2009
#327
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CONTENTS
PAGE ONE
24 Years of a Venice Institution End with Death of Mark Sponto
- Sponto is gone - Suzy Williams
- Remembering Sponto - Leland Auslender
- My Friend Sponto - Carol Fondiller
- Photo: Ron Proulx
- Photo: Jim Smith
- Memorial on Jan. 11
Then: Photo - Martin Luther King with Lyndon Johnson
Now: Photo - Barack Obama4,219 U.S. Casualties in Iraq; 1,305,837 Iraqi Dead; 630 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan, Cost of Iraq: $584 billion
PAGE TWO
Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates
Letters:
- We Can, We Have, We Will - Steve Freedman
- Buying Lincoln Place? - 1 - Barbara Eisenberg
- Buying Lincoln Place? - 2 - Sheila Bernard
- Buying Lincoln Place? - 3 - Response from Beachhead
- City Controller Sues City Attorney - Laura Chick
- Homeless Committee - 1 - Carolyn Rios
- Homeless Committee - 2 - Reponse from Mark Lipman
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PAGE THREE
Letters:
- Westminster Elementary Is Growing (plants) - Nora Drosin
- Photo: Westminster Garden
- Keeping up the struggle - Rafael "Chino" Melgoza
In Brief:
- Neighborhood Council - Mark Lipman
- Venice Town Council Takes Appeal of Permit Parking to the Coastal Commission - Jim Smith
- Paul Robeson (play) in Venice - Alice Stek
- Photo: KB Solomon as Paul Robeson
- Post Office Selling Out - Jim Smith
- Fire on Palms - Mark Lipman
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PAGE FOUR
New Year's Evolution - Amy V. Dewhurst
Ads:
- Douglas Eisenstark, Acupuncture and Herbs
- Venice Town Council
- Free Venice Beachhead
PAGE FIVE
Poem: Big Bill's - R F Wagner, Jr.
- Photo: Big Bill's by annalaurent
Ad: Joel Isaacs, Ph.D.
Murder Unsolved - Mark Lipman
Windward Avenue Resident and Sculptor Robert Graham - Jim Smith
Ad: New York Times obituary of Robert Graham - Ulan Bator Foundation
PAGE SIX
Remembering Sponto - Leland Auslender - continued from page 1
My Friend Sponto - Carol Fondiller - continued from page 1
Sponto is gone - Suzy Williams - continued from page 1
- Photo of Sponto - Leland Auslender
- Photo of Sponto - eye~m~drc
- Photo of inscriptions to Sponto - Jim Smith
PAGE SEVEN
40th Anniversary of the Free Venice Beachhead: - A Night to Remember - erica snowlake
- Photo of Collective - Herbert B. Fishberg
My Friend Sponto - Carol Fondiller - continued from page 6
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Ad: Mission Accomplished - Cartoons by Khalil Bendib
PAGE EIGHT
Venice History – Was the Annexation of Venice to Los Angeles in 1925 a good idea? - Part 1 - Jeffrey Stanton
- Photo: Venice in 1925 - from Venice California - Coney Island of the Pacific, by Jeffrey Stanton
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he Died and Why it Matters - Reviewed by Jack Neworth
- Photo of the book cover
PAGE NINE
Poems for a New President
- Inauguration Day - Sherman Pearl
- Uncle Sam and Aunt Emma - Jim Smith
- January 16, 2009 - Mark Lipman
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PAGE TEN
Was Annexation a good idea? –continued from page 8
- Photo: Windward Avenue in 1906 - - from Venice California - Coney Island of the Pacific, by Jeffrey Stanton
- Photo: Canals in 1907 - from Venice California - Coney Island of the Pacific, by Jeffrey Stanton
Political Cartoon: The Shoe That Was Heard Round The World - Khalil Bendib
PAGE ELEVEN
Poetry
- Mystery - krista schwimmer
- Half Heartedly - hillary kaye
- House of Cards - Doug Eisenstark
- Breaking Free - Janet C. Phelan
- repeat after me - Rex Butters
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PAGE TWELVE
Calendar
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