Libraries

Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives Coming to Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

What do Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan have in common?They both threw actors they felt to be communist sympathizers under the FBI's red-baiting bus!But Disney and Reagan have something else in common, too: starting in July, both men will have many of their personal items on display for all ... More >>

What's Good for the Michigander: UCI Librarian Catherine Palmer on Bender, Trollope & Egan Not-so-Much

Praise the spells and bless the charms, I find April in my arms. It's official National Poetry Month and this, week National Library Week. Good times! I'm reading my OC Weekly editor's new book, an unlikely and yet terrific tribute to tacos by the Studs Terkel of food, Mr. Gustavo "Ask a Mexican" Ar ... More >>

OC Bookly: Spring Forward. Fall Behind. Ask a Librarian!

​The canyons and meadows are greening up. The sun lingers in the afternoon sky. Literary Orange and the LA Times Festival of Books are right around the corner.  Springtime, when a middle-aged man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, and the books arrive.  Lots of 'em.No problem! Br ... More >>

Wanted: Richard Nixon Library Director

​Tim Naftali left last month as the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum since the National Archives in 2005-06 took over the tapes, documents and most of the facilities from the private foundation that dedicated the Yorba Linda tourist trap 15 years before. You'll n ... More >>

Richard Nixon's 99th Birthday Draws Friends, Family and Hugh Hewitt

​If Richard Nixon had not gone to that great pen of paranoia in the sky already, he would be at his library and birthplace in Yorba Linda more than just in spirit today to celebrate his 99th birthday.Hugh Hewitt, who originally came out west to help get the presidential library off the ground, wil ... More >>

Laguna Beach May Change Internet Usage Rules After Police Arrest A Man For Watching Porn, Masturbating At Public Library

​There's a journalism aphorism that goes: when a dog bites a man, that is not news. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.In following that same concept, I'd argue that the story of a scruffy-looking guy jacking off to porn in a public library is hardly new. And yet, after the recent arrest of a ... More >>

F. Sherwood Rowland, UCI Nobel Laureate, Has Groundbreaking Climate Research on Exhibit

​An exhibition celebrating the research contributions of Nobel laureate and UC Irvine chemistry professor F. Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland opens this evening in the Langson Library at UCI.Ralph J. Cicerone, the National Academy of Sciences president who was UCI's dean of the School of Physical Science ... More >>

Tim Naftali Won't Be Kicked Around Anymore at Nixon Presidential Library

Burglar in Chief​Six years ago--to the abject horror of Orange County's blue hair right wingers, historian/author Tim Naftali became the first legitimate director of Richard Nixon's presidential library in Yorba Linda.A version of the library had been run by Nixon apologists whose brazenly absurd ... More >>

Timothy Naftali, Nixon Library Chief, is Leaving

"One lie I corrected was this big."​Timothy Naftali, the George H.W. Bush biographer and respected historian the National Archives chose to run the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda after the disgraced 37th president's loyalists from a private foundation first built and operated the ... More >>

Karl Rove Comes to Nixon Library; Will the Glitteratti Follow?

​Those attending tonight's Karl Rove blab-a-thon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda may detect twinkles in the eye or from the teeth of the guest of honor. But the source may not be his happy demeanor or extra-white choppers. It could be leftover residue from Rove ... More >>

'Animal House'

Regency South Coast Village

Pentagon Papers Declassified, Available Online or at Richard Nixon Presidential Library

Marisa Gerber/OC Weekly​On June 13, 1971, the New York Times published parts of the Pentagon Papers, which led to Watergate and eventually Nixon's resignation.Yesterday, exactly 40 years later, the report was released in its entirety at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba L ... More >>

On June 13, 1971 the New York Times published parts of the Pentagon Papers, which led to Watergate and eventually Nixon's resignation. Yesterday, exactly forty years later, the report was released in its entirety at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda (and a few other ... More >>

Sriracha: The Story Behind the Cookbook

​On Feb. 12 at 10:30 a.m, the author of the new Sriracaha Cookbook will speak at the Mark Taper Auditorium in the Los Angeles Central Library. The Culinary Historians of Southern California present Randy Clemens, who will explore the history of Sriracha hot sauce, from its humble beginnings as a ... More >>

Night at the Opera

Bay Theater

Fox News: Libraries are Old, Pricey and No One Uses Them. Don't Tell That to Santa Ana

​A Fox News commentator has figured out a way to save money for a cash-strapped state: kill public libraries. Libraries are old, expensive and no one checks out their books, argues Fox News Chicago's Anna Davlantes. If the people of Illinois buy into this logic, good thing Santa Ana isn't in the L ... More >>

See, Hear and Experience the Green Evolution

​The UC Irvine Libraries' spring exhibit "Green Evolution: Creating a Sustainable Future" kicks off with an energy expert talking about the revolutionary new ways power will be generated and vehicles will be propelled in our brave new future.

