The Library will be closed on Sunday, March 31, 2024, in observance of Easter

chinatown

The Junior League created this tourist map in 1980 showing a festive looking Chinatown
Glen Creason, March 13, 2019

Chinatown in Los Angeles has been demeaned and misunderstood for about a century and a half.


Drawing of a scene from Chinatown, Los Angeles
Kelly Wallace, March 14, 2019

The Big Read this year is The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu.


Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974)
Alan Westby, March 11, 2019

The success and lasting popularity of the 1974 neo-noir classic, Chinatown, are often credited to Robert Towne's


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