The new Skylight Books 1814 Space about to become our new favorite haunt | Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist First Dutton's closed, then Beyond Baroque was in trouble, but then wasn't, but might be again soon. It was only last December when Village Books was having a "we might have to go out of business sale" that was sucessful enough they didn't have to close. For a town that is closing its beloved bookstores and......

MOCA-Goer | Photo by shearforce via Flickr Monday Elizabeth Brundage discusses and signs Somebody Else's Daughter 7pm @ Vroman's Daniel A. Helminiak presents and signs What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Barry M. Goldwater Jr. signs Pure Goldwater 1pm @ Village Books Adam Nimoy presents and signs My Incredible Wonderful, Miserable Life 7pm @ Book Soup Bret Lott discusses and signs Ancient Highway 7pm @ Vroman's Wednesday Brent......

Open All Night Downtown | Photo by zabowski via Flickr Monday Paul Knobloch and Tosh Berman presents and sign The Dead All Have the Same Skin 7pm @ Book Soup Janet Evanovich signs Fearless Fourteen 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Tuesday Jessica Brody presents and signs The Fidelity Files 7pm @ Book Soup Darin Strauss discusses and signs More Than It Hurts You 7pm @ Vroman's Deanne Stillman discusses Mustang: The......

Elephant in the Sky at Hollywood & Highland | Photo by huangjiahui via Flickr Monday Scott McClellan signs What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Phyllis Gebauer discusses and signs Hot Widow 7pm @ Vroman's Marianne Wiggins signs The Shadow Catcher 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove Salman Rushdie discusses The Enchantress of Florence with Carrie Fisher 7:30pm @ Writers......

Bright Lights at Griffith Observatory | Photo by androog via Flickr Monday Marya Hornbacher discusses and signs Madness: A Bipolar Life 7pm @ Vroman's Tom Leopold & Bob Sand present Milt & Marty: The Longest Lasting & Least Successful Comedy Writing Duo in Show Biz History 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Neil Atkinson signs Boxcar Poetry Review 7:30pm @ Village Books Eric Mabius signs Ugly Betty: The Book 7:30pm @ Barnes......

Shadow & Light in Little Tokyo | Photo by pink_fish13 via LAist's Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Monday Jeremy D. Popkin presents Facing Racial Revolution 7pm @ Dutton's Tuesday Alan Corey presents A Million Bucks by 30 7pm @ Book Soup Christopher Rice presents Blind Fall 7pm @ Borders, West Hollywood Wednesday Milo Martin presents Poems for a Utopian Nihilist 7pm @ Book Soup Leslie Lehr presents Wife Goes On 7pm @ Dutton's Josh......

A Zen Day at LACMA, Flipped | Photo by pink_fish13 from LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr Monday Markus Flanagan presents One Less Bitter Actor 7pm @ Book Soup Dee Dee Myers presents Why Women Should Rule the World 7pm @ Vroman's John Richardson signs A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 7pm @ LACMA Tuesday Tony D'Souza presents The Konkans 7pm @ Book Soup Tom Cathcart & Daniel Klein present Aristotle & an......

As we lamented in February, Beyond Baroque was in danger of losing its lease and Venice was in danger of losing one of the most unique places for poets to gather and perform their work. Mere hours before their lease was to expire, L.A. City Council voted to extend the lease for 25 more years - at only $1 a year! What could be more exciting than Beyond Baroque getting a stay of execution? The......

Photo by Plankton 4:20 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr More on the arrest of Kazuyoshi Miura, who is accused of killing his wife in LA in 1981 and is being extradited from Japan: Turns out it was his blogging that got the authorities' attention. Bad blogger! Bad! Another one from the Cold Case Files solved: 47-year-old Wayne Osbourne of Virginia has been charged in the 1988 murder of Diana Michael, who......

Family, the great little bookstore on Fairfax is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a huge art show that opens tonight at 8pm and you're invited. The show is a "Thank You" to all those who've made Family's first year a success. And what a Thank You it is - the 26 artists they've assembled for this celebratory art show are impressive and reflect everything about the store that we love - eclectic and slightly off-kilter,......

