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Carpenter Performing Arts Center announces 2013-14 season
The Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach has announced its 2013-14 season, which will include a typically eclectic offering of dance, music, cabaret and more. The center is located on the campus of Cal State Long Beach. The season will feature...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Glenn Miller, Arts and Culture, Kris Kristofferson
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UPJ to host award-winning poet
Our Town CorrespondentThe 10th annual Esther Goldhaber Jacovitz Poetry Reading is scheduled to take place March 20 at the Whalley Memorial Chapel on the Pitt-Johnstown campus. This year’s featured speaker is George Bilgere, an award-winning poet whose work is...Tags: Entertainment, Billy Collins, Authors, Library of Congress, Poetry
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Greek, Gibson 2013 concert schedules unveiled
Los Lobos, Carly Rae Jepsen, a symphonic tribute to Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, Diana Krall and a complete performance of English prog-rock band Jethro Tull’s “Thick as a Brick” Parts 1 and 2 by the band’s frontman Ian...
Tags: Concerts, Entertainment, Grateful Dead (music group), Jerry Garcia, Music
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Nombran nueva directora para la Casa Twain
El Hartford CourantCuando Cindy Lovell comienza su nuevo trabajo como Directora Ejecutiva de la Casa Museo de Mark Twain, ella no tendrá una gran curva de aprendizaje. Lovell, quien fue nombrada a la posición esta semana, después de una búsqueda a nivel nacional de seis...Tags: Mark Twain, Jimmy Buffett, Brad Paisley, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood
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An Elector Prepares To Ratify Obama's Win
The Hartford Courant"Our marriage is like the Electoral College," says the narrator in "Marooned," a Garrison Keillor short story. "It works OK if you don't think about it." At noon Monday, I will be one of those thinking about the Electoral College, as I have the...Tags: U.S. Electoral College, Richard Nixon, U.S. Congress, Government, Voting
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Geno Says Good Riddance To Schools Fleeing Big East
The Hartford Courant— Geno Auriemma has watched the erosion of the Big East from the sidelines, just another innocent bystander knowing that there really was nothing he could do to stop it or influence it. As Pittsburgh, Syracuse, West Virginia, Notre Dame, Rutgers...Tags: Marquette Golden Eagles, Syracuse Orange, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Christianity, Villanova Wildcats
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Onion to People's Daily: 'Exemplary reportage' on 'sexiest man'
The Onion declared North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un the "Sexiest Man Alive," and People's Daily said yes, yes he is. The Chinese state news outlet missed the point entirely, which media everywhere gleefully pointed out. "The Onion dupes again," said U....
Tags: Washington, DC, Kim Jong Un, Los Angeles Times, China, Cyber Monday
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The kind of education you can't get from books
In her delicious memoir "The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker," Janet Groth recalls her more than two decades (1957-1978) as a receptionist on the 18th floor of America’s most storied magazine. During her early years at the publication...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Human Interest, The Washington Post, Travel, Health Treatments
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Shepherdstown historian self-publishes book of town stories
richardb@herald-mail.comJim Price, Shepherdstown’s official historian laureate, has self-published a book titled “And so I did stories of Shepherdstown.” It comes out Nov. 11. Jim Price, Shepherdstown’s official historian laureate, finally finished his...Tags: University of Oklahoma, Authors, Keith Alexander, Colleges and Universities, Libraries
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Don't touch that NPR dial
For a confederation of supposed liberals, public radio can be awfully conservative. Ask someone to name a public radio show, any public radio show, and the chances are the answer will have been around during the Reagan administration: "A Prairie Home...
Tags: Entertainment, Sherwood Anderson, Media Industry, Music, John Wesley
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Global Coffee Trade Routes Lead to Lindsborg, Kansas
At first, after entering Blacksmith Coffee Roastery in Lindsborg, a visitor might see the burlap bags flopped in stacks on the brick floor and then note a few wooden barrels nearby. The visitor might wonder why the place looks like some cargo ship just...
Tags: Wines, Ethics, Photography and Video, Values, Photography Supplies and Services
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Grammy, Pulitzer winners, TV star among highlights of upcoming Zoellner season
Lehigh Valley MusicA Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, the world premiere of a song cycle based on poems by Carl Reiner’s daughter, dazzling international dance ensembles, circus arts and perhaps America’s premier storyteller will highlight the 16th season of...
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