'Tis the season for ghost stories! And hark, Robert Anderson from the Literature & Fiction Department and I are here to herald some of our favorite ones for your reading pleasure. Winter was a haunted…
Happy 150th birthday, Los Angeles Public Library! Way back in December 1872, Los Angeles officially founded its public library, which has grown bigger and better through the years, spreading out into…
The Varrio Vamps and the Chulita Vinyl Club are two very cool female-centric crews who prove that cars and records are not just for guys. Whatever your interests or activities, it can be rewarding to…
Are monster parties real? As the 90s comedy revue Mr. Show asked, in a parody sketch investigating the truth of Halloween songs: would Draculas, wolfmen, and mummies ever really get together in a…
I grew up in El Paso in the 1970s and 80s, a city that wraps around the Franklin Mountains out on the tip of west Texas, adjoining Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande in Chihuahua and a short drive…
On June 7, 1952, Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul. He is Turkey’s most celebrated author, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. Pamuk’s works include his postmodern novels The Black…
On May 26th, 1926, Miles Davis was born. He would revolutionize jazz several times over as a trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. As he famously said, “I have to change, it’s like a curse.” Miles’…
Jews rock! You know it even if you don’t know it. Among the contributions of Jewish thinkers, artists and doers to every area of human endeavor is the vastly underappreciated role of Jews in rock &…
February is African American History Month, but every month is a good month to celebrate African American history and culture, and what better place to do so than your local library! Your Los Angeles…
The temperature has plunged below 82. You've switched from cold brew to hot coffee, and you're thinking about putting on a sweater. Lights twinkle from the palm trees along the boulevards… the Kings…
