To paraphrase, Walt Whitman once said that whether made of mud huts or skyscrapers, the greatest city in the world is the one where the greatest minds reside. It is the people, […]
Building the Bridges of Community
Think Community and Grow It
By Eric Ahlberg Let’s face it you dumpster diving bohemians, you are in a hot property market, millions of investment dollars are aimed ousting you and putting up a monster mansion in […]
History, Shmistory
By Laura Shepard Townsend They say “if you don’t learn from history…then you’re just stupid!” The changes currently assaulting the community of Venice, heralded as ‘progress’, call to mind 1926, a year […]
The Raft
By Cal Porter Poling a raft down a waterway to get to school? Sounds like something right out of Mark Twain. Maybe Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer did it. But in more […]
Frank Strasser Reflects the Light and Fun of Venice
By Greta Cobar It’s an inescapable magnetic attraction between Venice and those who have answered their calling towards creativity. Sooner or later, in the realms of time and space, they find each […]
Artist Profile: Emily Winters
By Greta Cobar Here’s a Venice trivia question for you: What do the Venice Arts Council, the Venice Japanese American Memorial Marker, the Ocean Front Walk benches, the Poetry Walls, the Art […]
Venice and the Next One Hundred Years
Poster by Earl Newman By Pano Douvos The Golden Age of Venice for me was the late 60’s and through most of the 70’s. The highlight was the glorious Venice Canals […]
Boats Parade in the Venice Canals
By CJ Gronner One of the most adorable things you could ever do in Venice, California is attend the annual Holiday Boat Parade in the Venice Canals. This year was the 30th […]
CANalABYSS
By Mary Lou Johnson Come on, come all All you hippies, have a ball! Now’s the time, today’s the day Lose your blues, pay no dues Style your life, discard your shoes. […]
A Venice Holiday
By CJ Gronner Our hard core Christmas baking day, a verrrry serious annual tradition, fell on Sunday this year. Things began to fall apart even before I awoke on Sunday morning to […]
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