The 2026 Dogtown Car Club's Dogtown Super Show at Venice Beach, A full walk around the car show, meeting with some Venice Beach locals, Hecho En Venice, and more..

The City of Malibu is working closely with Caltrans and other state and regional partners to address rapidly worsening coastal erosion threatening Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in the Palisades Fire burn area. While Caltrans has taken important interim steps to protect the roadway, the City continues to urge the agency to move quickly on permanent stabilization measures to protect public safety and critical infrastructure.



Immediately following the Palisades Fire, the City initiated an investigation of conditions along the PCH corridor and has been conducting rigorous field observations, documenting active erosion, coordinating emergency protective measures, and bringing together the agencies responsible for the roadway and utilities beneath it.



Left unaddressed, the erosion trend will continue to accelerate, removing the material that supports the roadway embankment. The onset of El Niño conditions this storm season significantly raises the likelihood of heavy rainfall, high surf and wave events that could compress months of expected erosion into a single storm cycle. The collaborative approach to address this impending situation with all agencies will help to mitigate roadway failure.



WHAT ACTIONS THE CITY HAS TAKEN To date, the City has done everything within its authority to document these conditions and work with our agency partners to allow everyone to move quickly to permanently stabilize PCH, including:

Conducted joint field observations with Caltrans at all 16 red-tagged High-Priority parcels posing immediate roadway risk.

Coordinated directly with Caltrans District 7, Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 29, and SoCalGas to assess utility conditions.

Committed City staff to monitor of affected parcels and direct outreach to every High-Priority property owner.

Provided support through the rebuild centers for all affected property owners.

Briefed Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath's Office on all issues related to the Palisades Fire and rebuilding efforts.

Briefed the Governor's Office of Los Angeles Recovery on conditions along PCH, including coastal erosion issues.

The Powell Peralta skate team was deep at the new Malibu park.

Below is the text of Mayor Caroline Torosis' State of the City Address, given on July 23, 2026.

STATE OF THE CITY - A City that Works, Belongs and Welcomes

Good evening, Santa Monica.

A few days ago, thousands of us gathered on Ocean Avenue for COAST.

Tonight, we are here together on Main Street.

Look around.

Neighbors are meeting neighbors. Local businesses are connecting with new customers. City employees are helping residents face-to-face. Children are playing in the middle of a street that normally belongs to cars.

This is more than the setting for tonight’s speech.

It is a glimpse of what is possible when we bring people together and make government feel closer to the community.

Before I say anything about the state of our city, I want to thank my colleagues on the City Council: Mayor Pro Tem Jesse Zwick and Councilmembers Dan Hall, Ellis Raskin, Barry Snell, Lana Negrete, and Natalya Zernitskaya.

Thank you to our City Manager, Oliver Chi, and to our entire City team.

As mayor, I have tried to recognize the people whose work usually happens outside the spotlight.

Like traffic Services Officer Jeffrey Pinkerton and Officer Reagan Mena, who jumped into action and saved a choking child.

Like code enforcement supervisor Maurice Cochee (co-shay) and officer Benson Reed, who make sure vacant properties are maintained and buildings are safe.

Like Luis Acosta and other Virginia Avenue Park staff who help families find food and housing.

And Guest Services Assistants Olivia Frost and Nathaly Orozco, who run our amazing classes and camps.

Or Acting Downtown Maintenance Division Manager Jay Aguilar, who has spent more than three decades making sure our community’s public spaces are clean and sparkling.

There are so many more amazing people serving us every day.

In fact, there are City employees working throughout Main Street tonight.

If you are a City employee and you can hear me, please raise your hand.

Let’s thank them.

Council sets a direction, but these are the people who turn it into something residents can see, use, and feel.

Tonight, I do not want to give you a list of everything City Hall did this year.

We have a Scorecard for that.

I want to answer a more important question:

What kind of city are we becoming?

To the south of us is the Ocean Park Branch Library, one of the last Carnegie libraries in California still doing the job it was built to do.

We are here on purpose.

A public library is a promise that knowledge, imagination, help, and a place to belong should not depend on what you earn.

You walk through the door, and everything inside is already yours.

For five years, we could not fully staff this branch. Our library team kept window service operating.

