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Venice in the News: Water Main Flooding 5-11-12

May 11th, 2012 · No Comments

Local TV coverage from CBS, NBC and ABC is after the “jump” CBS: Join the forum discussion on this post

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The Venice Meet is Tomorrow!

May 11th, 2012 · No Comments

The Venice Meet, a monthly open-air market designed to bring together local craftspeople, independent musicians and specialty food artisans, will hold their second meetup tomorrow at the Westminster Avenue Elementary School parking lot from 10AM-5PM! Music starts at 10 am with the Smithfield Bargain, The Icy Hot Club plays at 12 and Cliff Wagner & [...]

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Venice Spring Fling Music Festival is Tomorrow!

May 11th, 2012 · 1 Comment

The 2nd annual “Venice Spring Fling” is tomorrow from 11am-7pm! The weather is expected to be 67 and mostly sunny, so grab a chair or blanket and enjoy a day of music in the park! As always, the music and art is FREE! This years musical highlights include Barry “The Fish” Melton of Country Joe [...]

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RIP: Automotive Legend Carroll Shelby

May 11th, 2012 · 5 Comments

Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned hot-rodder who went on to build innovative sports cars like the Cobra, the Peter Brock designed Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe that challenged Europe’s longtime dominance of road racing and also high-performance versions of production cars like the Ford Mustang and GT40, died on Thursday in Dallas. He was [...]

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Residential Water Main Breaks Near Canals

May 11th, 2012 · No Comments

A 6″ cast iron residential water main line capable of carrying up to 1,100-1,700 gallons per minute (roughly 66,000 gallons an hour) ruptured earlier today (12:30pm) near the Venice Canals. The line was shut off by 2pm. All pictures by Ray Rae! LAFD is still on scene pumping about a foot of water out of [...]

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