By Krista Schwimmer Update on August 7th Boardwalk Beating Last month, the Beachhead reported on the LAPD’s tazing and beating of Arrington Samuel Calhoun – a disabled, African-American, homeless man who had […]
Krista’s Minis
The Plot Thickens – Kim’s Market (600 Mildred) and Gjelina’s #3 (320 Sunset) Update
By Roxanne Brown, Member – Stop 600 Mildred & Concerned Neighbors of 320 Sunset VENICE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL (VNC) MEETING – SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 KIM’S MARKET – VNC reviewed proposed conversion of Kim’s […]
Bird Totems of Venice: The Snowy Egret
By Krista Schwimmer Throughout the world, birds have been revered as gods and goddesses, messengers and teachers, omens and signs. Whole systems of divination have revolved around their movement. They have inspired […]
DROUGHT STRATEGY: The Concrete Jungle?
By Laura Shepard Townsend While it is essential that we must all do our best to instigate drought strategies here in Southern California, it seems the answers, especially here in Venice, are […]
We Could Have Danced All Night
By Marty Liboff After Abbot Kinney opened his amazing Venice of America in 1905 with beautiful Italian Renaissance style buildings and miles of canals, he dreamed of bringing fine culture to L.A. […]
New Petition Filed in the Sale of the Historic Venice Post Office
By Greta Cobar Talk of a possible sale of our historic Venice Post Office started in March 2011 and was followed by an unprecedented community unity in our efforts to keep it […]
Edward Biberman and the Painting of the Post Office Mural
By Suzanne W. Zada This is a re-print from the December 2007 edition of the Beachhead After working and studying in Paris during the late twenties, Edward Biberman returned to the United […]
Occupy Film Series Kicks Off Season
By Krista Schwimmer Did you know that the first S.W.A.T. Team was created in Los Angeles in 1966? Or that you are eight times more likely to be killed by a police […]
Poetry
What’s Wrong – By Panos Douvos WAYS TO FILL HOLES – By Chaya Silbertstein Owed to the Children – By John Kertisz Roger Houston My Cat, Athena – By Mary Getlein ———————————— […]
Venice Celebrates the Life of Jay Adams
By CJ Gronner Venice lost one of the true O. G.s on August 15th, when Jay Adams, founding member of Dogtown’s Z-Boys and skateboard legend, passed away at the age of 53 […]
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