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Michelle Yi, 37, was opening her Pilates studio where shes a teacher just before 6 a.m. Thursday, when she noticed a disheveled woman nearing the front door.

A 45-year-old homeless man has been arrested in connection with an assault on an elderly man in Los Angeles' Venice Beach, police said

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...

Moving trucks were seen at Hunter Bidens Venice Beach rental home this week, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Man hit, killed by electric scooter in suspected DUI crash Jun. 01, 2021 at 9:41 am An elderly man died after being struck by a rented electric scooter piloted by a suspected drunken driver who had a passenger on board, Los Angeles police said. The crash occurred Saturday night on a sidewalk along Lincoln Boulevard at Marco Court in Venice. The coroner’s office didn’t immediately identify the victim. The man driving the scooter and and a woman on the back suffered minor injuries. The driver...

LA Council Votes to Move Forward with Homeless Housing Site Study May. 28, 2021 at 6:00 am Jamie Paige, Venice Current / SMDP Staff The Los Angeles City Council has voted to move forward with a feasibility study on the possibility of housing homeless people at several parks and beach parking lots in Council District 11. Councilman Joe Buscaino voted against the motion saying the sites included in the study “are not feasible’’ for homeless housing. Bonin’s motion instructs the City Admin...

Los Angeles Planning Holding Reese Davidson Project Zoom Hearing Thursday May. 25, 2021 at 6:00 am Canal: The project has a multi-phase approval process in Los Angeles. Courtesy image Venice Current / smdp Staff The Los Angeles City Planning Commission is holding a Zoom hearing—with public comment — regarding the Reese Davidson Project this Thursday, May 27 at 8:30 am. The Reese-Davidson project is a proposed project slated to be built on a 2.8-acre parcel in a residential area straddling t...

EXCLUSIVE: Its become an outdoor psychiatric ward! How Californias scenic Venice Beach has become a homeless hotspot with tent cities, violent crime and rampant drug use pushing families and tourists out Venice Beach, California, is known as a tourist hotspot with an iconic boardwalk filled with tarot card readers, tattooists, wannabe rappers and the artists trying to make a buck by selling their work But visitors numbers have decreased as they have to contend with an ever-growing army of home...

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...

LAPD Investigating Robbery at Sinners and Saints Bakery May. 07, 2021 at 11:00 am LAPD Investigating Robbery at Sinners and Saints Bakery The Los Angeles Police Department is looking for a suspect in a robbery at Sinners and Saints, a bakery located at 2547 Lincoln Boulevard. It happened at 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 6. The store owner said a guy jumped over her fence and threw a piece of cement through the window. The suspect took off with a cash register. “We need to do something about the ...