LA Weekly – The Bookish Set
Like Darwin’s finches, the booksellers of Los Angeles have found niches and creative ways to stay alive in a tough business and an even tougher town. We may be the largest book-buying market in the country, but is there a city in the world that offers more competition for our [...]
Archive for May, 2007
LA Weekly’s book issue
Posted in books on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stuck in Asia, Dreaming of Hollywood
Posted in movies on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stuck in Asia, Dreaming of Hollywood
Getting roughed up in China is just part of the ride for many young Asian-American actors, who have been finding it easier to get started abroad than at home. But while Ms. Q — who grew up in Mililani, Hawaii, and moved to Tokyo in her teens to model — [...]
Blogroll candidates
Posted in arts & culture, books, movies on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Has to be all words or all moving pictures.
books
Family – Hipsterland bookstore. Buy zines, comics, and carefully curated books.
The Book Rack – A bookstore in Arcadia. Buy, trade, rent.
Vromans – A fullscale bookstore in Pasadena. Good reading events.
The Secret Headquarters
movies
Laemmle Theaters – Arty films, with locations all over Los Angeles
Silent Movie Theater -
The American [...]
Pasadena novelist wins the Edgar Award
Posted in books on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I love stories set in Los Angeles, and especially in the San Gabriel Valley.
Pasadena novelist wins the Edgar Award
PASADENA – The atomic bomb was detonated above Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. In local author Naomi Hirahara’s novels, its effects still course through the contemporary world of the West San Gabriel Valley. Set more or less [...]
For Re-Reading
Posted in movies, not los angeles on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
100% Perfect Girl by Haruki Murakami
Fleep by Jason Shiga
