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Is there room for Zora in Eatonville's transformation?
Orlando SentinelTwo decades ago, Eatonville used its link to Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston to get noticed by the world. Now, as the community attempts to transform itself into a major African-American cultural destination, leaders are struggling to define...Tags: Festive Events, Booker T. Washington, Children, Joe Clark, History
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'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...Tags: Leslie Fiedler, Randall Jarrell, Cultural Development, Randy Newman, Manhattan (New York City)
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Visuals arts offerings for 2009-2010
![<h2 style="listing_category">Current shows/events</h2><em class="b">1ST THURSDAYS: ECLECTIC KNIGHTS</em>: art gathering featuring works by UCF alumni and faculty: 6-9 p.m. Sept. 3; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., Orlando; $10.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48881983-27102633-187105.jpg "<h2 style="listing_category\">Current shows/events</h2><em class=\"b\">1ST THURSDAYS: ECLECTIC KNIGHTS</em>: art gathering featuring works by UCF alumni and faculty: 6-9 p.m. Sept. 3; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., Orlando; $10.")
Sentinel staffCurrent shows/events 1ST THURSDAYS: ECLECTIC KNIGHTS: art gathering featuring works by UCF alumni and faculty: 6-9 p.m. Sept. 3; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., Orlando; $10. DR. SKETCHY: casual artist meetup with live model sketching: 8 p.m....Tags: Rollins College, Dining and Drinking, Halloween, Metal and Mineral, Bars and Clubs
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Literary Haiti
Jacket CopySince last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti, the world's attention has turned to the country as it rarely has before. Yet it's been the focus of literary explorations for decades. In the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica and...... -
The Smithsonian Channel honors Black History Month
Exploring race"The Smithsonian Channel is honoring the legacy of African Americans throughout February with programming dedicated to Black History Month. Smithsonian Channel will shed light on some of the people who have helped shape our nation. "The documentary, "Soul... -
Dance review: Alvin Ailey at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
Culture Monster“Celebration” happened to be the unofficial theme for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s opening night program Tuesday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the first of four different slates of mixed repertory being presented through... -
Hart-felt statements about violence against women
Opinion L.A.Comedian Kevin Hart was probably upset about not being invited to the UCSD-area Compton Cookout, where white college kids apparently had a ball acting out their ghetto fantasies. So Hart, who has had roles in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and other stuff,... -
Florida Beach Guide: Anastasia State Recreation Area, St. Augustine
Sentinel Staff WriterThousands of years have washed over this slender sandbar of a barrier island called Anastasia. But only recently has man written his history on this coastline. As you stand along the park's barren, wind-swept beach, squinting inland over light-washed...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, State Parks, Atlantic Ocean, Spain, Key West
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Obama's gospel mistake
Politics have provided gay Americans like myself with no end of schadenfreude in recent years, what with the antics of Mark Foley, Larry Craig and other I'm-not-gay Republicans. But last weekend, a competing Democratic farce debuted: Barack Obama's...Tags: Bayard Rustin, Christianity, Larry Craig, New York, Hillary Clinton
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'A Jury of Her Peers' by Elaine Showalter
A Jury of Her Peers
American Women Writers
From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Elaine Showalter
Alfred A. Knopf: 608 pp., $30
The title of this, the "first literary history of American women writers ever written," explains Elaine Showalter, comes...Tags: Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Crimes, Poetry, Erica Jong
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The Big Read is a national page-turner
![There was no snow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, but the four sled dogs tethered there seemed acclimated enough. One amiably licked the face of a child in a stroller. The hubbub wasn't much like the Yukon, but the dogs were there to excite interest in Jack London's "The Call of the Wild."](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-12/43874939-15105902-140157.gif "There was no snow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, but the four sled dogs tethered there seemed acclimated enough. One amiably licked the face of a child in a stroller. The hubbub wasn't much like the Yukon, but the dogs were there to excite interest in Jack London's "The Call of the Wild.\"")
There was no snow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, but the four sled dogs tethered there seemed acclimated enough. One amiably licked the face of a child in a stroller. The hubbub wasn't much like the Yukon, but the dogs were there to excite...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles, Clubs and Associations, Dining and Drinking
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BOOKS FOR THE RESOURCEFUL TRAVELER
Los Angeles Attractions Museon Publishing, $24.95 It is one of the most famous cities in the world and also one of the most maligned. Los Angeles has been criticized as superficial, as one big parking lot, as not even being a real city. Author...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), The Beach Boys, Monuments and Heritage Sites, New York, Dining and Drinking
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