Sad, sad news in bookish LA: Dutton's Brentwood is closing its doors. After a long battle with developers and uncertainty, which we covered last year, Doug Dutton has made the difficult decision to close. He points out, though, that Charles T. Munger, the developer that has purchased the property, has "has committed to a significant amount of financial support for the difficult process of closing the store, and we appreciate his generosity." We are saddened......

One of L.A.'s most unique and important centers for poetry, literature, and art, the non-profit center Beyond Baroque, may be in danger of losing its lease. According to an email sent out by the group's Board of Trustees, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo would like to begin the auction process for the building, offering it up for other non-profits to bid on. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl had promised to extend Beyond Baroque's lease for another......

Monday Michael Pollan and Barry Glassner discuss In Defense of Food 7pm @ Central Library Cindy Pierce and Edie Thys Morgan presents Finding the Doorbell 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Traci Slatton presents Immortal 6:30pm @ Metropolis Books Joe McGinniss and special guest Bret Easton Ellis present The Delivery Man 7pm @ Book Soup Terri Cheney discusses and signs Manic: A Memoir 7pm @ Vroman's Gary Goldberg presents Sit, Ubu, Sit 7pm @ Dutton's......

LA readings and book signings around town for January 28th - Februar 3rd including Judith Freeman, Ron Jeremy, Tamara Jenkins, Mary McNamara, Sam Jones and Tom Dolby....

Monday Mike Carey presents The Devil You Know 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Doug Stumpf presents Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy 7pm @ Book Soup Joy Horowitz presents Parts per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School 7pm @ Central Library Michael Tucker signs Living a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love in Italy 7pm @ Dutton's Jerry Stahl presents Love Without 7pm @ Borders, Long Beach Thomas......

Monday Bridget Kinsella Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on The Outside 7pm @ Book Soup Trevor Corson discusses and signs The Zen of Fish 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Viken Berberian presents Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets 7pm @ Book Soup Bridget Kinsella presents Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside 12pm @ Vroman's Joseph Marshall presents The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn 7pm @ Vroman's Eric Lichtenfeld......

Monday Diane Lefer discusses and signs California Transit 7pm @ Vroman's Chuck Barris presents The Big Question 7pm @ Book Soup Chris Abani & Al Young read their work 7:30pm @ Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater Tuesday Jonathan Cohn discusses Sick: The Untold Story of America's Healthcare Crisis 5pm @ Center for Healthy Communities, Yosemite Hall Reyna Grande presents Across a Hundred Mountains 7pm @ Book Soup Nicole Mones signs The Last Chinese Chef 7pm......

Monday Dr. Karen Halligan discusses What Every Pet Owner Should Know 7pm @ Vroman’s Tuesday Justin Bua presents The Beat of Urban Art 7pm @ Book Soup Lisa Lutz discusses The Spellman Files 7pm @ Vroman’s Philip Zimbardo discusses The Lucifer Effect 7pm @ Central Library Elliot Jaspin discusses Buried in the Bitter Waters 7pm @ EsoWon Books Wednesday Uzodinma Iweala discusses Beasts of No Nation 12:15pm @ Claremont McKenna College Anne Lamott presents......

Monday Paul Rusebagina presents An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography 7:30pm @ Beverly Hills Hotel Alison Weir discusses Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey 7pm @ Vroman's Alix Ohlin on Why Mysteries Matter: Detectives, Literature, and Life 7pm @ Central Library Tuesday Alex Espinoza presents Still Water Saints 7pm @ Vroman's Daniel Mason signs A Far Country 7pm @ Dutton's Erin Vincent signs Grief Girl 7pm @ Book Soup Wednesday Brian Frazer presents......

Monday Barbara Hambly presents Patriot Hearts: A Novel of Founding Mothers 7pm @ Vroman’s Tess Gallagher reads from Dear Ghosts 7:30pm @ Geffen Playhouse Tuesday George Hass presents Forcing Nature: Trees in Los Angeles 7pm @ Book Soup Margaret MacMillan presents Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World 7pm @ Central Library T Cooper & Chris Abani present their latest books 7:30pm @ Skylight Books Caille Millner presents The Golden Road: Notes......

