By Mary Getlein The Sixth Annual Philomenian was a big success this year. You would think that after all this time, people wouldn’t be as interested in Philomene Long’s poetry, but they […]
Sixth Annual Philomenian
Book Review: VENICE, CA: A CITY STATE OF MIND by John O’Kane
By Carlye Archibeque In setting out to tell the tale of alternative past, present, and possible future of the Venice Beach community of California, author John O’Kane has set a daunting task […]
Folksinger Fred Gerlach – Venice – circa 1969
By Michael Riley Although I was born in Long Beach, I never went to Venice until I was in my twenties. The thing that brought me there was my love of music, […]
RIP Alberta Albertano, long-time Venice resident and mother of famous Venice poet Linda Albertano
On the day before his first day in the first grade, I took Joshie – and Leslie, my wife and his mom – to one of our favorite places in the vast […]
Poetry
Tide/Marea By Francisco Letelier It is a tide, displacing horizon dizzying divisions of land and sea. Waves break, and we are set free taken away from our safe places smells of bread, […]
Artist Profile: Emily Winters
By Greta Cobar Here’s a Venice trivia question for you: What do the Venice Arts Council, the Venice Japanese American Memorial Marker, the Ocean Front Walk benches, the Poetry Walls, the Art […]
The Case of the Disappearing Benches
By Carol Fondiller Reprinted from the October 1983 issue At one time there were sixty of them. They were double benches. That is, one could sit and face the west and watch […]
Letters
Dear Beachhead Bunch, I’m pleased to see my article on the front page of the Beachhead celebrating 100th Venice Birthday. I’ve enjoyed a long connection with the Beachhead and Venice. As a […]
PRISON NATION
By Mary Getlein Eugene Debs said it best: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is […]
They don’t like Cheerios: Race in America
By Ronald K. McKinley I was born, and raised in American Apartheid, in New Orleans. I was born in 1950. I still remember the “White only” signs. We were colored then; we […]
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