Playin’ It Cool: MK Asante and Jeff Chang
Sep 09, 2013
In advance of ALOUD’s fall season kick-off this Tuesday, we caught up with award-winning filmmaker, hip hop artist and author MK Asante (Buck) and award-winning author Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop […]
[ALOUD] Fall Programs Now Online!
Aug 16, 2013
Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg; Booker Award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood; National Book Award-winner Katherine Boo; Renegade L.A. chef Roy Choi; Local art philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad; South […]
What Ever Happened to Moby Dick?
Aug 15, 2013
This fall, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library invite readers across the city to take a look at Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece, Moby Dick, […]
Buried Treasure: Josh Kun Unearths the Library’s Sheet Music Collection
Jul 09, 2013
Music scholar and native Angeleno Josh Kun has always been interested in how communities and cultures interact, so working with the Los Angeles Public Library’s sheet music collection was a […]
Come See the “Songs in the Key of L.A” at the Central Library
Jun 28, 2013
This Monday, July 1st, an exciting new exhibit from the “Songs in the Key of L.A.” project will be unveiled in the downtown Central Library’s First Floor Galleries. The exhibit […]
Complete Communion: David Ornette Cherry Remembers His Father
Jun 20, 2013
“There are only beginnings, there is never an end. Music never stops. It’s you who is stopping it. It’s you who is ending,” said the late great jazz trumpeter Don […]
Academy Award-Winning Director Freida Lee Mock Screens Latest Doc at [ALOUD]
Jun 06, 2013
The upcoming film screening of G-DOG: The Movie will be a homecoming of sorts for the film’s director, Freida Lee Mock. The film follows Father Gregory Boyle, a.k.a. G-Dog, the […]
KCET’s “Artbound” Airs New Recordings from “Songs in the Key of L.A.”
May 31, 2013
Earlier this week, the Library Foundation and the Los Angeles Public Library announced their new project, “Songs in the Key of L.A.,” the first in a series of collaborations to […]
From Nigeria to Los Angeles: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Faith Adiele Reunite at ALOUD
May 31, 2013
Next Thursday, June 6, ALOUD welcomes Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to the stage to discuss her much buzzed about new book, Americanah, with Faith Adiele, the author of the […]
Songs in the Key of L.A.: Tuning into a New Project from the Library Foundation and the Los Angeles Public Library
May 29, 2013
Long before the film industry took root as the cultural and financial epicenter of Hollywood, music paved the way for the growth and development of the Los Angeles we know […]