By Jim Smith When is a Community Center not a Community Center? Venice may soon find out if the Vera Davis-McClendon Youth and Family Center is absorbed by the city’s Cultural Affairs […]
Vera Davis Center: The Plot Thickens
Summer Violence Hits The Beach – Months Early
By Greta Cobar Violence preceded summer this year in Venice with a shooting, a stabbing and several mass fights. As a result, the LAPD will substantially increase its patrol officers’ presence at […]
The World’s Greatest Wino
By CJ Gronner Bobby Brown (”No, not like the singer, he’s like ME!”) is better known as The World’s Greatest Wino on Venice Beach. I sat down to talk with him this […]
Viva Pachamama! – Bolivia Celebrates Law Granting Rights to Mother Earth!
By ENS and Erica Snowlake La Paz – Bolivia marked the International Day of Mother Earth, April 22, with a ceremony in the Plaza Murillo, the center of political power. An ancient […]
4 O’Clock in the Morning
By Roger Linnett This month serves up a sweet little visual treat for our enjoyment; 4 of the 5 planets visible with the naked-eye will all rise together in the eastern pre-dawn sky. Plus we’re going […]
Book Review: John Thomas: Venice Poet Extraordinaire
By Fred Dewey John Thomas, perhaps Los Angeles’ greatest underground poet, was a big man with a wise and lined countenance, piercing wit, deep, resonant voice, and always slightly stunned, gentle eyes. […]
Film Review: Venice West and the LA Scene
By Mary Getlein On April 17, Venice West and the LA Scene, by Mary Kerr, was shown at Beyond Baroque. It is part one of a two-part documentary covering the Venice and […]
Poetry
Revolution in the Mind – Marty Noel-Nivoli 19:30 Saturday, April 23, 2011 – Roger Houston I Am From – Janei Lujan Valentine The right word at the right time – Douglas Lamarthe The First […]
Swami X Speaks
God is Truth, Good, Beauty, Light, Life, Love and a Mystery. She is also Everywhere and Omni Everything. All our problems and challenges have their origin in the ego. The ego is […]
Venetians Hear From Our Next Member of Congress (And Lots of Pretenders)
By Jim Smith It’s not often that voters anywhere in the country get to choose a new Congressional Representative. In most cases, the incumbent does everything possible to stay in office. There […]
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