Commemorating D-Day
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Europe by Allied Forces, landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. It is the largest-ever invasion by […]
Mental Health in Memoir
We are celebrating Pasadena Mental Health Day 2019 on Saturday, May 18 with keynote speakers, a resource fair, and panel discussions about mental health. In honor of the occasion, […]
Motherhood–It’s Complicated
Sunday is Mother’s Day. With that in mind, here are some recent works, fiction and nonfiction, that address motherhood in all its complexity. Happy Reading! That Kind of Mother by […]
Epic!
If you weren’t holed up in a cave somewhere over the weekend, you are probably aware that Avengers: Endgame was released, a film that wraps up the main core of the […]
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 […]