But a window is not a library. It cannot lead story time, help someone write a resume, or help a student find the book that changes her life.

In January, librarians returned to this building. This month, Ocean Park expanded to four full-service days, and all five branches are now open for full service for the first time since the pandemic.

If you want the state of our city in one sentence, it is this:

We are turning the lights back on.

But tonight, I want to go further.

Turning the lights back on is recovery.

What we do with the light is our renaissance.

A year ago, Santa Monica was still fighting its way out of a historic crisis.

The pandemic hollowed out downtown, depleted reserves, and forced painful service cuts. Then came the fires.

Within hours, Santa Monica opened its doors to neighbors whose homes had turned to ash. Many are still not home and the recovery is ongoing - and I want to acknowledge that.

But we learned something about ourselves.

This city is strongest when we decide to face a hard problem together.

So we faced the ultimate question, as a council:

Were we going to manage decline, or create a path forward?

We chose a path forward.

We hired a new City Manager, and last October, this Council unanimously adopted the Realignment Plan.

The name may be bureaucratic. The work is not.

The plan put deadlines and resources behind cleaner streets, public safety, restored services, faster permitting, and support for local businesses, and required us to measure the results.

That is why we launched the Santa Monica Scorecard. You can pull it up now at santamonica.gov.

Government is very good at announcing a new initiative. The Scorecard asks the harder question:

Did it work?

Here is what the Scorecard is showing us.

Two years ago, a business could pay rent on an empty storefront for weeks while waiting for its first plan check.

Today, more than nine out of ten first-round plan checks are completed on time.

That is a forty-point improvement in four months.

For a small business owner, that can be the difference between opening in March and opening in July.

Sometimes, it is the difference between opening and not opening at all.

Our crews hauled away five hundred and two tons of debris in the past six months, more than ninety seven percent above the same period last year.

I don’t know what 502 tons looks like, but I can tell you it’s not still on our street.

Our Police Department reached full sworn staffing for the first time in more than twenty years, serious crime is down twelve and a half percent, and the Big Blue Bus carried ten million riders for the second year in a row.

And our General Fund is structurally balanced for the coming fiscal year, ahead of schedule.

That may not be the most dramatic accomplishment of the year. It may be the one that makes everything else possible.

A balanced budget is the difference between making promises and keeping them.

It is why we can invest nearly one hundred ten million dollars in parks, streets, libraries, public safety, transportation, and public spaces.

It is why we are moving forward with Memorial Park, replacing the Airport Park field, improving Virginia Avenue Park, restoring the Camera Obscura, renewing the Main Library, and repairing infrastructure throughout the city.

These numbers matter.

But the numbers are not the vision.

They are proof that we are once again capable of delivering one.

The vision is a Santa Monica renaissance.

Over the next year, judge us by three things:

Does this city work?

Can people still belong here?

And are we using this extraordinary moment to create something that lasts?

First, Santa Monica must work.

If our renaissance is real, you should not need a speech from me to know it.

You should feel it in a clean park, a repaired sidewalk, a safer walk home, and an answer when you call City Hall.

A business owner should get a timely answer. A parent should know our public spaces are cared for. When something is not working, City Hall should say so and fix it.

Clean and safe are not convenient slogans.

They are basic promises.

Second, people must be able to belong here.

Because a comeback only some people can feel is not a comeback.

It is a paint job.

Nearly seventy percent of Santa Monicans are renters. Renter stability is not a side issue. It is fundamental to the stability of our entire city.

Our renters should be able to put down roots and age in place here.

They should not lose their homes because of one missed paycheck, a medical bill, or an eviction proceeding they must face alone.

That is why we launched Right to Counsel, so tenants facing eviction do not have to stand alone.

And this week, we launched Santa Monica Renter Aid, six million dollars to reach families before one difficult month becomes an eviction.

Residents can walk to our Housing and Human Services booth tonight and learn how to apply. That is government showing up.

This year, we approved nearly eighteen hundred new homes, including more than four hundred fifty permanently affordable homes.

Affordability is not an abstract argument.

It is whether a teacher can live near her school, a hotel worker can raise a family here, a senior can remain near friends and doctors, and a young person can imagine a life here.

