Monday Will Beall presents L.A. Rex 7pm @ Book Soup Robert Alter & Jonathan Kirsch discuss The Book of Psalms with David Ulin 7pm @ Central Library Mark Schapiro signs Exposed 7pm @ Dutton's Richard King presents Spirituality in the Workplace 7pm @ Vroman's Alan Alda presents Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Tuesday Bill Clinton presents Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World 2pm @ Vroman's......

As Bill Moyers and his guests, constitutional law expert Bruce Fein and political journalist John Nichols, made abundantly clear in their discussion on PBS' Journal (catch the whole episode here), the question that ought to be asked isn't, "should we be discussing impeachment?" but, "why haven't we seriously started discussing impeachment yet?" Even though a recent public opinion poll from the American Research Group revealed that 45% of Americans favored impeachment hearings for Bush......

Here's an audio clip of Rose McGowan singing "You Belong To Me" from the soundtrack of Planet Terror, directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film opens today as part of the Grindhouse double feature. Rodriguez, who named his kids Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue and Rhiannon, filed divorce from his wife Elizabeth Avellán of 16 years in April of 2006. He reportedly started having marriage trouble after his wife discovered Rodriguez had been having relations with......

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick......

Overheard at the Golden Globe Awards: "'Everyone's drinking,' said Weeds star and supporting-actor nominee Justin Kirk. 'You sit at a table and they feed you and drink you.'" -- AP "Cameron Diaz was probably the worst dressed at the entire awards show." -- Worst Dressed List at HollyScoop "I love gay. I wanted to be gay," said Grey's Anatomy's Isaiah Washington on the red carpet. "Please let me be gay." -- AP. "Washington took......

Overheard at the Robert Rauschenberg: Combines exhibition at MOCA, spoken by a rather loud, scruffy, (MFA candidate?) docent leading one man around the galleries: "But you see that parachute there? It's a toy parachute." How do you get a job like that? He was clearly just making stuff up. If you didn't go see the Rauschenberg exhibition downtown, you're too late. The last day was yesterday, and the show is now on its way......

Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater. LAist's sex advice column on......

in the Big Brother chat room sweetme: it was so hot yesterday, i saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking. photo by Nate Baird......

by zemery via YouTube, see pt two here......

Walking towards the Studio City Farmers' Market this morning, we heard people saying how ridiculous it was that options were slim due to this week's weather. All in all, we didn't find it that bad. Everything seemed to be in place, but Thai Basil was nowhere to be found. Off to Thai Town we go!......

Dating. The thought sends a shudder through many an LAist reader. Some of us are out of the dating game (thank goodness) and want to offer our sympathy for those having to deal with some of Match's and MySpace's, umm, interesting but eligible bachelors and bachelorettes. Overhead during a lunch rush earlier this week at the Metropolitan Water District cafeteria downtown--a great place to eat on the cheap in the Union Station area, by......

You never know what you'll hear at standing in line at the Arclight. Amandarin caught the story of one of the most spineless breakups ever. This is how it starts: Girl 1: So, my boyfriend is engaged. Girl 2: Congratulations! Girl 1: Not to me, though. Girl 2: . . . Girl 1: I found out this morning. Girl 2: How? Girl 1: He sent me a picture of the ring on her finger.......

There have long been rumors about a possible Los Angeles/Southern California all-news TV channel. 24/7 local television news makes sense -- from both a regional and business perspective. Not just for the biggest metropolitan areas; Seattle/Portland has one, Boston too. Over the weekend the NY Times did a nice piece on the success of Time Warner-owned NY1 (citing our big brother Gothamist's fandom). And the Gray Lady isn't the only one to see the......

What's the buzz at the water cooler these days? Of course the water cooler was beaten to death (no pun intended) with the happenings of PopeGate 2005, and then we seemed to quickly burn through the "hot at the moment" rumors of Dave Chappelle going mental, checking into a hospital, fleeing to Mars, take your pick. But now, no one can escape THE REVENGE OF THE SITH. Every local place LAist has stopped in......

We here at LAist know that without tourists, well, Los Angeles would be a city with far fewer Cheesecake Factory restaurants. But the nameless, camera-toting visitors to our city have their own opinions and thoughts about the City of Angels. This is just one of those opinions, as overheard at the Lucky Strike bowling alley at the Hollywood & Highland complex. Him: So, what do you think of Los Angeles? Her: Seems sort of......

Overheard Saturday night while standing at valet outside an Independent Spirit Awards After Party: Designated Driver (as she sits in the driver's seat): Somebody was getting high in here. Your car totally smells like pot. Drunk car owner (after smelling her car and returning to the valet station): I don't mean to offend anyone but which one of you guys was toking up in my car? Valet Manager: Oh no. Not my guys. They've......

LAist knows that writers are paranoid about other people stealing their ideas, yet some don't think twice about discussing their newest epics out loud at local LA establishments to people they're trying to impress. We're not saying they're good ideas and we're not saying they're bad ideas — we're just providing you a glimpse into the minds of LA writers whose latest projects could very well turn out to be the next Academy Award-winning......