Sat - March 1, 2003A DAY, AND A MONTH, FOR WOMENOn March 8, 1908, women rallied in New York City
for women’s suffrage and against child labor.
Posted at 07:12 PM Read More LiNDA ALBERTANOFamous Venice poet and performance artist Linda
Albertano is the subject of an interview with Beachhead Collectivist Suzy
Williams.
Posted at 07:10 PM Read More Susan B, Louisa May, Monica L, and Meby Carol
Fondiller
Women’s History Month. What a silly concept, really. As if women’s history is separate from men’s history, and we had no part at all in the story of human beings. Posted at 07:09 PM Read More Growing up poor, Latina and migrantBy Yolanda
Miranda
I was 12 years old when my family finally stopped migrating to pick the harvest. My older brothers and sisters had grown up following the crops through California and surrounding states, gotten married and had their own families. Posted at 07:08 PM Read More Letters• Congratulations - Chuck
Bloomquist
• Aging Beat - Bill Fleeman • An Impromptu Response - Fast Eddie Posted at 07:06 PM Read More Poetry• Good Americans - Linda
Albertano
• Sacred Mother - Vessy Mink • Strike against war - Helen Keller • They Couldn't Take Away... - Bill Fleeman • Ad nauseum - Pano Douvos • Never in my Life - Barbata Artie Liggit • A Folksy Kind of Guy - Fast Eddie • Concrete and Clay - Joanna Silva Posted at 07:03 PM Read More The Assassination of Lincoln Blvd.By Jim
Smith
In the Middle Ages, towns - such as there were - could be spotted a long way off. They contained streets of primitive huts with a big castle in the middle. Venice may be getting its own castle, if the promoters of the “Lincoln Center project” have their way. A seven-story, two-block-long behemoth would dwarf everything in our little low-rise town. Posted at 06:49 PM Read More MOVIE REVIEW: On Seeing “Amen”By Pano
Douvos
When we understand the Holocaust was the most important moment of the 20th century it is no surprise that movie makers have joined those trying to fathom the cause and the meaning of the murder by the Germans of 6 million Jews. The search continues in Costa Gravas’ currently showing film “Amen”... with mixed results. Posted at 06:48 PM Read More Down at San Juan and Abbot KinneyBy Jim
Smith
Some years ago, I was getting my haircut in the now long-gone Rich’s Barber Shop which was across the street from the development that is the subject of this article. Ricardo, aka Rich, pointed with his scissors at the half-bulldozed house on the corner. “Sure as shootin’ they’re going to build some big deal over there that’s going to run all us little guys out of here” Rich observed. I sympathized with the barber, and with the house. It had been a nice old Venice frame house with a big wrap-around porch. In the months prior to its destruction, it had been an ad-hoc used furniture store. Posted at 06:47 PM Read More Ain't I a Woman?Sojourner Truth gave her famous “Ain't I a
Woman?” speech at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
(The women's rights movement grew in large part out of the anti-slavery
movement.)
Posted at 06:45 PM Read More THE VENICE DRUM CIRCLE: An Acre Of Peace In A World Of Terror....by Marc
Madow
Its only about an acre or so on the sands of Venice Beach, where every weekend in a world of turmoil peace breaks out. A few hundred people arrive in mid-afternoon with drums, rattles and everything rhythmic to do what is called the Venice Beach Drumcircle. Posted at 06:43 PM Read More Lincoln Place Eligible for the National RegisterThe California State Commission on Historic
Resources, Feb. 7, found Lincoln Place to be eligible for listing on the
National Register of Historic Places. The author of the nomination is Amanda
Seward, chair of the housing section of the Modern Committee of the Los Angeles
Conservancy, and resident of another historic neighborhood, the Gregory Ain
tract in Mar Vista.
Posted at 06:42 PM Read More L.A. City Council passes anti-war resolution, Feb. 21A big cheer for Venice resident and former
councilmember of Venice and present councilmember Cindy Miscikowski for voting
for the resolution against a unilateral attack on Iraq.
Posted at 06:41 PM Read More CELEBRATE VENICE’S 98thA Call to All
July 4th Parties! Venice’s 100th birthday is fast approaching - On July 4th 1905 Venice incorporated as its own city. Later, it was swallowed up by Los Angeles. But the spirit of independence lives on! Posted at 06:40 PM Read More Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - Sex Strike for PeaceBy Vessy
Mink
A new force in Venice, LAFCO (Los Angeles Film Cooperative), will be presenting the Lysistrata Project, staging Aristophanes’ war-time protest comedy, where the women conspire to withhold sex until the men were cured of their war fever. The Lysistrata ensemble spans fifty-seven countries world wide, encompassing 600 presentations with dozens of teams of actors and directors who will read this fascinating story in public spaces throughout the day on March 3. Posted at 06:39 PM Read More Interview with Linda AlbertanoBy Suzy
Williams
Linda Albertano: poet, feminist, peace goddess, pre-eminent Los Angeles performance artist, mistress of cataclysmic language, and long-time Venice Resident, has had major shows at Royce Hall, John Anson Ford Theatre, L.A. Theatre Center, The Wadsworth, and has toured here and abroad with Alice Cooper. She is a general all-around creative innovator, working with African instruments, sign language, and purple mohawked punkettes. She claims satire and simile as favorite tools, and costumes and color are generously splashed in her pieces, budget allowing. Last time we caught up with her, she was nibbling fresh arugula in Suzy Williams’ and Gerry Fialka’s hay strewn Fialka Funny Farm Yard: Posted at 06:04 PM Read More Notable women in Venice HistoryJudy
Baca – Famous
muralist
Isadora Duncan – Famous dancer, lived in Thornton tower. Posted at 05:55 PM Read More Affordable Housing – A Groundswell Whose Time Has ComeBy Sheila
Bernard
In a cozy back room of the Vera Davis Center, 30 Venetians confronted the problems of affordable housing. Posted at 05:53 PM Read More Lucky Sixty Four Win Boardwalk LotteryBy Pano
Douvos
There is a new day dawning on the Boardwalk at 151 Ocean Front Walk and Navy - in North Venice. In the first week of March 64 lucky lottery winners will begin their stay at the newly constructed Southern California Presbyterian Homes building. These affordable housing apartments are HUD sponsored for those 62 and older, the rents computed at one-third of monthly income. Posted at 05:52 PM Read More |
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