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WHEN: April 17-23 HOW: Register in advance for events and receive a reminder email with a link. DETAILS: Events are free to view except those featuring Don Lemon, Richard Thompson and Brandi Carlile, which cost $5. Books available through partner booksellers. Questions can be submitted on registration. See Festival FAQ for more. April 17 Festival of Books kickoff, presented with USC Join us for the kickoff of the 26th annual Festival of Books featuring Dr. Carol L. Folt, USC president, along with surprise appearances by L.A. Times writers and a performance by the USC Trojan Marching Band. Ple...

How Medford plans to increase its affordable housing inventory and meet state guidelines Kinga Borondy / medford@wickedlocal.com Boosting Medford’s affordable housing stock to the state-required 10% could include changes to the city’s zoning laws, rehabilitation of existing dwellings and converting large, single-family homes to multi-family dwellings, just some of the proposals encompassed in the draft of the Housing Proposal Plan (HPP) the City Council will review next week. The plan, commissioned to community planning and preservation expert JM Goldson, was almost a year in the making a...

A host of dignataries and guests attended Monday's virtual awards ceremony Individual achievement and outstanding contributions by women to communities in Watford and beyond were celebrated at a special awards ceremony. A total of 13 awards were presented virtually during a webinar hosted by the Watford-based One Vision charity to mark International Women's Day. Monday's event was hosted by Sky News presenter Gillian Joseph and attended by dozens of guests including the Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire Robert Voss, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire Henry Holland-Hibbert and three MPs - Mini...

Artist of the Month: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Amber Vittoria In the world of art, design and all things creative, there’s no shortage of snake oil purveyors. Gatekeepers galore. Perfectly packaged personas. Which is why Amber Vittoria has always been such a refreshing presence. We first featured the New York City­–based illustrator and designer as a New Visual Artist (formerly our annual “15 Under 30” issue) in 2017. In the years since, her striking work has proliferated and blossomed in new directions, with clients including The New York Times, Warby Parker, Google, K...

Join Last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests and the more recent attack on the Capitol by white extremists have us grappling with how to move forward as a nation. Black novelists may be able to help us make sense of centuries of racial conflict and mistreatment through creative retellings of history. Can laying bare centuries-old wounds that continue to fester help us heal as a nation? How can fiction help us deal honestly with history? New novels by Black writers are taking readers on imaginative, often hellish journeys into the country’s past to better understand our present day rela...