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In Burbank, at Dark Delicacies on Saturday, December 2nd at 2 PM, artist Frank Kelly Freas will sign his newest book, Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It. The signing will commemorate the 50th anniversary of his first commercial art sale. On Sunday, December 3rd at 2 PM, actor Lee Arenberg will be signing posters for the new film Dungeons and Dragons. On Saturday, December 16th at 2 PM, monster effects man and prop collector Bob Burns will be signing his new book It Came From Bob's Basement. Several of the props featured in the book will be on display. Dark Delicacies is located at 4213 West Burbank Blvd. in Burbank, California. For more information, call (818) 556-6660 or check out their website.In Sherman Oaks at Dangerous Visions Bookstore on Saturday, December 9th at 2 PM, artist Frank Kelly Freas and author Tim Powers will sign Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It. Dangerous Visions is located at 13563 Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks California. Some new signing policies apply, so for more information, call (818) 986-6963, or you can check out their website.
The guest lecturer at Santa Monica College's John Drescher Planetarium on Friday, December 15th will be Kevin Grazier, Investigation Scientist on the Cassini Mission at JPL. He'll discuss this month's flyby of Jupiter by the Cassini spacecraft enroute to Saturn. Santa Monica College is located at 1900 Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica, California. The night show starts at 7 PM in the Technology Building in room 223, and the lecture follows at 8 PM in the Science Building in room 140. For more information, call Planetarium Director John Hodge at (310) 434-4223 or check out the planetarium's web site.
The Natural History of Los Angeles County is currently featuring the touring exhibition A T. rex Named Sue, which contains a life sized cast of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, together with a variety of interactive components that allow visitors to explore dinosaurs and paleontology. The exhibit will run through April 2001. The Natural History Museum is located at 900 Exposition Blvd, in Exposition Park. For more information, call (213) 763-DINO, or check out their web site.
Netter Digital Entertainment, the facility that produced computer animation for Babylon 5, the Sci Fi Channel's Dune Miniseries, and Voltron has closed their doors. All their assets, including over 100 graphics workstations will be offered at public auction on Thursday, December 7th. In addition, a large amount of Babylon 5 memorabilia will be offered at auction. All items are available for inspection on Wednesday, December 6th from 9 AM to 4 PM. For more information about the sale, including brochures and catalogs, and registration requirements, call Rabin Brothers at (800) 421-2144, or visit their web site.
The holiday season is upon us, and whether you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, the winter solstice or any other holiday, it's a great time to do something for those less fortunate than yourself. There are lots of ways to make a difference. Contact the food bank or homeless shelter in your area to see if you can donate food, supplies, or your time. Here in the Los Angeles area, the best way to find an organization you can help is to call the 24 hour LA Infoline at (800) 339-6993. If you spend lots of time on the Internet, (and if you're listening to us now online, that might just mean you,) there are other ways you can help. Check out sites like greatergood.com and the other sites they operate: thehungersite.com and therainforestsite.com . At the hunger and rain forest sites, you can go to their sites once a day, click on a button, and organizations sponsoring the sites that day will donate food or free land. The food is distributed via America's Second Harvest, Mercy Corps and the United Nations World Food Programme. The free land is distributed via The Nature Conservancy. Clicking these buttons costs you nothing. If you plan to shop online, all three sites have sponsorship from over 100 of the leading online merchants, including Amazon.com, Priceline, Lands End and many more. If you plan to shop any of those sites, consider logging into them via Greater Good or the Hunger or Rainforest sites. They'll arrange to have the sponsoring companies donate up to 15% of your purchase to go to one of over 3000 charities that you can designate. If you know of other ways that listeners can make a difference that you'd like to share, drop us an email at wwjames@earthlink.net. Put the words "make a difference" in the subject line.
Authors Robert Jordan and Caleb Carr are all recent or upcoming guests on Hour 25. They are all currently on tour, so if you'd like to chance meet any of them, check out our Authors on Tour page to see if any of your favorite authors will be signing at bookstores in your town.
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