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Preliminary trial for Jamal Warren murder, aka Shakespeare is Monday, March...
The preliminary trial is next Monday, March 28, 8.30am at The Superior Court of California, Airport Courthouse. 11701 S. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Sris is a big...
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HELLO FROM VENICE BEACH (as sung to Adele’s ‘Hello’)
HELLO FROM VENICE BEACH by, Marty Liboff Hello, it’s me- I’m homeless on Venice Beach sleepin in shit & pee. Hello, can you hear me? I’m in California dreamin about who we used to be- when we were...
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A View From the Bottom
by Pat Raphael Yes, there’s something in the air. No, not the whiff of pee whenever leaning on a tree — that’s from all the street people with no access to restrooms ten hours a day -there’s also...
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We Need An Interim Control Ordinance.
by Jen Sorensen http://www.jensorensen.com by Lydia Ponce For the love of Venice and for how kooks call themselves locals after paying millions of dollars and living here 4 years… We need an ICO. We...
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Under Our Collective Shadow The Unhoused Sleep
by Krista Schwimmer Each night, as the southern sunlight dissipates in the City of Angels, a shadow takes its place. This shadow sneaks across every sidewalk, through every street, and into every...
View ArticleWho not to vote for in the June 5th Neighborhood Council Election.
This race has intensified this year, with what might appear to be a few factions circulating their own voting recommendations. Have no illusions that the largest issue driving this is the development...
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Mike Chamness, Wascally Wadical, interviewed by Greg Foisie and Ana Orozco
SOC 454 – Sociological Perspectives on Earth in Crisis – Winter 2015 California State University Los Angeles For Dr. Talcott by Ana Orozco, Erik Khachaturyan, and Greg Foisie SOC 454 – Winter 2015 –...
View ArticleREPEAL THE 80% TAX BREAK - PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE
REPEAL THE 80% TAX BREAK PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE Google, Greed and Political Complicity By Mark Lipman Let’s get right to the root of the matter … it’s greed. For the most part, we all want the same things...
View ArticleA Perspective on the Venice Neighborhood Council Elections 2016
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) is standard for the paranoid style in politics. Everybody wants to slice and dice the electorate definitions so as to favor their agenda. This is probably as old as...
View ArticleA VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM
by Pat Raphael When cooking up a bum stew, you quickly learn there has to be at least three rocks around your fire — saves your teetering meal from ending up all over the ground right before it’s done....
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Gone too soon…Venice Beach Angel “Frankie”
Red- I met Frankie on the boardwalk many years ago. We knew each other at least 3 years before we became friends, after that we were inseparable. My last day with Frankie was miraculous! O.G.- Frankie...
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What are Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and Why Should Venice...
What is a BID? Business Improvement Districts (“BIDs”) are public-private partnerships, established under State and local laws that give Cities the power to form districts in which all businesses in...
View ArticleWhy Property Owners Should Vote NO to the Venice Beach Business Improvement...
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are, by design, controlled by a very small group of commercial property owners, excluding the voice of most paying into the BID and completely excluding...
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Running VenICE
by ICE As far as my run, well, like I said it is a daily 10 mile trek along sun soaked Venice Beach and the Santa Monica shoreline filled with my many little sacred rituals and traditions. Running to...
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“You Can Check Out” - Excerpt from Eli Elliott’s book
…available at Elienation.com) “The whole place could go up in smoke in ten minutes. That’s the charm of Los Angeles” -William Burroughs “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”...
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A MEMORIAL TALE OF VENICE
by-Marty Liboff (with a little help from Gerry Fialka and friends ) Spirits of the dead- come forth and show us the way… Just a silly old man’s memories of Venice Beach. Ancient dreams- morning arises-...
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David Busch on his FAST FOR VENICE
DAY 26 –FAST FOR VENICE It is such an honor to us all to live and take our stands for what we believe –in Venice. Just to bring everybody up to date on “THE FAST FOR VENICE.” On Monday March 19th, my...
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CHAGALL EVICTED FROM VENICE
By Marty Liboff Everyone in Venice is familiar with the historic old Israel Levin Senior Center with its wonderful Marc Chagall style murals at 201 Ocean Front Walk. It has gotten the O.K. by the...
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Zany Venice beachfront boardwalk
Strolling through the Ocean Front Walk from Venice Beach to the Santa Monica pier on a balmy summer evening. Elemental.
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Snap Map and Greed in Venice. CA
On the days of February 28th and March 2nd, 2017, over 200 Venice residents went to Market Street to protest the overwhelming presence and effects of Snap, Inc. accumulating and utilizing an extreme...
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The Carl Lambert Problem
by Jon Wolff One year ago, it was announced that property owner Carl Lambert was being sued by Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer for illegally converting a rent-stabilized apartment building in...
View ArticleSNAPCHAT REPORT
by Jon Wolff The following is from a recent conversation with a concerned Venice resident about the Snapchat problem. The resident requested to be identified only as Concerned Venetian. JW: You live...
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