Staff Picks!
We saw news of this fantastic project by street artist Jan Is De Man and his collaborator, tattoo artist Deef Feed, on an apartment building in the Netherlands city of Utrecht. […]
Bauhaus and Modernism
We’re inspired by today’s Google doodle, which honors a century of modernism, begun in 1919 with the founding of the Bauhaus art school in Weimar, Germany. Visit Google to “play” […]
Black Holes
Seems like the right time to celebrate the amazing news today of the first-ever photograph of a black hole with some titles about black holes. Take a long […]
One City, One Story: Modern Western Stories
March is here which means the 2019 One City, One Story program is upon us! This Thursday, March 7 Hernan Diaz, the author of our 2019 One City, One Story […]
All About the NFL
This Sunday is Super Bowl LIII where the Los Angeles Rams will take on the New England Patriots. It’s LA’s first shot at the NFL championship in over 30 years! […]
The Big One: Earthquakes in Fiction
It has been a quarter century since the Northridge earthquake struck at 4:30 am on January 17, 1994. It has been 30 years since the Loma Prieta quake hit Northern […]
Poetry
We shared this clever (and visual) poem by Brian Bilston yesterday on Facebook, and the response by followers indicates that lots of other people were delighted by it, too. Brian […]
Author Talk with Nova Jacobs
Don’t miss a very special author talk where Nova Jacobs joins Anne Louise Bannon, president of Mystery Writers of America, Southern California. in conversation as they discuss her book, The […]
Rave Reviews – November 2018
On the 4th Monday of every month, a small group gathers at Lamanda Park Branch Library to hear about a selection of new(ish) books that are receiving great reviews. It’s […]
The Red Planet in Fiction
Join us on Monday, November 26 at Central Library for a live viewing of the InSight Mars Landing by NASA-JPL. We’ll have NASA-JPL’s Todd Barber hosting, and he can lend […]