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Twelve Shining Moments from the 2012 International Festival of Arts & Ideas
SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/chris/Documents/Ten%20shining%20moments%20from%20the%202012%20International%20Festival%20of%20Arts.doc I have no doubt that there were several dozen other such moments. I wasn't at every event in the festival, and...
Tags: Music Industry, PTA, Yale Center for British Art, Arts and Culture, Arts
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
Patt Morrison Asks: Tiffany Shlain, wired in
![Like one of those faster-than-light particles that's gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again. The Bay Area native whom Newsweek named one of the women shaping the 21st century has been into technology since she and Silicon Valley were both kids. Fifteen years ago, she founded the Webby Awards; well before Twitter, no acceptance speech could be longer than five words. She delivered more than that last year in a commencement speech at her alma mater UC Berkeley, exhorting students to embrace the quality that she claims as her own guiding light: "moxie" -- a long-ago patent medicine turned soft drink whose name has become synonymous with the human recipe for being "bold ... and a little outrageous."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-11/66329901-25214525.gif "Like one of those faster-than-light particles that's gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again. The Bay Area native whom Newsweek named one of the women shaping the 21st century has been into technology since she and Silicon Valley were both kids. Fifteen years ago, she founded the Webby Awards; well before Twitter, no acceptance speech could be longer than five words. She delivered more than that last year in a commencement speech at her alma mater UC Berkeley, exhorting students to embrace the quality that she claims as her own guiding light: "moxie\" -- a long-ago patent medicine turned soft drink whose name has become synonymous with the human recipe for being \"bold ... and a little outrageous.\"")
Like one of those faster-than-light particles that's gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again. The Bay Area native whom Newsweek named one of the women shaping the 21st...Tags: University of Chicago, Movies, Google Inc., Entertainment, Documentary (genre)
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Reporter: The best story I would ever write
"How much presidential political trivia do you know?" a Sun reporter asked me shortly after I joined The Evening Sun in 1989. "Not much," I admitted cheerfully. I was a second-generation hire at The Baltimore Sun, a fact I had managed to conceal until...
Tags: Journalism, The New York Times, Politics, Elections, Media Industry
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Kerouac Before the Road: Early lost work from the Beat icon
The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac Da Capo Press, 216 pages, $23 On the Road, the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac that has sent generations hitchhiking across America since its publication in 1957, is coming soon to a multiplex near...
Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), World War II (1939-1945), Francis Ford Coppola, Gary Snyder, Arts and Culture
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The Reading Life: Interviewing William Burroughs
Jacket CopyA newly published interview of William Burroughs by his friend Allen Ginsberg reminds book critic David L. Ulin of the time he went to Kansas to talk to Burroughs, a notoriously opaque interview subject.... -
'Mad Men' recap: 'Tea Leaves'
"When is everything going to go back to normal?" - Roger Sterling Raise your hand if you were ready for Fat Betty? Or Don's new secretary being named Dawn? Or (what I'm guessing) is the first-ever Rolling Stones-potential-bean-commercial idea. Yeah,...
Tags: Entertainment, The Rolling Stones (music group), Music, January Jones, Cancer
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Beat goes on at H.B. gallery
In the shadow of Bella Terra, a photographic exhibition is underway that chronicles a lesser-known French chapter in the history of the counterculture Beat movement. Through April 21, the OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art in Huntington Beach's Old World...
Tags: Literature, Documentary (genre), Artists, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Tom Stoppard, Susan Sontag, Literature, U.S. Supreme Court, University of California, Los Angeles
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Listen to 'First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels' by Allen Ginsberg (1:03)
Daily PressRead by Sam McDonald, features reporter and music columnist. Play audio: if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) { alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js."); } else { AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/...Tags: Ken Kesey, MP3s, MP3 Players
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Opening the books on holiday gifts for readers
In these tough economic times, books offer a great return on a gift-giver's investment. Relatively inexpensive, they provide hours of enjoyment for the recipient — if you make the right choice. Never fear: the Book Bag is here to help. Lovers of...Tags: Brown University, Jeffrey Eugenides, Charles Manson, Literature, Science
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An accidental author
The poet Allen Ginsberg, who liked to work quickly, had an oft-stated theory about writing: "First thought, best thought." Michael Henderson, a Huntington Beach resident who found himself out of a job early this year, never aspired to be the next...Tags: Google Inc., Book, Michael Henderson
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