And belonging also means refusing to give up on people.

Through SaMo Bridge, more than four hundred sixty people were offered services, treatment, and housing instead of a path deeper into the criminal legal system. More than eight in ten accepted help.

We also created Santa Monica’s first Restorative Justice Commission and committed three and a half million dollars to address harms tied to the displacement of families from the Belmar Triangle and Pico neighborhood.

Residents with lived experience will lead that work, because we need to center those we have harmed to create meaningful repair.

I want to acknowledge the work ahead. People are still sleeping on our streets tonight. Property crime remains too high. Small businesses are still fighting to stay open.

Those problems are not solved. But we are no longer looking away from them or treating them as inevitable.

A city only works if the people who built their lives here can remain here.

That means protecting renters from eviction, helping families through a financial crisis, creating more affordable homes, and making sure every resident can access the services and public spaces that allow them to thrive.

Third, we must use this moment to create something that lasts.

You can feel new energy in Santa Monica.

You can see the recovery in the choices people are making.

Residents are choosing to stay. Entrepreneurs are opening businesses on blocks that had gone dark. A James Beard honored chef opened Seline. Raising Cane’s created a hundred jobs in our City. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pizzeria opened on Third Street.

These are not just new storefronts. They are signs that people believe in Santa Monica again.

Our business districts, Chamber of Commerce, Santa Monica Travel & Tourism, local businesses, and workers are all part of this recovery.

And the world is coming.

The World Cup brought thousands together throughout our downtown. This September, the Ocean Way Music Festival comes to our beach. On New Year’s Day, our float travels down Colorado Boulevard. Weeks later, ESPN broadcasts live from Santa Monica during Super Bowl week.

And in 2028, the Olympic and Paralympic Games will bring the world to our front yard.

For eight and a half square miles, this is an extraordinary opportunity.

But a city can host the world and leave its residents with nothing but road closures, traffic, and a cleanup bill.

We are determined to leave something more.

Every major event must produce a resident dividend: jobs, free public experiences, safer streets, better transit, and improvements that remain after the cameras are gone.

The events are not the prize.

The city we create because of them is the prize.

Our renaissance is what remains after the world leaves.

And we have another once-in-a-generation opportunity ahead of us.

At the end of 2028, the airport will close, and one hundred ninety-two acres will begin a new chapter.

This is a decision about what we want to leave behind.

Can we create a great public park where a child growing up in an apartment has room to run?

Can we create fields, trails, gathering spaces, and natural areas that bring neighborhoods together, restore habitat, and prepare for a changing climate?

We are not starting with a finished answer.

We are starting with a public promise.

This land will return to Santa Monica, and Santa Monicans are helping to shape what it becomes.

That is the future I want us to create.

A city that works.

A city where people belong.

A city that turns moments of enormous opportunity into something lasting.

And that brings me to the last thing I want to share tonight.

On New Year’s morning, for the first time in decades, a Santa Monica float will roll down Colorado Boulevard in the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Every visible inch of a Rose Parade float must be covered in something that was once alive: flowers, seeds, bark, leaves. Nothing artificial is permitted. The Rose Parade takes that rule very seriously.

It is attached by hand, one bloom at a time, in a cold warehouse in late December, by hundreds of people who mostly have never met.

So in December, we are going to run buses from Santa Monica to Pasadena.

I want you on one.

Not just to watch our float being created.

To help create it.

The theme of this year’s parade, which we did not choose but could not have chosen better, is one word: Welcome.

I have to tell you why that word stayed with me the way it did.

Every New Year’s Day of my childhood, my family watched the Rose Parade.

And every year, my mother told me the same story.

Growing up in Montreal, in the dead of a Canadian winter, she would turn on the television and see roses and sunshine.

In January.

She would sit there in the cold and imagine a life in California.

She was not from here.

That was the whole point.

She saw a place that looked like it would welcome her.

On New Year’s morning, my mom will watch that parade the way she has her entire life.

And this time, the float coming around the corner will be ours.

Welcome is not just a parade theme.

It is a governing principle.

A city that welcomes investment and imagination.

A city affordable enough for families to stay.

A city compassionate enough to welcome someone back after a difficult chapter.

