The Heroic Age of Venice (After Virgil) By Jim Smith Justice for the people I sing, who forced by fate to abandon their homes and flee the vast wasteland of mediocrity Now filled […]
The Heroic Age of Venice (after Virgil)
The River
The River (singing) Shall we gather at the river The beautiful, the beautiful river gather with the saints at the river that flows by the Throne of God and all my friends […]
Bonin, Supervisors Support Ballona Wetlands
By John Davis Two items appeared on the December 17 agenda at the Board of Supervisors. First, Don Knabe, a Republican whose district includes Marina del Rey and the Ballona Wetlands backed […]
The Sun Is Coming Back
By Eric Ahlberg It’s been a fascinating year. Yes good things have happened, so let’s step right into the New Year, on our lovely shiny cloud of progressive optimism. Behold the ambitions […]
Google’s Ghetto by the Sea
By Theo Kirkham-Lewitt Back and forth on her low-ride beach cruiser bicycle, wearing a black Suicidal Tendencies band t-shirt, dark Ray Ban shades and blood-red lipstick, she pops out against a background […]
RIP Nelson Mandela: July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013
23:59 Thursday, December 5th, 2013, Adullam ….. Mandela has gone home. Back to the source. Apparently, his life has run its course. Was showing symptoms of advancing age, Some caused by his […]
Beachheads Write on the Beachhead
CJ Gronner Every town needs a newspaper, and The Free Venice Beachhead has been the one for Venice, California since 1968. I joined the collective staff in 2009, after writing a story […]
Letters
Dear Jim Smith – by M.J Suchecki Dear Beachhead – by Charles Thomas —————————————– Dear Jim Smith, I’ve lived in Venice since 1980. You and I spoke when I was covering the […]
Murder and Mourning in Venice
By CJ Gronner Venice lost one of our own on the night of November 17th when Guillermo Carmona-Perez was brutally stabbed and left to die in the intersection at Washington Boulevard and […]
Cruel, Unnecessary, Illegal and Immoral Harassment of the Houseless by LAPD
By Brian Connely On the streets between Venice and Santa Monica, the LAPD handed out twenty $160 tickets to homeless individuals the other night. Their crime? Where they’re going to sleep that […]
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