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Washington and Baltimore jockey for book lovers on the same weekend
Baltimore's book festival got here first.
Organizers of the 16th annual Baltimore Book Festival, which opens Friday, say they aren't fazed that a larger, glitzier, more star-studded event is being held on the exact same weekend just 40 miles to the...Tags: Book, Baltimore Book Festival, Julianne Moore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Festive Events
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Clown-O-Meter: Naked Woman Rides Horse Along Fairfield Beach, Squirrel Causes Power Outage in Greenwich
![-Some pissed-off white people are asking the Brookfield Board of Education to remove <em>The Bluest Eye</em>, Toni Morrison's unflinching novel about an abused black girl in 1930s Ohio, from an AP English reading list. Pamela Kurtz, who is running to be on the board, told the Danbury <em>News-Times</em> she has not read the book though her "jaw dropped" at "two sentences" she read on a flyer someone's been passing around. Chris Delia, another board candidate, also admits he never read the novel but called it "pornography, pure and simple" <strong>based on his perusal of the CliffsNotes</strong> summarizing it. (We're not making any of this up.)](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65495575-19145908.jpg "-Some pissed-off white people are asking the Brookfield Board of Education to remove <em>The Bluest Eye</em>, Toni Morrison's unflinching novel about an abused black girl in 1930s Ohio, from an AP English reading list. Pamela Kurtz, who is running to be on the board, told the Danbury <em>News-Times</em> she has not read the book though her "jaw dropped\" at \"two sentences\" she read on a flyer someone's been passing around. Chris Delia, another board candidate, also admits he never read the novel but called it \"pornography, pure and simple\" <strong>based on his perusal of the CliffsNotes</strong> summarizing it. (We're not making any of this up.)")
-Some pissed-off white people are asking the Brookfield Board of Education to remove The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison's unflinching novel about an abused black girl in 1930s Ohio, from an AP English reading list. Pamela Kurtz, who is running to be on the...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Theft, Danbury, NBC (tv network), New Canaan
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Leafing Through the Pages at the Morton Arboretum
Our book club reads a wide range of titles, frequently about nature.
We meet in the Sterling Morton Library, which contains 28,000 books, 12,000 artworks and several hundred nursery catalogs.
"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau brought on one of our best...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Morton Arboretum, Bill Bryson, William Bartram, Clubs and Associations
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R.A.W. book club
R.A.W. stands for Readers of African-American Works. We're a collective of black women in Chicago's northwest suburbs who love dissecting literature by black authors.
We gather at members' homes.
"Kindred" (by Octavia E. Butler) was our first science...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Fiction, Lifestyle and Leisure, Minority Groups, African Americans
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Nobel for Dylan would be all right, Ma
Change of SubjectStory: According to Ladbrokes, Bob Dylan is the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel Prize for literature (which will be announced Thursday morning). The British betting house has Dylan as the top possibility, running at 5-to-1 odds, ahead of Japanese...... -
Music theater review: Peter Sellars' 'Desdemona' at Berkeley
Culture MonsterPeter Sellars' "Desdemona" -- with text by Toni Morrison and music by Rokia Traoré -- is an incantatory new re-imagining of Shakespeare's "Othello," giving the missing voice to the women and Africans.... -
'The Debt': Helen Mirren plus Jessica Chastain equals one Nazi hunter
Ministry of GossipEver wonder what Helen Mirren looked like when she was young? The folks behind "The Debt" would have you believe she looked like Jessica Chastain. Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain play two incarnations of the same Mossad agent in a spy thriller "The... -
Upbeat mood at Book Expo America
![— What makes Jane Fonda say "wow"? A bigger-than-capacity crowd of more than 200 booksellers waiting to hear about her latest, "Prime Time: Creating a Great Third Act," a rousing manual for aging well.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/61937245-27151035.jpg "— What makes Jane Fonda say "wow\"? A bigger-than-capacity crowd of more than 200 booksellers waiting to hear about her latest, \"Prime Time: Creating a Great Third Act,\" a rousing manual for aging well.")
Los Angeles Times— What makes Jane Fonda say "wow"? A bigger-than-capacity crowd of more than 200 booksellers waiting to hear about her latest, "Prime Time: Creating a Great Third Act," a rousing manual for aging well. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Book...Tags: Book, William F. Buckley, Joan Didion, Diane Keaton, Apple iPad
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‘Public Speaking,’ ‘Collapse’ and stand-up comedies — a weekend of documentary watching.
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe long Memorial Day holiday weekend was a chance to catch up on all sorts of films Ive been meaning to get to — documentaries, mainly (Though I did plow through the Andy Serkis star turn as rocker Ian Drury “Sex, Drugs & Rock'n Roll.”... -
Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
Next season at Center Stage: 'Jazz,' Sondheim, Mamet
![The theme of <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/performing-arts/touring-shows/centerstage-baltimore-theater">Center Stage</a>'s 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of "Jazz," a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's "American Buffalo"; from the improvised patter of Second City to the intricate rhymes and melodic pulse of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods."](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-03/60415093-28043344.jpg "The theme of <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/mount-vernon/performing-arts/touring-shows/centerstage-baltimore-theater\">Center Stage</a>'s 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of \"Jazz,\" a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's \"American Buffalo\"; from the improvised patter of Second City to the intricate rhymes and melodic pulse of Stephen Sondheim's \"Into the Woods.\"")
The theme of Center Stage's 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of "Jazz," a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's "American Buffalo";...Tags: Westport, Connecticut, Theater, David Mamet, Music Theater
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Michelle Obama gets real with kids at White House
First lady Michelle Obama was being grilled Thursday, one question after another by tireless interrogators. She revealed that she likes playing tennis, cuddling with dog Bo and rooting for the Chicago Bears. Her favorite book is Toni Morrison's "Song of...Tags: White House, Beyonce, Michelle Obama, University of Chicago, Barack Obama
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