Lincoln, Washington and Teddy Roosevelt Walk Into the Nixon Library ...

Dead presidents​Abraham Lincoln's birthday is today, George Washington's is Feb. 22 and who the hell knows when Teddy Roosevelt was born. Still, all three very dead presidents converge Monday--Presidents' Day--at the presidential library and museum dedicated to another expired commander-in-chief, ... More >>

Busy Days Ahead at the Nixon Library

​A birthday celebration, the arrival of important records and some good old fashioned revisionism: yep, busy days are ahead at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. (Which is where you'll also find the creepy bust above.)

Gore Vidal and George McGovern Are the Stars, But Spirit of Ted Kennedy Also Fills Nixon Library

Photo by Christopher Victorio George McGovern (left) listens to Gore Vidal's introduction at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.Legends of liberalism Gore Vidal and George McGovern were the honored guests at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Y ... More >>

Man on the Moon

Nixon Library

Cal State Fullerton Can't Afford to Buy One Copy of Newly Published Professor for Archives Anymore

Lovell: Also hosts a good radio show on KUCI-FM...​It's a tradition of any university library to buy one copy of a book by a professor for its archives, but the budget for Cal State Fullerton's Pollak Library is so strained that they can no longer do this. This is what Jarret Lovell, professor of ... More >>

Ditch Day!

Lovell: Also hosts a good radio show on KUCI-FM...​It's a tradition of any university library to buy one copy of a book by a professor for its archives, but the budget for Cal State Fullerton's Pollak Library is so strained that they can no longer do this. This is what Jarret Lovell, professor of ... More >>

WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive f ... More >>

Executive Director John Taylor Leaving Nixon Foundation for Clergy

The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced today that John H. Taylor, the foundation's executive director since it opened in 1990 and before that Nixon's chief of staff, is leaving Sunday to become the full-time vicar (or priest in charge) at St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church ... More >>

Setting the Record Straight at the Nixon Library

Hopefully, this item on the looming depature of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's longtime executive director, John H. Taylor, makes it clear that he fronted a separate entity from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I say hopefully because that distinction was n ... More >>

Eat, Pray, Love

Hopefully, this item on the looming depature of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's longtime executive director, John H. Taylor, makes it clear that he fronted a separate entity from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I say hopefully because that distinction was n ... More >>

OC Faux Pas of the Millennium!!!

Setting: West Hollywood Book Fair, 'round noon, Librería Martínez booth. Protagonists: Me, Librería Martinez volunteer Jess Baudillo, and a gaggle of gals from the Mission VIejo Public Library. Scene: They had just invited me to speak at some author's festival they're proposing for next year. I ... More >>

Goodwill Mission

Day Trip to the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens

Wasted Youth

Juilliard String Quartet

Snap Judgment: Asleep in Orange County

I once did a photo series called "Asleep in Los Angeles," featuring locals asleep all over the place: on the Metro, by the public library, on cardboard, grass, abandoned couches...gosh darn, those Angelenos sure like to sleep. Anyway, here's what could be the first installment of the Orange County ... More >>

File Under Biblio

Literary Orange

Jumping Down the Memory Hole

'The War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America'

The Memory Hole Goes Green

Having previously suppressed, ignored, and dishonestly redacted scientific reports that proved politically inconvenient, the Bush administration has taken the next logical step. The Environment News Service reports: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is closing its Headquarters Library ... More >>

Bibliophilia

Edward Albee

Archiving Nixon

Edward Albee

Dear John

An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

Throwing the Book at Us

An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

Diary of a Mad County

An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

Letters

An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

Mmmmmmmm!

Filtering Flip-Flop?

County librarian now touts CyberPatrol

Burning Sensation

County librarian now touts CyberPatrol

My Guess Is Definitely No

Would you run your presidential library the way we run Nixons?

ANTI-RED BUTTONS

Everybody Knows that Richard

Mostly, Its about Sex, Mostly

Online with Dr. Laura, curmudgeon

X-Stopped

Court rules library must remove OC firm's filtering software

Shut Up, Again

Senate takes another whack at free speech online