The depressing joint on Pico and La Cienega Blvd known as The Mint rarely books bands that will rock your socks off. I blame the chairs. Any place that calls itself a music venue and has chairs and tables on the dance floor, is sure to be a subdued affair.

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Trampled By Turtles @ The Mint, 4/22/10

Photo courtesy Canary Promotions It is rare that Phillyist becomes so passionate about an event that we shift our tone from "Perhaps you'd like to check this out," to "GO! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! GO NOW!" The Sendak in Spring Program at the Rosenbach Museum and Library this weekend is deserving of the upgrade in urgency. Continuing their year-round mission of passing on the love of literacy and ...

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Where the Wild Things Are (Phillyist)

Photo by sadjeans via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Venice's Equator Books has been a welcoming independent option for book lovers on Abbot Kinney for over five years, but now they have announced that this weekend they are closing their doors for good. In an announcement sent out by email and posted on their website, the bookstore's owners are asking their customers to come by and ...

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Equator Books in Venice to Close Up Shop Sunday (LAist)

Though it's not what he's known for, Andy Warhol created some really cute illustrations for a children's book series ! And now a set of those illustrations is headed toward the auction block next month as part of Bloomsbury's Illustrated Books auction . Reportedly "they were drawn by Warhol early in his career, between 1957 and 1959, for the Doubleday Book Club's popular series Best in Children ...

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Sendak and Warhol on the Block (Gothamist)

Sea Wolf in concert | Photo by Koga /LAist It was just a few months ago when 6-year old Pablo Castelaz lost his battle with cancer, after treatment at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. 13 months before that, he was diagnosed, almost seemingly out of nowhere showing no warning signs prior, with bilateral Wilms’ Tumor, a rare form of children’s cancer.

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Sea Wolf, Band of Horses & Others to Play this Saturday to Fight Children's Cancer (LAist)

photo by JOE M500 Lord knows there was plenty of music to consume over the weekend, but none of it was really in vinyl or shiny digital plastic form.

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Blow Your Dough at Dusty Groove's Sidewalk Sale (Chicagoist)

                                          Visit a used book store and, after about an hour, all the old books will start looking pretty much the same—the pages get yellowed, the edges become ragged, and the binding starts to disintegrate. What you end up with is shelf after shelf of cheap, trashy, tatters, but that's not so with the New York Public Library 's collection of its old books

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Printed Treasures of the New York Public Library (Gothamist)

Moonlight hikes abound tonight.

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Pencil This In: Moonlight Hikes; David Lynch, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse @ Book Soup Tonight (LAist)

Who is Lambeth’s most famous son? If you don’t answer Charlie Chaplin , nobody could really blame you. For a city with a rich screen heritage, we don’t do a great job of preserving our cinema history.

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Preview: Cinema Museum Open Weekend (Londonist)

Image of one woman's haul from the Harvard Book Store Warehouse labeled "Bostonist" by Flickr user GirlieErin . Warehouses We have it on good authority that the Harvard Book Store's annual warehouse sale, which began yesterday, is not completely shopped out

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Sunday Happenings (Bostonist)