WEDNESDAY • Raul Malo (of The Mavericks), Greencards and Vaquetones are on stage tonight at The Coach House. Tickets are $17.50. • The Viper Room features Diablo's Darlings Burlesque tonight at 11:30 PM, preceded by Mozella, Geoff Byrd and Thriving Ivory. • Breakestra, People Under the Stairs, Cut Chemist, DJ Dusk and Chali 2na hit the stage at The El Rey tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $20. • Beyond Baroque is celebrating Abbot......

Photo by Ibarionex Perello Bookblogger Laila Lalami of MoorishGirl will be reading from her new book, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, tonight at 7:30 pm at Beyond Baroque in Venice. Lalami, although currently a SoCal expat, lived in Los Angeles for many years. She wrote this on her blog about coming back for a Duttons' reading yesterday: "I hadn't been back in Los Angeles more than an hour when a Land Rover honked at......

FRIDAY • The Knitting Factory features Geisha Girls, Glass Candy, Danava and Captain Ahab at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $8. • Richard Buckner performs at El Cid with Anders Parker and Matt Costa. Tickets are $10 and the show starts at 9:30 PM. • Head for The Scene to see Squab, Los Abandoned, Associate and Lyra. Cover is $8. • Beyond Baroque presents poets Denise Duhamel and Lisa Glatt reading tonight at 7:30 PM. •......

FRIDAY • X and The Plimsouls perform at 7 PM at the Pacific Amphitheater as part of the Orange County Fair. Tickets are $19.99. • A blast from the past hits the Canyon Club when Vanilla Ice takes the stage at 9 PM. Tickets are $19.50. • Les Sans Culottes headline at El Cid, with Dengue Fever and Porterville. Tickets are $10; the show starts at 9:30 PM. • Beyond Baroque features readings from......

FRIDAY • Electrelane performs tonight at the Troubadour with Be Your Own Pet and the Slow Signal Fade at 8 PM. Tickets are $12. • Aesop Rock performs tonight with Mr Lif, DJ Big Wiz and Cage at the Henry Fonda Theater. Doors open at 8 PM. • Ultimate geek-rockers Nerf Herder perform tonight at Spaceland with the Orange Peels. Doors open at 9 PM. • The Mean Reds are at The Echo tonight......

FRIDAY • The Echo features dancehall queen Rosie Flores with Mike Stinson and Speed Buggy at 8:30 PM. Tickets are $10. [18+] • Tonight at Spaceland, enjoy a record release party for The Willowz, with special guests Scarling, My Sexual Dad and Shoot Out the Lights. Doors open at 9 PM.  • Flamenco maestro Ottmar Liebert performs tonight at The Canyon Club at 9 PM. Tickets are $39.50. • Pinback performs tonight at Avalon.......

• At Spaceland, Palo Alto will be performing with Hayes and Aeon Spoke. Doors open at 9 PM. • At 4 PM, Blonde Redhead will be performing at a free in-store appearance at Amoeba Records. • Following that, see Blonde Redhead opening for Interpol at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. Doors open at 8 PM and tickets are $30. • Also courtesy of The Fold, Tangier has Inara George, Jesca Hoop and Kate Earl beginning......

Tonight at Beyond Baroque, join in on Re-Wall, an interactive stencil show hosted by Renee Reynolds, Tyler Williams and Michael Lynch. Along with stenciling the walls, there will be film screenings and live performances. Admission is $5 if you show empty-handed; free if you come bearing supplies, like stencils, water-based paint, cardboard, cutting utensils, mini-rollers or any other stencil-related materials. Festivities begin at 7:30 PM.......

At 7:30 PM, Beyond Baroque is hosting a third anniversary reading for POOL Magazine, hosted by poets/editors Judith Taylor and Patty Seyburn with readings from the new issue by Stephanie Brown, Rick Bursky, Gina Lain, Suzanne Karpilovsky, Louise Mathias, Jim Natal, Alicia Partnoy and Charles Webb. Wine and cheese will also be served. The Hotel Cafe is "Fumblin' With The Blues" tonight, when Ian Ball, Jim Bianco, Cary Brothers, Buddy C Duck and Nate,......