By Pat Raphael 20 We have made it! We’ve arrived at the end of another year and none of us were taken out by our heart giving up and stopping to beat, […]
Staying Alive To Create A Better World: A Trans-National Alliance Invitation
THE FIGHT FOR THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF VENICE RAGES ON -conversations with Venice Activist Laddie Williams, Venice Elder Jataun Valentine, and Dr. Naomi Nightingale
By Jon Wolff The following is from conversations with Venice Activist Laddie Williams, Venice Elder Jataun Valentine, and Dr. Naomi Nightingale about the recent staff report from the Office of Historical Resources […]
NOVEMBER 2018 B.I.D. MEETING OBSERVATIONS
By John Okulick I did attend. I had only two minutes to read a list of questions that I would like answers to, as a CPRA request. After several attempts to get […]
REESE DAVIDSON vs. the VENICE NIMBY pt.2
By Lisa Robins In the August issue of the Beachhead I laid out what I perceived to be the central problem in housing our homeless population: “Everyone wants to help the homeless….but […]
Frank T. Rios — Venice West Poet (March 22, 1936 – August 20, 2018)
By Bill Mohr Frank T. Rios, a poet who joined the Venice West poetry scene in the late 1950s and remained one of its most loyal advocates, died early this morning, at […]
VENICE LOSES THE LAST VENICE BEAT POET FRANK T. RIOS
By Pegarty Long – Photos by Pegarty Long I first saw Frankie in 1974. Not that I actually spoke with him at that time because he was lying back on a chair, […]
THREE YEARS LATER A Trans-National Alliance Response To the Homeless Killings of 2015
by Pat Raphael No,no, no, no, NO! This will just not do in Venice. To come into our community and murder one of our young men, then spend the next few years […]
YOUR VENICE HISTORY UPDATE
By Jon Wolff, photos by Margaret Molloy The West Los Angeles Planning Commission met on August 15, 2018 to hear an appeal from Venice activists to oppose a proposal to convert the […]
Why Being a Venice Original Matters Why (Venice) History Matters
By Mike Bravo “People don’t need your approval to move to Venice” “Who cares how long you’ve been here.” In the same arrogant spirit of their colonizer archetypes and ancestors, dismissive gentrifier […]
YOU CAN HELP SAVE THE HISTORIC BLACK CHURCH IN VENICE
By Jon Wolff The following is from a recent conversation with the Reverend Oscar Rhone, of Mt. Hebron Baptist Church, on the upcoming appeal to the L.A. Planning Commission to oppose the […]