A city confident enough to welcome the world without forgetting those already here.

It is the family facing an impossible rent increase that receives help to stay.

It is the business owner taking a chance on a storefront.

And it is a girl walking into the library across the street tomorrow, finding a librarian who knows her name and a book she did not know she was looking for, and understanding that there is no limit on what she is allowed to imagine.

That is the city we are choosing to be.

A city that works.

A city where people belong.

A city ready to welcome the future.

And now, it is time to see how Santa Monica will say welcome to the country with our Rose Parade float design.

This float will be uniquely ours because Santa Monicans helped create it, one living piece at a time.

And when it turns the corner on New Year’s morning, I want every Santa Monican watching to point at the screen and say:

I put that rose right there on the float

Because this city belongs to all of us.

Its recovery belongs to all of us.

And its future belongs to all of us.

Thank you, Santa Monica.

Venice Healer Daisy is officialy running for Santa Monica City Council. A Santa Monica that builds systems rooted in care: meeting basic needs with dignity, strengthening community bonds, protecting our environment, and ensuring no person or neighborhood is left behind.

"I've lived the survival stress of homelessness and the long path of recovery. I've learned firsthand what it means when systems are built on scarcity instead of care—how loneliness multiplies suffering, how shame replaces dignity. But I've also experienced the healing power of community, the resilience in human connection, and what becomes possible when people are met with compassion instead of judgment."

"I'm running because I want to build a Santa Monica where fewer people have to survive the way I did. Where everyone belongs. Where our systems are designed to meet needs, reduce suffering, and lift people up with their dignity intact. That's what a caring city looks like."

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Josh “Bagel” Klassman is a photographer and longtime Venice Beach local who has spent decades documenting the people, places, and subcultures that helped define one of California’s most legendary neighborhoods.

In this video, Bagel talks about growing up around Venice Beach, photographing the local skate, surf, graffiti, and punk scenes, and witnessing the changes that transformed Venice from a rough-and-tumble beach town into an international destination. The conversation covers the Pavilion, the Pits, the breakwater, the boardwalk, local characters, street photography, punk rock, surfing, skateboarding, and the importance of documenting places before they disappear.

Interceptor 007 in Los Angeles’ Ballona Creek is getting some backup.

By 2028, we aim to have two more Interceptors deployed in the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers. Together, these three Interceptors will address the 410 tons - 628 tons (820,000 lbs - 1.384,503 lbs) of plastic that flows from the city to the ocean.

Los Angeles is part of our 30 Cities Program, which aims to tackle 1/3 of all plastic pollution from rivers into the ocean by 2030.

The 2026 U.S. Open of Freestyle Skateboarding at Venice Beach, Saturday, June 13th.

The Venice Beach department of Recreation and Parks in coordination with the USA Freestyle Skateboarding Association presents the U.S. Open of Freestyle Skateboarding! Join the best freestyle skateboarders in the world for a Pro/Am freestyle showdown at the iconic Venice Beach Roller Dance Plaza!

California Department of Fish and Wildlife finds Venice's Dudley Market Restaurant in Violation of Fishing and Advertising Laws

Restaurant Managers Ordered to Pay Tens of Thousands in Penalties; Fishing Vessel Owner and Operators Prohibited from Commercial Fishing in State.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) wildlife officers conducted an investigation into Dudley Market, a high-end restaurant and fish business in Venice, Calif., for unlawfully selling seafood while advertising its products as traceable, sustainable and lawfully sourced. The investigation found repeated violations of state and federal commercial fishing laws in 2020 and 2021.

Prosecutors from the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and Santa Barbara and Los Angeles County district attorney’s offices resolved the case through a civil enforcement action under California’s Unfair Competition Law. The case resulted in more than $100,000 in penalties for the restaurant and its managers, and fishing vessel owners and operators involved have been prohibited from owning or operating a commercial fishing vessel in California.

“Commercial fishing laws exist to protect our oceans and preserve marine ecosystems,” said Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman. “These businesses lured the public into thinking they were caring for our precious resources, when in reality, their fish was unlawfully sourced. Sustainability was the bait, but fraud was the hook. The message is clear; this kind of deception will not be tolerated.”

