By Amy V. Dewhurst This year marks the 6th Annual ‘Other Venice Film Festival’. Helmed by Venice local (and Venice lover) Reuben De La Casa, the 2009 incarnation boasts the Venice debut […]
The Other Venice Film Festival – Enough To Base A Movie On?
$20/Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better
By Jebediah Reed Remember that time you went on a long drug binge and it turned into a crime spree and you totally messed up your life and hit rock bottom and […]
Help! My bike has been kidnapped
By CJ Gronner The nature of Venice is on my mind a great deal lately … through decades and changes, the Bohemian nature and spirit of the place has always managed to […]
Say What You Will, We Live It Everyday in Oakwood
By Lydia Poncé, Jataun Valentine and Laddie Williams 40 years ago it was flower power, end the war and the Summer of Love. America has not really learned anything since then. Here […]
Whole Foods Picketed for Anti-Universal Health Care Stand
Ever since John Mackey, founder and CEO of Austin-based Whole Foods, wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal last month opposing a govern-ment health-care option, picket lines have descended on the […]
Post Office Still Seeking to Sell Venice Annex
Despite pleas from the Venice community that the Venice post office carrier annex at 313 Grand Blvd., be used for community services, the government postal service (USPS) is moving ahead with plans […]
Permit Parking Lawsuit filed against Coastal Commission, City
A group calling itself the Venice Stakeholders Association filed suit, August 10, against the California Coastal Commission and the city of Los Angeles in an effort to have overnight permit parking districts […]
Maureen Cotter Tells Inside Story of Charlie Manson’s Murder Spree in 1969
By Fred Dewey It is hard to imagine that, once upon a time, quite a few Americans, young and old, tried to free American society from its ruinous trajectory of violence, greed, […]
The Whiff of Fascism
By Jim Smith “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing.” –Edmund Burke Alarm bells are sounding throughout the country over the widespread […]
Riding the Streets of Venice in a Produce Truck
By Ian Lovett Three years ago, when I first moved to Venice, I lived at Broadway and 7th St. My house, part of a row of four cottages, had this fantastic garden, […]
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