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  photo courtesy of Daily News While researching the present day labor costs for the DWP water main replacement program to update yester...

A lot of ink was spilled this morning on why Los Angeles hasn't rebuilt its decaying infrastructure after a good portion of  UCLA ...

Now that the long awaited final two volumes of the nine volume 1988  edition of the... Australian Encyclopaedia   have have finally t...

Seriously - the LA Times had to go to Kansas to get the 4th dead people in a row headline? No survivors of Air Algerie plane crash in Mal...

View of 1st floor of The Last Bookstore Since my last posting, 2,000 more novels, short story collections and memoirs have arrived in t...

photo by David Allen I didn't know Glendale's Brand Books was closing until Keven Roderick of LA Observed   linked to a story ...

I just discovered art collector and civic patron Jerry Janger recently passed away at his home surrounded by his family including, Linda,...

Besides the several... thousand.... down priced literary, contemporary and even some classic novels arriving every week in the $1 Ro...

Today's issue of LARB (The Los Angeles Review of Books - which you should be subscribing to if you aren't already) has a stunning...

BLOOD ON PUTIN'S HANDS: A Russian SA-11 missile launcher, which was used to bring Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 down, was operated by...

While I haven't regularly read SLATE in years, after experiencing Anne Applebaum's - brilliant - and there is no other word to descr...

Besides some of the usual history of Historic Downtown Los Angeles - at the request of two frequent visitors to Downtown, this  Saturd...

So if you missed it, too - here is:  Dancing Naked People in DTLA

Two more voices have been added to the growing opinion that demolishing the original LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) buildings wo...

I don't have time to go into the details right now since I am in danger  of drowning in the flood of fiction; fiction written by aw...

For those not familiar with the West,  the week before - and after - the Fourth of July is called the Cowboy Christmas. That is because...

California, Flags, Beauty and History The Lucile Lloyd Mural, The Origin and Development of the Name of the State of California, is perm...

I don't what is harder to believe.  That Brand Books is only 29 years old (which means I must have started going there right after it o...

  The Downtown Literary Alchemy Laboratory , is experimenting in the literary arts, the business of publishing and the process of build...