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Review: 'The Lacuna' by Barbara Kingsolver
!["The Lacuna"](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/56045673-15160815-187105.jpg ""The Lacuna\"")
"The Lacuna"
By Barbara KingsolverHarper Perennia, 544 pages, $16.99
In Barbara Kingsolver’s rich new novel "The Lacuna," the artist Frida Kahlo remarks that she would like to think she is being “pulled through history by something more...Tags: Ears and Hearing, Politics, Religious Texts, Mexico, Defense
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Carlos Monsivais dies at 72; Mexican author and activist
Carlos Monsivais, Mexico's preeminent man of letters and a highly regarded critic of the nation's social and political adventures for half a century, died Saturday after a long struggle with lung disease, the government health ministry announced. He was...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Politics, Mexico, Activism, National Government
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Fighting over Frida Kahlo
La PlazaIn Mexico, the emergence of work said to be made by the artist has led to a very public debate about its authenticity. The Times' art critic has seen the pieces. Policing the legacy of artists can be a tough business. Nowhere is it tougher than in Mexico,... -
Championing reviews this week: Magic Johnson and Larry Bird; China and the U.S. economy; J.M. Barrie and more
Jacket CopyIt is, reviewer David Davis writes, nearly impossible to find two opposing superstars whose sports careers became as linked as Larry Bird's and Magic Johnson's. In 1979, when Bird was a college senior and Johnson a junior, they led their...... -
Monster Mash: MOCA chooses Jeffrey Deitch; 'Spider-Man' in November; Chile's new museum
Culture Monster-- It's official: L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art said that New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch will be its new director. (Los Angeles Times) -- Overheard: Broadway's "Spider-Man" musical is now likely to open in November. (New York Post) --...... -
The latest travel books
'Moon Handbooks: Cleveland' Avalon, $17.95 Poor Cleveland. For years, the city has been the object of bad jokes by late-night comedians. Nowadays, though, attitudes seem to be changing. Author Douglas Trattner goes so far as to write that Cleveland "has...Tags: New York, Mexico, Chile, Ohio, Travel
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Monster Mash: David Sefton leaves UCLA Live; Seattle Art Museum cuts back; ballet star part of failed coup
Culture Monster--Calling it quits: David Sefton has resigned after nearly a decade as executive and artistic director of the UCLA Live performing arts series, saying he was responding to "a major rethinking and restructuring" by his bosses, brought on by the...... -
A new executive director for the San Diego Museum of Art
Culture MonsterRoxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo has been named executive director of the San Diego Museum of Art, the museum's board of trustees announced Friday. Velásquez, who will assume her new duties in the fall, is the director of the Museo...... -
Self-portrait art session at Ford Amphitheatre
Brand XSometimes staring into a mirror is not enough. Sometimes, you have to stare into a mirror, and also paint a picture of yourself. Head to the lovely Ford Amphitheatre for a free art session with accomplished painter Victor Hugo Zayas, who will help you pay... -
Woolly School Garden, a vertical landscape for kids
L.A. at HomeI’ve been smitten with Woolly Pockets ever since they came on the market in the spring of 2009. The fuzzy, brightly colored planters create an instant vertical garden without any complicated construction. Just fill the pockets with dirt, pop in a... -
Performance review: Gregorio Luke’s 'Frida, a New Look' at Ford Ampitheatre
Culture MonsterBeguiling Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is easy to love, and further, to fetishize. Her distinctive color-drenched canvases, crammed with autobiographical lore from her tragedy-strewn life, tug the eye and the heart. This well-seasoned mix has... -
Brand X Files: Glenn Beck University? Darker Mel Gibson revelations. Prince says Internet is 'over'
Brand XGlenn Beck fusing paranoia with questionable conclusions based on spurious facts at an online university? Apparently so! Now everyone can get a degree in ... whatever it is that Glenn Beck talks about. Surely a degree in "Glenn Beck" will prepare you...
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