Sandra Tsing Loh and Lori Gottlieb, author of the Atlantic article, "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough," talk about marriage tonight at WritersBloc. The 7:30 event is at Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills and Rabbi David Wolpe emcees.

Scott Schuman, creator of The Sartorialist, guests with Elvis Mitchell on The Treatment on KCRW, Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.

Joel Kotkin, author of "The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050," sits down with historian Kevin Starr on Thursday at 7 p.m. for ALOUD at the Central Library.

AP photographer Nick Ut's exhibit of photos, From Hell to Hollywood, opens Friday evening (reception 7 to 9 p.m.) at Nguoi Viet Daily News in Westminster.

Plan ahead:
Caitlin Flanagan of The New Yorker and New York Times columnist Judith Warner engage on March 2 for WritersBloc.

Former L.A. Times Metro editor Miriam Pawel discusses "The Union of their Dreams: Power, Hope and Struggle in César Chávez's Farm Worker Movement" with Jim Newton, Times' Editor-at-Large, at ALOUD on March 4.

Jesse Katz ("The Opposite Field") is interviewed by Homeboy Industries' Gregory J. Boyle, whose own forthcoming book is "Tattoos on the Heart," at ALOUD on March 10.

Noted: Former LA Weekly editor Laurie Ochoa has a piece in Saveur on the lunch scene at the Polo Lounge.