LIFE's Best Celebrity Covers Marlon Brando: April 20, 1953 Ever the Method actor, Brando appears on the cover in character as Mark Antony while filiming his fourth movie, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Julius Caesar." Full Article at OH NO THEY DIDN'T

There are many different types of fictional works by many authors. Today, we are blessed by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, John Steinbeck, Gore Vidal, and many others who have written historical-fiction. Each one of these authors' Full Article at Associated Content

The Right-wing has rushed to attack Kevin Jennings because the organization he used to run lists several books with sexually explicit passages among those they recommended for adolescents. Full Article at Media Matters for America

“Much writing and research has been devoted to the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy [specifically its negative, negentropy] and the evolution of life.” — Wikipedia, Entropy and life “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel — ‘Thou... Full Article at Remembrance in Spacetime

Part 4 of an ongoing series of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" was held. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Steinbeck wrote about Dust Bowl refugees who traveled on Route 66, which he called "the mother road, the road of flight." Full Article at SGVTribune.com

Salinas' budget crisis will be addressed in two public meetings Thursday. At a regularly scheduled Library Commission meeting at 5 p.m. at the John Steinbeck Library, city Finance Director Tom Kever will make a presentation on the budget for Salinas' Full Article at The Californian