[$DocumentRoot$] http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us jsmith@freevenice.org Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:18:14 -0800 [$DatePublished$] iBlog 1.4.6 Free Venice Beachhead Free Venice Beachhead The alternative monthly newspaper of Venice, California, founded 1968. Read selected articles. For a pdf of the complete newspaper go to: www.freevenice.org/Beachhead/Beachhead.html Free Venice Beachhead jsmith@freevenice.org Free Venice Beachhead News [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192713/index.html • From a Beachhead Founder - Bill Olive
• Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi - Terence Pearce
• The Lighted Way - Ron Lowe ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:27:13 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192713/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192622/index.html By Jim Smith

Who’s Stealing Venice Parking Spaces? It’s the city of Los Angeles, according to a complaint filed Nov. 27 by Venice resident Peggy Lee Kennedy with the California Coast Commission. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:26:22 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192622/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192538/index.html By Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson

With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:25:38 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192538/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192443/index.html By Jim Smith

They stopped a war, ended racial segregation, set off an explosion of creativity in arts and music, and changed the world. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:24:43 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192443/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192358/index.html Venice was right in the thick of things in the 60s. If there was a golden age here in Abbot Kinney’s day, there was certainly another golden age in Venice in the 60s. One might say it all started here in the 1950s with the Beat poets and artists. There was a direct link with them - through John and Anna Haag and many others - to the turmoil of the 60s.  ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:23:58 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192358/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192310/index.html By Carol Gronner

The whole country pretty much knows by now that the Writer’s Guild is on strike. To most of them, it just means all of a sudden there’s only repeats of Letterman on, and why do those fancy-pants rich writers need more money, just give us our shows back. But to the members of the Guild (and for those trying to be in the Guild, ahem), it really is about Respect. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:23:10 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192310/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192210/index.html The Fruit Gallery, at 1 Westminster Avenue, organized a free dinner in the street next to Ocean Front Walk. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:22:10 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192210/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192133/index.html While Venetians have a reputation for lateness, the dedication, Nov. 15, of the mural in the post office lobby which was painted in 1941 must take the cake. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:21:33 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192133/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191914/index.html By Suzanne W. Zada
After working and studying in Paris during the late twenties, Edward Biberman returned to the United States. The European critics had discovered him and it did not take long for the New York art writers to detect his skill and talent. Then he moved to California. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:19:14 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191914/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192013/index.html It’s also the Beachhead’s 39th Birthday this month. And even though we’re getting up there in age, we still like to be surprised by presents from our beloved community. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:19:13 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204192013/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191724/index.html • Close-out at the Army/Navy Store - Sherman Pearl
• Field of Play - Alan Rodman ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:17:24 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191724/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191633/index.html By Kitty Bratton

Today is Veterans Day and also my dad’s birthday. Milton Bratton would have been 84 today if only he had survived 1987. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:16:33 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191633/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191522/index.html In Memory of
Hector M. Miranda
Vietnam Veteran
5/20/1947 - 11/15/2007

By Yolanda (Landi) Miranda ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:15:22 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191522/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191416/index.html Plans for Venice’s tallest building are available for review. The 158 unit, 31-story, 366-foot high, mixed-use retail and condominium project at 4363 Lincoln, plans to use SB1818, a state law that gives density bonuses. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:14:16 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191416/index.html [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191310/index.html By Hillary Kaye

Tony Scibella was both poet and painter. Growing up working class, all he could see ahead was dead end jobs in conventional postwar America, and he wondered where his true path lay. Following clues he got from the freedom and creativity he saw in jazz clubs and in the paintings of abstract expressionist and working class hero Franz Kline, he found it as an artist. ]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:13:10 -0800 [$DocumentRoot$]/C797024556/E20071204191310/index.html