Monday Will Beall presents L.A. Rex 7pm @ Book Soup Robert Alter & Jonathan Kirsch discuss The Book of Psalms with David Ulin 7pm @ Central Library Mark Schapiro signs Exposed 7pm @ Dutton's Richard King presents Spirituality in the Workplace 7pm @ Vroman's Alan Alda presents Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Tuesday Bill Clinton presents Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World 2pm @ Vroman's......

Monday Dr. Karen Halligan discusses What Every Pet Owner Should Know 7pm @ Vroman’s Tuesday Justin Bua presents The Beat of Urban Art 7pm @ Book Soup Lisa Lutz discusses The Spellman Files 7pm @ Vroman’s Philip Zimbardo discusses The Lucifer Effect 7pm @ Central Library Elliot Jaspin discusses Buried in the Bitter Waters 7pm @ EsoWon Books Wednesday Uzodinma Iweala discusses Beasts of No Nation 12:15pm @ Claremont McKenna College Anne Lamott presents......

Monday Robert Fagan discusses The Notebooks of Robert Frost 7pm @ Vroman’s Rebecca Liebermann signs We Are Still Here 7pm @ Dutton’s Brentwood Josh Peter discusses Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies & Bull Riders 7pm @ Studio City Branch Library Tuesday David Lynch presents Catching the Big Fish 7pm @ Borders in Westwood Martin Amis discusses House of Meetings 7pm @ Central Library Robert Stone & John Densmore in conversation about Remembering the Sixties 7:30pm......

With a base salary of over $150k a year, a car allowance of over $600 a month that will cover some pretty high-end leases, a chauffeur, and a staff of between 24-40 workers, the five LA County Board of Supervisors are living the high life on the taxpayers' dime, according to the LA Daily News. Among the nation's largest counties, only commissioners in Harris County, Texas (the Houston area), come close in annual pay......

Blake Gottesman, not Karl Rove, is the most influential man in the United States, as he truly has the President's ear. The 26-year-old college dropout (he attended Claremont McKenna College for one year in 1999) has been President Bush's special assistant and personal aide for the last four years. How powerful is Mr. Gottesman? This May he became one of the very few (if not only) applicants who was admitted into Harvard's Business School......

Who is this man? What does he want? Why, why is he stuck to the wall of an apartment building at 9th and St. Andrews? Admittedly, it is Koreatown, but most buildings don't have men pasted on them. Will he really fight for us? Is he ready to hit us with an uppercut? LAist does not read Korean so we are baffled. We can read the English on the pasteup and, since it's not......