By Jim Smith What’s behind the effort to bring permit parking to Venice? In a word, gentrification. In Los Angeles, and cities around the country, it’s a familiar story. A family of […]
Permit Parking – Not a New Story
Poetry
Challenger – Hal Bogotch Yes we can– Panos Douvos The Speed of Thought – Mark Lipman Untitled – RF Wagner, Jr. Modern Times – Jim Smith Woof Woof – John Davis One Saturday Morning in […]
Beachhead Recommendations for May 19 state election
May 19 is two elections in one. The city and community college runoff elections are sharing the ballot with six state propositions. Here are the Beachhead Collective’s recommendations: L.A. City Attorney: Don’t […]
Village of the Damned
By John Davis It has been about 16 years since the Playa Vista Development was plopped into the wetlands by a giant bird called the City Council of Los Angeles in two […]
Growing Up in Oakwood
By Lisa Marguerite Mora Winding down from an afternoon of errands, I make a right onto Electric and drive parallel to Abbot Kinney and Main Street. This was my old neighborhood when […]
It Did Happen Here: When our Japanese neighbors were sent to concentration camps
By Scott Yuda, Jr. During World War II, under Adolf Hitler and his Nazi organization’s “rule,” so to speak, ordered for any person 1/8 Jewish or more to be relocated to concentration […]
Letters
Sponto – Gina Graham Heroic Story – maryjanie ———— Sponto Dear Beachhead, Infinite thanks to your pub for the front page, top shelf stories about Sponto. I knew him 15 years ago, when […]
Venice Affordable Housing Fight Goes to Washington
By Mark Lipman On Friday March 20, approximately 100 low income tenants and community organizers from the Holiday Venice apartments, also known as Breeze Del Mar, the largest block of affordable housing […]
Residents fight back against S.M. Airport
By Karl Abrams The intolerable noise and sickening jet fuel pollution coming from thousands upon thousands of private jets taking off and landing at the Santa Monica airport yearly has pushed residents […]
Beachhead Women Writers Rock Out at Beyond Baroque
By Krista Schwimmer On March 8th, as part of the day long celebration of International Women’s Day, the Beachhead presented readings from past and current women writers of the Beachhead at Venice’s […]
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