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History of UCI commune to be displayed
UC Irvine — The year was 1968. The Age of Aquarius was in full swing. The Tet offensive was pushing forward. And, Joan Didion's "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" was published. It was amid this period of cultural and political upheaval that UCI ,...
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Maureen Anderman Brilliant In Didion's ' Year Of Magical Thinking'
The Hartford CourantThe show: Joan Didion's “The Year of Magical Thinking,” a solo show based on her memoir, at the Westport Country Playhouse First impressions: Starting with Alexander Dodge's Zen-like set, you know you are in for an experience of...Tags: The New York Times, Mark Twain, Prada, Samuel Beckett
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An evening with author Joan Didion at Hartford Stage
It's widely known that writer Joan Didion's late husband, John Gregory Dunne, was raised in the Hartford area; she chronicled her grief at his passing in The Year of Magical Thinking, which won the National Book Award. More recently, Didion penned Blue...
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5 Questions for Candace Nelson
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Carol Burnett to publish memoir about her daughter
Jacket CopySimon & Schuster will publish a memoir by Carol Burnett of her relationship with her daughter, who died of cancer in 2002.... -
Rodriguez: L.A.'s way is the freeway
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's office released a mildly amusing list of 53 suggestions for surviving "Carmageddon," one for every hour the 405 will be closed this weekend between the 10 and the 101. In the hope that you'll stay off the...Tags: Vehicles, 2016 Olympic Games, Science and Technology, Human Interest, Apple iPhone
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Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYou're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles — not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Mountains. This means you'll be well-fed, well-rested and...Tags: Itzhak Perlman, Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Philanthropist gives away more than $331 million with hands-on approach
Tribune staff reporterAnn Lurie isn't very good at being merely a name etched in granite. Take the coming fundraising gala to celebrate the completion of the new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, a 1.25 million-square-foot facility in Streeterville with...Tags: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Charity, Gold Coast, Brian Simmons, Science and Technology
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'The Guardians: An Elegy' by Sarah Manguso
Tribune NewspapersThe Guardians: An Elegy Sarah Manguso Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 128 pp., $20 For more than a year, I've been on a reader's grief patrol. Memoir about a mother dying of cancer? Story of a husband's stroke? Taking care of a declining relative on a...Tags: Central Park, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Suicide, Book
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Thomas Kinkade's artistic legacy up for grabs
The death of popular artist Thomas Kinkade is certain to ignite controversy regarding the painter’s legacy. Known for his renderings of luminous landscapes and street scenes, often captured at twilight, the so-called painter of light, a Christian...Tags: Landforms, Albert Bierstadt, Mountains, Los Angeles Times, Arts and Culture
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Beautifully packaged reads
Abuse, betrayal, addiction and grief form the base for memoirs these days — even beautiful ones like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. But Swim: Why We Love the Water, by pioneering TV news correspondent Lynn Sherr, breaks from the...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Health
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Lessons of 'Arborgeddon'
![There's a part of us that secretly likes disasters. Well, maybe not so secretly. That's why <a id="PEHST000555" class="taxInlineTagLink" title="Joan Didion" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/joan-didion-PEHST000555.topic">Joan Didion</a>'s famous riff on the Santa Ana winds — "the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse" — is hauled out several times a year to explain what L.A. is all about. It's our rep and we stand by it.](http://www.glendalenewspress.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/302227560-15072753.jpg "There's a part of us that secretly likes disasters. Well, maybe not so secretly. That's why <a id="PEHST000555\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"Joan Didion\" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/joan-didion-PEHST000555.topic\">Joan Didion</a>'s famous riff on the Santa Ana winds — \"the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse\" — is hauled out several times a year to explain what L.A. is all about. It's our rep and we stand by it.")
There's a part of us that secretly likes disasters. Well, maybe not so secretly. That's why Joan Didion's famous riff on the Santa Ana winds — "the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse" — is hauled out several times a year to explain what L....Tags: Natural Disasters, Los Angeles Times, Netherlands
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