First off, I should say that I've never been a Patti Smith person. If you're a Patti Smith person, you know exactly what I mea...

It's blurry, but that's a photo of Philippe Petit signing a photo of himself (that Oliver had printed out on the computer e...

Lorrie Moore has a new collection of short stories out called Bark, and I headed down to the Los Angeles Central Library to hear her r...

I'm going out tonight to hear the U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey, read from her poetry and speak a bit at our downtown librar...

one of the sculptures hanging in an atrium at the Los Angeles County Central Library I've checked in on the blog this week, here and t...