Jennifer O'Callaghan is a freelance writer and journalist. She has worked as a reporter for Metro News, The Sundance Channel, Shaw TV, and CKUA radio in news, entertainment, and lifestyle beats. She has also appeared as a red-carpet reporter for the web entertainment site MyBroadway.com , and as host on Paradetown USA on NYC-TV. She has interviewed...
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Interview With Zine Maker - Cristian Castelo
Cristian Castelo is a cartoonist operating out of Daly City, California. He has been self-publishing his series Wild for a couple of years now, which he has slung at comic festivals like Seattle Short Run, Comics Art LA/Brooklyn, and the Vancouver Art Book Fair.
Interview With an Author: Eric J. Guignard
Eric J. Guignard is a writer and editor of dark and speculative fiction, operating from the shadowy outskirts of Los Angeles, where he also runs the small press Dark Moon Books.
Fare Thee Well, Glen Creason
“I’m going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return. I am leaving behind me my fifty years of memory. Memory.
The Brown Buffalo and the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles
One of the most colorful figures of the Chicano Movement of the late 60s and early 70s was Oscar Zeta Acosta, a.k.a. the Brown Buffalo. A radical, hard-living lawyer and activist, Acosta helped lead the East L.A.
Genealogy Garage...Now Online
One of the good things to come out of our COVID year was the explosive popularity of online programming. Genealogy Garage—the library's monthly genealogy session—has taken the plunge, too, and we now have recordings of our presentations for you to watch whenever you want!
Interview With an Author: Alix E. Harrow
A former academic and adjunct, Alix E. Harrow is a Hugo-award winning writer living in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids.
Shades of L.A.: The Filipino American Experience
Photo Friends, Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Thirty years ago the Los Angeles Public Library embarked on a ground-breaking, collection-building project—reaching out to the diverse communities of the region for family photographs that would provide depth and nuance to an understanding of this region’s multi-cultural history.
Read It First! Movie Adaptations in Theaters This Month
It feels good to be back! After 19 months, films are once again back in theaters! It’s time for this blog to return to its original purpose, to let you know about new film adaptations as they hit the big (and small) screen.
Interview With an Author: Simon R. Green
Simon R. Green is the New York Times best-selling author of more than sixty science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels.
Interview With Alicia Maher
Hilda Guerrero, Librarian, Science, Technology, & Patents Department , Wednesday, September 29, 2021
El Salvador, affectionately called el pulgarcito de America (the little thumb of America) due to its status as the smallest country in Central America, doesn’t usually receive the recognition it deserves, especially not in the culinary sphere.