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Lineup announced for 2013-14 Baltimore Speakers Series
Humorist Dave Barry, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are among those taking part in the 2013-2014 Baltimore Speakers Series. The seven-speaker series, sponsored by Stevenson University, kicks off Sept. 30 with author...Tags: George Papandreou, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Steven Spielberg, Robert Gates
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Books highlight lineup for speaker series
Authors Bill Bryson and Doris Kearns Goodwin are among the headliners for the 2013-14 Baltimore Speakers Series, part of a lineup that is sure to delight book lovers. Bryson, whose "In a Sunburned Country" is one of my favorites, will appear Sept. 30 to...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, George Papandreou, Bill Bryson, Robert Gates, Daniel Day-Lewis
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Losing J.J. Redick leaves Magic fans with nothing but crumbs on the counter
Running off at the typewriter. … First, Magic fans lost their franchise player in Dwight Howard and now they've lost their favorite player in J.J. Redick. Rebuilding stinks. It really stinks. And the worst part about losing Redick in the quest...
Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Awards and Prizes, Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic, Jeff Van Gundy
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Join the very funny Dave Barry for a live video chat on Monday
Who wins a Pulitzer Prize for being funny? Dave Barry, that's who. Technically, he won the prize for commentary for his columns at the Miami Herald -- where his job was, and is, "to write about issues ranging from the international economy to exploding...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Google+, Matt Groening, Awards and Prizes, The Miami Herald
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'Book Of Mormon,' 'War Horse' Among Bushnell's 2013-14 Broadway Season
The Hartford CourantNational tours of two Broadway smashes, the musical "Book of Mormon," and the epic play featuring life-sized puppetry, "War Horse," highlight the seven-show 2013-14 season at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. Those two shows, Tony...Tags: Arts and Culture, Holidays, Matt Stone, Tourism and Leisure, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
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Holocaust Museum's message: Don't bully
The little girl is only 8, and so she does not yet read newspapers or watch or listen to the local news. But she knew of the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton — some of the older kids she knows had been talking about it. So last Sunday, some...
Tags: Destiny's Child (music group), Arts and Culture, Nazi Party, Human Interest, Museums
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Live Talks Los Angeles launches Conversation Bar (it's snacky)
Starting Thursday, people who attend Live Talks Los Angeles events will be able to nosh on a Conversation Bar. It's a custom, branded energy bar that tastes a lot like cookie dough. It will be, as far as we've been able to determine, the first reading...
Tags: Google+, Social Media, Matt Groening, George Saunders, Twitter, Inc.
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Fun-wise, national signing day is a signature event
What fun, this national signing day, colleges' version of the NFL draft. Story I'm following most closely is of the Florida mom who reportedly ran off with her kid's signing papers so he wouldn't leave home. As Dave Barry used to say, I'm not making...
Tags: ESPNU (tv network), Morphine (drug), Troy Trojans, Nick Saban, Vanderbilt Commodores
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Dave Barry has snakes on the brain
As is widely stipulated, Dave Barry is a very funny guy. He was hysterical when he wrote his nationally syndicated column for the Miami Herald, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and is arguably even more droll in his madcap novels set in South...
Tags: Weddings, Awards and Prizes, Conservation, The Washington Post, Ethics
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What to read in 2013
January Insane City by Dave Barry (Putnam) The Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist's first solo adult novel in more than a decade is a typically absurdist comic story about everything — and then some — that goes wrong for Seth and his friends en...Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Barack Obama, Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra, Maya Angelou
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An epic kids' rhyme from 'Hunger Games' director Gary Ross
It began as a favor. It became an obsession. It was 1996 and screenwriter Gary Ross got a call from a desperate friend. Out of time and money, director David Koepp was in frantic need of a children's story to complete his movie feature debut, "The...Tags: Gary Ross, Elisabeth Shue, Arts and Culture, Literature, The Hunger Games (movie)
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An easier way to go
The most dreaded part of a colonoscopy is prepping for it. The day before the exam, patients often drink large amounts of a vile-tasting liquid, then it's off to the throne for the better part of the day and night. Though unpleasant, this extreme...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Arts and Culture, Medical Research, Kidney Disease, Diarrhea
Mar 20, 2013
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Mar 20, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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Feb 8, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
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Jan 25, 2013
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Jan 4, 2013
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Nov 27, 2012
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Nov 14, 2012
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