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Boys & Girls Club of Venice presents “We Are Venice” | Wednesday, Jan 18th – 5:00 p.m

January 17, 2012 · No comments

A special note to WELO readers from Aileen Martinez of The Venice Boys & Girls Club The Boys & Girls Club of Venice truly believes that GREAT FUTUTRES START HERE! In 2012, we plan to continue our rich tradition and ...

Venice Faces | Interview w/ Spoken Glass owner, Conor Gafney

December 21, 2011 · No comments

Conor Gaffney lives in Venice and when he’s not playing Bass for The Makepeace Brothers, or creating documentaries such as May I Be Frank; he’s running his custom made water bottle company, Spoken Glass. Spoken Glass, a water bottle company ...

Local 5th Grade Photography at G2 Gallery | Start your bidding!

December 6, 2011 · No comments

Photography students are putting their creative skills to good use this November and December, using their art to benefit the environment. Local fifth graders from Westminster Avenue Elementary School joined forces with The G2 Gallery’s Jared Nigro for a lesson ...

This Weekend in Venice | Surfrider’s 1st Annual Year End Volunteer Appreciation Beach Party

December 2, 2011 · No comments

The Surfrider Foundation West LA/Malibu and South Bay Chapters invite you to their Year End Volunteer Appreciation Beach Party/Beach Cleanup to honor and show appreciation to all of their supporters, volunteers, their families, and friends. Meet the crew at Tower 52 ...

WEEKEND EVENT – Saturday, Dec 3rd | Urban Roots Farms in Schools Benefit

November 30, 2011 · 1 Comment

We’re honored to be a part of a truly great movement in ethnobotany. What’s Ethnobotany you’re wondering? Essentially, it’s the relationship between plants and how they can be used beneficially within our culture. Whether that be through food, medicine, or ...

Share Your Soles, Venice | Shoe Drive to Support Downtown LA Homeless Shelters

November 14, 2011 · No comments

A Story from Venice local, Tara Kelly “While driving home tonight from a long day in the office I was approached by a young homeless female crossing the train-tracks wearing a t-shirt and shorts and NO SHOES. She knocked on ...

#OCCUPYVENICE | Calling all Artists for Nov 17th “Pop Up Gallery” Show

November 4, 2011 · No comments

Our #OccupyVenice family is putting together a ONE-Night Pop Up Gallery on November 17th and they need your submissions, fellow artists. It can be anything inspired by the current Occupy movement… Love, Peace, R/evolution, Community, etc. A movement of this ...

Here Comes Da Boom! | Top 5 Ways Life in Venice Will Be Different With Google Here

November 3, 2011 · 10 Comments

The binocular building: The building that very few people seem to know anything about, the building that is actually listed on Yelp just as ‘the binocular building.’ Not for long. As of tonight Google has finally opened it’s offices and ...

World Sight Day | TOMS and LA Artists Team-Up for Local Awareness

October 13, 2011 · No comments

Today as you may or may not know is World Sight Day. What does that mean? Well TOMS shoes along with others are trying to raise awareness for the global epidemic of poor vision and blindness. As we reported a ...