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Claremont Graduate University and Red Hen Press Present a Poetry Reading with Claudia Rankine and Chris Abani, with a reception to follow
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Thursday, May 1, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Vroman's & the League of Women Voters Present Cokie Roberts
Vroman's & the League of Women Voters Present Cokie Roberts
Location: All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101
Description: Political analyst and author Cokie Roberts
This is a ticketed event. To obtain a ticket you must purchase your copy of Ladies of Liberty from Vroman's main store. No phone or Internet orders will be accepted. Tickets are available now at Vroman's main store. If you've already purchased your copy of Ladies of Liberty, please bring in your Vroman's receipt, and we'll give you a ticket.
Description:
Processing Gender in Law and Other Literatures conference
Friday–Saturday, May 2–3, 2008 at UCLA
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Friday, May 2, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Anne Cherian discusses and signs A Good Indian Wife
Location: Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena
Time:
4:00pm
Description:
Saturday, May 3, 2008 4:00 p.m.
Gustavo Arellano discusses and signs Ask a Mexican, collection of his columns in the OC Weekly
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
Description:
5/5 Mark Sarvas reads his new book at Vroman's Pasadena
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/5/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Actor Mike Farrell presents and signs Just Call Me Mike
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Peggy Dark presents and signs Fabulous Parties
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
Peggy Dark is one of Los Angeles' most popular party planners and founder of The Kitchen in Pasadena.
Description:
5/7 Jimmy Carter reads his book at Vroman's Pasadena
Time:
4:30pm
Description:
Humanism in the Humanities is a lecture series presented by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature.
Thursday,
Time: 4:30PM - 7:00PM
May 7, 2008: Michael Warner, Rutgers University
Location: Royce Hall Humanities Conf Rm 314
Admission: Free and open to the public
This lecture series aims to provide a context for a continuing exploration of the status and the future of the humanities by exploring the co-evolution of humanism as a specific way of thinking about the human condition and the humanities as a particular set of disciplinary formations and practices that have been constituted through the birth and growth of modern universities in the West.
Time:
7:30pm
Description:
LECTURE: "Death and the American Civil War"
May 7, 2008 (Wednesday), 7:30 p.m. at Huntington Library
During the Civil War, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University and author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, will discuss the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle -- material, political, intellectual, and spiritual -- and the ways death changed the nation's understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Free. Friends' Hall.
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/8/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Sarah O'Leary Burningham presents and signs How to Raise Your Parents
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Thursday, May 8, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Marisa Silver discusses and signs The God of War
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
Description:
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Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/9/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Felicia C. Sullivan presents and signs The Sky Isn't Visible from Here
blurb:
Felicia Sullivan's volatile, beautiful, deceitful, drug-addicted mother disappeared on the night Sullivan graduated from college, and has not been seen or heard from in the ten years since. Sullivan, who grew up on the tough streets of Brooklyn in the 1980s, now looks back on her childhood—lived among drug dealers, users, and substitute fathers.
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/9/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Tom Farley Jr. presents and signs The Chris Farley Show
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/9/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup presents
Augusten Burroughs presents and signs A Wolf at the Table
This event will be held at the Fine Arts Theater, 8556 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 (one block west of La Cienega on Wilshire Blvd.). This is a free event and open to the public. There are no tickets or reservations. First-come, first-serve. Doors at 6:30 PM.
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/12/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Evan Handler presents and signs It's Only Temporary
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Monday, May 12, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Rob Kutner discusses & signs Apocalypse How
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
Description: Rob Kutner discusses and signs Apocalypse How: Your Guide to Turning the End-Times Into the Best of Times
Time:
7:30pm
Description:
Red Hen Press Presents:
Readings and Conversation--Writers on Time and Place
Reading Featuring:
Antje Ravic Strubel, Seth Greenland & Susan Straight
with Veronique de Turenne as Moderator
Monday, May 12, 2008 @7:30pm
Geffen Playhouse
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
10886 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
For Tickets Call: 310-208-5454
Admission: General $20
Students & Seniors $15
Seating is limited and on a first come basis.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Nina Revoyr discusses The Age of Dreaming with special guest, Janet Fitch
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/13/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Rob Kutner presents and signs Apocalypse How
Apocalypse How is the humorous how-to-guide to living your best life possible (after the Apocalypse renders your current quality of life null and void.) Organized like a travel or lifestyle guide, the book tells you all you need to know in order to fend off zombies, forge for non-radioactive food, and make the most of your new dwelling (while ignoring the ash outline of its previous occupants on the far wall.)
