April
2011

#354

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CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

Post Office Sale? Disruption at Vera Davis Center

  • Photo: Post Office as Starbucks - Jim Smith
  • Article: Post Office - Jim Smith
  • Article: Vera Davis Center Faces Uncertain Future

PEOPLE WIN: Westminster Keeps Its Classrooms - Greta Cobar

  • Photo: Vera Davis Center - Jim Smith

64 Bombing Victims in Libya
1,514 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan - 29 this month
4,441 U.S. Casualties in Iraq - 2 this month;
Up to 1.4 million Iraqi Dead;
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: $1.1+ trillion

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

  • Tina Catalina Checks In - Tina Catalina Corcoran
  • Broadway Enrollment - Rachael Babcock
  • Solidarity With Wisconsin Workers - Larry Gross
  • A Father Speaks About His Murdered Son - Rick Morgan

PAGE THREE

The Race Is On - For Congress

Joseph Baruch, Finjan Cafe Owner - Stan Strom

Ad: Marla's Cafe

Ad: Nutritional Warehouse

Ad: Venice America Productions - Film April 9

PAGE FOUR

Recognizing A Tragedy: 69 Years Later

  • Sidebar: Attend the Ground-breaking Ceremony, April 25 at Venice and Lincoln Blvds.
  • Photo: Japanese with Luggage - in Jeffrey Stanton's Venice California: Coney Island of the Pacific
  • Photo: Manzanar Concentration Camp
  • Ad: Electric Lodge - Daddyo Dies Well

PAGE FIVE

"Highway to Heaven" or "Roadmap to Hell?" - Jim Smith

  • Sidebar: Article 5: Venice Area Surplus Real Property Fund
  • Photo: Mark Herd being ejected from VNC meeting
  • Photo: Mike Bonin, Rosendahl's Chief of Staff

PAGE SIX

Are you safe from a Tsunami on Abbot Kinney Blvd.? Not Hardly!

  • Photo: Leaving Tsunami Hazard Zone
  • Map: Tsunami Evacuation Area

International Women’s Day Celebrated in Venice - Mary Getlein

  • Photo: Women's Committee receives city proclamination from Councilmember Bill Rosendahl

PAGE SEVEN

Who in the Heaven is Larry Bell? - CJ Gronner

  • Photos: Larry Bell, Studio and Sign - CJ Gronner
  • Ad: Get the News Before It Happens in the Free Venice Beachhead

    Ad: Abbot's Habit

PAGE EIGHT

Swami X Speaks

  • High Clues
  • Photo: Swami at his 80th Birthday Party

PEOPLE WIN: –continued from page 1

Photo: Stilt Man at Venice Mardi Gras Parade

Ad: Mission Accomplished

Ad: Hoagie's

PAGE NINE

Poetry:

  • Who Owns The Earth? - Kitty Bratton
  • She - Mary Getlein
  • Sponto - Liv Zutphen
  • I Like - Jasper Schubert
  • Sunbeams - George Porter
  • Airdrop the sequeL.- Jimmy Valentine
  • In Brief - Jim Smith
  • Untitled - Lynette
  • Walks with Brutus - Aaron Reynauld
  • America - Murray Barnett

Ad: Book Launching: The Selected Poems and Prose of John Thomas

PAGE TEN

Nuclear Nightmare - Ralph Nader

Political cartoon by Khalil Bendib

PAGE ELEVEN

Calendar - Assembled by Karl Abrams

PAGE TWELVE

The Tabor Family

Photo: Stilt Woman from Venice Mardi Gras Parade

Ad: Debut Album - Gerry Saint

Ad: The Homeless Movies of Emmett Deemus

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