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An Evening with Joanna Stern
2026-05-18 20:00 - 21:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Ann and Jerry Moss Theater–New Roads School, Herb Alpert Educational Village, 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
An Evening with Joanna Stern discussing her book, “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything.”

Please note:
— Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored.
— Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable.
— All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event.
— The name(s) you provide during registration will be on a will-call list at the event, where you will check-in and get your ticket to enter the theatre.
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Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Monday, May 18, 2025, 8pm
*Virtual event airs on May 25 at 6pm PT/9pm ET

An Evening with Joanna Stern
discussing her book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything

TICKETS:

$50 General Admission ticket + signed book
$25 General Admisison ticket
$115 Reception (6:30-7:30pm) + Reserved Section seat + Signed Book
Additional signed books available for purchase at event

The virtual version of this event airs on May 25, 2025, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days. Tickets include a signed book
Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)
ASL interpreter provided upon request.
Free parking at the venue

What happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?
Joanna Stern is an Emmy Award-winning technology journalist. She spent twelve years at The Wall Street Journal, where her personal technology columns and video series made her one of the most-watched voices in consumer tech. She now runs her own media company, producing videos and newsletters that help people navigate the tech reshaping daily life, and serves as NBC News chief technology analyst. Her 2021 documentary E-Ternal won an Emmy for Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage. A two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner and Pulitzer finalist, she often appears on national television, radio, and podcasts like The Vergecast. She was previously a technology editor at ABC News and The Verge.
You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries previously unimagined by humankind. The AI future is going to be unlike any other technological revolution. But what does that really mean? And will AI truly make life better?
To find out, award-winning journalist Joanna Stern surrendered her life to artificial intelligence for one year. The results are both hilarious and unsettling.
I Am Not a Robot is like a time machine trip to the very near future, where AI promises to be your doctor, chauffeur, teacher, masseuse, coworker, therapist, financial planner, chef, housekeeper, and even . . . romantic partner. Your colleague might be using ChatGPT to write emails at work, but Joanna used AI tools and robots to do household chores, to manage her health, and to transport her family on vacation. If there was a decision to make or a task to do, she let AI go first. Along the way, she conducted exclusive interviews with the tech leaders building this future, then reported back from the front lines as your funny, no-nonsense tour guide.
Of course, tech’s sunny promises never tell the whole story, and that’s what Joanna is here to share. Filled with illustrations and photographs, this book offers less hype, more clarity, and as little jargon as humanly (or robotically) possible. It’s an AI guide for ordinary people—not the tech bros who tried to sell you a cruise to the metaverse or an NFT of a cartoon monkey.
This book is not the definitive story, because we’re only a few years into the AI revolution. But after a year of living as a human lab rat, Joanna delivers one of the clearest—and funniest—pictures yet of what’s really happening and what it means for you.

Lena Dunham with Rita Wilson
2026-05-20 20:00 - 21:15 | Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda Street, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
THE FAMESICK TOUR: An Evening of Stories and Togetherness

Please note:
— Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored.
— Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable.
— All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event.
— The name(s) you provide during registration will be on a will-call list at the event, where you will check-in and get your ticket to enter the theatre.
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Join us for an in-person Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Wednesday, May 20, 2025, 8pm
*Virtual event airs on May 27

Lena Dunham with Rita Wilson
THE FAMESICK TOUR:An Evening of Stories and Togetherness

TICKETS:

$65 General Admission ticket + signed book
Additional books available for purchase at event
Virtual event airs on May 27. all ickets include the book and we ship to US addresses only
Virtual tickets can be purchased withthis link

ASL interpreter provided upon request.
Free parking at the venue

Celebrating her first book in over a decade, Lena Dunham returns to the stage for a night of fearless storytelling and no holds barred conversation. A candid, funny, and bracingly honest reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, Famesick marks a bold return from the award-winning creator of Girls and Too Much. So pull on your pajamas and join us for a night that brings together all the best parts of a slumber party—just not the thing where you call your parents crying because you want to go home. We’ll get nostalgic for the 2010s and frank about anxiety and ambition, and go deep about what it actually means to author your own story. We can’t wait to see you there to celebrate Famesick..Lena Dunham is an award-winning actor, writer, director, producer and philanthropist. Her 2014 memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, was a #1 New York Times best seller. She recently returned to television with the Netflix romcom Too Much, which she wrote, directed and co-created with her husband Luis Felber. Dunham also wrapped production on the upcoming Netflix feature Good Sex, starring Natalie Portman and Mark Ruffalo, and will make her Broadway creative debut with 10 Things I Hate About You: The Broadway Musical. She previously starred in and produced Treasure (2024), and wrote and directed Catherine Called Birdy and Sharp Stick (2022). Dunham created and starred in HBO’s Girls, earning eight Emmy nominations and two Golden Globes, and making history as the first woman to win a DGA Award for Best TV Comedy Director. An accomplished writer, Dunham contributes to The New Yorker, Vogue, and The New York Times.
Rita Wilson is a multi-talented singer/songwriter, actress and producer. Her sixth studio album, Sound of a Woman is part unfiltered memoir, part nuanced observation of the world around her. The album explores the arc of a woman’s life that unfolds as a moving narrative and was co-produced by Rita and GRAMMY Award-winner Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton). Wilson is touring throughout 2026 performing the new material live in the U.S. and abroad. Wilson is beloved for a multitude of roles in iconic films such as Sleepless in Seattle and TV shows including Too Much and Girls. Catch her in the second season of The Last Thing He Told Me, starring and executive produced by Jennifer Garner on Apple TV. Rita was also the film producer behind the blockbuster franchises Mamma Mia! and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She received a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame and was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce in 2021. Her Broadway roles include star turns in Larry David’s Fish in the Dark and Chicago.
