Tue - August 1, 2006

Save the Graffiti Walls


By Stash Maleski

The Venice Graffiti Walls represent the ideal of free expression in its most pure form. Since early in 2000 when the current walls officially became walls for free art whether it be with brush or spraycan, these were the only city sanctioned legal graffiti art walls in the United States.

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Open Letter to Bush: Here’s How to Halt This Horror


By Ralph Nader

You have been a weak president, despite your strutting and barking, when it comes to doing the right things for the American people within the Constitution and its rule of law. This trait is now in bold relief over the Israeli government's escalating war crimes pulverizing the defenseless people and country of Lebanon.

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In Brief:


Elections Scheduled at the Neighborhood Council

The Venice Neighborhood Council - which recently dropped “Grass Roots” from its name - has set its annual election schedule.

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300 Beachheads



Our next issue will be the 300th edition of the Free Venice Beachhead since our founding in December, 1968. Ok, so we missed a few months.

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Wealthy Lab Mice at Playa Vista - Mickey Mouse Methane System


By John Davis

As reported by the Beachhead in December, the City of Los Angeles and Playa Vista lost a major lawsuit in the California Appellate Court. Both Playa Vista and the city council begged the California Supreme Court to overturn the judgment but to no avail.

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The Weather Report


By Jim Smith

Is it Global Warming, or just an unusually severe heat wave? Venice and much of the Northern Hemisphere have been sweltering in what is becoming the hottest year on record. Word on the street is that this summer's heat wave is definitely part of a worldwide climate change. Scientists may or may not agree.

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Tent City Report


By C.V. Beck

At Tent City, (southwest corner Frederick/California Streets, now called "Squirrel Square Free Speech Area") we Lincoln Placerites still maintain a vigorous presence twice weekly, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10-5 pm, as we await the court date scheduled for August 16, 2006, superior court, downtown LA. We are there to support each other and to answer questions as best we can. We also tell jokes and gossip. We have snax and cool drinks on hand and our 8-10 chairs are mostly full each day we are there.

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Craftspeople face arrest, harassment on OFW


By Della Franco

We thought that when Bill Rosendahl became the Councilman he would represent the needs of the people of the Venice Boardwalk; the artists supported him; they believed in him. Unfortunately for all concerned, they and their families are being let down.

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Gingerbread Court Faces Uncertain Future


By Kitty Bratton

Although I'm no longer a physical resident of Venice, most of my energy/heart is still there. I have not actually resided in Venice since 1976, but have maintained contact with a few friends that are left in the area.

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Venice Historian Banned from Selling Book


Los Angles police will not allow Jeffrey Stanton’s excellent book about Venice history, Venice California: Coney Island of the Pacific, to be sold on our Beach.

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A Good Man is Murdered on the Beach


By Joy Rippel

Coby Joe McGee, a homeless visitor from Missouri got murdered on the hill behind the Dudley Pagoda shortly after 1:00am on July 20. He was stabbed in the heart. Unfortunately, Coby was actually showing some heart when it happened.

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Everyone In Venice Knows - Conclusion


By Carol Fondiller

If you missed the first installment last month, you can read it on-line at <www.venice-beachhead.org>, click on “July 2006,” then click on “Read text files.”

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Poetry


• I am the vampire I thought I was - Hillary Kaye
• Reflections on cleaning someone’s house - Mary Getlein
• American Vendetta/The Terrorist Zaqawi - Gregory Sotir
• Rumor Confirmed - Anon
• "The Doors To Syllogism" - John O'Kane
• Meth Pursuit, Part 2 - John David West
• Cycle - Vincenzo

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A Scientist looks at Evolution versus Intelligent Design


By Paul O’Lague, Ph.D

In 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his theory of evolution by natural selection.
Since then our world has not been the same. Chance and necessity became the new driving force in biology. Design and purpose, parts of Aristotelian metaphysics, were no longer necessary.

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Astrological Cookery - Welcome


By Judith Martin Straw

We all want to be healthy and happy, but sometimes those two ideas seem to be headed in different directions. So, how can you reconcile your desire for a long life with your desire for a good time? Consider the notion of cooking in an astrological mode.

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Astrological Cookery - Leo (July 24 - Aug. 23)


The sign of Leo rules some very passionate and demanding people, but you knew that. The are the people happiest to tell you what their sun sign is, because they feel that being Leo is just a natural state of perfection.

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Astrological Cookery - LEO’S PEPPER STEAK WITH BRANDY SAUCE


2 Tablespoons mixed peppercorns
(black, green, white)
About 2 lbs of steak (about 1 inch thick)
1 Tbs butter
2 Tbs chopped green onions
1/2 cup beef stock (canned if need be)
1/3 cup brandy or cognac

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