Time:
7:30pm
Description:
Barbara Walters discusses her memoir, Audition: A Memoir on Tuesday, May 13 at 7:30 PM
Writers Guild Theatre
call 213 628-8141 for reservations or visit www.townhall-la.org
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5/14 Barbara Walters reads her book at Vroman's Pasadena
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Meet the 2008 Feuchtwanger Fellow Xu Xing from Beijing, China, who arrived last month. Save the date for Xu Xing’s Welcoming Reception featuring the screening of his documentary A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution on May 14, 2008 at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades
Free Admission - RSVP phone 310-573-3603
Shuttle service starts at 7:00 pm; please park on Los Liones Drive
off Sunset Boulevard, 2 blocks east of Pacific Coast Highway
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/14/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Ashraf Ghani and Claire Lockhart presents and sign Fixing Failed States
Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart have taken an active part in the effort to save failed states for many years, serving as World Bank officials, as advisers to the UN, and as high-level participants in the new government of Afghanistan. Now, in Fixing Failed States, they describe the issue--vividly and convincingly--offering an on-the-ground picture of why past efforts have not worked and advancing a groundbreaking new solution to this most pressing of global crises.
Description:
Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:30 p.m.
James Frey reading and signing Bright Shiny Morning
Location: Whiskey A Go-Go, 8901 W Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: (310) 652-4202
Vroman's Bookstore and Book Soup present James Frey with special guests author Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Time:
9:30am
Description:
The Graduate School Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony
at USC
Held the day before the Main Commencement Ceremony, the Hooding Ceremony is a prestigious event at which Ph.D. candidates receive special recognition. Each candidate will receive the hood, symbolizing conferral of the Ph.D. degree, from his or her dissertation chairperson.
Adorno in America
A public lecture by DETLEV CLAUSSEN
University of Hannover, Sociology
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA · 10383 Bunche Hall · Los Angeles, CA 90095
Detlev Claussen is a journalist and a Professor of Social Theory, Culture, and Sociology at the University of Hannover.
This event is free and open to the public, No RSVP required
This event is presented by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Germanic Languages, UCLA Dutch Studies Program, and Villa Aurora Los Angeles.
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/15/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Tom Reynolds presents and signs Touch Me I'm Sick
blurbage:
Examining romance that has gone off the rails, this compendium analyzes the 52 most tawdry, obsessive, self-absorbed, and completely weird love songs ever written. Organizing the list into 10 different categories—with chapters such as Death Becomes Us and I'm Not Bitter, I Just Wish You'd Die, You Miserable Pig (Tramp)—the book features restraining order-inducing stalker ditties,
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CONFERENCE: “Medieval Peasants Revisited" at Huntington Library
In response to a resurgence of interest by historians in the subject of medieval peasantry, an international group of scholars will examine the peasant experience -- agrarian, economic, and social -- from a wide variety of perspectives. $25. Registration: skrasnoo@huntington.org or 626-405-3432.
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Friday, May 16, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Willy Vlautin discusses & signs Northline & performs live.
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
Description: Vlautin is the author of the acclaimed debut novel The Motel Life and lead singer of the alt-country band ...
Description:
Annual Shakespeare Symposium
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Under the West
May 17, 2008
Huntington Library
Symposium of scholars examining the history of the subterranean American West. “Under the West” will draw together an eclectic group of 10-12 scholars in the spring of 2008 to discuss historical work-in-progress on the underground West. Topics or themes might include archeology, mining, hydrology, geology, seismology, the history of cemeteries or burials, etc.
contact Bill Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108. Queries to deverell@usc.edu for details
Description:
Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:00 p.m.
Frances Noble discusses and signs The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy at Vromans Pasadena
Description:
CONFERENCE: “Medieval Peasants Revisited" at Huntington Library
In response to a resurgence of interest by historians in the subject of medieval peasantry, an international group of scholars will examine the peasant experience -- agrarian, economic, and social -- from a wide variety of perspectives. $25. Registration: skrasnoo@huntington.org or 626-405-3432.
A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds.
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5/19 Penny Vincenzi at Vromans
Description:
Monday, May 19, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Penny Vincenzi discusses and signs Sheer Abandon
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
Description:
Group event featuring the authors of How to Be Bad
Time: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:30 p.m.
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
Group event featuring E. Lockhart (The Boyfriend List), Sarah Mlynowski (Bras & Broomsticks) & Lauren Myracle (L8R G8R), the authors of the young adult book, How to Be Bad
Three critically acclaimed and bestselling young adult authors team up to write the story of Vicks, Mel and Jesse, three girls off on a road trip that proves that sometimes it doesn't matter where you're going, since getting there is half the fun.
