LINK http://www.the-ogs.com LOS ANGELES- Eighty years ago, a young girl named Barbara arrived in Los Angeles from New York with her family, took one horrified look at the Jewish neighborhood of Boyle Heights and sniffed "not for me!" Brooklyn Avenue was lined with open barrels of pickles and herring, and frowsy women in housedresses and slippers shopped among the stink. To ...
WHAT: Esotouric debuts "Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits' Los Angeles" bus tour, followed by a group reading and signing of host David Smay's new book "Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones" (Continuum's 33 1/3 series) WHEN: Bus tour is Saturday August 30, noon-4pm, reading follows at 6pm WHERE: Bus tour departs from The King Edward Saloon, 131 E 5th Street, reading at Metropolis ...
Citizens using the tools provided by the SaveLAPL website I helped launched have already made a difference in the future of the Los Angeles Public Library: the proposed $1-per-book inter-branch transfer fee has been withdrawn in favor of a nickel increase in daily late fines, and a book buying fund was created by the Library Foundation. But the Library’s funding still faces drastic cuts when ...
