Venice Beach

WATCH: Fake Treasure Chest Delights, Enrages Crowd

Posted 06.01.2012

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Venice Beach got played. Under the cover of night on Memorial Day Weekend, four pranksters buried $100 worth of gold coins in an old treasure chest...

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Will We Be Able To Zipline Across Venice Beach This Summer?

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 05.08.2012

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Venice Beach may soon be rivaling the Santa Monica Pier in attractions. Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl is hoping to move forward on a p...

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WATCH: Is Posh Venice Beach Turning Into 'Skid Rose'?

Posted 05.07.2012

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Venice Beach's Rose Avenue has a new nickname: 'Skid Rose.' The city's new enforcement of its boardwalk curfew has resulted in the homeless moving ...

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A Ferris Wheel At Venice Beach?

Posted 03.05.2012

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Venice Beach is about people-watching and observing eclectic artists and street performers. Soon, tourists and residents may be able to do their obser...

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PHOTOS: 5 Restaurants That Get Locals Out Of Los Angeles

Mary Rambin | Posted 02.25.2012

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The cultured community of Venice Beach that lies just south of Santa Monica has once again become the talk of tinseltown. LaLa land locals are ditching the celeb hot spots to immerse themselves in Venice's organic hipster vibe to dine.

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Why I Miss Venice Beach

Trey Ellis | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Venice Beach, Kwaku Alston, Southern California, Los Angeles News

Venice, CA, is the distillation of everything that is magical, lovely, dangerous and heartbreaking about Southern California. Kwaku Alston's photographs of the Venice that we both love hit me like a love letter out of the blue.

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VENICE SMACKDOWN: LA City Council Votes To Restrict What Boardwalk Vendors Can Sell

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.14.2011

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California has hundreds of beautiful beaches along its coast. But the beach is not why most of the 16 million annual visitors to Venice Beach come to ...

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Why Does Homelessness Stir Such Anger?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Anger, Homelessness, Third World America, American Dream, Venice Beach, Fullerton Police Department, Impact News

Thirty years ago, the response to homelessness was compassion. Shelters and programs were started by community members that really wanted to help their economically displaced neighbors. Today, compassion fatigue is evolving into anger.

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"Nature's Revenge", LUDO in NY, Chicago, and LA

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 11.05.2011

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Parisian Street Artist LUDO brought "Nature's Revenge" to the US this month and his eye-popping surreal wheat-pasted creations are now on walls in New...

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LA Date Night: 108 Flavors Of Bread Pudding In Venice

| Lien Ta | Posted 10.11.2011

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The end of summer looms, and the guilt of not yet having made it to the beach is suffocating. You want to see your summer fling in a bikini, don't you...

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PHOTOS: John Leguizamo's Venice Penthouse For $949,000

The Huffington Post | Eliza Fisher and Lucy Blodgett | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: La Real Estate, Venice Real Estate, Venice Beach, John Leguizamo, Los Angeles News

Actor John Leguizamo is selling his Venice penthouse for an asking price of $949,000. Leguizamo has been in films such as Moulin Rouge and Romeo + ...

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40.5 Things to Do in L.A. Without Your Car, Pt. 2

Jennifer Ketcham | Posted 09.14.2011

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We pay up the wazoo to live here. Why not get out and enjoy what is readily available on this, our beautiful Westside? Which is most definitely, the best side. Yay Carmageddon.

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A Wild Life in the Arts: The Indiscretion of James Hayward

Gordy Grundy | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Modern Art, Humor, Cool School, Venice Beach Cool School, Ed Moses, John Baldessari, Standard Hotel, Venice Beach, Art, Tulsa Kinney, Slidepollajax, Contemporary Art, James Hayward, Artillery Magazine, Minneola Press, Books News

James Hayward has distinguished himself as a painter, perceptive and tactile. His new book Indiscretion, from Minneola Press, is a chronicle of a ribald life in the arts as well as a glimpse of SoCal living.

