February
2007

#305

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CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

Big Changes Planned for Rose and Lincoln Center

Photo: Developers Against Bush?

3,085 Casualties in Iraq

The Mistake of the Union - Jim Smith

Photo: Ron Kovic and Cindy Sheehan

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

  • The Need for Radicalism - Milton Takai
  • A Message from Swami - Swami X
  • Voices from the Front (Ocean Front, that is) - Shamama and Della

Photos: Ocean Front Walk

PAGE THREE

In Brief:

  • Arnold to Venice: "Never heard of it"
  • More permits coming to the beach
  • No more impersonal spying or your email and phone calls. Now a neighbor can do it!
  • Rumor Central

Photo: Arnold, then and now

City of L.A. compensates Playa Vista for destroying Gabrielino-Tongva burial site - Kathy Knight and Judith Davies

Photo: Playa Vista processing center

Invasion of the Home Snatchers - Glenn Taranto

Ad: Don Geagan says:

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PAGE FOUR

Lincoln Place: Tent City Report

A Friend Remembers Molly Ivins

Photo: Molly Ivins

Letters:

  • Occupation Can't Be Won - Frank Loweree
  • Response to Book Review of Raising Mama in January Beachhead - Larry Sullivan

PAGE FIVE

The Neighborhood Council Review Commission Comes to Venice - Jim Smith

Letter: Venetian in "Fallujnah" - Lisa Robbins

Homeless Services Topic of Town Hall Meeting

Ad: Market Gourmet

PAGE SIX

Venetians in the Street - sound off on Iraq - Rex Butters

First Look at the Torso

Photo: Torso by Eric Ahlberg

See Jane Run

Photo: High Officials Caught in the Act

Ad: Marina Caregivers

PAGE SEVEN

Chocolate=Cacao: The Revolution Will Be Eaten - Erica Snowlake

Ad: Universal Art Gallery

Ad: The Tree House

PAGE EIGHT

30 Years Ago in Venice (Beachhead #86, Feb. 1977): final solution: Developer Bulldozes Resident - Carol Fondiller

Ad: Eviction Defense Network

PAGE NINE

Poetry

  • Walking the boardwalk - Leah Rose
  • Circles - Jerry Harrison
  • Dogstar - Hal Bogotch
  • listening to a recording - shanna
  • Violence Just Ain't Right - Kids at Inside Out
  • Untitled - D.T. Jenkins
  • Flower Girl - Lynette
  • Bushmandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley (tweaked by Jim Smith)

Computer Art - Eric Ahlberg

Ad: Nutritional Warehouse

PAGE TEN

Astrological Cookery - Judith Martin Straw

  • General Forecast for February
  • Recipes/Forecast for Aquarius

Invasion of the Home Snatchers - continued from page 3

Mistake of the Union - continued from page 1

PAGE ELEVEN

Comm-unity Events - by the numbers

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Photograph/Painting by Robert Farrington

PAGE TWELVE

Join the Peace Surge! Speak Out for Peace

Photo montage of Jan. 27 Anti-war march in Los Angeles: Geronimo, Hugh Stegman, Marcus, Next Step, Jim Smith

Peace in Iraq, Justice in Venice - Vigil every Friday, beginning at 4:30pm, at the Circle

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