Go M.A.D. for Member Appreciation Days
Apr 29, 2014
Membership Appreciation Days offer reciprocal free admission and 20% store discounts at any of the participating institutions. So on May 2, 3, and 4, 2014, your Membership with the Library […]
Membership Appreciation Days offer reciprocal free admission and 20% store discounts at any of the participating institutions. So on May 2, 3, and 4, 2014, your Membership with the Library […]
Over a century ago, the city fathers of Los Angeles imagined that one day their gritty frontier town would become California’s major metropolitan hub. In order to position its status […]
The Library Store On Wheels will be busy this month, taking your favorite gift shop on the road! Join us: Thursday 5/1 @ Sportsmans Lodge 1st Thursdays 3pm – 9pm […]
April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to celebrate than at ALOUD next Thursday, April 24, when the Poetry Society of America brings their national series The Voice […]
Don’t be delinquent with your taxes… remember actress Veronica Lake’s fall from the Hollywood limelight? From the LAPL Photo Collection, May 8, 1951: “There were no dramatics, no kleiglights, no […]
This weekend thousands of authors and booklovers will be grabbing their sunhats and hitting the lawns of USC for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. And for participating authors […]
This spring marks a major literary milestone in American letters: Lorrie Moore’s first collection of short stories in over 15 years has just been released. The author of six books—including […]
Spring is here, and what better way to celebrate this season of rebirth and renewal than to read some books! If you’d like to contribute a reading recommendation to an […]
In honor of Cesar Chavez Day and The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, the just-released biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel, ALOUD will be hosting a program celebrating the famed civil […]
Coming up on Thursday, March 27 at ALOUD, Dinaw Mengestu, the MacArthur Award-winning author of two novels, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air, will […]