Time:
3:30pm
Description:
“Epilogue: Heidegger, Cassirer and the Fracturing of Modern Western Philosophy”
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
With Professor Michael Friedman (Stanford University). After he had published Being and Time (1927) but before he joined the Nazi party and became Rector of Freiburg (1933), Martin Heidegger met Ernst Cassirer at Davos in 1929 to debate the future of philosophy after Kant.
# Place: Royce 306
# Time: 3:30-6:30 pm UCLA
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
WED, May 21. BRUCE BICKFORD: PROMETHEUS’ GARDEN ('88, 28m) Zappa animator Bickford utilizes clay puppets and sets, cutouts, replacement series, aluminum foil, “strato-cut” slices, and molten wax to create phantasmagorical version of the Greek Prometheus myth - an immortal who created the first mortals out of clay. He also stole fire from Zeus and gave it to the people. Zeus exacted revenge by ordering Prometheus chained to a mountain where an eagle ate Prometheus’ liver. Since he was immortal, Prometheus’ liver grew back after each daily visit by the eagle, forcing Prometheus to face horrific pain for eternity.
Also: LUCK OF A FOGHORN ('08, 30m) Brett Ingram won many awards with his remarkable Bickford doc MONSTER ROAD. The title of the featurette originates from a surreal day dream Bickford had while hovering near death with pneumonia in hospital. With Laird Dixon's hauntingly beautiful original score. Plus sneak peek of a new Ingram "work-in-progress."
7PM
7 Dudley Cinema at SPONTO Gallery
7 Dudley Ave Venice, CA
310-306-7330 or 399-2078,
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Reboot and JDub ponder: The End of the Jews?
The End of the Jews continues its tour into the hearts and minds of cultural trendsetters with an event in LA on Wednesday, May 21st.
The event at the Vanguard's exclusive and intimate lounge will include a conversation between author Adam Mansbach and journalist/Professor Josh Kun and music by Soulsides (link to www.soul-sides.com)’ DJ O-Dub. Books will be available for sale and Adam will be available for signings.
Wed, May 21st
Vanguard
6021 Hollywood Blvd (at Gower)
7PM Discussion
8PM Music & Book Signing
(books will be available for purchase at the event and are also available at Amazon.com)
the event is FREE, but please RSVP: jaclyn@rebooters.net
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/22/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Mike Sager presents and signs Deviant Behavior
blurbage:
Jonathan Seede is the picture of Washington, DC, respectability, an urban pioneer with a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job at the town’s most esteemed newspaper. But ten blocks from the White House, on the notorious Fourteenth Street strip, a war is raging over deviant behavior. And Seede is on the front lines, deep into a secret freelance project that’s taking him to places where most people would never dare to go.
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Friday, May 23, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Evan Handler discusses and signs It's Only Temporary
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 5:00 p.m.
David & Jesse Gilmour present and sign The Film Club
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
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Time:
4:00pm
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Imagining Christ: Intersections of Art and Theology
Sunday May 25, 2008
4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine and author of God: A Biography, leads a discussion with artists and scholars about images of Christ and their relationship to art history and theology. Participants include sculptor Simon Toparovsky, who created the life-size bronze crucifix for the main altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Los Angeles; Father Patrick, director of the traditional icon painting workshop at Saint Gregory of Sinai Monastery; and film critic Eric David. Complements the exhibition Imagining Christ.
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6/26 Leif Enger at Vromans
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Garth Stein discusses and signs The Art of Racing in the Rain
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/27/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup
Laura Dave presents and signs The Divorce Party
blurbage:
The Divorce Party centers on a most unusual 35th anniversary party. Instead of celebrating the endurance of their love, Gwyn and Gabe Huntington have invited all of their friends and family to a party that is celebrating their divorce. But their guests - who are descending on their revered old Montauk home - have no idea their marriage is ending.
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5/28 Elizabeth George at Vromans Pasadena
Description:
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Elizabeth George discusses and signs Careless in Red
Location: Vroman's Bookstore
Time:
7:00am
Description:
5/28/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup, Hollywood
Michael Stipe and David Belisle presents and sign R.E.M. Hello: Photographs
THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT. BUY A BOOK TO GET A TICKET.
R.E.M. has risen from cult college radio status to sell more than 100 million records worldwide and be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Released to coincide with their world tour and new album, this gorgeous photo book captures the band on- and offstage with rare and intimate access for the first time.
