November
2007

#313

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CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

Photo: Wildfire produces spectacular sunset - Frank Cappello

5 Rose Ave. tenants wonder: Do you have to be rich to live by the sea? - Jim Smith

ROAR - Poem by Paul Tanck

3,844 U.S. Casualties in Iraq; 1,099,372 Iraqi Dead

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

  • The Venice Boot! - John Humphrey
  • Venice Specific Plan - Another View - Chris Plourde
  • Santa Monica Pier Savior - Jim Harris
  • Immigration - Ron Lowe
  • LNG Terminal for SM Bay - Maureen Cruise
  • Abbot Kinney Festival - Mary Jahn
  • Kudos - Dawn Pisturino

Art: Wage Slave - Dawn Pisturino

Ad: Photos by Alexandria

PAGE THREE

No Overnight Parking on Venice Streets?

A Cellular Tower in your neighborhood?

On The Road with Kerouac and Cassidy

Ad: Venice Neighborhood Council - Town Hall, Nov. 10

Ad: blue: the transit store

    PAGE FOUR

    Santa Monica Tree Executions: What's wrong with these pictures? - Cary Shulman and Hillary Kaye

    5 Rose Avenue - continued from page one

    Photo: 5 Rose Avenue Apartments - Alexandria

    Ad: Nutritional Warehouse

    Ad: Lincoln Graphics and Stationers

    PAGE FIVE

    Venice Non-Profit Goes to Rwanda - Wyatt Valentine

    The Last Tent City at Lincoln Place - C.V. Beck

    Lincoln Place News

    Whole Foods, Starbucks and Trader Joe's - Oh No!

    Artist's rendition: Whole Foods at Rose and Lincoln

    Cityhood for East Los, but not for Venice

    PAGE SIX

    Halloween on Rialto Avenue

    Halloween photos by Alexandria

    Ad: Support the Beachhead

    Ad: Market Gourmet

    PAGE SEVEN

    The War Goes On

    Anti-war march photos by Jim Smith

    Photo: They'll Never Take All of Venice - RBarton

    Ad: Surfing Cowboys

    Ad: Danny's Deli

    Ad: William B. Leaf Automotive

    PAGE EIGHT

    A Local Hero - and the Rest of Us - Jim Smith

    Photo: Paul Banke - Yolanda Miranda

    Photo: Are they all on Prozac? - Jarrett Baker

    Poem: Thanksgiving the First - John Haag

    Happy Thanksgiving, Nov. 22 - Help the Homeless

    PAGE NINE

    Poetry

    • Among Them - Hillary Kaye
    • Shady Characters - Laura Hemmer
    • A Cannibal in Venice - Sharon Shapiro Snow
    • American Griots - Rebecca LaRue
    • Beyond the Boundaries - Rebecca M. Frey
    • The Great Adventure - Jim Smith

    The Venice Beat Poets - The Great River Outside the Mainstream - Hillary Kaye

    • A Suggestion to my Fellow Citizens - Stuart Perkoff

    Ad: Venice West returns - 39th Birthday benefit for the Free Venice Beachhead - Dec. 15 at 7 Dudley Ave.

    PAGE TEN

    A "Disposable Workforce" in New Orleans After Katrina - James Parks

    Poem: New Orleans, Old Story - Margot Pepper

    PAGE ELEVEN

    Vision of a New Reality - Ron Lowe

    Anti-homeless group tries to close St. Josephs

    35 Years Ago in Venice: Duck Power - Carol Fondiller

    Ad: Doug Eisenstark

    Ad: Save Independent Media! - Support the Free Venice Beachhead

    PAGE TWELVE

    CommUnity Calendar Events - by the numbers

    Photo: Sun worshiper - Frank Cappello

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