Last Chance to RSVP: SPJ/LA Hosts Mixer with Steve Lopez

It’s your last chance to RSVP for SPJ/LA’s mixer with LA Times’ Steve Lopez at Traxx Restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, Feb. 25, 2015.

Lopez is a California native who has been an LA Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards for his reporting and column writing at seven newspapers and four news magazines, and was a 2011 Pulitzer finalist for his columns on elder care. He is the author of three novels, two collections of columns, and a nonfiction work called “The Soloist,” which was a Los Angeles Times and New York Times best-seller, winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the subject of a DreamWorks movie by the same name. Lopez’s television reporting for public station KCET has won three local news Emmys, three Golden Mike Awards, and a share of the duPont – Columbia University Award.

WHAT:SPJ/LA Mixer

WHO: Steve Lopez, LA Times Columnist

WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 25 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

WHERE: Traxx Restaurant at Union Station 800 North Alameda Street, #122 Los Angeles, CA, 90012. Phone: (213) 625-1999

COST: The event is free and open to the public. No-host bar.

RSVP: Please RSVP to spjlosangeles@gmail.com

PARKING: Valet parking and convenient self-parking is available.

CONTACT: Dan Evans, SPJ/LA, (818) 637-3234 Richard Saxton, SPJ/LA, spjlosangeles@gmail.com