Thu - July 1, 2004

Chain Stores in Venice?


Venice has been relatively free of cookie-cutter chain stores, unlike most of Los Angeles.

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Big Election Win for Progressives


By Jim Smith

Venice Progressives won a startling victory over rivals and multiple obstacles in the annual Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council (GRVNC) election, June 27. Three of the most caustic critics of the Progressives garnered only a handful of votes.

Posted at 07:49 PM     Read More  

Talk of the Town



No wonder we can’t understand each other, there are at least 34 languages spoken in Venice!
The Modern Language Association has put up a website, www.mla.org/census_data, showing what languages are spoken in each zipcode. For 90291, here’s the top 10:

Posted at 07:47 PM     Read More  

Letters


• Racism in Venice? - Camille Jacks
• Response from the writer - Jim Smith
• Beat Bush - Moe Stavnezer

Posted at 07:45 PM     Read More  

Daniel Freeman Hospital: Still Fighting for Its Life


By Theresa Hulme

Local volunteers are boldly challenging, once again, one of the largest hospital chains and Fortune 500 companies in America.

Posted at 07:41 PM     Read More  

Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council - Preliminary results from the June 27 election


Total voters: 509

President
Jennifer Carson: 46 regular votes + 6 provisional votes = 52 total votes
Suzanne Thompson: 357 regular votes + 31 provisional votes = 388 total votes
5 regular write-ins + 1 provisional write-in = 6 total write-ins

Posted at 07:39 PM     Read More  

Interview with new Venice Neighborhood Council President Suzanne Thompson


Suzanne Thompson, a resident of Central Venice, became the second person to be elected president of the Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council (GRVNC).

Posted at 07:37 PM     Read More  

Beyond Venice: Trends in Foreign Elections


By Faramarz Nabavi

Most U.S. media virtually ignores the rest of the world, unless if America has thousands of troops fighting somewhere. There is a blackout on how people are reacting both to Bush and pro-business policies in their own lands.

Posted at 07:34 PM     Read More  

The man who built the Venice Trailer Park and turned the swamp into a boat harbor


By Linda L. Schmidt

My father, Larry Norman, came to the Venice area in 1919 from Edmonton, Alberta and had been active and prominent in affairs relating to the development of the harbor and the beaches until his death.

Posted at 07:33 PM     Read More  

L.A. Herald-Express, 1946: Venice Club Building Condemned; Site May Be Park


Once a spot of gaiety but now condemned by the City Health Department, the old Venice Country Club soon may become the site of a city park, it was revealed yesterday.

Posted at 07:30 PM     Read More  

Venice of Los Angeles


From the Beachhead Archives
#2 – December 1968

By Jane Gordon

History has ups and downs. Venice started coming down after Abbot Kinney died. The powers interested in Venice were at that time divided into two main camps: those that wanted to adhere to Kinney’s principle or absolutely no limits on business—i.e.,amusement concesions—and those who wanted Venice to be a residential beach resort.

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U.S. NAVY ATTACKS THE WHALES


By N.G.

About 2 years ago, one type of sonar system, an underwater three dimensional scanning device, was tested in the Bahamas.

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Who Killed The Living Wage? An Insider’s View of the Grocery Strike


By Hillary Kaye

On February 26, 86 percent of the 55,000 workers of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union voted to ratify a contract with the three grocery giants Safeway (Vons and Pavilions), Kroger (Ralphs), and Albertsons.

Posted at 07:25 PM     Read More  

Poetry


• A Place To Park - Fast Eddie
• Cowpoke Memory (Elegy to Ronald Reagan) - Hal Bogotch
• Moore Electric - Shanna Moore
• The Phantom - Hillary Kaye
• requiem for a light weight - Rex Butters

Posted at 07:19 PM     Read More  

The Sheriff of Hollywood: Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11


By John Davis

Fahrenheit 9/11 is like a modern day western, but this time the genre has escaped confinement of the big screen and is roaming around the real world scaring the hell out of the Republican Party. World truth and justice are at stake as a Michael Moore presents himself as substantive matter confronting his evil anti-matter dual self, GW Bush.

Posted at 07:08 PM     Read More  

A Eulogy For Our Marlon Brando


By Dave Zirin

Marlon Brando’s death at the age of 80 will begin a battle over how the “greatest actor of all time” will be remembered. Some will focus on his latter day isolation, his bizarre behavior, and the many personal tragedies that befell his family.

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