Last Saturday, customers and friends crowded into Stories to celebrate the Los Angeles bookstore's grand opening; the official opening date is this Friday, November 21. Owned by Elizabeth Garo and Claudio Colodro, who have worked at Book Soup and Dutton's North Hollywood, respectively, Stories is in the Echo Park section, sells new and used books and has "a very deep children's section as well as books on Los Angeles history, pop culture, art, design and crafting. Our fiction section goes deep into catalogue and we will also be focusing on local authors in the next few months." The store has a cafe with a patio section and front window seating area. For the Saturday party, the art collective Hit & Run silkscreened book bags on site. Bookselling This Week had a profile of Stories earlier this month. Stories is located at 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 90026; 213-413-3733; storiesla.com.