Venice Fishing Pier is a pier in Venice, Los Angeles , in the U.S. state of California . The pier is part of Venice Beach Boardwalk and attracts between 28,000 to 30,000 visitors daily.
7-548: The current concrete structure was completed c. 1963 . The pier was ordered closed in 1983 after waves tore out a concrete ramp to the pier and cut utility lines, and then closed again in November 1986 by the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors after county engineers discovered apparently serious structural problems. The pier stood idle until 1997 when it finally reopened after
14-568: A $ 4.5-million restoration and after activist pressure from Pier Pressure, a small group of Venice business people and residents. According to Paste , the pier extends approximately 1,300 feet into the Pacific Ocean . In 2018 the Venice Oceanarium proposed a new exhibited space for the pier. This California -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Paste (magazine) Paste
21-480: A plan to save the magazine, by pleading to its readers, musicians and celebrities for contributions. Cost-cutting by the magazine did not stem the losses. The crux cited for the financial troubles was the lack of advertiser spending. In 2009, Paste launched an hour-long TV pilot for Halogen TV called Pop Goes the Culture . On August 31, 2010, Paste suspended the print magazine, but continues publication as
28-610: Is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine , headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia , with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan , and owned by Paste Media Group. The magazine began as a website in 1998. It ran as a print publication from 2002 to 2010 before converting to online-only. The magazine was founded as a quarterly in July 2002 and was owned by Josh Jackson, Nick Purdy, and Tim Regan-Porter. In October 2007,
35-630: The magazine tried the " Radiohead " experiment, offering new and current subscribers the ability to pay what they wanted for a one-year subscription to Paste . The subscriber base increased by 28,000, but Paste president Tim Regan-Porter noted the model was not sustainable; he hoped the new subscribers would renew the following year at the current rates and the increase in web traffic would attract additional subscribers and advertisers . Amidst an economic downturn, Paste began to suffer from lagging ad revenue , as did other magazine publishers in 2008 and 2009. On May 14, 2009, Paste editors announced
42-587: The online PasteMagazine.com. In November 2023, Paste magazine acquired two G/O Media properties—the US-based news and culture site Jezebel , along with the left-leaning news and opinion site Splinter , after the site closed down. It also purchased The A.V. Club , another former G/O Media property, in March 2024. Its tagline is "Signs of Life in Music, Film and Culture ". Paste ' s initial focus
49-463: Was music, covering a variety of genres with an emphasis on adult album alternative , Americana and indie rock , along with independent film and books . Each issue originally included a CD music sampler but was dropped in favor of digital downloading as a Going-Green initiative. Featured artists included Paul McCartney , Ryan Adams , Blackalicious , Regina Spektor , the Whigs , Fiona Apple ,
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