2011
#356
CONTENTS
PAGE ONE
OFW Historic Houses, Vending Fading Like A Summer Breeze
- Photo: Pegarty Long
Advertising Graffiti Coming to Ocean Front Walk? - Dennis Hathaway
Big Changes on Cean Front Walk
700 Bombing Victims in Libya
1,598 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan - 35 this month
4,454 U.S. Casualties in Iraq - 2 this month;
33,041 U.S. Wounded
Up to 1.4 million Iraqi Dead;
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: $1.2+ trillion
PAGE TWO
Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates
Letters:
- 4 O’Clock in the Morning - Chuck Bloomquist
VNC goes on a shopping spree
Little Church of Horrors
Corrections
PAGE THREE
Community Pressure to Save Vera Davis Center Services Intensifies - Roger Linnett
Save The Venice Post Office - Jim Smith
- Photo: Post Office Cornerstone
- How You Can Help Save the Post Office
Ad: Nutritional Warehouse
PAGE FOUR
Blue Bus Cuts Back Service in Venice
- Photo: #2 Bus - Out of Venice
"Four In the Morning" - The Video - Roger Linnett
- Collage: The Planets
How Venice Voted – And Didn’t Vote - Jim Smith
- Chart: Venice Precincts
Ad: Marla's Cafe
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Ad: ATLI Handcrafted Furniture
Ad: Hoagie's
PAGE FIVE
Photo by Pegarty Long: Two giant TV screens development proposed
Yet Another Ocean Front Walk Ordinance Coming Soon - Jim Smith
Who’s Watching The Neighborhood Watch? - Peggy Lee Kennedy
- Photo by Jim Smith: Alex Thompson
Beachhead Archives from Feb. 1971: Constitution Void On Venice Beach?
PAGE SIX
Crashing The Tom Everhart Party - CJ Gronner
- Photos by CJ Gronner
Juan's Hats - Second in a series
Ad: Happy Birthday Eric Ahlberg
Ad: Abbot's Habit
PAGE SEVEN
The Circus is in Town! - CJ Gronner
- Photos by CJ Gronner
Ad: Debut Album - Gerry Saint
PAGE EIGHT
Commission of Errors: The Continuing Fight to Save Our Environment
- Photo: Ballona Wetlands
Book Review: by Kathy Leonardo: “The New Now” by Ava Bird
Ad: electric lodge
PAGE NINE
- Poetry:poet ascends from the steps – Harry Northup
- 10:52 Monday, May 16, 2011 – Roger Houston
- Goddess Venice - Liv Zutphen
- the garden – Jimmy Valentine
- Mother’s Day - Mary Getlein
- Little Hitlers – Jim Smith
- Krazy Rhymes – Hal Bogotch
Swami X Announcement
Ad: Venice West Publications and the Free Venice Beachhead Present; Book launchings by Jim Smith and Hillary Kaye, July 1
PAGE TEN
Advertising Graffiti Coming to Ocean Front Walk? –continued from page 1
- Photo from BanBillboardBlight.org: Ad Graffiti at Holmby Hills Park
- Photo from BanBillboardBlight.org: Barry Sanders and Bill Rosendahl
Who’s Watching The Neighborhood Watch? –continued from page 5
Community Pressure to Save Vera Davis Center Services Intensifies –continued from page 3
Ad: Douglas Eisenstark - Acupuncture and Herbs
PAGE ELEVEN
Calendar - Compiled by Karl Abrams
Ad: Try the People's Operating System - Clay Claiborne
PAGE TWELVE
Ad: Venice High Centennial Celebration: June 24-27
Ad: 3rd Annual Summer Fest
Ad: Get the News Before It Happens in the Free Venice Beachhead
Photo by Jim Smith: Seagulls Sunbathing