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A new season at City Lit, including stage version of 'Peyton Place'
City Lit, the long-standing company that specializies in literary adaptations, has announced its 2012-13 season. The company's 33rd season consists of “Frankenstein” by Bo List, adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley (opening in October);... -
If Charles Dickens lived in Pennsylvania …
I actually had ideas for two columns last week about Gov. Tom Corbett. What can I say? He's inspiring. One of them ran Saturday. Here's the other:
Gov. Tom Corbett spooned out a bit of gruel. A single candle by his chair provided the only light in the...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Government, Lebanon, Holidays, Executive Branch
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Lit Life: New guide to bustling London falls short of the gold standard
No city is beloved by everyone, and George Bernard Shaw was among those who never fell under the fabled sway of his adopted hometown: "London, when you have once seen it, is inconceivable, and the more you have seen of it, the less you can believe in it,"...
Tags: 2012 Summer Olympics, Authors, Boris Johnson, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jon Stewart
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Arrest them, sentence them and lock 'em up
There's something wrong with our nationwide prison system when the Corrections Corporation of America, which runs private prisons, offers $250 million in a proposal to 48 states to buy up state prisons with several provisos -- one of which is states...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Justice System, Prisons, Arts and Culture
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Writer's devices develop direction
What do the movie "Avatar" and John Bunyan's book "Pilgrim's Progress" have in common? If you say both focus on man's journey to understand life and the world around him, you would be correct. If you say that both are allegorical accounts — one...Tags: The Herald-Mail, John Bunyan, Avatar (movie), Big Brown, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Patt Morrison Asks: Robert Reich, Pre-Occupied
![Robert Reich has worked in a lot of big white buildings -- in the Senate, as an intern to Robert F. Kennedy; in the office of then-Solicitor General Robert Bork; in the Ford and Carter administrations; and as labor secretary to President Clinton. Now the political economist works in another set of big white buildings, teaching at UC Berkeley, where his "Wealth and Poverty" class is as overbooked as a bargain flight to Paris, and where he dotes on his 3-year-old granddaughter, to whom he dedicated his latest book, "Aftershock": "To Ella Reich-Sharpe, and her generation."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-12/66827388-16174102.gif "Robert Reich has worked in a lot of big white buildings -- in the Senate, as an intern to Robert F. Kennedy; in the office of then-Solicitor General Robert Bork; in the Ford and Carter administrations; and as labor secretary to President Clinton. Now the political economist works in another set of big white buildings, teaching at UC Berkeley, where his "Wealth and Poverty\" class is as overbooked as a bargain flight to Paris, and where he dotes on his 3-year-old granddaughter, to whom he dedicated his latest book, \"Aftershock\": \"To Ella Reich-Sharpe, and her generation.\"")
Robert Reich has worked in a lot of big white buildings -- in the Senate, as an intern to Robert F. Kennedy; in the office of then-Solicitor General Robert Bork; in the Ford and Carter administrations; and as labor secretary to President Clinton. Now...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), The Office (tv program), Arts and Culture, Labor Legislation, Bill Clinton
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'Merry' thanks to Dickens
I enjoy teaching exchange students who have come here from other countries. It is interesting to see our culture through the eyes of someone who was raised in an environment totally different from our own. Recently an exchange student asked me why we use...Tags: Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Holidays, Christmas, Religious Festivals
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Holiday of snowmen and Santa inspires that ol' smarty-pants style down South
!["The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway." We may seldom hear those introductory lines to Irving Berlin's holiday anthem "White Christmas," but that's how the song begins.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-12/66999691-26205203.jpg ""The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway.\" We may seldom hear those introductory lines to Irving Berlin's holiday anthem \"White Christmas,\" but that's how the song begins.")
"The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway." We may seldom hear those introductory lines to Irving Berlin's holiday anthem "White Christmas," but that's how the song begins.
The scene supposedly is California—in...Tags: Orlando, Environmental Issues, Natural Resources, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Christmas
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Tags: Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), North Korea, Tra Thomas, Holidays, G.K. Chesterton
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Stephen Sondheim: In his own words, on his own words
![NEW YORK -- At the top of "Look, I Made a Hat," the second half of his exhaustively detailed two-volume set of collected lyrics to such incomparable musicals as "Gypsy" and "Follies," Stephen Sondheim addresses some of the complaints about the first book, "Finishing the Hat." "The most common of them," he writes, "is that I didn't speak enough about my personal life, 'personal' being the euphemism for 'intimate,' which is the euphemism for 'sexual.'"](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-10/65719942-28125210.jpg "NEW YORK -- At the top of "Look, I Made a Hat,\" the second half of his exhaustively detailed two-volume set of collected lyrics to such incomparable musicals as \"Gypsy\" and \"Follies,\" Stephen Sondheim addresses some of the complaints about the first book, \"Finishing the Hat.\" \"The most common of them,\" he writes, \"is that I didn't speak enough about my personal life, 'personal' being the euphemism for 'intimate,' which is the euphemism for 'sexual.'\"")
NEW YORK -- At the top of "Look, I Made a Hat," the second half of his exhaustively detailed two-volume set of collected lyrics to such incomparable musicals as "Gypsy" and "Follies," Stephen Sondheim addresses some of the complaints about the first book,...Tags: Cole Porter, Human Interest, Awards and Prizes, Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture
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Step right up!
Charles Dickens was many things: great writer, canny businessman, philandering husband.
But he was also one other thing: magnificent performer. After a preshow meal of a dozen oysters and ample Champagne, Dickens loved to read his works before vast...Tags: Peter Ackroyd
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Carrie Fisher, Ricky Gervais Specials On HBO
The Hartford CourantWhat's the difference between a standup concert and a one-person show? See for yourself in two showcase performances this week on HBO. Carrie Fisher's autobiographical "Wishful Drinking" (HBO, 9 tonight), recorded before an audience in New Jersey in...Tags: Ariel Winter, David Hasselhoff, Bobby Cannavale, Trace Adkins, The Office (tv program)
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