Thu - May 1, 2008Letters• Community-Busting Tactics - DeDe
Audet
• Venice Days - Peter Young • Asbestos at 5 Rose Avenue - Diamond Li • Vandalism on Pacific Avenue - Cristina Rojas CdA • Doggies Doo, Owners Don’t - Rebecca Moore Frey • The RV Controversy - 1 - Michael Millman • My Cat Cause - Kitty Bratton • The RV Controversy - 2 - Lilly Posted at 07:28 PM Read More Letter from Hawai’iAloha Venetians from your roving butterfly.
I’ve learned a lot in the past four months living on the Big island of
Hawai’i.
Posted at 07:21 PM Read More $50,000 Reward Offered For Information on Murder on the BeachMurderer Still at
Large
By Karl Abrams A $50,000 reward for information on the murder of Nathan Alan Morgan is now in force. Councilmember Bill Rosendahl’s motion for the reward was endorsed by the L.A. City Council in April. Posted at 07:19 PM Read More ‘Smart’ Crosswalk Coming to Abbot Kinney and Rialto Ave.After repeated requests by Abbot Kinney merchants and residents, the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has agreed to install flashing lights at the intersection. At least two people who were trying to cross AKB have been hit by cars. Posted at 07:18 PM Read More $1.7 Million Withdrawal from Venice Surplus Property FundsBy Jim
Smith
The Los Angeles City Council voted on April 8 to take $1.7 million from a Venice trust fund to pay for four projects in the community. Posted at 07:17 PM Read More The Return of The Venice Town CouncilImagine a community body where all Venetians have
the equal right to speak and vote.
Posted at 07:16 PM Read More The History of Cinco de MayoBy Maria Elena
Montano
In the 1800’s, Mexico underwent a series of wars, bringing about political changes which affected Mexico’s government for yet another century. Posted at 07:15 PM Read More The Fifth of May Around the WorldMost people in Southern California relate the 5th
of May to Cinco de Mayo. True, but Cinco de Mayo is not the only holiday
celebrated on May 5th around the world.
Posted at 07:14 PM Read More Angry Women Close Congress – in MexicoBy John
Ross
Mexico City - “The Adelitas have arrived/To defend our oil/Whoever wants to give it to the foreigners/Will get the shit kicked out of him!” yodeled the brigades of women pouring onto the esplanade of the Mexican senate to protest a petroleum privatization measure President Felipe Calderón insists is not a petroleum privatization measure and which he sent on to the Senate for fast-track ratification at the tag end of the winter-spring session this April. Posted at 07:13 PM Read More Abe Osheroff, Venice Hero and Spanish Civil War Vet, Dies at 92By Emily
Winters
I knew the Osheroff family many years ago when I lived next door to them on 28th street in Venice, late 1960s. There was a plan to refurbish the canals by assessing the property owners in the canals and on the peripheral areas. Posted at 07:12 PM Read More Housing, Homelessness, and the Butt End of the City BudgetBy Peggy Lee
Kennedy
If you follow the news you know that the Mayor came out strongly in favor of “Public Safety,” in the city’s 2008-09 budget, which includes increasing the LAPD by 1,000 police and decreasing other needed services. Posted at 07:10 PM Read More The Bush Legacy: Going Out With A BangBy Jack
Neworth
During the last months of a president’s term in office his concerns naturally turn toward his legacy. (Except for Nixon whose thoughts turned toward if he was going to jail.) George Bush, however, is not worried about his legacy. “Hell, it’ll take 50 years to figure it out and by then we’ll all be dead.” Posted at 07:09 PM Read More Bea Free, Free Venice Feminist, Has DiedBy Cara
Adams
Bea Free, as she named herself, was a true Venice legend. Posted at 07:06 PM Read More CONSTITUTION AMENDED: Shopping Replaces Free SpeechNow you can shop “without feeling any guilt
whatsoever.”
Posted at 07:05 PM Read More New Mural in VeniceThe paint is still drying on the new Dog Town
Mural at Jungle Video, 423 Lincoln Blvd.
Posted at 07:01 PM Read More Poetry• come on down - Rex
Butters
• The Transient - Jim Smith • Beyond - Rebecca Moore Frey Posted at 07:00 PM Read More The Venice Beat Poets –The Great River Outside the Mainstream – LAWRENCE LIPTONBy Jim
Smith
Lawrence Lipton was something of a father figure to the Beat poets of Venice. He was reviled by many of the poets for his manipulations and commercialism. Yet, they gravitated to his home at 20 Park Avenue, which became the center of the “scene” in Venice. Posted at 06:57 PM Read More Bruno in Venice WestBy Lawrence
Lipton
For Giordano Bruno burned by the Inquisition in the year 1600 Posted at 06:54 PM Read More Results of the April Beachhead Poll“Do You Feel Safe In
Venice”
77 percent of respondents said, Yes, they feel safe in Venice. 22 percent said they didn’t. Posted at 06:52 PM Read More Swami SpeaksBy X Swami
X
Most everyone is looking in the least challenging, exciting and promising direction. Everyone, with the exception of George Wash Out Bush Whacker is looking for genuine meaning,on-going ecstasy and total fulfillment. Posted at 06:51 PM Read More Venice High Students Rally for Immigrant RightsAbout 400 Venice High School students staged a
rally on May Day in support of immigrant
rights.
The students left their classes but did not leave the campus. Nervous police and school administrators hovered on the edge of the rally. Posted at 06:50 PM Read More Jingles Celebrates 34 Years of Free Speech on Ocean Front WalkJingles brought his message that “Meat Is
Murder” and his advocacy of a vegan lifestyle to the Boardwalk in 1974.
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