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, […]
Folksinger Fred Gerlach – Venice – circa 1969
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 […]
Peter Lodato: Capturing Venice’s Light
By CJ Gronner I’d seen Peter Lodato around for years, taking strolls along the streets of Venice in his signature hat. Only recently have I gotten to know more about the man […]
Big Trouble for Playa Vista
By John Davis The frantic developers of Playa Vista are trying to explain why they installed drains in the Ballona Wetlands without State and Federal permits. One would expect a sophisticated response […]
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