Fri - December 1, 2006

An Immoveable Feast


By John O’Kane

It’s Sunday in Venice, California. The South Beach Café mid-morning. I catch a glimpse of faces familiar but distorted through the tobacco haze, some mumbling their first greetings on what promises to be another day in paradise at land's edge.

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VNC Board Meeting


By C.V. Beck
 
The following are some highlights of the November 21st, meeting of the Venice Neighborhood Council. 

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Ditto the Demos?


By John O’Kane


The demos are back but what’s their comeback plan this time? If they’d shown some savvy in 2000 and demanded a real recount of Florida, they wouldn’t need one. The prospect of a Gore-Lieberman regime looks mighty tantalizing from hindsight, but wait a minute! Would 9/11 have remade it into a version of what we have now?

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Astrological Cookery for December 2006-


By Judith Martin Straw

Change, change and more change, but there’s still a stalemate on some central issue- (Could it be the War?) It’s really time to decide if we fish or cut bait. (I’m voting to let the bait go-)

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Poetry


• 2007 - Hillary Kay
• Wet Footprints Over Tractor Treads - Hal Bogotch

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Lincoln Place - Tent City Report


By C.V. Beck

Tent City is located at the southwest corner of California Avenue and Frederick Street, Venice, California (sometimes called Squirrel Square,  that is behind the Ross parking lot)...We still maintain although we have reduced our hours to 10-4 pm, Wednesdays and Saturdays because of the winter darkness. 

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Why I Do This


By Douglas Eisenstark
evicted Tenant of Lincoln Place

It's been a year since the LA County Sheriffs evicted me from my Lincoln Place apartment in Venice.

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A Venice Christmas Carol


                                                    by
                                    Charles Dickens  and Jack Neworth
                                     Dec. 1853                 Dec.   2006

          Few  knew  Caldwell B. Screwge, Venice's biggest  landlord, was the great-great-great-grandson of Ebeneezer Scrooge, though if one looked closely you could see the resemblance.  Caldwell owned a real estate office on Lincoln which endeavoured  in foreclosures.  Even though the fates of finance had smiled so radiantly upon him, Screwge's icy personality never thawed.  (Unless one of his rent controlled apartments became vacant and went to fair market price.)  So it was not surprising when he was invited by his nephew for Christmas dinner, Screwge barked, "Bah humbug, who needs the cholesterol."  

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