The popular and activist minister of the Venice United Methodist Church (VUMC) has been appointed to the Point Loma church in San Diego (Ocean Beach), beginning August 1. The VUMC will honor […]
Pastor Tom Ziegert is leaving
Israel Levin Center Needs Help
For 45 years, thousands of senior residents of Venice have been assisted by the Israel Levin Senior Center. Recently, the Center has fallen on hard times and needs the community’s help. When […]
Freemasonry in Venice
By Michael Wamback In 1903, a group of prominent civic and business leaders headed by Abbot Kinney, a Freemason, decided that a Masonic Lodge was needed to serve what was then the […]
Students Continue Campaign for Memorial for Japanese Who Were Taken to World War II Camps
A campaign to create what may be the first historical marker at a round-up point where Japanese were taken away to internment camps in 1942 continues to gain support among Venice High […]
Cops Target Venice Gambling Dens, 1948
By Michael Linder The Great Venice Gambling Raids of 1948 hit smack in the middle of the Communist scare — in full swing and zeroing in on comic books, a subversive plot […]
The Beachhead and Mayor Villaraigosa Honor Swami X at Beyond Baroque
By Karl Abrams In an emotional ceremony at Venice’s Beyond Baroque on Sunday June 21, 83-year old Swami X, famed 1970’s and 80’s boardwalk comic, writer and muse, was presented with a […]
If Everybody Had An Ocean….
By Amy V. Dewhurst Summer is here, and with it an estimated 5 million tourists will visit our beach. What that means is more kooks at The Breakwater. If someone snakes your […]
On the Boardwalk – The Lottery
By Ian Lovett “It’s all commercial fucking vendors.” That’s the first thing I hear as I approach the crowd outside the police station waiting for the lottery. At 8:10 am the place […]
Venice and the Eco-Fest: What a Day! What a Life!
By Eino Hill What a day. It started off bumpy, waking up to an oozing hangover and having to drop my girlfriend off at the airport hours before I wanted to be […]
Poetry
• Venice would be perfect – Jim Smith • Belle Lettres – Rebecca LaRue • Ode to Aung San Suu Kyi – Vessy Mink • Today – Honeybee Henderson • I Would – […]
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