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"There must be a believer out there, one with both the foresight and resources to keep our city from becoming a wasteland of corporate chain stores, uninspired conformity and heartless mediocrity, and we think saving Equator Books would be a very good place to start," wrote Max Wheeler, part-owner of Equator, on the Huffington Post yesterday.
The 5-year-old Abbot Kinney Boulevard bookstore is "actively (aggressively / desperately) seeking Investors," they wrote in an e-mail that the LA Times printed. The paper also notes how the once-was-going-to-close Village Books in Pacific Palisades is trying out a new business model. The nonprofit Palisades Village Book Friends is seeking donations to help keep the store afloat in these rocky times.
Down the coast, however, one bookstore is still standing, seemingly unphased. Although it has moved locations a few times, Williams' Book Store has been in San Pedro/Long Beach area for 100 years and still going strong.
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Capitalism is a bitch
Save it for what? More pretentious assholes? Please, a bookstore with a velvet rope and bouncers? I gave that place five years when it opened. The bonus was when they put up bins of yard sale LP's and wanted 20 bucks each for them, LOL. Please, let Equator be replaced with a *real* bookstore. Howsabout we resurrect the Midnight Special?
Los Angeles Times festival of books
The April 25-26 book fair in LA will introduce new book by Vahid Razavi, Iranian American entrepreneur who gained priceless experiences by traveling the world and trying to find similarities with people. He is explaining the current situation in places like IRAN, USA, Serbia etc.
Also, he said that for some people travel is a way of life and it does not necessarily include 5 star hotels and vacations on the far away beaches. There are so many other ways to experience different cultures and enrich ones life. There is a book that talks allot about these kind of things, it is a travel journal of an Iranian American entrepreneur traveling in Balkans, called The Age of Nepotism. Our booth number in UCLA is 683 Zone F, if you are in the neighborhood come on over and pay us a visit. You also can visit the site
www.theageofnepotism.com
http://theageofnepotism.com/2009/04/press-release-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books/
Los Angeles Times festival of books
The April 25-26 book fair in LA will introduce new book by Vahid Razavi, Iranian American entrepreneur who gained priceless experiences by traveling the world and trying to find similarities with people. He is explaining the current situation in places like IRAN, USA, Serbia etc.
Also, he said that for some people travel is a way of life and it does not necessarily include 5 star hotels and vacations on the far away beaches. There are so many other ways to experience different cultures and enrich ones life. There is a book that talks allot about these kind of things, it is a travel journal of an Iranian American entrepreneur traveling in Balkans, called The Age of Nepotism. Our booth number in UCLA is 683 Zone F, if you are in the neighborhood come on over and pay us a visit. You also can visit the site
www.theageofnepotism.com
http://theageofnepotism.com/2009/04/press-release-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books/
Hearing a book is different than reading a book. It's also enjoying it with your whole community around you. New author name’s Vahid Razavi introduce a new book The Age Of Nepotism at Los Angeles Times festival of books. If you were around, you should come to us, our booth number in UCLA is 683 Zone F. You may read the funny parts and see many interesting things. See you!
About the book:
Culture can be viewed as a phenomena relating to each country or a region individually. A lot of theories talk about culture being predetermined and we all have a certain elements of our own culture implemented on some unconscious level. But the thing is that different cultures are more and more being viewed through a needs of global society that tends to marginalize small or in any way different or set back cultures usually referred to as uncivilized. Some of those cultures are placed in the hart of Europe, some in Africa, others in Middle East, but the fact is that our intolerance to different cultures is growing each day we choose to be concentrated on what is set as a cultural model by the mighty western societies. Difference is what makes this world so colorful, and finding similarities between the people of different nationality, religion and culture is a way to make connections to the rest of the world. In addition to this, I found an exciting reading called The Age of Nepotism that talks about different cultures and the ways to connect with others. You should check it out, as well as the site
www.theageofnepotism.com
http://theageofnepotism.com/2009/02/chapter-5-red-white-and-the-blues/