]
Wild and Peaceful – The Ivory Queen of Soul
By Ronald K. Mc Kinley Mary Christine Brockert, known as Teena Marie, was born in Santa Monica and spent her early childhood in Mission Hills. Later she moved with her family to […]
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