By Jamie Virostko It was a particularly long night at the VNC monthly meeting on January 22nd with the Winter Shelter Storage Program Motion taking over an hour of the night’s minutes. […]
El Bordello Alexandria
By CJ Gronner I’ve walked by the big, crazy looking gargoyle house on Westminster and Speedway for years, always wondering what the story of the place could possibly be. I finally got […]
Letters
Letters Buddy Clark’s Store on Lincoln – by Lisa Green Dear Beachhead – by Don Schraier ————————————— Dear Beachhead, I wanted to let others know that Buddy Clark has opened a thrift […]
Emily Winters Writes on Mural Ordinance and VNC
Dear Beachhead, The Venice Neighborhood Council Board Meeting on Tuesday, January 22 voted unanimously to revisit their vote to accept the Los Angeles City Mural Ordinance due to final changes made by […]
Declare a “Shelter Crisis” in Los Angeles
One of the state’s most powerful tools to assist the vulnerable homeless population is hardly being used. Buried within California’s legal codes is a 25-year-old statute that allows counties and municipalities to […]
Chuck Cheats at Ballona
By John Davis It is no surprise to environmental advocates that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife is trying to cheat environmental laws to build a 46,000 square foot building that […]
A Consequence of Being Human: Homelessness and Human Rights
By Daniel James Keegan O’Connell We all lay down once in a while. Be it sunbathing, napping, reading a book, or just stretching out, we all do it. Personally I like the […]
The Gun-Control Debate
By Mark Lipman Finally, a serious debate and the political will for gun control has emerged in this country, and it only took the massacre of a school full of children to […]
Some Will Never Be Gentrified
By John O’Kane Many have expected Venice to become another upscale coastal community ever since the early 60s, when the city directors began dozing the architectural gems copied from the Italian source. […]
Obit: Nick Lenin Conn
Nick Conn, long-time Venice resident, died at his home at 224 San Juan Avenue on Tuesday Evening, November 13, 2012. Born Nicolai Lenin Conn on February 22, 1925 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.