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On the Take? L.A. City Council and Attorney Accused of Taking Playa Vista Bribes - see page three

Is Pot the New Wonder Drug? - erica Snowlake

3,352 Casualties in Iraq

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Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

• Large Waves and High Water - DeDe Audet
• Venetians face drastically increased bus fares - Bus Riders Union Planning Committee

In Brief

• Bannerless Building
• Venice's Wealthiest Couple Gets Richer

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City Council Took Money, Then Voted to Approve Playa Vista; City Attorney Also Implicated - John Davis

Chains of Fools - Rex Butters

Photos: Ground Zero - chain store invasion; Cafe Collage viewed from the Coffeee Bean

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A Night on the Town - CJ Gronner

Illustration - erica snowlake

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Driving for Dahlia - Jim Smith

Photo: Dahlia Wasfi; At Abu Ghraib

Lincoln City - Tent City Report - C.V. Beck

Photo: Terry Considine, AIMCO CEO

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Military Movie Review: 300 - A Spartan Way to Increase Enlistment - Karl Abrams

Photo: The 300 with a pile of Iranian bodies

A Night on the Town - continued from page four

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PAGE EIGHT

An old-fashioned May Day celebration

Photos by Marcus Africanus

Ch. 11 video stills

Stone Age Art

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Homeland Insecurity - Glenn Taranto

Photos by Glenn Taranto: 1101-1107 Venice Blvd. Going, Going, Gone... Affordable Housing in Venice Takes A Beating

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Big Brother - and the neighbors - are watching - Catherine Komp

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Poetry:

• Jive Faust - Hal Bogotch
• The Lag - Jim Smith
• American War - Simone White
• I still owe her $6,000 - Rex Butters
• The Cripple - Lynette

Stone Age Art

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Pot - The New Miracle Drug? - continued from page one

Photo by Halo - Dr. Allan Frakel gives new patient Dominique Williams his marijuana papers

Art: Smokers of the World, Unite

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Downtown Venice News:

• Two Visions of Historic Windward Avenue

• 1980 flyer from the Venice Town Council
• 2007 - Robert Graham building

• Another Statue for the Circle?

• Photo by Jim Smith - Bill Attaway sculpture

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25 Years Ago in the Free Venice Beachhead: Union Busting at the Venice Post Office? - John J. Gwozdz (May 1982, #149)

Driving for Dahlia - continued from page five

Letter:

• Program for Middle School Youth - Paco Madden

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Letter:

• Control of the World's Energy - Fernando Ruiz

Photo: Venice Garden Tour

Astrological Cookery - Judith Martin Straw

• General Forecast for May
• Recipes/Forecast for Taurus

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Comm-unity Events - by the numbers

Peace in Iraq, Justice in Venice - Vigil every Friday, beginning at 5:45 pm, at the Circle

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