The Garter turned 40 years old this week! Tonight Nik Rae will be hosting her Venice Rocks event with a Grammy theme … so wear your Grammy formal attire and you will get a free shot for doing so. They will also be collecting optional door donations for the Red Cross earmarked for Haiti. $3 [...]

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The National Weather Service has issued a high surf advisory for Southern California beaches this morning, with waves of up to 10 feet expected. Join the forum discussion on this post

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Renegade sign bandits hit Lincoln? Looks like it! From Zach Behrens over at the LAist (read the whole article here) Back in December, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case between the city of Los Angeles and Fuel Outdoor, a billboard company responsible for many of the poster-sized signs at corners all over [...]

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December 29th a woman pedestrian was killed at the intersection of Palms and Lincoln. Not willing to wait on the red tape of the city to install lights, some industrious Venecian has taken to warning pedestrians their own way. The crosswalk at Palms and Lincoln now reads “PEOPLE DIE HERE”, “PELIGRO DE MUERTE”. If you [...]

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The LA Times is reporting that Boneetio Kentro Washington, the suspect in the Venice Beach murder of Eun Y. Kang had been held by Culver City police days earlier. From the LA Times: Washington was a transient, and Culver City police had several contacts with him in 2008 and 2009, mostly for sleeping in abandoned [...]

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