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Interview With an Author: Alix E. Harrow
Alix E. Harrow is a part-time historian with a full-time desk job, a lot of opinions, and excessive library fines.
Nobody Walks in L.A.
Walkin' in LA, nobody walks in LA; walkin' in LA; walkin' in LA, only a nobody walks in LA—Terry Bozzio, Missing Persons
Tiempo de vals, tiempo para sentir (Mis quince años)
*las luces se apagan ... y se ilumina la pista*
* doo, doo, doo, bum, bum, una cuerda de piano, algunos tambores, doo, doo, bum, bum ... *
Y….
Tiempo de vals
tiempo para sentir ...
*unas palabras que no recuerdo aquí*
Es tiempo de vivir.
Interview With an Author: Tim Mason
Tim Mason is a playwright whose work has been produced in New York and throughout the world. Among the awards he has received are a Kennedy Center Award, the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Rockefeller Foundation grant.
Interview With a Director: Matt Porterfield
Matt Porterfield has written and directed four feature films, all set in his hometown of Baltimore. His latest, Sollers Point, tells the story of a young man just released from prison and living under house arrest with his father.
Drawing on the Classics
Vincent (Vincey) Zalkind, Administrative Clerk, Studio City Branch Library, Tuesday, August 20, 2019
It’s back-to-school time! Time to sharpen up your pencils, meet your new teachers, and grab your list of classics to read for homework. Time to put away those comic books and graphic novels in favor of “serious” literature, right? Wrong!
Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Lion, Oh My!
Once upon a time in Hollywoodland, 80 years ago today, The Wizard of Oz had its Hollywood Premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
Interview With an Author: Del Howison
Del Howison is an award-winning editor, journalist, fiction author, and actor. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award four times (and won it once), for the Black Quill Award twice, for the Shirley Jackson Award and for the Rondo Hatton Award.
Helter Skelter in the Summer of 1969
1969 was a tumultuous year. The US Apollo 11 mission brought men to the moon, and the Beatles gave their final live performance. Richard Nixon was sworn in as President, the war raged on in Vietnam (along with huge protests), and the draft was reinstated.
Bringing the Heat!
Photo Friends, Tuesday, July 30, 2019
The Los Angeles basin cannot escape the fact that its climate tends to extremes, particularly of the hot variety. Global warming and galloping urbanization have exacerbated the situation Temperatures have increased over the past century, while heatwaves are becoming ever more common and last longer.