For example, the poem near the book’s beginning, Vine a Los Angeles (I came to Los Angeles) melds the Aztec origin myth I ...

As literacy grew during the Industrial Revolution, more people were writing letters, and those who could afford the best ...

Longtime LAist correspondent, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, has reported on local stories for decades, traveling and meeting people ...

In spring 2020, after retiring as managing editor of the New York Post, Fort Bend County native Joe Robinowitz began a ...

Every year, stations across the Nexstar family of stations help give back with the annual Founder’s Day of Caring. On ...

Enter blue books — the academy’s counter to the AI revolution. Blue books first made their appearance at Butler University in Indiana a century ago and ...

Time-honored Shanghai Hero (Group) Co Ltd held its new product launch in Shanghai on Tuesday, unveiling co-branded products with a local cultural creative brand, previewing the collaboration with ...

Writing with a fountain pen demands mindfulness. Each stroke is intentional. They are finicky and need to be handled gently. But their finickiness is what infuses even banal tasks with thoughtfulness.

Fountain pen collectors don’t all go after super-expensive pens. Collectors love the Lamy AL-Star because it comes in a lot of colours. With an aluminum casing and a snazzy clip, it’s simply a ...

Fountain pen collectors don’t all go after super-expensive pens. Collectors love the Lamy AL-Star because it comes in a lot of colors. With an aluminum casing and a snazzy clip, it’s simply a ...

Priced at: $1.47 million. With only one of these produced each year, this Diamante fountain pen boasts a platinum barrel encrusted with over 30 carats of De Beers diamonds and an 18-karat gold nib ...

Lemke added that he liked to think that when he signed those sheets of Lavonia notes, Cobb used the green-ink fountain pen that he so regularly used in his later years. He went so far as to create a ...