Sun - September 1, 2002CRISES IN HOUSINGBad News and Good
News
by Carol Fondiller The bad news is that the zone hearing for Irving Tabor Court was postponed. A for-profit developer, Patriot Homes, requested a zone change from Manufacturing to Commercial so that the developer could build a four-story 26-unit apartment complex on a vacant corner of Abbot Kinney and Venice Boulevards. Posted at 07:19 PM Read More Living on Lincolnby Jim
Smith
Even the most fervent Venice patriot would have a hard time waxing eloquent about Lincoln Blvd. The street is ugly, ugly, ugly. In other parts of California, Highway 1–a.k.a. Lincoln Blvd.–is a thing of beauty as it winds up the coast to Oregon. Big Sur lies on Highway 1, as does Mendocino County and the Redwood country. What an impression travelers from the north get of Venice as they trek down El Camino Real! Posted at 07:17 PM Read More The Beachhead’s Restaurant ReviewWords to eat Yuppies
by
Essie comes out of her retirement temporarily to report this happening with mixed emotions. Letting this news out might ruin a good thing. But its already been reported by a major media outlet and there is a moral. Posted at 07:16 PM Read More Letters• NEW GENERATIONERS - Mary
Jane
• Great to see - Robert Smelko • free spirit of Venice - Marc Madow • BRAVO BEACHHEAD! - Tina Posted at 07:15 PM Read More Sher-ruff of Venice–Calvin
THE END FORCE HUMAN QUALITY OF LIFE REDUCTION BY BIZARRE LAW ENFORCEMENT Posted at 07:02 PM Read More Briefly• JURY SAYS “DRIVING WHILE
BLACK” IS NO EXCUSE, EVEN FOR A
JUDGE
• THE DEVIL, YOU SAY Posted at 07:00 PM Read More SEND NIKE A MESSAGESweatshop store on the Boardwalk? Rumor has it
that the Nike Corporation is planning to open a chain store on Ocean Front Walk
(at the historic house at 523 OFW). Up until now the Beach has been free of
chain store pollution. What’s next? McDonald’s?
Starbucks?
Nike sweatshop practices around the world have been documented by a number of organizations, including Global Exchange, Oxfam, National Labor Committee and others. Posted at 06:59 PM Read More A Venice Response to 9/11 and its AftermathWe started marching for peace on the Boardwalk
the Sunday after the bombing of Afghanistan began. It’s been almost a year
and we haven’t missed a single week. For many of us, it’s become our
“Sunday Service.”
Posted at 06:57 PM Read More HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
And the Wright brothers said they thought they had invented something that could make peace on earth (if the wrong brothers didn’t get hold of it) when their wonderful flying machine took off at Kitty Hawk into the kingdom of birds but the parliament of birds was freaked out by this man-made bird and fled to heaven Posted at 06:55 PM Read More Neighborhood Council holds first Board meetingBy Alice Stek, District 7
councilmember
Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council convened its first board meeting August 26 at the United Methodist Church Community Room. As reported in the July Beachhead, on June 13 the new neighborhood council elected its first board of 21 members; 8 are from the Progressive Candidates slate. Posted at 06:54 PM Read More Renters have rightsBy Elena
Popp
Staff Attorney, Legal AID Foundation of Los Angeles Venice tenants are protected by rent control if your building was built before October 1978 and there are two or more units on the lot. Posted at 06:53 PM Read More OCT 5-7 U.N. World Habitat Dayby Carol
Fondiller
The U.S. has lost over 250,000 units of Government subsidized housing since the United Nations Habitat II conference in 1996, which committed the U.S. to do more, not less to save people’s homes. There has been no federal low income rental housing construction since 1983. Instead, the government has approved 140,000 public housing units to be demolished. Posted at 06:52 PM Read More Poetry• SANTANA - Panos
Douvos
• Girlcryingoverspilledmilk – By Sherry Chovan • Feminist Lasagna – Peggy Lee Kennedy • A Star’s Dream - Manal • No Words - Vessy Mink • Bursting Thoughts - Susana C De Leon • A TOAST (TO THE MOST -- 1980 TO 1990) - Tina Posted at 07:10 PM Read More Artists Against Corporate GreedThis is a call to all concerned persons.
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