Susanna Moore signs The Big Girls 7pm @ Dutton's more ›

Chris Abani & Al Young read their work 7:30pm @ Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater more ›

The LA Weekly's annual Best of LA issue came out Thursday. This year's version, Best of LA 2005: Look Homeward, Angeleno, is edited by theater critic Steven Mikulan and features a compilation of creative nonfiction shorts on Los Angeles. Last year's Seven Deadly Sins version provided a mind-numbing number of recommendations - bars, clubs, restaurants. It was a useful guidebook but overwhelming. Here, Mikulan gives the writers room to expand. Rather than a list of twenty things they like, each one tells the story of one time, one moment, one place, from the Sunset Junction fair to backyard parties in East L.A. more ›