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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA includes some outstanding readings this week from some fine, fine writers including Maggie Nelson, Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, Toby Barlow, Amy Hempel, Peter Carey, John Rechy, Martha Grimes and Russell Banks.

No bookish events on Mr. King's Day.

Some things just naturally go together. Take, for instance, caffeine and the written word. So the inclusion of coffee shops in libraries makes perfect sense.

Before everyone was bitten by the "green" bug, there were those in LA (or who visited) who had a vision for sustainability. Paul Glover was one of them. After creating the local currency that is Ithaca Hours, Paul opined about a way to bring ultra-urban Los Angeles into a sustainability community - all based on closing some alleys.

Photo by Tom Andrews via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr

ART: Downtown’s Art Walk happens the second Thursday of each month. The Art walk is a monthly, self-guided tour of the art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles, which includes commercial art galleries, public museums, and nonprofit arts venues. Museum of Contemporary Art on Grand Ave (MOCA), Los Angeles Public Library Grey Goose, LA Artcore Center are just some of the places on the Walk.

Jason Goodwin discusses and signs The Snake Stone 7pm @ Vroman's

Randall Robinson presents An Unbroken Agony 7pm @ EsoWon Books

Sy Safransky discusses his work and The Sun 7:30pm @ Beverly Hills Public Library

Dana Bedford Hilmer and contributors present Blindsided by a Diaper 7pm @ Dutton's

Via MetroRiderLA, the Southern California Transit Advocates (SO.CA.TA) is holding their second community outreach meeting on the proposed extension of the Purple Line in the Wilshire corridor. "This will provide a venue for interested corridor residents to learn about the status of the proposal and their role in its progress. Information will also be provided on how residents can engage in effective advocacy by contacting elected officials." Tuesday July 17, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. |...

Trevor Corson discusses and signs The Zen of Fish 7pm @ Vroman's

Chris Abani & Al Young read their work 7:30pm @ Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to!

Dennis Cooper in discussion with the writers of Userlands 7:30pm @ Skylight Books

One year ago today, we wrote this: Not to fear L.A., male erotic dancing is a booming industry. According to Overture (a Yahoo! Company), there were 18,195 searches for “los angeles male stripper,” or any variation thereof, in the month of January 2006. And that doesn’t include Google statistics. Apparently male dancing in Los Angeles takes priority over The Dodgers, jobs, hospitals, attorneys, real estate and regular strippers. If you need one, Bachelorette.com has...

As we’ve pointed out, it is awards season in Los Angeles in more ways than one. While the Academy Award debating will rage on for weeks, bookish types can ante up their betting losses or collect their winnings now – some awards have already been given. Los Angeles resident Susan Patron has won the 2007 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature for her young adult novel The Higher Power of Lucky.

Josh Peter discusses Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies & Bull Riders 7pm @ Studio City Branch Library

You have four more hours to get yourself downtown to take a peek at what some of LA's best art galleries are currently offering. On the second Thursday of every month from noon to 9pm, museums, galleries, and nonprofit art venues participate in the Downtown Art Walk, staying open late for those who might not get a chance to stop by during the weekdays. What better way to take the edge off the workweek than with some wine, cheese, and pretty pictures?

Google has unveiled a new Web site dedicated to literacy. It's an online resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone else who might be interested in finding books online, promoting literacy and education at all age levels.

When LAist thinks of John Lithgow and food, some kind of a shiny extra-terrestrial pear pops into our head. We suggest you put that image out of your mind, however, if you're so inclined to see the former "3rd Rock from the Sun" star read aloud short-stories — about food — at this weekend's Food Fictions! at the Getty Center (Friday- Sunday, May 19-21). He's one of several actors who will be orating culinary-inspired selections from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Long Way Home," and others. To tell you the truth, LAist didn't recognize the names of any other actors listed until we discovered that Chief Security Officer Odo would be reading V.S. Pritchett. Ticket prices are rather steep ($30 Friday, $20 Saturday-Sunday, $15 students/seniors), so we expect these esteemed thespians will be reading with, ahem, brio-che.

This is a newsstand in Burbank in the early 1940s, and the photo was taken by, of all people, Ansel Adams.

MSN has a new article on ways you can go broke in real estate: for example, if the neighborhood changes for the worse instead of better, if a tenant moves out, or if your interest rates balloon.

We aren't churchgoers or religious, really, but we think if there is a hell, that's exactly where the man is going who shot several rounds into a Riverside home on Christmas, killing an 11-year old boy.

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are free of charge.


SATURDAY, 10/22



• Cross Hart Jazz Experience take the stage at the Skirball's Café
  Z. The show starts at 12pm. For info, call (310) 440-4500.


• The Janaki String Trio perform a preview concert at Trinity Lutheran Church
  at 2pm. Call (310) 937-7275.


• Rosalinde
  Gilbert Concert features the The Capitol Ensemble as a part of
  LACMA's Sunday Live series.
  The concert begins at 6pm in LACMA's Leo S. Bing Theatre. Call (323) 857-6234.

Unless otherwise noted, all performances
are free.

SATURDAY, 9/24

• DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White of Part Time
  Punks continue their two month residency at
  MOCA. The show
  starts at 6pm and it's free with general museum admission. Call (213)
  621-1734.
  
• JB and The Rebellion's play at
  One
  Colorado in Old Pasadena,
  from 9pm to midnight. Call
  (626) 564-1066.
  

SUNDAY, 9/25

• Pianist Sara Naomi Sumitani performs at the Beverly
  Hills Public Library at 2pm. Call (310) 937-7275.
  
• Pianist Marina
  Lomazov plays
  at the LACMA Sundays
  Live Series.
  The show starts at 6pm. Call (323) 857-6234.
  
• Paul Bailey Ensemble performs
  at Mr. T's Bowl at 9pm (323)
  256-7561.
  
• DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White spin post-punk, mutant disco and
  indie 80s-90s at the echo at 10pm.
  For info, call (213) 413-8200.
  
• Part Time Punks spin the Smiths, Morrissey
  and other Suedeheads all night long. The show starts at 10pm at the
  echo. Call (213) 413-8200.
  

MONDAY, 9/26

• Toys That Kill take the
  echo stage at 8:30pm. Call (213) 418-8200 for
  details.
  
• The Oohlas continue their residency
  at the
  echo. Doors open at 8pm but there's no cover after 10pm. For
  details, call (213) 413-8200.
  
• Run Run Run also continue their
  residency at Spaceland.
  Doors open at 8pm and the show begins at 9pm. Call (323) 661-4380
  
• One of the Loudest Tragedies Ever Heard take
  the stage at the
  Silverlake Lounge at 11pm. Call (323) 666-2407
  

The Fairfax Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library opened this morning. Located at 161 S. Gardner Street, just north of 3rd, the new branch boasts lots of parking, beautiful dark wood furniture, a phalanx of computers and a very large floor plan. It has one of the biggest footprints of the regional branches, with a central section full of tables, chairs and room for study groups.

LAist loves books aplenty, and we also love free things. Combine these two loves and you get the Los Angeles Public Library; build a central branch the size of a mall, and you have geek heaven. But the free books to borrow service has a pricetag--like so many wonderful things--and LAPL's Library Store has a way for us to pitch in this month (aside from paying those overdue fees we know we have stored on our keychain card) to help out a good cause.