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Doug Rapp, Venice Current / SMDP Staff Writer Evanston, Illinois, and Venice may not seem to have much in common, but they do for veteran TV writer and producer Jeffrey Lieber. Growing up there, Lieber recalled Evanston as a “super-progressive” place, noting their recent push for reparations. “When I moved to California, I started looking immediately for something that felt like that [Evanston],” Lieber said. “Venice does to me, in terms of being a complex, economically varied, racial...

Doug Rapp, Venice Current / SMDP Staff Writer Los Angeles has nearly 100 museums, but the Venice Heritage Foundation thinks it’s about time Venice gets its own commemorative space. The Venice Heritage Museum would be the first-ever museum exclusively dedicated to Venice. Proposed as a campus on the grounds of Centennial Park, the museum will include a Pacific Electric Red Car trolley and a replica ticket booth, in addition to an information booth and a “community corner” event venue. “I...