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Kerouac opus 'On the Road' hits just enough beats ★★★
An eternal fountain of adolescence, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" went through many permutations between its point of origin, 1948, and its point of notorious, divisive publication, 1957. The best description of it came from Kerouac himself, in a journal...
Tags: Jack Kerouac, Gus van Sant, Cannes Film Festival, Amy Adams, Garrett Hedlund
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Patt Morrison Asks: Tiffany Shlain, wired in
![Like one of those faster-than-light particles that's gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again. The Bay Area native whom Newsweek named one of the women shaping the 21st century has been into technology since she and Silicon Valley were both kids. Fifteen years ago, she founded the Webby Awards; well before Twitter, no acceptance speech could be longer than five words. She delivered more than that last year in a commencement speech at her alma mater UC Berkeley, exhorting students to embrace the quality that she claims as her own guiding light: "moxie" -- a long-ago patent medicine turned soft drink whose name has become synonymous with the human recipe for being "bold ... and a little outrageous."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-11/66329901-25214525.gif "Like one of those faster-than-light particles that's gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again. The Bay Area native whom Newsweek named one of the women shaping the 21st century has been into technology since she and Silicon Valley were both kids. Fifteen years ago, she founded the Webby Awards; well before Twitter, no acceptance speech could be longer than five words. She delivered more than that last year in a commencement speech at her alma mater UC Berkeley, exhorting students to embrace the quality that she claims as her own guiding light: "moxie\" -- a long-ago patent medicine turned soft drink whose name has become synonymous with the human recipe for being \"bold ... and a little outrageous.\"")
Like one of those faster-than-light particles that's gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again. The Bay Area native whom Newsweek named one of the women shaping the 21st...Tags: Google Inc., University of Chicago, Invention and Innovation, Movies, Documentary (genre)
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Former Emmaus student creates buzz at Sundance in gay love scene with Daniel Radcliffe
TV WatchersThe screen debut of "Kill Your Darlings" at Sundance Film Festival has created a lot of buzz, especially for the gay love scene between Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe and former Emmaus student Dane DeHaan. Director John Krokidas' "Kill Your Darlings"....... -
Monday Morning Coffee: For NePa's Blake, a key role in helping distressed cities.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're back in the office for our first day of work after a protracted holiday break. And while we didn't exactly slack our way through the holidays, today represents the first time we'll be flexing...... -
Two local actors to have films premiere at Sundance
TV WatchersAllen grad Amanda Seyfried and Emmaus grad Dean DeHaan will both see recent films have their premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah. Amanda's "Lovelace" and Dean's "Kill Your Darlings" are among the 115 films...... -
88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
The Reading Life: Interviewing William Burroughs
Jacket CopyA newly published interview of William Burroughs by his friend Allen Ginsberg reminds book critic David L. Ulin of the time he went to Kansas to talk to Burroughs, a notoriously opaque interview subject.... -
Dance review: Pennington and Yorke troupes premiere collaboration
Culture MonsterA review from Long Beach as Pennington Dance Group and Yorke Dance Project premiere first collaborative dance "Overlay."... -
Shakespeare & Co. founder George Whitman, 98, dies
Jacket CopyGeorge Whitman, the legendary founder of the Paris bookshop and literary institution Shakespeare & Co., died Wednesday at age 98.... -
In rotation: Dinosaur L's '24 by 24'
Pop & HissNew York by way of Iowa composer Arthur Russell, who died in 1992, worked in an odd intersection of sounds when he started making music in the mid-1970s. A classically trained violinist who ran with Allen Ginsberg, Russell became obsessed with the nascent... -
It Speaks to Me: Diana Thater on Nam June Paik's 'Video Flag Z' at LACMA
Culture MonsterNam June Paik is a wonderful artist. There are some great examples of his work in the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego, but this is the only major Paik I know of in a public collection in L.A. It’s...... -
Book news: Phil Jackson, Largehearted Boy, Goodreads ditches Amazon
Jacket CopyBasketball, book blogs, and e-books in today's book news....
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