By Brian Dunlap
There is a new open mic in town. Yes, another open mic. Yes, even though this site lists more than 30 in and around L.A.
This open mic brands itself as “Open Mic Poetry Slam.” It goes down the first Friday of each month at Pipe & Thimble Publishing on Narbonne Avenue in Lomita, a heavy commercial street, out of the way of where one would expect to find a literary event.
By Esmeralda Bermudez
From: L.A. Times
At 4 feet, 11 inches, Vanessa Tahay is what you might call a chaparrita.
Her skin is dark, her accent is thick, and if you ask her, she will tell you these are the things she’s proudest of.
Tahay is a poet, and at 18, considered among the best in the city. The high school senior has performed and competed not just in Los Angeles but in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
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by Michael Sedano
From: Labloga.blogspot.com
Resist! What is it good for? Absolutely everything. Saturday evening it was great for a poetry reading and art show that captured the essence of what Resist! looks like: committed, diverse, unrestrained. That was Saturday night’s “Alternative Facts: People of Color Living in White Tides” at CIELO Gallery in South Central Los Angeles.
Continue reading “Alternative Facts Not On Exhibit. Gluten-free Chicano Cooks. Film and Opera News.”
My City Centennial Celebration at Vroman’s Bookstore
David Wolf presents a Centennial of the City Planning Movement in Pasadena. My City tells the story of the City Beautiful movement and the landmark exhibit that brought 5000 people together to envision the city’s future. This project and narrative history explores the extraordinary results of this proven approach, the subsequent planning mistakes that occurred when it was abandoned, and how this simple process can be revitalized for any city today.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 6/05/17 –6/11/17”
By Brian Dunlap
Last weekend the sixth Annual L.A. Zine Fest took place at the California Market Center in downtown L.A. Two halls in the buildings basement were packed with Ziners selling and promoting their wares. The DIY spirit and the necessity of marginalized stories and issues permeated the atmosphere. These are the main reasons that pushed the more than 200 exhibitors to pen and draw their necessary stories. Stories that face an extremely difficult up hill battle to get out into the mainstream. Hence the special insider-outsider role they hold in the book world.
Oti
s Redding Biography at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Jonathan Gould discuss and sign Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life, with Tom Vickers. In chronicling the story of Redding’s life and music, as the architect of the gospel-inflected rhythm and blues of Stax Records in Memphis, Gould also presents a social history of the time and place from which they emerged. This is an indelible portrait of the tangled history of race and music in America that resonates with the present day.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
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by Michael Sedano
From: Labloga.com
Good things come in all sizes and shapes, and in the greater Los Angeles basin, distance. Variety spices life but confounds desire and planning when they–the Good things–all come at once. Given eastside westside all around the town, faced with choices last Sunday, I choose the road less traveled.
Continue reading “Juan Felipe Herrera Delivers Sayers Lecture at his Alma Mater. News ‘n Notes.”
Asian Pacific Heritage at Valley Plaza Library, LAPL
All adults, kids, and pre-school ages are invited to join us to celebrate Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage month with a special morning story-time and craft activity.
Where: Valley Plaza Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 11 am
Address: 12311 Vanowen St., North Hollywood, CA 91605
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/asian-pacific-heritage-storytime-craft
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by By Alysia Gray Painter
From: NBC4
‘Tis the season for beach-ready reads to pop up at the top of various web pages, those hot, upcoming picks readers can tear into while on vacation.
But book buffs, though they do love a juicy, ocean-close novel, are also reading while they’re packing their suitcase, and lining up the vacation hotel, and before they even decide to take a trip, too.
Los Angeles Literature 