From Steve Clare, Executive Director of Venice Community Housing Corporation, via CityWatch: THE CITY – One might think from reading the Los Angeles Times recent coverage of the plight of the homeless in Los Angeles that the City would be mobilized to seek out and implement strategies to reduce homelessness. Notwithstanding the sad reality that [...]

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The proposed “Venice Zip-line” will be discussed tomorrow by the Venice Neighborhood Council “Visitor Impact Committee” starting at 9:30am at Danny’s Deli at 23 Windward. Click here to download zip-line company Green Heart’s proposal. Green Heart is hopeful to be up and “zipping” by July 1st. They hope to have a “yes” or “no” from [...]

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Olan Prenatt 5-2-12 Picture by Ray Rae! Click here to see more! Buy a print! Join the forum discussion on this post

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From the “Hey Yo! Venice!, help me waste 8 minutes of my day at work watching roller boogie!” department (via Christopher): The premise is this: When a person loads a new program into a computer, during installation, he/she sees animations, like a progress bar and pictures and text. If you think about it, you don’t [...]

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From Kristen Tomiko Nakashioya, sophomore at the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism: Supporters of legalizing marijuana in California can let out their breath. Although five cannabis-related initiatives filed paperwork in Sacramento to be voted upon in the upcoming election, none will appear on the November ballot. All initiatives failed to obtain the required 700,000 [...]

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