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The Crosby Chronicles: Observing Banned Books Week
++++++++++++++++++++ || Since this week is Banned Books Week, and since one of my colleagues over at Glendale High School is fighting for Truman Capote’s "In Cold Blood" to be approved as a book to teach to advanced 11th grade English students,...Tags: Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Ray Bradbury
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Board OKs 'In Cold Blood' after months of debate
A literary brouhaha over Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” came to a close this week as Glendale Unified school board members voted to approve the book for advanced placement students.
The 4-0 decision capped a months-long debate...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Fiction, PTA, Curricula, Crime Victims
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Book review: 'The Man in the Rockefeller Suit' by Mark Seal
Special to the Los Angeles TimesGreat con artists understand this about human nature: The suckers want to be taken. In 1978, a poor, semi-educated German teenager named Christian K. Gerhartsreiter arrived in New England on a falsified student visa. Brilliant, charismatic and twisted,...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Juvenile Delinquency, Los Angeles Times, Google Inc., Crimes
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Theater Exhibit at Fairfield Museum; With Capote reading
Hartford Courant“Bravo! A Century of Theater in Fairfield County” is an exhibit on Southern Connecticut theater now on display at the Fairfield Museum and History Center, 370 Beach Road in Fairfield. The exhibit continues through March 18. As part of its...Tags: Fairfield County, Holidays, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Arts and Culture, Museums
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Our Laguna: Holiday festivities abound in Laguna
It doesn't take a calendar to know the holidays are here. Laguna's holiday palettes are hanging from city lampposts; the Sawdust Festival's Winter Fantasy adds sparkle to the town; we are all eating turkey sandwiches; and Santa Claus is coming to town....Tags: Religious Festivals, Santa Claus (fictional character), Holidays, Concerts, Family
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' at 50: Cool star, wet cat, hissing author
Ministry of Gossip"Breakfast at Tiffany's" premiered Oct. 5, 1961, at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Half a century later, it conjures images among its fans of Audrey Hepburn with an updo and a cigarette holder, George Peppard in a skinny tie...... -
Anthropologie's $2,175 book set -- and how to get it for $250
Jacket CopyYou could spend $2,175 on an Anthropologie set of six used books and a small wooden shelf. Or you could create it yourself for one-tenth the cost.... -
Herzog: I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't favor capital punishment
24 FramesWerner Herzog's new film "Into the Abyss" explores the morality of capital punishment.... -
Theater actress among those arrested Thursday at Occupy LA
Culture MonsterOn Thursday, police in downtown L.A. swooped in to arrest dozens of protesters from the Occupy L.A. movement. Among those seized and hauled off to jail was Nancy Linehan Charles, a veteran theater actress and a leading member of L.A.'s Salty Shakespeare... -
Charlie Chaplin's granddaughters light up 'The Artist' screening
Ministry of GossipCharlie Chaplin granddaughters Carmen and Dolores helped Harvey Weinstein host a special screening of awards hopeful "The Artist" in Beverly Hills, with attending cast Penelope Ann Miller, James Cromwell and Missi Pyle.... -
Yale to launch $150,000 writing award
Jacket CopyThe estate of writer Donald Windham has endowed a new $150,000 prize for writers, to be awarded by Yale.... -
Auditions: Actor needed to play Truman Capote
Orlando Theater BlogHere's a bare-bones submission/audition announcement from a theater company in Jacksonville: Players by the Sea in Jacksonville is seeking submissions for the role of Truman Capote in Jay Presson Allen’s “Tru.” Equity contract is...
Sep 28, 2011
|Story| Glendale News Press
Oct 5, 2011
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Jun 3, 2011
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Nov 10, 2011
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Nov 23, 2011
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Oct 5, 2011
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Nov 2, 2011
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Nov 15, 2011
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Nov 18, 2011
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Nov 22, 2011
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Jun 20, 2011
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Aug 26, 2011
| Orlando Sentinel
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