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Palin, TEA Party, won't 'sit down, shut up'
The Swampby Mark Silva Sarah Palin, fresh from an appearance at the TEA Party Convention where she derided President Barack Obama for "the politics of personality,'' insists that the nascent political organization is just fine without a leader. "It's much bigger.....Tags: Literature, Defense, Polls, Corporate Crime, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Sarah Palin vs. Family Guy and Emanuel
The Swampby Mark Silva There's a certain circularity to this little spat: It revolves around a FOX universe, where a cartoon program that knows few boundaries featured the character Chris on Sunday falling for a girl with Down syndrome. When he......Tags: Literature, Family, Republican Party, Bill O'Reilly , Government
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Life Out Here: A Swift kick needed
This country needs a Swift kick to the behind in 2013 — a Jonathan Swift kick to the behind. Swift, the greatest satirist ever, has been dead for more than 250 years, but he would have great fodder in the United States of America as it stands...
Tags: Teachers, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Lobbying
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Video/Q&A: Greta Gerwig of 'Damsels in Distress'
In 2006, Greta Gerwig was living in Logan Square, making her first movie (Joe Swanberg’s “LOL”) and fighting off a heat wave. “We didn’t have air conditioning,” she recalls, “so we had to just put a bowl of ice...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Dance, Entertainment Events, Damsels in Distress (movie), Movies
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Great songs and Broderick's charms in 'Nice Work,' but will you get it?
It most certainly is "Nice Work If You Can Get It," but the new Broadway musical starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara is otherwise tough to define. It's not really a jukebox musical, since we don't associate the songs of George and Ira Gershwin...
Tags: Kathleen Marshall, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Music, Matthew Broderick
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'Lysistrata Jones' on Broadway: No sex please, we're cheerleaders
NEW YORK - In Aristophanes' Greek comedy "Lysistrata" — part of the Athens season of 411 B.C. — the war-weary women of Greece decide to deny their husbands and lovers sexual favors to induce them to negotiate peace. In Douglas Carter Beane's...Tags: Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Basketball, College Sports, Newt Gingrich
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Jake, Elwood and Huggy, all singing the Euro blues
So at the Auditorium Theatre – the 3,929-seat Auditorium Theatre – one currently finds an Australian Elwood Blues, a British Jake Blues and aEuropean cover band, all working, along with a trio of women called the Bluettes, for Dutch producers....Tags: John Belushi, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Metal and Mineral, Blues (genre), Music Industry
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Life Out Here: Saying what they mean, not meaning what they say
Bill O’Reilly is not a stupid man, but he often plays one on TV.
Last week O’Reilly, on his program on Faux News, dealt with the nonissue of the rapper Common doing a poetry reading at the White House. Following the designated GOP ceaseless...Tags: Republican Party, Literature, Eminem, Jake Gyllenhaal, Music
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Life Out Here: Past the inability to apologize
Bret KoffordHaving the ability to sincerely apologize is a wonderful trait. Because I’m chatty and a joker, I do and say things I shouldn’t on a regular basis, so I have to apologize often. If I don’t feel any regret, I won’t waste my...Tags: New York, Literature, Family, Education, Gays and Lesbians
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#MuslimRage met with Muslim satire
World NowThe aggressive headline advertised the cover article by author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, itself a subject of furious debate over her take on Islam, extremism and free speech. Hirsi Ali, a Somali woman who fled an arranged marriage and became a forceful critic of... -
'Kony 2012' makers launch new video aimed at African warlord
L.A. NOWInvisible Children has a new video about African warlord Joseph Kony six months after Jason Russell, one of the group's leaders, had a very public meltdown.... -
Hobbit or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Sean Astin is all in
Channel Guide MagazineIt’s almost hard to believe that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise has been around as long as it has. In 1984, when the Turtles had their birth in what was intended to be a one-off comic book satirizing popular comic-book tropes of the day,...
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