Do you own a hat? Other than a baseball cap? How would you feel about wearing a hat... every day? Well, if you were around in the 1920s, you would have been intimately familiar with hat-wearing, hat-caring, and hat etiquette!
While researching everything about L.A. 100 years ago, the thing that struck me over and over were the fashions and the hats! So many hats. Did people really wear...
Kris Waldherr is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society, and her fiction has been awarded with fellowships by the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts and a reading grant by Poets & Writers.
In the latest, Pride-themed episode of Stories from the Map Cave, map librarian Glen Creason walks us through some significant landmarks and events in Los Angeles' LGBTQIA history. Watch below:
Seanan McGuire is the award-winning author of the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid series, and the
We have written before about Herman Schultheis, the German-born photographer and jack of all film-related trades. With his wife, Ethel, Herman arrived in Los Angeles in 1937 with high hopes of a career in the film industry.
Charlie N. Holmberg was raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters, who also have boy names, in Salt Lake City, UT. She plays the ukulele, owns too many pairs of glasses, and finally adopted a dog.
The month of June is Refugee Awareness Month and June 20 is World Refugee Day.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Unfortunately, there is much of gay history that has been forgotten because queer authors and artists weren’t offered publishing opportunities.
“Habit is persistence in practice.”—Octavia E. Butler
T.J. Martinson grew up just outside Chicago. He received his MA in literary studies from Eastern Illinois University and is currently working toward a Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington.
¿Eres un fan de Star Wars? ¿Conoces a la mayoría de los personajes y a los actores que los interpretaron?
*Comienzan los ruidos de espadas láser*