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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is a free, public festival celebrating the written word. [1] It is the largest book festival in the United States, drawing approximately 150,000 attendees annually. [2] The festival began in 1996 and is held on the penultimate weekend of April, hosted by the University of Southern California. It features ...
The devastating fires raging across much of Southern California have caused extreme damage, leveling some of Los Angeles' historic landmarks.. The fires broke out amid dry and windy conditions ...
Why did dozens of fire hydrants go dry as firefighters rushed to combat flames from spreading in the Los Angeles area? National investigative correspondent Patrick Terpstra explains.
Instead of fire-hardening the park, the city — which the state said had undertaken the work without proper permitting — ended up paying $2 million in fines and was ordered by the California ...
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and ...
David Eggers, double winner of the Book Prize in 2009. Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989 ...
Los Angeles Mayor Bass estimated 20% of hydrants went dry. The existing water system in Los Angeles has "severe limits," Gregory Pierce, director of the UCLA Water Resources Group told The LA Times.
By July 1905, the Times began to warn the voters of Los Angeles that the county would soon dry up unless they voted bonds for building the aqueduct. Artificial drought conditions were created when water was run into the sewers to decrease the supply in the reservoirs and residents were forbidden to water their lawns and gardens.