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
5/28/2008 - 7:00 PM
Book Soup sponsors
Garth Stein presents and signs The Art of Racing in the Rain
Signing at Pi Restaurant next door to Book Soup at 8828 Sunset Blvd
Meet Enzo, the unforgettable canine narrator of this bittersweet and transformative story of family, love, loyalty, and hope. Enzo is a philosopher with a nearly human soul, and he's gained a wealth of knowledge from hours spent in front of the TV.
Time:
7:30pm
Description:
May 28, 2008
The Honorable Harry Reid
Senator - Nevada
Senate Majority Leader
United States Senate
Writers Bloc presents
Harry Reid was elected to the Nevada State Assembly in 1967 and left office after being elected Lieutenant Governor in 1970. He served as Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977-1981. Reid has served in the US Senate since 1986 when he won the Democratic nomination for the seat of a retiring two-term incumbent. As a Senator, Reid has held the positions of Senate Democratic Whip, Minority Whip and is currently the Senate Majority Leader.
Reid will be discussing his autobiography The Good Fight: Hard Lessons From Searchlight to Washington. In the book, Senator Reid tells the tale of two places, intertwining his own story of growing up in the tiny mining town of Searchlight, Nevada, with the cautionary tale of Washington, DC.
Book signing to follow.
May 28, 2008
7:30 PM Program followed by Q&A
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
1409 Melnitz Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Members: $20
Guest of Members: $20
Non-members: $20
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Moguls, Millionaires & Movie Stars: Hollywood Between The Wars, 1920-1940
Friday, May 30 and Saturday May 31
Huntington Library
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Suarez Dance Theater presents Wet Spots: the story project
tiny dances
about the female orgasm
three cottages, two nights - dances/stories/sounds/tastes
tickets $15, students & seniors 10$
Limited Seating
CASH ONLY
Friday, May 30 & Saturday, May 31
Walk throughs begin at 7pm
Every 15 minutes until 9:15
@ the Venice Beach Eco Cottages
447 Grand Blvd. Venice, 90291
Street parking available (with some searching)
Paid public lots ($4-10) on Venice and Pacific Ave, the gas station at Pacific Ave and Venice Way, or Windward Ave and Grand Blvd.
Please be aware that all bags and purses will be required to be checked with the box office. Please leave personal belongings at home or in your car if at all possible. Your cooperation is so much appreciated.
This project was made possible through funding from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund/McNamara Family Creative Arts Grant, UCLA World Arts and Cultures, and individual donors.
Photos by Paul Antico.
Arm in Birdcage
Christine Reaching Out
Take a tour of the female orgasm...
Be led through the rooms and hallways of the Venice Beach Eco Cottages in groups of six. Each cottage offers intimate experiences of dance, micro-theater, audio installations and food.
three cottages, two nights - dances/stories/sounds/tastes
tickets $15, students & seniors 10$
Limited Seating
CASH ONLY
! Reservations Required !
Please Click Here To Reserve
Friday, May 30 & Saturday, May 31
Walk throughs begin at 7pm
Every 15 minutes until 9:15
@ the Venice Beach Eco Cottages
447 Grand Blvd. Venice, 90291
Street parking available (with some searching)
Time:
10:00am
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May 31, 2008
USC Huntington Early Modern Studies
Institute Seminar: "Israel Israel (who was not Jewish) and the Rise of Jeffersonian Republicanism in Philadelphia."
Friday, May 30 & Saturday, May 31
Walk throughs begin at 7pm
Every 15 minutes until 9:15
@ the Venice Beach Eco Cottages
447 Grand Blvd. Venice, 90291
Street parking available (with some searching)
Paid public lots ($4-10) on Venice and Pacific Ave, the gas station at Pacific Ave and Venice Way, or Windward Ave and Grand Blvd.
Please be aware that all bags and purses will be required to be checked with the box office. Please leave personal belongings at home or in your car if at all possible. Your cooperation is so much appreciated.
This project was made possible through funding from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund/McNamara Family Creative Arts Grant, UCLA World Arts and Cultures, and individual donors.
Photos by Paul Antico.
Arm in Birdcage
Christine Reaching Out
Take a tour of the female orgasm...
Be led through the rooms and hallways of the Venice Beach Eco Cottages in groups of six. Each cottage offers intimate experiences of dance, micro-theater, audio installations and food.
three cottages, two nights - dances/stories/sounds/tastes
tickets $15, students & seniors 10$
Limited Seating
CASH ONLY
! Reservations Required !
Please Click Here To Reserve
Friday, May 30 & Saturday, May 31
Walk throughs begin at 7pm
Every 15 minutes until 9:15
@ the Venice Beach Eco Cottages
447 Grand Blvd. Venice, 90291
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