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Lady Gaga documentary is in the works
Looks like Lady Gaga is tearing another page out of the Madonna platinum-blond, pop-superstar playbook. In the early '90s, Madonna launched a new phase of her career by allowing director Alek Keshishian to make a documentary, "Truth or Dare," about...
Tags: Documentary (genre), Warren Beatty, Lady Gaga, Entertainment, Music
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Pondering when old age officially, or unofficially, starts to set in
Editor: Here's a big question: When does old age begin? I have the answer. And, I got it by surprise. Recently, I saw my physician for a routine examination and health review. During the visit she declared for the record, that I made it to old age. On...Tags: Pneumonia, General Practitioners, Healthy Diet, Preventative Medicine, Diseases and Illnesses
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Interview and performance: Boots Riley and the Coup
Never before has an interview subject assumed/joked that RedEye was a communist newspaper. Fans of Boots Riley’s veteran, socially conscious hip-hop act The Coup probably won’t be surprised that he mentioned it. “Do people assume that...
Tags: Government, Entertainment, Career and Workplace, Skyfall (movie), Occupy Wall Street
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‘Hobbit,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Big Bang Theory’: Geek goes mainstream
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comThis post has been corrected. See below. COMMENTARY It started with The Big Bang. Not the still somehow controversial theory ...... -
If religions can have limits, why can't gun owners?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsI got a lot of feedback on my Sunday column/letter to the NRA, but in the spirit of the season I figured I'd wait until after the holidays to fire back. At the end of the column, I rhetorically asked,......Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Civil Rights, U.S. Congress
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Hacktivist's suicide intensifies criticism of U.S. attorney, MIT
Aaron Swartz's legacy was already guaranteed, even at 26: He helped create Reddit and RSS, which distributes content over the Internet. But his suicide by hanging Friday has also stoked a politically malignant aftermath for the prosecutors pursuing 13...
Tags: Theft, Social Media, New York University, Health and Safety at School, Punishment
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Wikipedia, the people's encyclopedia
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can write and edit (yes, even you!), but most people don't think much about who performs those tasks. With half a billion people around the world relying on Wikipedia for information, we should. More than 1.5 million...
Tags: Google Inc., Israel, Minority Groups, Barack Obama, Religion and Belief
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Vivid impressions of Russian culture in 'Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia'
Cuban author José Manuel Prieto's playful and fascinating book, “Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia,” is, according to Prieto's narrator, an encyclopedia-style guide to a book the narrator is planning to write about a man named Thelonious Monk...Tags: Russia, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Trine Tsouderos, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune
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I Am the Worst: Of Monsters and Men Edition
Errant followers of this blog may recall that this summer I went with a couple of friends to Iceland where we gallivanted around, interviewed the mayor of Reykjavik, and stayed in the band Of Monsters and Men’s old apartment. My friend Trin went...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Uptown, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Music
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City Lights: The play with the unprintable name
This column would be so easy to write if only I worked for OC Weekly. At that rakish-and-proud-of-it publication, just about anything goes, and that includes swear words. But here I am stuck at an apparently family-friendly paper, which poses a...Tags: TheaterWorks, Slang, Starbucks Corp., The New York Times, M (movie)
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The many what-if's of Richard Nixon
A century ago on Jan. 9, Richard Nixon was born in a Southern California agricultural subdivision dubbed Yorba Linda, in a 900-square-foot mail-order house assembled by his father. The centennial of America's 37th president won't be met with much...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Government, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, Bill Clinton
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What is the 'fiscal cliff'?
I have been wondering about this fiscal cliff deal. Perhaps an economist who might read this could explain it better. I was wondering, first off, what is the fiscal cliff? I looked it up online and got a simple definition of what it is. What I found...Tags: Fiscal Cliff
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