Dear Beachhead, Your article by Mike Bravo (May 2018) confirmed what other people had told me: that the Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC) meeting on cityhood was a complete fiasco. Bravo, a long-time […]
Long Live the City of Venice!
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 World Wave
By Jim Smith There’s a Tsunami comin’ to shake up the whole wide world. You can’t escape this big old wave hittin’ every city where there’s a slave. Gonna feel this human […]
Judge Garland Stumbles Over The Venice Post Office
By Jim Smith When President Obama nominated fellow Harvard Law School graduate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on March 16, he thought he was picking the least controversial judge he could […]
Saving Venice One More Time
By Jim Smith Few would deny, that on her 110th birthday, the future of Venice is in jeopardy. A huge dinosaur is stalking the streets of Venice. When it’s hungry it eats […]
The Venice meeting concerning the murder of Brendon Glenn
By Jim Smith Los Angeles is a city without a heart. It is a city where a young, Black homeless kid can be gunned down at close range, while the cop who […]
Vietnam, Viet Nam
By Jim Smith We never even learned the way the Vietnamese write the name of their country (Việt Nam), before we lost the war. It was 40 years ago, April 30, that […]
Je Suis Beachhead; Charlie Hebdo: Not So Much
By Jim Smith This month, the Free Venice Beachhead celebrates the publication of its 400th issue and the opening of an on-line archive of every page and every issue we ever published. […]
Venice, Burning to be Restored
By Jim Smith July is the month of revolutions. The American colonists did it on July 4. The French did it on Bastille Day, July 14. Many more nations celebrate their revolution, […]
Venice Circle
By Jim Smith Public space is taking a beating in Venice lately. First, our beautiful beach is off limits to Venetians, and everyone else, from midnight to 6 a.m. Then our nutty […]
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