It's Library Lovers Month and that makes me happy. I'm a lover of all things Library and in fact, a third-generation librarian (well, three credits short of my MLIS degree.) You don't need to be smart or even a book-lover to love libraries, as silly as that sounds. Libraries are of the people, by the people, and for the people. They are yours to use and enjoy. In honor of Library Lovers Month, check......

Some mornings, you wake up in a wandering mood: after a strong cup of coffee and a survey of the weather, we decided to peek beyond the veil of the early morning haze and venture southeast. We forsook the freeways for the more scenic route of Sunset Boulevard, through Hollywood east to Western, then south, south, south beyond the 10, through K-town and past endless strip-mall Iglesias de Dios and pupuserias. Wonderful! As we......

So, you're seen the banners (Bruce, and otherwise) all over town, hanging from lightposts. You've wondered what they are all about. Well, it's time to activate your latent mutant genes, and go find out for yourself at the California Science Center. Last month they opened the brand spanking new Marvel Superheroes Science Exhibit, and it's one of the most exciting and innovative ways we've seen to get both children and adults interested in science.......

The end of 2005 is nigh. Luckily there's still time to get a dose of high culture before the year comes to a close -- most of the city's major museums will be open for at least part of the day. UCLA's Hammer Museum is open today from 11am - 3pm. Their big show is the low-art-as-high-culture Masters of American Comics, which is split between the Hammer and MOCA. With a big chunk of......

We here at LAist don't consider ourselves squeamish. On the contrary, we like to think of ourselves as a hard-bitten news organization, full of cynical chain-smokers who fire questions at homicide dicks as they work a bloody crime scene (what other people think of us is their own business). But then came plastination, the process in which a human body is, in effect, transformed into a skinless action figure. This fascinating, though creepy, process......