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Douglas Kearney says winning a Whiting Writers' Award is a fresh start
Like everyone else at the Old Dominion Literary Festival, Southern California poet Douglas Kearney had turned his ringer off. So when a stranger called and left an undecipherable message, Kearney, preparing for his reading, didn't think much of it. As a...Tags: Howard University, New York, Book, Los Angeles, Education
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Twin Cities welcome GOP and offer plenty for a party
Special to the Chicago TribuneThe Twin Cities are far from identical twins. St. Paul, the Minnesota capital and host to the Republican National Convention this week, historically looked to the East Coast for architectural inspiration and retains a human-feeling scale. Minneapolis...Tags: Sinclair Lewis, Wolfgang Puck, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dining and Drinking, Sculpture
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Playwright wrote of black experience
Sun theater criticAugust Wilson, one of the most accomplished, ambitious and prolific playwrights in the history of the American theater, died yesterday of liver cancer. The 60-year-old playwright had most recently been working on revisions of Radio Golf, the 10th and...Tags: Theater, Romare Bearden, Liver Cancer, Angela Bassett, Entertainment
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Hey, Hollywood: Why not work on the L.A. stage?
Theater CriticThere are precious few guarantees in the theater anymore. Boffo playwrights went out with the Neil Simon dinosaurs. A new show by Stephen Sondheim, hands down the greatest living musical theater composer, can't even count on a Broadway booking. The only...Tags: Theater, The Hills (tv program), Kirk Douglas, Angela Bassett, Thurgood Marshall
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One-man show
Times Staff WriterNO one said it was going to be easy. But with his first season behind him and his second already underway, Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie has yet to communicate a clear theatrical game plan. Questions concerning his artistic...Tags: Theater, Marisa Tomei, David Mamet, Kentucky, Kirk Douglas
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The Collage Artist
Sun Theater CriticNEW YORK -- August Wilson sits in a scruffy, linoleum-floored eatery in the heart of the theater district holding a sheaf of discount coupons for "Miss Saigon." He's not planning on seeing the show, but he's put the coupons to good use. Neat black...Tags: Theater, Romare Bearden, Journalism, Literature, Crimes
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'Jitney': Vehicle for a friendship
Sun Theater CriticThe friendship between playwright August Wilson and director Marion McClinton began two decades ago when they both lived in St. Paul, Minn. Since then, Wilson has won two Pulitzer Prizes (for "Fences'' and "The Piano Lesson''), and McClinton has acted...Tags: Death, Poetry, African Americans, Alice Walker, Minority Groups
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Cultural scene holding its own
Special To The SunFew speak of Annapolis' cultural life with greater authority than Anna Greenberg. A self-described "professional volunteer" who has twice served as president of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra's Board of Trustees and continues to be active on other...Tags: Comedy (genre), Theater, Baltimore Museum of Art, Itzhak Perlman, Elections
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'Soul Plane'
![Flashy production design can't save "Soul Plane" from crashing and burning in a debris field strewn with stereotypes and raunch. Director Jessy Terrero steps up from the music video ranks to make his feature debut, but he's flying strictly cargo class with this crass, unfunny attempt at an urbanized version of "Airplane!"](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-05/12809079.jpg "Flashy production design can't save "Soul Plane\" from crashing and burning in a debris field strewn with stereotypes and raunch. Director Jessy Terrero steps up from the music video ranks to make his feature debut, but he's flying strictly cargo class with this crass, unfunny attempt at an urbanized version of \"Airplane!\"")
Times Staff WriterFlashy production design can't save "Soul Plane" from crashing and burning in a debris field strewn with stereotypes and raunch. Director Jessy Terrero steps up from the music video ranks to make his feature debut, but he's flying strictly cargo class...Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, New York, Malcolm X, Arielle Kebbel, Tom Arnold
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Congo Square's 'Seven Guitars' in harmony with Wilson
Tribune theater criticYou want a hundred bucks' worth of acting for a quarter of the price? Buy a ticket to Congo Square Theatre Company's "Seven Guitars," now at the Duncan YMCA auditorium on the Near South Side, and you will spend an evening in the company of a sterling...Tags: Death, Marcus Garvey Jr., Joe Louis, Clubs and Associations, Michael Phillips
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Magnificent building has new life as Pittsburgh hotel
Hartford Courant staff writerThe city's newest hotel, the Renaissance, is aptly named, considering what it was and where it is. Known as the Fulton Building, the 14-story downtown property has a lobby rich in creamy marble and mosaic tile, a 30-foot glass-and-cast-iron atrium and...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Hotels and Accommodations, Statue of Liberty, Metal and Mineral, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Black history in Missouri
The Washington PostOne brisk Tuesday, I climbed the stairs of the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, following the path of Missouri's most famous slave. Past the towering pillars hung portraits of Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, looking at once stern and refined. A plaque...Tags: Wars and Interventions, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Rube Foster, Minority Groups, Louis Armstrong
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