Arizona Army National Guard Keith Mitchell, 40, deadlifts 699lbs during the United States Powerlifting Federation's Military Nationals Powerlifting Championship at Venice Beach on Saturday, May 23, 2009. Mitchell bench pressed 457 lbs, squatted 695 lbs and deadlifted 699 for a total of 1851 lbs and won the powerlifting championship and received the 'Best Lifter Award.'

"My house is in foreclosure," yells William Lahai Fahnbulleh, 53, a comedian and actor who hails from Liberia, while acting like an African Bushman at the Venice Beach Boardwalk on Sunday, April 19, 2009. Fahnbulleh performs stand up comedy at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood.

Erin Deo 25 (right) and Gabrielle Love, 21, hula-hoop at Venice Beach on Sunday, February 1, 2009.

A boy examines four-year old 'Mertle (right) and Squirtle the Two Headed Turtle' at the Venice Beach Freakshow on Saturday, February 21, 2009. Venice Beach Freakshow has the largest collection of two-headed animals in the world. Thirty two-headed animals can be seen including a two headed snake, pig, chicken, sea horse and raccoon. Visitors can pet Rocky the five leg dog. Admission to the Venice Beach Freakshow is $3.00.

Albert Suavez, 47, who hails from Puerto Rico, attracts customers to Titanic clothing store at the Venice Beach Boardwalk on Sunday, February 1, 2009.

(TOP) Sara Manzanares, 21 (left) Taylor Lyon, 18, listen with free headphones to sound-clips at the Venice Board Walk on Friday, January 16, 2008, during a HBO marketing promotion for the TV Show "Big Love" now in its third season. Big Love is a drama about a Mormon fundamentalist family in Utah that practices polygamy and centres around a polygamist (Bill Paxton) and his relationship with the three wives, all whom he is married to. Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton, and Amanda Seyfried. It premiered in the United States on March 12, 2006 The show was cocreated by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, who also serve as executive producers.

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Swimmers run into the chilly Pacific Ocean during the 49th Annual Venice Penguin Swim on New Years Day-Thursday, January 1, 2009, at the Venice Beach Breakwater. The 2009 Penguin Swim featured more than 80 participants, three-foot waves, and sunny 56° degree weather, with a water temperature of 54°degrees.