Conner Mitchell, 37, of Venice, and Taylor Grant, 41, of Santa Monica, managed Dudley Market in 2020 through the business entities Dudley Street Oyster Bar and Shark Bite Fish Co. Grant later ended her association with the business, while Mitchell continued overseeing daily operations and seafood procurement. Mitchell operated the commercial fishing vessel Jamaica Day, which he and Grant used to catch fish for the restaurant. Cody Martin, 30, of El Segundo, operated the commercial fishing vessel Predator and supplied fish to Dudley Market.

CDFW wildlife officers served search warrants on cellular devices belonging to Mitchell and Martin, as well as the chart plotter aboard the commercial fishing vessel Predator. Evidence obtained during the investigation revealed repeated violations of laws governing California’s commercial fishing and seafood industry.

Under California law, it is illegal to sell sport-caught fish commercially. Fish taken by a commercial vessel also must be lawfully brought to port and documented on an electronic fish ticket before being removed from the vessel. This documentation is critical for CDFW and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries to effectively manage California fisheries and ensure long-term sustainability.

The investigation revealed numerous violations of California commercial fishing laws, including the unlawful purchase, possession and sale of sport-caught fish such as rockfish, bluefin tuna and yellowtail; commercial fishing activity conducted without required licenses; failure to lawfully document federally managed species brought to shore; illegal harvest of rockfish within restricted conservation areas and state marine protected areas; and the marketing of unlawfully sourced seafood as sustainable, traceable and lawfully procured.

As part of the settlement Mitchell, Dudley Street Oyster Bar and Shark Bite Fish Co. were ordered to pay $58,226.25 in civil penalties, $15,000 to the Fish and Game Preservation Fund and $1,773.75 in court costs and fees in May 2026. Grant was ordered to pay $40,000 in civil penalties and $10,000 to the Fish and Game Preservation Fund in Jul. 2025. Martin was ordered to pay $8,000 in civil penalties and $2,000 to the Fish and Game Preservation Fund in Sep. 2025. Grant and Martin are prohibited from commercial fishing in California. Gilmer Grant, owner of fishing vessel Jamaica Day in 2020, was ordered to pay $10,000 in civil penalties and $5,000 to the Fish and Game Preservation Fund in Aug. 2025 and is prohibited from owning or operating a commercial fishing vessel in California. The settlement also requires compliance oversight measures, public disclosure notices and additional financial penalties should future violations occur.

“Angelenos deserve to know that the seafood they purchase is safely sourced from businesses that are following the law and not jeopardizing local marine life,” according to Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto. “My office will always hold accountable those who violate laws designed to protect consumers and our fragile ecosystems.”

Santa Barbara County District Attorney John Savrnoch added, “Violating fishing regulations that are intended to preserve Marine Protected Areas threatens the environment and the fishing industry that depends on sustainable fish stocks in the future.”

Dudley Marrket posted this "Pursuant to the terms of a recently entered Los Angeles Superior Court Order, we are required to provide you with notice that throughout the years 2020 and 2021, we violated California and federal laws applicable to commercial fishermen and fish businesses in California. Simultaneously therewith, we falsely advertised the Dudley Market as source of fully sustainable, transparent, and lawfully procured fish. We now comply with California and federal law and have we have ceased all such false advertising."

Photos via CDFW

The Santa Monica Police Department is investigating a fatal traffic collision involving a pedestrian and a Metro bus that occurred Friday afternoon at Main Street and Ocean Park Boulevard.

On May 15, 2026, at approximately 2:00 p.m., SMPD officers and Santa Monica Fire Department personnel responded to the area of Main Street and Ocean Park Boulevard regarding a collision involving a pedestrian and a Metro bus. The pedestrian, an adult female, sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Investigators located security video from a nearby business, which provided a clearer view of the circumstances leading up to the collision. Preliminary investigation indicates the Metro bus was stopped when the pedestrian moved underneath the bus. As the bus pulled away from the stop, the pedestrian was struck and sustained fatal injuries.

The Metro bus operator remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. At this stage of the investigation, there is no indication of impairment or distraction on the part of the operator.

A Big Blue Bus vehicle that arrived at the stop moments after the incident was temporarily held for documentation and released as soon as practical.

