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Photo: Wildfire produces spectacular sunset - Frank Cappello

5 Rose Ave. tenants wonder: Do you have to be rich to live by the sea? - Jim Smith

ROAR - Poem by Paul Tanck

3,844 U.S. Casualties in Iraq; 1,099,372 Iraqi Dead

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Letters:

• The Venice Boot! - John Humphrey
• Venice Specific Plan - Another View - Chris Plourde
• Santa Monica Pier Savior - Jim Harris
• Immigration - Ron Lowe
• LNG Terminal for SM Bay - Maureen Cruise
• Abbot Kinney Festival - Mary Jahn
• Kudos - Dawn Pisturino

Art: Wage Slave - Dawn Pisturino

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No Overnight Parking on Venice Streets?

A Cellular Tower in your neighborhood?

On The Road with Kerouac and Cassidy

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Santa Monica Tree Executions: What's wrong with these pictures? - Cary Shulman and Hillary Kaye

5 Rose Avenue - continued from page one

Photo: 5 Rose Avenue Apartments - Alexandria

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Venice Non-Profit Goes to Rwanda - Wyatt Valentine

The Last Tent City at Lincoln Place - C.V. Beck

Lincoln Place News

Whole Foods, Starbucks and Trader Joe's - Oh No!

Artist's rendition: Whole Foods at Rose and Lincoln

Cityhood for East Los, but not for Venice

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Halloween on Rialto Avenue

Halloween photos by Alexandria

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The War Goes On

Anti-war march photos by Jim Smith

Photo: They'll Never Take All of Venice - RBarton

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A Local Hero - and the Rest of Us - Jim Smith

Photo: Paul Banke - Yolanda Miranda

Photo: Are they all on Prozac? - Jarrett Baker

Poem: Thanksgiving the First - John Haag

Happy Thanksgiving, Nov. 22 - Help the Homeless

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Poetry

• Among Them - Hillary Kaye
• Shady Characters - Laura Hemmer
• A Cannibal in Venice - Sharon Shapiro Snow
• American Griots - Rebecca LaRue
• Beyond the Boundaries - Rebecca M. Frey
• The Great Adventure - Jim Smith

The Venice Beat Poets - The Great River Outside the Mainstream - Hillary Kaye

• A Suggestion to my Fellow Citizens - Stuart Perkoff

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A "Disposable Workforce" in New Orleans After Katrina - James Parks

Poem: New Orleans, Old Story - Margot Pepper

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Vision of a New Reality - Ron Lowe

Anti-homeless group tries to close St. Josephs

35 Years Ago in Venice: Duck Power - Carol Fondiller

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CommUnity Calendar Events - by the numbers

Photo: Sun worshiper - Frank Cappello

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