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Prom glamour for less than $100
Daily PressIf you're the parent of a high school girl, you've probably heard of the store All the Rage. Though there are only two locations, one in Chesapeake and one in Virginia Beach, the gown shop has become the standard of prom glamour even for young ladies on...Tags: Limes, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Education, Herman Melville, High Schools
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Amazon lures authors with 70% royalty deal, and HTML5
L.A. Times Tech BlogAmazon tries to lure authors to publish their digital books on Kindle with a promise to pay 70% royalties, minus expenses.... -
A feast at Fin
Daily PressFood Finds Fantastic Find: Asian shrimp salad Price: $9.95 Where to Go: Fin Address: 3150 William Styron Square, Port Warwick, Newport News 599-5800; www.finseafood.com Hours: Lunch 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Sunday-Friday; Dinner 4:30-9:00 p.m., Sunday-...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Shrimp, Caesar Salads, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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In 'Lark and Termite,' Jayne Anne Phillips continues to explore human vulnerabilities and the lasting effects of war on memory
![Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst, the missing piece. "Black Tickets," Jayne Anne Phillips' first collection of stories, published in 1979, was, for more than one earnest English major, such a book.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-01/44390859-08151351.gif "Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst, the missing piece. "Black Tickets,\" Jayne Anne Phillips' first collection of stories, published in 1979, was, for more than one earnest English major, such a book.")
Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst,...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Floods, Arts and Culture, Natural Disasters, Culture
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Area smoke-free restaurants
Before you use this handy list to find a place to eat that won't leave you smelling of smoke, here are some things to keep in mind. This list doesn't contain every smoke-free restaurant in our area, only the ones that have contacted the state health...Tags: Chinese Restaurants, Bodies of Water, Transportation, Denbigh, Pocahontas
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Monthly Meetings in York/Poquoson
Daily PressALUMNI The Tidewater-Peninsula Alumni Chapter of South Carolina State University. 5 p.m. fourth Sunday of each month at the Alpha Center, 2205 Andrews Blvd., Hampton. Information: David Doctor, 851-5535. COMMUNITY SERVICE Exchange Club of York. 6:30 p....Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), Crime, Law and Justice, Baptist, Politics, Depression
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Carly Simon: Coming around again with 'This Kind of Love'
![CARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on " American Idol." "I tune in whenever I get a chance," she says in that signature dusky voice. "How could I not, when this season Brooke White sang 'You're So Vain' and did such a nice job on it, and Carly [Smithson] was named after me?"](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/39358070-30181833.jpg "CARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on " American Idol.\" \"I tune in whenever I get a chance,\" she says in that signature dusky voice. \"How could I not, when this season Brooke White sang 'You're So Vain' and did such a nice job on it, and Carly [Smithson] was named after me?\"")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on " American Idol." "I tune in whenever I get a chance," she says in that signature dusky voice. "How could I not, when this season Brooke White sang...Tags: James Taylor, Ellen DeGeneres, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Clive Davis, Government
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'Sophie's Choice' Author Styron Dies
Zap2It.com"Sophie's Choice" novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner William Styron has died at the age of 81. The acclaimed writer died of pneumonia after a long illness on Wednesday, Nov. 1 in Martha's Vineyard, report news sources. Styron was born in Newport News,...Tags: Suicidal Behavior, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Death, Fiction, Meryl Streep
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Nicholas Maw, British composer, dies at 73
Nicholas Maw, a British composer who bucked the fads of modern classical music to return to more traditional melody and who brought William Styron's wrenching novel "Sophie's Choice" to the opera stage, has died. He was 73. Maw died Tuesday at his home...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Death, Joshua Bell, Music Theater, London (England)
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'Duane's Depressed' by Larry McMurtry
One day when he's 62, oilman Duane Moore, who was a youth in "The Last Picture Show" and middle-aged in "Texasville," suddenly realizes that he's tired of spending his life in the cabs of pickup trucks. He starts going everywhere on foot. This frightens...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Thalia, Texas, Death, Health
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Shadrach
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 25, 1998 Harvey Keitel, that urban icon, might not be the first actor who comes to mind to play a dirt-poor small-town Southerner. So we can only be grateful that Susanna Styron thought of him for her wise and gentle film based on...Tags: Martin Sheen, Movies, Alabama, Slavery, Harvey Keitel
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'In Praise of Love'
Times Staff WriterAfter years spent trying to bury cinema--or at least its more obvious pleasures--Jean-Luc Godard has made a new movie that exalts its glory. A film about history, memory and the distance between the two, "In Praise of Love" is an almost-love story about a...Tags: Arts and Culture, France, Massacres, Paris (France), Cinema Industry
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