Spotted this street art out on Lincoln.
Follow the Money: The Political Will of Creating Homelessness
by Mark Lipman Seeing the direction the city has taken on the issue of homelessness, with the drastic ramping up of criminalization of status and the outright refusal to support any solution […]
A Tree Grows in Venice: The Pomegranate
by Krista Schwimmer On my walk to work, I sometimes take a short cut through Valencia Court. Like many of the walk through streets in Venice, Valencia Court has character. Once, I […]
IS IT ALL FAKERY? ABC – 1 2 3 – UPDATE: GJELINA’S GJUSTA
By Roxanne Brown – Member of Concerned Neighbors of 320 Sunset (CNS) GJUSTA’S B RATING – TO A RATING AND BON APPETIT AWARD July 28, 2015 – Gjusta gets B rating from […]
Any Questions? No? That’s how you got Nixon – Swami X
X Swami X December 17, 1925-August 29, 2015 “Although crowds gathered once if you just showed your face Now babbling of fallen’ majesty still, a heart that laughter made sweet Now, a […]
Poetry: by Talapeya
New on the Market, Serene and Tranquil by Talapeya O my love it’s perfect what we’ve done Tyvek and tarpaper Spandrel and spackle Foundation and fireplace flue Peaked roof to slough off […]
Poetry: Alan Rodman, Roger Houston, Ronald Keith Mc Kinley
growing damp spot a growing damp spot indicated that quite a while ago she had turned on the sprinkler under her sheer Freudian slip she wore not much more than a promise […]
Local Activist, Mark Lipman, To Receive Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award
By Krista Schwimmer – Local activist and poet, Mark Lipman, has won the Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award for 2015. Named after the legendary Joe Hill, the award is given to a writer […]
Artwork by Pitt L. Fitzgerald, from “The Black Spearman” 1934
The Sunshine Is Free: The Aftermath of the LAPD’s Beating of Samuel Calhoun Arrington
By Krista Schwimmer A year ago on August 7th, Samuel Calhoun Arrington, a 52 year old mentally disabled, homeless, African-American man, was sitting under his umbrella where Ocean Front Walk intersects with […]


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