BOOKS & VENICE IN MOVIE LAND by marty liboff- Venice California: “Coney Island of the Pacific”, by Jeffrey Stanton (1993 & 2005) Death is a Lonely Business, by Ray Bradbury (1985). […]
Books and Film
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. […]
THE BEAT GOES ON
By Marty Liboff YOU ARE ALL UNDER ARREST!! John Haag started our beloved Beachhead newspaper in 1968. He had run the legendary Venice West Cafe at 7 Dudley Ave. in Venice from […]
My Mom, Anna Haag-Ricci
Anna Haag-Ricci was born in Rome, Italy, on January 18, 1936. She grew up in Rome and spent the years during World War II in a small village called Agriano, Umbria, also […]
An Interview with John Haag
(This is a re-print from the November 2002 issue) By Suzy Williams John Haag – whose long career of fighting for the rights of Venetians has earned him the title of People’s […]
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 […]
A Philomene Rhapsody
By Delores Hanney They are already ghosts John and Philomene As they pass Along the Boardwalk Where ghosts and poets overlap… Philomene Long More than two years after her passing, the silence […]
June 2008 – The Venice Beat Poets – –The Great River Outside the Mainstream – John Haag
By Jim Smith In many ways, John Haag was a typical member of the Beat Generation in that he forsook a career in Academia or Madison Avenue, for a life dedicated to […]
June 2008 – Poems by John Haag
History Lesson That little ape that came down from a tree and used a stick on his enemy and called aloud to his family to show what a great brave ape […]
May 2008 – The Venice Beat Poets – The Great River Outside The Mainstream – Lawrence Lipton
By Jim Smith Lawrence Lipton was something of a father figure to the Beat poets of Venice. He was reviled by many of the poets for his manipulations and commercialism. Yet, […]
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