Intelligentsia Opens a 'Slow Bar,' Oversized Vehicle Ordinance Gets Criticized and a Venice Lifeguard Represents

The forecast for the week calls for cloudy mornings and sunny afternoons, with highs in the low 70s.

Intelligentsia is opening a "slow bar" at its Venice location on Monday. Over Twitter, the company told Patch that "the back bar will be converted to a service bar for certain hours (Mon-Fri, 8-2), with a small special menu of only to-stay drinks." Stop by and check it out!

The National Coalition for the Homeless has named Venice's controversial one of its "Ten Most Ridiculous Anti-Homeless Laws" from 2010 through June 2011. "The ordinance was enacted due to reports of some RV owners dumping their sewage in public," the coalition writes on its blog, "but this ban punishes Venice’s homeless who have to choose between living either in their RV or on the streets. This homeless population is assuredly much larger than a couple of bad apples who do not care where their waste ends up."

The legal wranglings continue Monday over the late Dennis Hopper's estate. Hopper's widow, Victoria Hopper, will be at a motions hearing scheduled for 8:30 a.m., asking for spousal and child support that was awarded during divorce proceedings before the actor's death in May 2010. The estate trustees are alleging that Victoria won't vacate the actor's Venice house and is interfering with auctions of his artwork, City News Service reports. 

Finally, congratulations to Venice lifeguard who on Saturday in Seal Beach!