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Teachers union graded
Today, Tokofsky and Snell discuss how UTLA can lend itself to improving L.A. schools. Previously, they weighed options for students enrolled in low-performing campuses. Later in the week, they'll discuss vouchers, breaking up the school district and more....Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Retirement, Depression, Collective Contract, California
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PASSINGS
Bill Holm Poet, essayist was 'sage of Minnesota' Bill Holm, 65, the poet and essayist whom Garrison Keillor once called "the sage of Minnesota," died Feb. 26 of complications from pneumonia at Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. He had collapsed...Tags: Surgery, Entertainment, Kansas, Huntsville, Health
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A decade later, 'Best Little Town' still fits Bayfield, Wisconsin
Chicago Tribune staff reporterThere are still no traffic lights. In fact, there are still no traffic lights in the entire county. There's still no McDonald's, no Wal-Mart. The lake still sparkles, the beaches still squeak, the restaurants still serve those menacing whitefish livers....Tags: Whitefish, Entertainment, Wisconsin, Hotels and Accommodations, Johnny Cash
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Lindsay Lohan: More Than Just a Pretty Face
Zap2It.comOn July 2, Lindsay Lohan turns 20. Only 20? Somehow, it seems that she has always been with us. And, in some ways, she has. "We had faces then!" wailed faded silent film star-cum-homicidal maniac Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard," lamenting the passing...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Entertainment, Robert F. Kennedy, Kevin Kline, Celebrities
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'A Prairie Home Companion'
![The end looms large in Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion," which nevertheless takes its sweet time saying goodbye. Written by Garrison Keillor, creator and host of the long-running public radio show, the movie is a pretty curious artifact — a retraction of a send-up, in which Keillor's mild, pleased-with-itself spoof of old-time radio variety shows is recast as an actual old-time radio variety show. The audience filling the Fitzgerald theater in St. Paul in the movie doesn't appear that different from the ones who might fill it in real life or who tune in from the coasts. But the performers on stage — including a hangdog emcee known as G.K. (Keillor) — don't exactly look like NPR coffee-mug types. Most of them are shucksy and woebegone for real.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-06/23819006.jpg "The end looms large in Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion,\" which nevertheless takes its sweet time saying goodbye. Written by Garrison Keillor, creator and host of the long-running public radio show, the movie is a pretty curious artifact — a retraction of a send-up, in which Keillor's mild, pleased-with-itself spoof of old-time radio variety shows is recast as an actual old-time radio variety show. The audience filling the Fitzgerald theater in St. Paul in the movie doesn't appear that different from the ones who might fill it in real life or who tune in from the coasts. But the performers on stage — including a hangdog emcee known as G.K. (Keillor) — don't exactly look like NPR coffee-mug types. Most of them are shucksy and woebegone for real.")
Times Staff WriterThe end looms large in Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion," which nevertheless takes its sweet time saying goodbye. Written by Garrison Keillor, creator and host of the long-running public radio show, the movie is a pretty curious artifact —...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Entertainment, Kevin Kline, NPR, Maya Rudolph
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A little synergy on the 'Prairie'
![FOR 30 years, Garrison Keillor has spent his Saturday nights putting on an old-fashioned radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," the live variety program heard nationwide by 4 million listeners. But while building an institution by raising Midwestern self-deprecation and subversively folksy tongue-in-cheek storytelling to an art form, he's been harboring celluloid dreams — which is how his base at the Fitzgerald Theater was transformed last summer into the set of Robert Altman's latest film, "A Prairie Home Companion," opening June 9.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-05/23609105.jpg "FOR 30 years, Garrison Keillor has spent his Saturday nights putting on an old-fashioned radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion,\" the live variety program heard nationwide by 4 million listeners. But while building an institution by raising Midwestern self-deprecation and subversively folksy tongue-in-cheek storytelling to an art form, he's been harboring celluloid dreams — which is how his base at the Fitzgerald Theater was transformed last summer into the set of Robert Altman's latest film, \"A Prairie Home Companion,\" opening June 9.")
Special to The TimesFOR 30 years, Garrison Keillor has spent his Saturday nights putting on an old-fashioned radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," the live variety program heard nationwide by 4 million listeners. But while building an institution by raising Midwestern...Tags: Entertainment, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marshall Field, Kevin Kline, Movies
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Streep, Tomlin Sing a Different Tune for 'Prairie'
Zap2It.com"A Prairie Home Companion" represents the big-screen merger between two families: the ensemble cast chosen by director Robert Altman and the performers and characters humorist Garrison Keillor brought with him from the celebrated live radio show of the...Tags: Entertainment, Kevin Kline, Celebrities, Meryl Streep, Movies
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A country twang for Coachella
Times Staff WriterThe Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will expand to three days next April, but the bigger news is that the West Coast's premier rock and dance event will also welcome a country cousin: The concert's stages and tents will stay in place for an extra...Tags: Academy Awards, Entertainment, Rascal Flatts (music group), Willie Nelson, Dance
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Kerry Pulls Ad Featuring McCain Attacking Bush
Times Staff WriterSen. John F. Kerry said today he was "telling the God's honest truth" about his Vietnam combat record, as his presidential campaign agreed to stop showing a television ad featuring Republican Sen. John McCain attacking President Bush. Kerry's ad, which...Tags: Entertainment, U.S. Navy, Health Insurance, Drugs and Medicines, Medicare
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Classical Music Event Listing
ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL July 6 - Works of Mozart and Haydn. Nancy Armstrong, soprano; Peter Sykes, keyboard. July 13 - Works of J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. Sharon Baker, soprano, and Stephen Hammer, soloist, joined by instrumental ensemble led by violinist...Tags: Classical Music (genre), Entertainment, Sports, Theater, Opera (genre)
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Sweden on the plains
Times Staff WriterHere in "Little Sweden, U.S.A."— where a day without something Swedish is like a day without sunflowers — it didn't surprise me to see a woman wearing a T-shirt proclaiming, "Swedish by marriage." On a spin through central Kansas in June, I...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Sports, Eyewear, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Horse (animal)
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Minnesota's odd couples
South FloridaMinnesota excels at producing unlikely pairs. In the field of literature there is the dissimilar duo of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis (Riviera and prairie); in politics, Eugene McCarthy and Harold Stassen; in music, Bob Dylan and the Artist...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sports, Hotels and Accommodations, Health, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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