LA Times Book Prize Current Interest Nominees As the LA Times Book Prize award ceremony looms ever-closer, we're taking a look at the books nominated in each category. As we mentioned yesterday, unlike other big literary awards, the LA Times Book Prize winners are never a sure thing, which is what makes following them all the more fun. The nominees in the Current Interest category this year are interesting indeed:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs......

Monday Keith Gessen & Chad Harbach discuss the latest issue of n+1 7pm @ Book Soup Jay Inslee & Bracken Hendricks presents Apollo's Fire 7pm @ Vroman's Jenna Bush signs Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove Robert Hass presents Time & Materials 7pm @ Central Library Tuesday John Leake presents Entering Hades 7pm @ Book Soup Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg present Superbad: Seth's Drawings 7pm @......

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers......

As promised, the weekend has finally rolled around. As befits your perserverance during the shortened post-holiday week, the next three days are packed with activity. LAist has plucked out some highlights just for loyal readers like yourself. Highly anticipated, particularly in light of recent events, The Corporation opens tonight for a two week engagement at the NuArt. The film chronicles the rise and increasing dominance of corporate power, including interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael......