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4211 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
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OPENING @ April 1, 2008
I can’t even pronounce this soon-to-be-opened Marina Del Rey restaurant’s name, but I their press release claims they’ll be serving “authentic and organic Italian cuisine.” Overlooking the Marina and Mother’s Beach.

123 Washington Blvd
Venice, CA 90292
Phone: (310) 822-5379
Canali Café
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Brand spanking new Italian restaurant next to the canals on Washington in the reappointed site of Marguerite Cafe.

529 Rose Ave
Venice, CA
Phone: (310) 392-3539
Venice Beach Wine
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Newish Rose Ave wine shop with great selection and thoughtful guidance.

513 Rose Ave
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: 310.396.2333
www.veniceflake.com
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Wake and flake at Rose Avenue’s newest corner coffee shop that’s a cereal lover’s paradise. Breakfast seems to be the specialty but lunch is coming soon. Open till 6:30pm.

Kevin Hinton
Occupations: Tattoo Artist & Owner, Old Glory Tattoo, Venice, CA
Preoccupations: American Traditional tattoos and Iron Man triathlons

STEVE CHRISTENSEN
Home: Venice, CA
For cash: Mac Whisperer.
For life: Surfer, Spiritualist, Dirt Bike Rider.
Steve Christensen — whose tattoo “sleeve” features a horned-and-hooved Pan, Japanese wood-block style waves and five-petaled cherry blossoms — is into some serious esoterica.
“I’m a medium,” Christensen says, “A channel.”
We talk over beers at Venice’s venerable Hinano Cafe.
Twenty years ago, in channeling practice-sessions, [...]

VENICE, CA — While Venice has enjoyed some sizable surf this winter, it’s not every day that it goes off like it’s 1997.Good that consumer video cameras were plentiful back then. Good that a couple of Swede transplants happened to have one such cam at the beach one late millennium El Nino day. Good there [...]

The sprightly gentleman holding forth on “the lifestyle” is none other than Dr. Robert McGinley of Lifestyles.org, often referred to as the godfather of the American swing movement. Joining him is Dixie Kinnee who was, at the time of this conversation, COO of the Lifestyle family of Companies.
John Lynch of the San Fernando Valley’s Velvet [...]

VENICE, CA— Never have I witnessed the depravity I witnessed among the swingers…
That was going to be my opener. But then I didn’t really witness any depravity among the swingers and thought to reconsider. (I did. I’m sticking with my gut.)
As it turns out, the swingers I met all seemed surprisingly normal for sex maniacs. [...]

VENICE, CA — Attention anyone who has ever seen those colorful, cartoon-cut-out doves that dangle from power lines over busy intersections from here to San Francisco, NYC and even London: Could Browne, the enigmatic, young street artist behind the berds (his werd), be using them to basically flip the bird?