Sun - June 1, 2003

BEACHHEAD EDITORIAL: A lot’s at stake in the Venice Elections


On June 28, Venice will vote for candidates to fill 10 positions on the neighborhood council.
We urge a vote for the entire slate of Progressive Grassroots Candidates who are campaigning on a platform of more affordable housing and community control of development.

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WHOLE LOTTA SHAKING GOING ON


By John Davis

Well, the City hopes not. As the Planners rubber stamp yet more and more permits for monolithic structures in Venice they are failing to comply with laws that protect public health and safety.

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Oh Rats!


By Carol Fondiller

According to the weekly newspaper The Argonaut, May 22, the Catellus Development company has devised a plan for evicting long-term residents of a 45-acre site situated on a Playa del Rey bluff.

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Letters


• Midnight Special Bookstore - Margie Ghiz
• Non-violence - Marea Boylan
• Notable Women in Venice History - John P. Jones
• OFW licensing - John Vance
• Isadora Duncan didn't sleep here - Eddie Medard
• Missing - Paul Frankel
• Venice Peace March - Naomi Snyder
• Venice Skills Center - Marguerite Siegel

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Daniel Freeman Hospital: Battle may be won but war is far from over


By Theresa Hulme

The Marina’s Daniel Freeman Hospital announcement that it will remain open is a huge victory for local activists and community members.

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Neighborhood Council votes, over opposition, to support Albert Dunne and Lincoln Place


By Jim Smith

A divided neighborhood council (GRVNC) board voted May 28 to oppose the eviction of 88-year-old World War II veteran, Albert Dunne. Last month the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to evict the purple-heart winner. The board resolution asks L.A. Councilmember Cindy Miscikowski.

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KPFK & THE BEACHHEAD: Free Radio & Free Press


By Lydia Ponce

Every morning I find myself NEEDING to listen to KPFK because I have found my validation through their program. FM 90.7

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Sue Nelson - 1927–2003


By Carol Fondiller

Sue Nelson had a tiger’s heart.

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Saul White, Artist and Poet, Dies at 70


By Susan Landauer

Saul White, the poet who with Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen brought Beat jazz-poetry to Los Angeles in the late 1950’s and went on to distinguish himself as an abstract expressionist painter for more than 40 years, died on May 20. He was 70 and lived in San Pedro.

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Gentrification Marches On: REPORT ON THE MAY MEETING OF THE LAND USE & PLANNING COMMITTEE


By Barbara Eisenberg

Another slap in the face of Venice was brought before the Grassroots Venice Land Use and Planning Committee, on May 19, 2003.

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The Land Use Committee and how it got that way


By Jim Smith
The Land Use and Planning Committee of the Neighborhood Council (GRVNC) is touted as an exercise in grass roots democracy but lately has been a target of grassroots frustration. While it is made up, mostly, of Venice residents, it has an advisory-only role in the Los Angeles bureaucracy.

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And still they come. . .


June 2003
Notice of City of Los Angeles Public Hearings

Office of Zoning Administration - (213) 978-1318
Date of Hearing – June 18, 2003 after 4:30 PM
Location: West LA Parking Enforcement Facility, 2nd Floor, 11214 West Exposition Blvd.
Notice for Appeal of conditions
Case Number - ZA 2002-3777(ZV)ZAD)-A1
Applicant Chuck Arnoldi/The Tiger Co/Nieves & Assoc.
Property Address - 15 Brooks Ave (at Speedway)

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The Biggest Lil’ Nominating Convention in Venice


By Sheila Bernard

On Saturday, May 31, we held the first ever community nominating meeting for Grassroots Progressive Candidates. We formed our slate for the Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council elections to be held Saturday, June 28. We’d like to share a little about how we embarked on this journey and where it might lead.

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ANCIENT VENICE: Abbot Kinney, Tobacco and the Founding of Venice


By Charles Harris “Brick” Garrigues

A curious blending of the romanticist and the realist was old Abbot Kinney. In his youth he had travelled Europe, the Levant, and Asia Minor, buying tobacco from Greece and Turkey, shipping whole shiploads of it to England or America and selling it again to the tobacconists of the Old or New World.

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Capitalist Roaders holding Chairman Mao prisoner


The voice on the phone sounded tentative and embarrassed. “This is so-and-so. I work at Mao’s Kitchen. I’m sorry to call but my boss said to tell you that we won’t carry the Beachhead any more because it’s too political for our customers.”

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Poetry


• Cool, evening sea - John Davis
• After we talked - Hillary Kaye
• Lasso your Love - Vessy Mink
• Zorba etc - Pano Douvos
• Changing Seasons - Miranda
• Venice, California - Bill Fleeman
• Impressionism - Ivan Smason
Almost Indigenous - Sheila Bernard

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JULY FOURTH VENICE 98TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION MARCHES ON!


The next meeting of the July 4th Venice Birthday Celebration Planning Committee will meet at the Vera Davis McClendon Center at 610 California Ave at 6:30 pm on Thursday, June 19th.

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