Main Street was closed between Ocean Park Boulevard and Hollister Avenue during the investigation. Traffic on westbound Ocean Park Boulevard toward Main Street was also impacted.

This remains an active investigation.

Following the success of Interceptor 007, The Ocean Cleanup signed agreements with county and city leaders in Los Angeles to expand our operations to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers

This project aims to prevent an estimated 410–628 tons of plastic from entering the Pacific Ocean through the LA rivers each year.

Checking out the Venice Beach Car Show on Cinco de Mayo Weekend

Photo via Youtube

Larry Vein, the founder of the controversial Pali Strong Foundation ended his life on April 27. He was 60 years old and the father of a baby boy.

Many have said Vein was energetic voice for Pacific Palisades residents.

Vein and the Pali Strong Foundation had come under fire when his Pali Strong Foundation recieved $500,000 of Fire Aid money. Money from the benefit concert that was advertised would go directly to victims of the California wildfires.

Pali Strong Foundation is basically an Instagram account and a website where Vein would post about the Palisade recovery. Because the Instagram has only 1k followers and very little interaction on posts, and the site is rarely visited, many were upset that Vein took the money.

When the backlash started, back in October 2025, Vein turned off all comments on his Instagram posts. He made a post explaining that he would use the $500,000 to make an app and more complete information website to be a hub for the Palisades Recovery. He mentioned "every voice matters", but kept all comments turned off.

Palisades residents and community leaders have questioned how this large sum was allocated to a newly formed group to operate an "online hub" for information rather than direct, tangible relief for the 13,000 homes destroyed across Los Angeles County. Some have alleged that he was not an active participant in community programs prior to receiving the funds.

Vein's statement claimed that Pali Strong operating under Community Partners, which is a used a "fiscal sponsor". This is a way to fast track the process of becoming a non-profit.

Vein said Community Partners encouraged him to apply for the Fire Aid Grant. Community Partners typically takes a 9% cut of grant money to provide nonprofit status and administrative support.

Pali Strong Foundation should not be confused with Pali Strong 2025

Pali Strong 2025 is students from Palisades High School who started an Instagram account and a GoFundMe to raise money to rebuild their school. They started using the Pali Strong name on January 7, 2025. Vein did not start using it until February.

Vein started by making Youtube videos on a channel he created called PacificPalisadesFire, with his first video on January 9th. He changed the channel's name to Pali Strong™️ (filmed by resident Larry Vein) in mid February, the same time he started the Instagram account.

Shacked Mag has most likely brought a lot more news about the fire and rebuild, and all other types of local news to the community, If anyone cares to donated to our fund, see below:

Scenes from CicLAvia's West Los Angeles Event, including a confused lady driving her vehicle onto the closed street.

CicLAvia temporarily closes streets to car traffic and opens them to Angelenos to use as a public park. Free for all, CicLAvia connects communities to each other across an expansive city, creating a safe place to bike, walk, skate, roll, and dance through Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger met with the president on Wednesday to discuss wildfire recovery. Bass brought gifts for Trump: a Pacific Palisades flag and a torch from LA's 1984 Summer Olympics.

When they did photo-ops for Trumps social media, Bass is there holding the torch, next to the Palisades flag that Trump is holding.

is a stupid idea. As many people as both have on their teams, no one there thought the image of a torch next to the Palisades flag would be a stupid idea.

Venice Healer Daisy is running for Santa Monica City Council.

The Santa Monica City Council is made up of seven members elected by the community. As the legislative authority, City Council sets the policies, priorities, and budget for the local government. The City Council provides leadership through policy development regarding the current practices and future direction of the City as well as the adoption and oversight of the City budget.

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Here's an update on The Venice Karen - Former New York Lawyer VS Hinano , we reported a few days ago.

David Feige, the person deemed the "Venice Karen" via wanted posters posted all around Venice Beach, is calling for a formal investigation into the source of the posters.

Feige, who recently became president of the Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC), has filed two motions for this Thursday's VNC meeting.

One is to urge CD-11 and the City Council to establish an inter-agency task force to enforce noise violations against Hinano, Nalu Vida, and other businesses. The other is to urge CD-11 and the City Attorney’s office to investigate the source of the Venice Karen posters (flyers)

Here is the full motion about the posters.

