By Lynne Bronstein What year is this? 2011? Was it only back in 1963 that Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique? If you look at television (or movies or magazines) you would […]
The Sudsy Sexist World of TV Ads
Women Run for Congress
Jane Harman, congressional representative for Venice and the 36th district, has abandoned her position, effective Feb. 28. Gov. Jerry Brown was expected to announce a special election to replace her. The election […]
Recommendations For Yet Another Election (this time the city’s) On March 8
By Jackie Goldberg On March 8, there will be almost “secret” Municipal and local elections throughout California. Many important issues will be decided, city council members, school board members and community college […]
Let Us Now Praise All Women Writers – or Not!
By Krista Schwimmer March is designated “Women’s History Month”, a designation that began first as a week. In 1978, the “Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission On the Status of […]
Water Crisis: The Delta and Us
By DeDe Audet Living, working, and playing here in Venice gives us environmentalists more in common with the California Delta than it is comfortable to think about. I am no exception. It […]
It’s A Small World After All
By CJ Gronner For years I’ve sent people to what I believe is the best book store – for sure in Los Angeles, but maybe even the country – Small World Books. […]
CANalABYSS
By Mary Lou Johnson Come on, come all All you hippies, have a ball! Now’s the time, today’s the day Lose your blues, pay no dues Style your life, discard your shoes. […]
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram: Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
Book Reviewed by Jim Smith The definitive book about the Viet Nam war has been written by a twenty-something Vietnamese woman. This may be hard to believe for those raised on a […]
Swami X Speaks
I think people think too much and take it too seriously. Not that I can’t enjoy a substantially vibrant joke with tits in it. Just watching your thoughts without getting personally involved […]
Poetry
A Cold Proposition – Carol Fondiller “when in the course of human events…” – hillary kaye Lady Venice–Myra D. Goodley Whale Song–krista schwimmer Swami X Speaks, Collected on Ocean Front Walk – […]
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