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Bay Theatre looks to build on successes in 10th season
Bay Theatre founder Janet Luby could not conceal her delight as she announced that the first celebratory event of the coming season, a fashion show and fundraiser, had sold out nearly two months in advance. She's hoping it will be the first of many...Tags: Death, Luby's Incorporated, Baltimore School for the Arts, Health, Helen Hayes
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A literary stamp to these three houses
In 1937, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay came close to refusing an honorary degree from New York University when she learned she had been excluded from a reception for male recipients of the doctorate at the Waldorf-Astoria and instead was to have a quiet...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Behavioral Conditions, Tour Operations Industry, Health, Massachusetts
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Emily Dickinson and "these modern literati"
Jacket CopyA charming collection of Emily Dickinson's letters shows her father teasing her about liking "modern literati" -- modern, circa 1854.... -
Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Mexico, Mistral Sailing, Nicaragua, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Bly
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Check It Out: History buffs remember the Civil War
Next month will mark the 150th anniversary of the bombardment of Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor, the opening salvo of the Civil War (1861-1865). Commemorative efforts are underway in many parts of the country. States have formed sesquicentennial...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Libraries, Wars and Interventions, Black History, Arts and Culture
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Tea Table Community Notes Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011
Meetings FRIDAY, JAN. 7 The Up North Network of BNI meets every Friday at the Elks Club in the Beacon Center, Charlevoix. Meetings are from 7-8:30 a.m. and visitors are welcome. For information or a reservation to attend, call Pam Ulvund, (231) 881-2620....Tags: Behavioral Conditions, HIV, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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A visit to Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo.
Los Angeles TimesIt was long after dark when Henry Sweets brought me to Hannibal's Old Baptist Cemetery, "a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind." No moon. Ragged weeds, crumbling gravestones. We tried to tread lightly, but it had been raining, and mud grabbed...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Hal Holbrook, Arts and Culture, Caves and Caverns, Ulysses S. Grant
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Book review: 'The Red Garden' by Alice Hoffman
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Red Garden A Novel Alice Hoffman Crown: 275 pp., $25 "The Red Garden" is a fantastical history of Blackwell, Mass., from 1750 to the present, replete with intermarried families, melancholic bears and altruistic mermaids. If you have trouble with...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Massachusetts, Arts and Culture, Bear (animal), History
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Quarks and quantum quirks
While reading a book on contemporary physics some time ago, I realized that attempting to comprehend it was like trying to floss the teeth of a flea.
Underwater.
While drunk.
With broken fingers.
And blindfolded.
I managed to finish the book, but the...Tags: Higgs Boson Search, Galileo Galilei, Robert Frost, Poetry, Applied Physics
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State of 'hope'
In her famous poem, Emily Dickinson opines that, "Hope is the thing with feathers/that perches in the soul." In Ann Patchett's new novel "State of Wonder," newly widowed mother Karen Eckman, distraught over the mysterious death of her husband in an...Tags: Natural Resources, Forests, Human Interest, Petroleum Industry
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What's on these authors' summer 2011 reading list
Los Angeles TimesHere at Book Review, we know what looked good to us on the summer bookshelves, but we couldn't help but wonder what some of our favorite authors were looking forward to tossing in their travel bag or bringing out to the backyard or the beach for one of...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, New York, Bill Bryson, Naguib Mahfouz, San Francisco
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