Motion to Condemn the ‘Wanted Poster’ Attacks on the VNC and its President and Request for Immediate Action from CD-11, the City Attorney’s Office, and Other Relevant City Agencies

PURPOSE: Request for an investigation of unacceptable conduct.

BACKGROUND: Harassment and attempted intimidation are never acceptable ways to address issues in our city and our community, including the Venice Neighborhood Council. However, recently, ‘Wanted Posters’ were put up throughout Venice and spread widely on social media in an attempt to harass and intimidate the VNC and its President related to work done on behalf of the community in an attempt to have the requirements of the city’s Al Fresco Dining Ordinance properly implemented and enforced.

MOTION: The Venice Neighborhood Council condemns in the strongest possible terms the actions behind the malicious, organized attack on the VNC and its President and strongly urges CD-11, the City Attorney’s office and all other relevant city agencies to immediately take action to fully remedy this situation including by opening investigations into the source of the harassing fliers and threatening social media postings as well as the conduct of the bars at issue, including whether their previous and ongoing conduct constitute a public nuisance and violation of city regulations.

This motion does not appear to be 100% accurate.

The posters/flyers never mentioned the Venice Neighborhood Council. It wasn't until photos of the posters were shared online that people mentioned that he is the president of the VNC.

It was always known around the Washington Square/Venice Pier area crowd that Feige was always filing complaints about the noise, most were unaware that he became president of the VNC. Most do describe him as a nice guy, the guy "always wearing a bathroom walking his dogs in the morning."

It is not clear if the source of the flyers knew about Feige's VNC presidency, as the creator of the flyers is still unknown.

Hinano has stated they are aware of the posters and they do not support it. They also do not know who is responsible.

Feige's other motion for Thursday meeting calls for a "Creation of an Inter-Agency Task Force to Coordinate the Enforcement of the City’s AlFresco Dining Ordinance". AlFresco Dining refers to the outdoor seating areas of the local bars and restaurants. Business, such as Nalu Vida, are not allowed to have live music or any use of outdoor speakers. And according to the memo Nalu Vida publicly flaunts violating ordinances.

"Nalu Vida brags about these actions and regularly posts photos of their live music on social media."

Some people commenting on social media about this have mentioned that Feige may have only became president of the VNC to finally win his ongoing battle over the lack of ordinance enforcement and are questioning if that is grounds for him to resign. As we previously reported, Feige, a former New York lawyer turned producer, writer and documentarist. 60 year old Feige, who moved to Venice 20 years ago, has recently been elected President Of Venice Neighborhood Council, after former president Brian Averill resigned due to conflicts with members of the council. Averill, who is also from New York, approached Feige to seek the presidency. Former president Averill and the VNC already knew about this whole thing, as Feige has been coming to the VNC with these complaints for years now.

The VNC meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 6PM. We will have a recap of that meeeting on Friday.

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Wanted signs for The Venice Karen have been posted all around Venice Beach this week.

"Who builds a multi-million dollar house right by behind Hinanos (Est. 1962) and then calls the police 30 times in one day to complain about the noise?

Last seen manically calling 911 freom a brand-new mansion”

So who is this "Venice Karen" and what is this all about?

The person in the poster is David Feige, a former New York lawyer turned producer, writer and documentarist. 60 year old Feige, who moved to Venice 20 years ago, has recently been elected President Of Venice Neighborhood Council, after Brian Averill resigned due to conflicts with members of the council. Averill, who is also from New York, approached Feige to seek the presidency.

As the poster mentions, Feige has reported Hinanos to authorities several times for various reasons



Feige's issues with Hinanos has been going on for several years now. And not it's not just Hinanos, he has also reported Cabo Cantina, The Whaler, and Mercedes for being too loud, having outdoor speakers, staying open past the allowed time, and other ordinance businesses he says these places are not following.

"For nearly 18 months, there has not been a single week that Hinano has complied with the rules. Even after midnight their outdoor space is packed. They allow people to congregate so densely that they block the sidewalk, and they regularly tolerate outdoor drinking and loitering as well as the use of portable speakers played in and adjacent to their outdoor space. It is, in a word, mayhem. With multiple fights, regular screaming, constant urination, and unceasing noise." He mention in a request to the Venice Neighborhood Council (prior to him being elected president).

