The 2007 Silverlake Film Festival heads into its second and final week. Highlights include… more ›

The LA Times has nominated five books in each of nine different categories for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. In the weeks leading up to the Festival of Books where the winners will be announced, LAist will take a quick look at each category and will wax poetic on a few favorites (or least favorites) along the way. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley... more ›

At Dutton's Beverly Hills, Bill Kurtis will be signing his new book, The Death Penalty on Trial, at 7 PM. There will also be a roundtable discussion with Kurtis and members of the Death Penalty Focus Group. more ›