Photo by GarySe7en via LAist’s flickr pool. Yes, it's a Monday. Uggh. But there are a bunch of interesting events happening around town tonight that may help turn that frown upside down. WORDS: Author Naomi Wolf visits the LA Central Library for “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.” She’ll discuss what it means “to live in a free democracy, and [provide] a reminder that it’s possible for ordinary people to achieve extraordinary......

He was a dominant force at Westchester High School. He was part of the first year of Ben Howland’s turnaround at UCLA. And now he is a Laker. Trevor Ariza has come home, bringing with him some amazing dunks, good defense and a high-energy game that should fit in well with the young core of the Lakers. He was traded for veterans Brian Cook and Mo Evans. Call us crazy, but this is the rare......

Like rewatching “The Year Without a Santa Claus” or drinking eggnog, ABC has decided that the Lakers playing the Miami Heat is a holiday tradition. That’s seriously how they’ve been promoting today’s Christmas Day match up (11:30 on ABC 7) for the past couple of weeks — “a game that has become a holiday tradition.” What this match up really seems is sad — more than three years after Shaquille O’Neal left the Los Angeles......

Dear LAist, I understand you allow for anonymous reporting? I was at the ESPY's last night at H&H Kodak... Thought you might be interested that while Janet Jackson's beau Jermaine Dupri did pose for photos with her on the red carpet at the ESPYS, he shied away from the camera when Janet met up with Pat O'Brien for a TV interview after she presented the first award. After the interview, she went back to......