Monday Diane Lefer discusses and signs California Transit 7pm @ Vroman's Chuck Barris presents The Big Question 7pm @ Book Soup Chris Abani & Al Young read their work 7:30pm @ Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater Tuesday Jonathan Cohn discusses Sick: The Untold Story of America's Healthcare Crisis 5pm @ Center for Healthy Communities, Yosemite Hall Reyna Grande presents Across a Hundred Mountains 7pm @ Book Soup Nicole Mones signs The Last Chinese Chef 7pm......

The Believer's April 2006 issue and web site have several articles about LA and/or by LA writers. As we've mentioned, in Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A." , Jenny Price takes the facetious response she gets when she tells people at cocktail parties that she is a Los Angeles-based nature writer, --"Is there nature in LA?" --as the starting point for her meditation on the natural world in the city, or the city......

THURSDAY • The Eels are at Avalon tonight with Strings at 8 PM. Tickets are $25. • The Knitting Factory Front Room hosts a benefit for the Peer Education Program of Los Angeles, featuring Wires On Fire, Jim Brown (Bluebird), Terrors, Energy Club, Darren Weiss (Wires on Fire/Belladonna) and The Naturals. The show starts at 8 PM; tickets are $10. • Doors open at 7:30 PM for Frankie and Tommy's Social Club at the......

LAist would like to send you and a guest to a June 20th screening of the worldwide festival sensation Me and You and Everyone We Know, filmed in Los Angeles by local artist Miranda July. The film premiered at Sundance this year and received the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision. The film stars July and John Hawkes—currently best known for his role as Sol Star on "Deadwood," but known to local fans......