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PHOTOS: A Painter's Enigmatic View Of Humanity

Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Caravaggio, Exhibition Spotlight, Art, Gustave Courbet, Obsolete Gallery, Van Gogh, Los Angeles, Art Exhibitions, Venice Beach, Realism, Arts News

At once seemingly straightforward and confusing, Goran Djurovic's paintings in "Borrow Light" offer riddles to their viewers. Swathed in the usual tra...

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Flash Mob Ends In Gun Violence

latimes.com | Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Venice Beach, Violent Flash Mob, Venice Flash Mob, Los Angeles News

A man was in critical condition after a shooting Saturday on the Venice boardwalk that sent hordes of onlookers running pell-mell into the streets, po...

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The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10)

Bill Bush | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: L.A. Fine Art Squad, Cardwell Jimmerson, Terry Schoonoven, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Jimi Gleason, Victor Henderson, John Humble, Craig Krull Gallery, Dan Shepherd, F/9 Photography Collective, Venice Beach, Susan Silas, Cb1, Arts News

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The Artist's Time and Place in Echo Park

Gordy Grundy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Right here, right now, Echo Park in Los Angeles is a mad bonfire of energy and passion, a white flame that can burn no brighter.

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Riding Metro in Istanbul and Beyond

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Topkapi Palace, Wilshire Subway, Istiklal Street, Thanksgiving, Istanbul, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Century City, Los Angeles, New York, Venice Beach, Tsa, Madrid, Brt, Metro, Public Transportation, Beyoglu, Fatih, Los Angeles News

It's after 9 at night on Thanksgiving and I'm sitting in a bus station on the Asian side of Istanbul waiting for a Metro bus. No, not that Metro.

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Shades of Gentrification

Gary Dauphin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Chinatown, Hipsters, Race, Los Angeles, Blipsters, Venice Beach, Gentrification, Video, Los Angeles News

Before Oakwood could become the site of "gentrification" many say it is today, it transited through other stages not typically part of the standard white/non-white two-step.

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It's Hard Out Here for a Hippie: The Paradox of Venice Beach

Laurenne Sala | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Materialism, Homelessness, Self-Awareness, Venice, Yuppies, Boardwalk, Hippies, Hipsters, Los Angeles, Dichotomous Thinking, Venice Beach, Abbott Kinney, Post-Travel, Backpacking, Los Angeles News

It's strange, this paradox of lifestyles. But I love it. Because I'm neither nor. I'm going to ride my 400-dollar bike to the free yoga and meditate the day away with the drum circle crowd and a two-headed turtle.

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City Life: Los Angeles, CA

Leon Logothetis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sunset Blvd, Ecco, Runyon Canyon, Nate and Al's, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Venice Beach, Cheebo, Travel News

The 'City of Angels' is a city people tend to either love or hate. I most definitely am a lover of this grand metropolis. Many people associate the ci...

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PHOTOS (NSFW): Topless Protestors At Venice Beach

Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lest anyone think these pictures are common smut, let us assure you that the protesters were fighting for a noble cause. Last week, we wrote about how...

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Venice's First Art Crawl

Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Events, Venice Art Crawl, Venice Beach, LA Culture, Advocacy, Los Angeles News

What: The first ever Venice Art Crawl When: Thursday, August 19 from 5-9pm, and then every third Thursday of the month. Where: Download this month'...

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Women To Protest Topless At Venice Beach This Sunday (NSFW Video)

Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Venice Beach, Topless, Topless Day, Nude Beach, Video, Los Angeles News

What: It's annual "Go Topless" day nationwide, when women are encouraged to go topless and men to don bikini tops to protest America's unequal topless...

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Venice Boardwalk Fight: Almost 70 People Brawl, Police Patrols Beefed Up

KABC | | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fight, Venice Beach, Windward Avenues, Venice Boardwalk, Brawl, Los Angeles News

Authorities said nearly 70 people were involved in the fight that broke out at about 8 p.m. near 17th and Windward avenues....

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