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Feb.17.2010
WHAT/WHEN: Esotouric's Spring series of special event guest hosted bus tours: "Maja's Mysteries: Rapture & Release" (March 20), "Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits' L.A." (April 3), John Buntin's L.A. Noir (April 10) WHERE: "Maja's Mysteries" and "L.A. Noir...
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Jan.25.2009
LINK http://www.the-ogs.com LOS ANGELES- Eighty years ago, a young girl named Barbara arrived in Los Angeles from New York with her family, took one horrified look at the Jewish neighborhood of Boyle Heights and sniffed "not for me!" Brooklyn Avenue was lined with open barrels of pickles...
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Jun.26.2008
WHAT: Esotouric debuts "Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits' Los Angeles" bus tour, followed by a group reading and signing of host David Smay's new book "Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones" (Continuum's 33 1/3 series) WHEN: Bus tour is Saturday August 30, noon-4pm, reading follows at...
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Apr.25.2008
Citizens using the tools provided by the SaveLAPL website I helped launched have already made a difference in the future of the Los Angeles Public Library: the proposed $1-per-book inter-branch transfer fee has been withdrawn in favor of a nickel increase in daily late fines, and a book buying fund...
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Apr.23.2008
Late May sees the arrival in LA of the BookExpo America publishing industry convention, and if you're a Bukowski fan, you'll want to attend. That's because only BEA badge holders who get on Esotouric's HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD MAN:CHARLES BUKOWSKI'S LA tour (departing from Arnie Morton's Steakhouse...
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Apr.14.2008
Dear friends,
I am part of a grassroots collective of passionate library users who are deeply disturbed by the proposed $1-per-book inter-branch loan fee that will be charged beginning July 1st.
We have launched a website at http://www.saveLAPL.org to raise awareness of this issue and the fact...
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Apr.09.2008
I'm awfully pleased to report that the Mojo Magazine readers poll for Book of the Year 2007 are in, and my oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel made it into the top 5!
And the winners are:
1. There's a Riot Going On - Peter Doggett
2. Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy - Tony Visconti
3. Teenage -...
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Feb.28.2008
I assisted with a preservation campaign seeking to make the East Hollywood bungalow court where Charles Bukowski wrote "Post Office" named an official Historic-Cultural monument, an urgent issue since property investors had evicted the tenants and listed the property on Craigslist as a $1...
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Jan.09.2008
During Christmas week, it was my enormous pleasure to orchestrate a pair of bus tours hosted by James Ellroy, in which he led fifty passionate fans all across the Los Angeles of his youth, from actual places he lived and houses he broke into to the scenes of the 1950s crimes that have long obsessed...
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About Kim
Kim Cooper is the author of the bestselling 33 1/3 series volume Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea', and co-editor of the anthologies Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth and Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You...
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Causes Kim Cooper Supports
Los Angeles Conservancy/ Modcom
California Bat Conservation Fund