Wed - January 4, 2006

Lincoln Place – a month of heartache, anger and determination


By Jim Smith

A grinch named AIMCO stole Christmas - and Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Solstice and New Years - last month at Lincoln Place. Instead of snug apartments festooned with holiday trees, lights and decorations, Lincoln Place in December resembled a ghost town, patrolled only by security guards.

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Big Wednesday at the beach


By John Davis

On the Winter Solstice huge swells marched forth and pounded Venice Beach with one elephantine set after another. One super wave swept over the top of the Venice Pier tearing the concrete bathroom off it’s foundation, then tumbling it into the ocean about fifty feet below.

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The Swami is 80


X Swami X celebrated his 80th Birthday at the annual Winter Solstice Party held at Sponto Gallery, 7 Dudley Avenue last month.

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How you can help Save Lincoln Place


By Jim Smith

Lincoln Place is a beautiful affordable housing complex of 696 garden apartments. It’s a historic site that was built 55 years ago by Ralph Vaughn, an African-American architect and set designer for MGM.

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No Applause in Baldwin Hills for the MTA Bus Yard Swap


Who Loses When Politicians, a Developer, and the MTA Get Together?

By Carol Tucker of the Baldwin Hills Neighborhood Assn.

The MTA, RAD Jefferson, (a developer) and some unnamed politicians have successfully worked out a unique Land Swap Deal that wreaks havoc on the residents of Venice and Baldwin Hills so much so that the residents of both communities are ferociously fighting for their very lives and quality of life.

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No Applause in Venice for the MTA Bus Yard Swap


A message to the City Planning Commission

By Arnold Springer

I want to strongly object to this proposal project. There are many things wrong with it. Too tall, too dense, too out of scale, too greedy, too pushy, too confrontational towards the neighborhood and community.
Specifically I wish to protest the change of zone from M-1 to C-M Zoning. Granting this zone change request gives the developer the opportunity to build a residential project of up to R-3 density. The Venice Specific Plan and the North Venice Neighborhood Plan call out a zoning of RD 1.5.

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LIFE AT TENT CITY, VENICE


By C.V. Beck

Day 1, December 6, 2005, was the pre-Xmas (dare I say it?) “Pogrom” in Venice, taking place at Lincoln Place Garden Apartments. It began with the locking out of working people and their children as well as lock-ins of pets and property.

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Sun - January 1, 2006

Poetry


• Grandmother’s Eyes - Lynette
• The swell of the ocean - Hillary Kaye
• New Lyrics - Spike Marlin and Bill Chappelle
• The Barbarian From The North (for Allen Ginsberg) - Stuart Z. Perkoff
• The Venice West Cafe - Bill Fleeman

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