“Sea gulls love In-N-Out. But their diet may be changing their Channel Islands home”
Oct 20, 2019
How is California’s favorite burger impacting the environment? Get familiar with soon-to-be ALOUD on Science moderator Deborah Netburn’s work.
“This Treatment Can Cure Cancer. Can It Mend the Heart?”
Oct 01, 2019
The latest on immunotherapy!
“Elevated earthquake risk in Southern California: Here’s why, and what you can do”
Sep 20, 2019
Check out this interview with LA Time’s science and medicine editor, Karen Kaplan, who will be featured in the new ALOUD on Science series’ first program!
L.A.’s Central Library Rises From the Ashes in Susan Orlean’s New Book
Oct 12, 2018
“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live […]
21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story
Oct 10, 2018
At its core, the public library is an enthusiastic collector: a repository of books, a keeper of history, a holder of information, a gathering place for all. Libraries collect to […]
Saint Estèphe, Now and Again by Jonathan Gold
Jul 23, 2018
Jonathan Gold contributed this essay about Saint Estèphe for the book To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City. The book was part of […]
Flint Whistle-Blower Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha to Visit ALOUD on July 11
Jun 26, 2018
“This is the story of the most important and emblematic environmental and public health disaster of this young century. More bluntly, it is the story of a government poisoning its […]
Coming Soon to ALOUD: Laurie Anderson
Apr 05, 2018
“I think it’s useful to see the world not as things and people but as a series of approaches and options for ways to perceive them. Language is approximate—it is […]
And the Award Goes To… Library Foundation Recognized with 4-Star Rating!
Mar 16, 2018
As Hollywood wraps up a star-studded award season, there’s one more prize that all of Los Angeles can take pride in: for the fourth consecutive year, the Library Foundation of […]
For All Angelenos to See: LAPL Shines a Light on African American Heritage
Feb 22, 2018
African American Heritage Month is underway and to celebrate a special traveling exhibit recently opened at Central Library’s Getty Gallery. For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the […]