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In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and…

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the…

Looks like you might have an official outlet for your NaNoWriMo book this year. (If you’re not in the know, that’s “National Novel Writing Month,” the popular annual program where folks commit the entire month of November to writing a book from start to finish.) D.C. will be the breeding ground for the winner of this year’s Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award, issued every year to a poet or fiction writer in a different state,…

We had been looking forward to seeing Swedish indie darlings Peter Bjorn and John for some time, but as sometimes happen with indie darlings, Monday’s sold out 9:30 Club show underwhelmed. The trio, who have been all over Pitchfork and the blogs, play understated, finely crafted 60s-ish pop. They’ve been together since 1999, but their third album, 2006’s “Writer’s Block,” catapulted them to indie stardom, mainly due to the single “Young Folks.” The rest of…

Written by Jason Linkins MONDAY Vertigo Books and the TransAfrica Forum’s Writers Corner are bringing three great authors together for a special reading event: Kwame Dawes (She’s Gone), Helon Habila (Measuring Time) and Dinaw Mengestu (The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears) come together at the Charles Sumner School, 1201 17th Street NW, 6:30 p.m. TUESDAY It’s a father and daughter fest at Politics and Prose tonight, as John McPhee, author of Uncommon Gardens joins Martha…

Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the city, not a lot of authors are stirring. Give them a break! They have family and friends to see at this time of year, too! But if you have a mind to celebrate letters on the local level, head on out to the Warehouse tonight for a special Christmas edition of the F.W. Thomas Performances. Tonight’s edition features comic collagist Clarke Bedford, writer Molly Woods, songwriter…

DCist Editor Emeritus Mike Grass draws our attention to the following blurb on page 40 of today’s Express: It comes across as a little meta: a feature on rail riding to be included in a tabloid read by rail riders, who are presumably trying to block out the ups and downs of Metro commuting that will surely populate the dispatches. Nonetheless, we like the idea and look forward to reading the tales of life on…

MONDAY We’re guessing that our readers probably have at least a passing familiarity with Ana Marie Cox and at least one of her two millennium straddling web-based glories: Suck and Wonkette. Well, Cox is leaving it all behind for content that won’t be found in your RSS feed: her debut novel, Dog Days, is out and she will be dishing and signing tonight at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., 7 p.m. TUESDAY You…

Arts Agenda will return at full strength after the Thanksgiving holiday. For now, please feel free to add your own suggestions to a few things you ought not to miss this week. W.C. Richardson’s new work at Fusebox suggests the kind of repeated patterns — minimal color, ovals and swirls broken up by straight lines — one might see on high-end wallpaper, or maybe even giftwrap. But just because Richardson has embraced a simple, clean,…