The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A librarian explains how they... Before the internet made book reviews widely ...

Before the internet made book reviews widely accessible, where would curious minds go to find information about a new novel's subject matter or a plot? If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you could ...

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The LAPL has become one of the city’s best resources in the last 150 years. Here's why you should visit. Why now: For a recent How to LA episode, producer Megan Botel learned about its history through ...

According to the “Not Like Us” opening disclaimer: “No Ovohoes were harmed during the making of the music video.” However, Kendrick Lamar vicious beating of an owl piñata (symbolic of Drake) in the ...