Kevin Roderick: Dawson's Books, which began Downtown and is the oldest bookstore in Los Angeles, is giving up the Larchmont Boulevard location of many decades that its fans love so much.

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Dawson's moving off Larchmont, holding big sale

I take the ICE express train to Frankfurt and change for Heppenheim.

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Vail travel: Lugging books through the fair (Vail Daily)

I take the ICE express train to Frankfurt and change for Heppenheim. My first impression of this little town, picked randomly and based solely on cost, is atrocious.

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Vail travel: Lugging books through the fair (The Vail Trail)

Calls from guests overwhelmed with fear are not rare in a hotel doctor’s practice. My database shows 353 out of about 15,000 visits. I handled them using my Jerry Greenwald imitation.

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The Life of a Hotel Doctor | Guests Suffering Panic Attacks | By Mike Oppenheim, M.D. (Hospitality Net)

Literary luncheon: Enjoy top-notch Czech pub grub at this quaint Vyšehrad hideaway. Whether by accident or humorous intent, one of the books squashed amid the dusty first editions in U Šemíka's dining room library is a Microsoft Word manual.

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Old Town ambience, sans tourists (The Prague Post)

What happens in the bedroom stays in Vegas. As I arrive at the two-story building a few blocks west of the Vegas Strip, I spot a sign on the front door telling visitors that the building no long houses an adult bookstore. Those who came for that may be disappointed to discover that eroticism is viewed in a different light by the building's new tenants, who about a year ago opened the Erotic ...

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Porn museum nestled in Sin City (Los Angeles Times)

Did you ever want to step into the rich scenery of a novel?

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10 great places to see through a novelist's eyes (USA Today)

by Aleksa Brown Comics Gone Wild! Presentation by Max Cannon and Ted Rall 7 p.m., Friday, June 26 Antigone Books411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715; antigonebooks.com You might never guess what happens behind the scenes at alternative newsweeklies like the Tucson Weekly—but you can get a rare glimpse behind the print this Friday, when cartoonists Max Cannon and Ted Rall will be at Antigone Books to ...

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City Week (Tucson Weekly)

Looking for a memorable winter vacation?

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Step inside the world's coolest hotels (MSNBC)

Nestled in the Berkeley Hills, Cal is home to Nobel laureates, the first cyclotron, berkelium and a spirited student body. So what do we call this place? Cal?

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Berkeley changes with the times (Los Angeles Times)