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The 23rd Abbot Kinney Festival

Photos of the Festival: Alex, Rex Butters, Jim Smith

3,807 U.S. Casualties in Iraq; 1,077,232 Iraqi Dead

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Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

• Great Job - Bill Fleeman
• Santa Monica Pier Savior - Pano Douvos
• What the ARF is Going On? - Lydia Poncé
• Parking Problems - DeDe Audet

Statue finds a head - Photo by Margaret Molloy

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3 Big Victories for Venice, and the Coast

• Oversized Hotel Voted Down - Jim Smith
• Court Sides with LP Tenants
• Playa Vista Sinks - John Davis

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In Brief

• Tenants evicted at Billys Apartments
  
• Parking Permit issue goes Coastal
  
• Too Big for Venice and Lincoln
  
• Rosendahl calls for end of Iraq war
  
• Free Health Care Initiative Filed
  
• Your Tax Dollars at Work
  
• Low Turnout in VNC Election
  

IRAQ: Truth Takes A Holiday - Terence Pearce

Bush caricature - Pano Douvos

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Year Six of the War on Terror: TV Violence, Selfishness and Insults Have Skyrocketed - Margot Pepper

Get Well Soon Carol! - The Beachhead Collective

Why Defend the Venice Specific Plan? - Dennis Hathaway

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The Abbot Kinney Festival draws 120,000

Photos by Alex, Rex Butters, Michael Smith

Heroes of Lincoln Place Celebrate 20 Years of their Tenant Association

Photos: Jan Book and Amanda Seward; Erin Grayson and Sara Sakuma; Sheila Bernard and Tomarah Thomas; Carol Beck and Angie Bray; Gloria Morales, Rosemarie Murphy and Lucy Siam; and Bill Rosendahl and Sheila Bernard

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Development on Ocean Front Walk - Jim Smith

Development photos by Alex

Think Outside the Bomb - Cary Shulman

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Philomene's Page

• Photo: John Thomas and Philomene Long - Pegarty Long
• We open a door - Philomene Long
• Philomene - Scott Wannberg
• Eau de Bohemia - Susan Hayden
• For Philomene - John Macker
• Philomene Long Thomas - Pat Hartman
• Oh Philomene - Aya Rose
• American Sonnet - Wanda Coleman
• Laughed/Left - Alan Rodman

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Poetry

• In Memory of Philomene Long - Hillary Kaye
• The Decider - Pano Douvos
• The Final Phantasmagoria - Rebecca LaRue
• Up jumped the Devil - Rex Butters
• Victory - Douglas Eisenstark
• Got somethin' for you - Jim Smith
• Haiku - Hal Bogotch

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Suzanne’s Angels – Women on the road for Women on the street - Moira Nordholt

Playa Vista Sinks - continued from page 3

Venice Specific Plan - continued from page 5

Iraq - continued from page 4

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CommUnity Events - by the numbers

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