They should be like "New York whose Al Fresco experiments also rely on keeping ambient noise to a minimum, the Ordinance aims to preserve the business’s revenue stream while balancing the disturbances to those of us who live nearby."

Recently, on a Saturday, in the middle of the day, during the monthly Artwalk on Washington, Feige was seen telling police officers that The Whaler, Nala Vida, and some Art walk vendors are being too loud. The officers went and spoke to Nala Vida, but didn't bother the vendors or The Whaler that time.

As for who put up these posters, it is unknown at this time. The staff at Hinanos say they do not know anyuthing about it.

After all the grandstanding about the Baywatch reboot filming in Venice Beach, the production has been bullied out of Venice after a few days of shooting.

It's been reported that LA County Lifeguards, FilmLA, and the Department of Beaches & Harbors have made is too difficult, almost impossible to continue shooting in Venice. The show has moved production other beaches such as Redondo Beach and Santa Monica.

Ealrlier this week, a Baywatch insider posted this in a discussion:

"When people say production is leaving Los Angeles, it's not just about tax incentives, cheaper labor, avoiding healthcare and pension costs, or skirting SAG contracts by hiring mostly non-union actors. Those are factors, yes-but Los Angeles itself has become part of the problem.

Despite what Gavin Newsom or Karen Bass say publicly about being film-friendly, the departments that operate under and alongside them -like FilmLA-often feel more like obstacles than support.

Baywatch was initially planning to shoot in Australia. When that became known, Newsom recognized the optics of losing such an iconic project and pushed for a special rebate to keep it in California. Unfortunately, the budget was never truly adjusted to reflect the realities of shooting in LA, which meant an extremely tight pre-production.

To make it work, every department pulled together. Vendors gave discounts, department heads waived rental fees while still providing equipment, and the entire crew was motivated to prove that episodic television can still be produced in Los Angeles. That said, at one point, a FOX executive reportedly told a producer, "You're trying to prove you can shoot episodic TV in LA-I'm here to prove you wrong."

So it's not just that LA is expensive-it's that studios have grown accustomed to paying less elsewhere and no longer want to absorb the cost of staying here.

But the real challenge hasn't just been budgets -it's been the city itself.

The plan was to shoot in Venice Beach. Millions were spent building a headquarters at the lifeguard station by the pier, fully up to code so it could remain for community use after production. Everything was approved

- until just days before filming.

Then came the restrictions. New rules. Limitations from lifeguards.

Additional constraints from Beach and Harbors. Suddenly, everything was "no": no nighttime shooting, no picture vehicles, strict red zones limiting where we could operate.

We managed to shoot days 2 through 4 in Venice, but then came the backlash. We were told we weren't wanted back. Beach and Harbors shut us down. Lifeguards said we were too disruptive-even though the crew remained respectful throughout.

The reasons given could fill pages, but the takeaway is simple: while leadership claims California is film-friendly, the reality on the ground often says otherwise. City departments frequently deny requests or create costly barriers.

We'll shoot two more days before going on a brief hiatus over Easter to regroup and find new locations-possibly Santa Monica, more likely Leo Carrillo State Park.

At this point, we can only return to Venice to film at the headquarters we built-no beach work allowed.

That's the reality we're dealing with.

Los Angeles is not film friendly."

A spokesperson for LA Mayor Karen Bass made a statement, “Our Office has championed bringing Baywatch back to LA, providing concierge-level service for this production. Matters related to Beaches and Harbors fall under County jurisdiction, and the City remains in active communication with County officials.”

Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath responded by saying the county is "beyond proud to welcome Baywatch back to LA County. Our entertainment industry’s home is right here, and we should be actively working to keep it here.” She has planned a meeting on April 8 with "“the production team, LA County Lifeguards, FilmLA, the Department of Beaches & Harbors, Council District 11, Public Works, the Department of Economic Opportunity, Fremantle, and Fox” to ensure the production can continue.

Malibu on a solid March swell filmed by Brad Jacobson.

Raw surf clips from March 11, 2026 filmed from the Malibu Pier.