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'Far Bright Star: A Novel' by Robert Olmstead, 'Inventing American History' by William Hogeland, 'Summer Will Show' by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 'Plants Don't Drink Coffee' by Unai Elorriaga, 'A Final Arc of Sky' by Jennifer Culkin
Far Bright Star A Novel Robert Olmstead Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 208 pp., $23.95 "Thus far the summer of 1916 had been a siege of wrathy wind and heated air. Dust and light. Sand and light. Wind and light." So begins the story of Napoleon...Tags: William F. Buckley, Health, Communist Party of China, Madagascar, Parties and Movements
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L.A. Story
Rock stars, Jazzers, Pachucos...they may have grown up somewhere else quaint, like Sandusky, Ohio, or Canada, but they made their mark here—lived, created and died here. Music is as much a part of the L.A. legacy as film and television. From the bebop...Tags: Richard M. Sherman, Sharon Tate, Paul Whiteman, Rose Bowl Game, Hotels and Accommodations
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Sam Hinton dies at 92; folk songwriter and singer
Sam Hinton, folk singer, songwriter, naturalist and San Diego civic treasure who delighted school children and folk-festival audiences for decades, has died. He was 92. Hinton died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Albany in Northern...Tags: Animals, Science and Technology, Science, Music Industry, Oklahoma
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Mary Travers dies at 72; folk singer performed with the trio Peter, Paul and Mary
Mary Travers, the clarion-voiced female third of the quintessential folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary whose harmony-laden recordings of politically minded songs by Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger ushered them to the top of the sales charts in the 1960s, died...Tags: Cornell University, Peter, Paul, and Mary (music group), Mary Travers, Noel Stookey, Chicago Sun-Times
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Octagon house in Heritage Square has a multidimensional history
Along the Arroyo Seco Parkway from downtown Los Angeles to Pasadena is a collection of 19th century buildings saved from L.A.'s busy wrecking ball. At Heritage Square, which isn't a square, you'll find a house that isn't a rectangle. It's an octagon,...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Maine, Architecture, Los Angeles, Tourism and Leisure
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Album review: Preservation Hall Jazz Band's 'Preservation'
Pop & HissThe unique place the Crescent City holds in American music is evident in the breadth of guests and the utter commitment in their performances with the Preservation Hall band on this project, designed to raise money to support training and...... -
Barack Obama at Lincoln Memorial
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — It was a day that combined high-minded political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved cold weather and long security lines to attend a...Tags: Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Tom Hanks, Martin Luther King III, V. Gene Robinson
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Still seeing Red
An exhibition at a New York museum celebrating the Abraham Lincoln Brigade -- a band of left-wing, largely communist American volunteers who fought against Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War about 70 years ago -- is criticized by anti-Stalinist...Tags: Trumbo (movie), Crime, Law and Justice, Alger Hiss, Francisco Franco, The New York Times
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Largo gets new lease on life at the old Coronet
![JON BRION'S last night at <a href="http://theguide.latimes.com/bars-and-clubs/latcl-largo-venue">Largo</a> was epic. The singer-songwriter's free-for-all Fridays at the tiny Fairfax Avenue nightclub had been drawing capacity crowds for more than a decade, but his May 2 show was historic: his final turn before owner Mark Flanagan closed up shop to move to a bigger space, the <a href="http://theguide.latimes.com/performing-arts/latcl-coronet-theatre-venue">Coronet Theater</a> on La Cienega Boulevard, which is due to open June 2 with a performance by Aimee Mann.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/38945915-16183650.jpg "JON BRION'S last night at <a href="http://theguide.latimes.com/bars-and-clubs/latcl-largo-venue\">Largo</a> was epic. The singer-songwriter's free-for-all Fridays at the tiny Fairfax Avenue nightclub had been drawing capacity crowds for more than a decade, but his May 2 show was historic: his final turn before owner Mark Flanagan closed up shop to move to a bigger space, the <a href=\"http://theguide.latimes.com/performing-arts/latcl-coronet-theatre-venue\">Coronet Theater</a> on La Cienega Boulevard, which is due to open June 2 with a performance by Aimee Mann.")
Special to The TimesJON BRION'S last night at Largo was epic. The singer-songwriter's free-for-all Fridays at the tiny Fairfax Avenue nightclub had been drawing capacity crowds for more than a decade, but his May 2 show was historic: his final turn before owner Mark Flanagan...Tags: Buster Keaton, Prince (music artist), Charles Laughton, Elliott Smith, Dining and Drinking
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Nick Reynolds, 75, dies; a founding member of the Kingston Trio
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNick Reynolds, who as a college student grabbed a guitar, donned a broad-striped button-down shirt and quickly helped propel the 1950s folk music revival to the top of the pop music charts as a founding member of the Kingston Trio, died Wednesday in San...Tags: Oregon, Peter, Paul, and Mary (music group), California, San Francisco, Stanford University
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'Juno,' 'Old Men' Earn Producers Guild Nods
Zap2It.comOne day after winning Golden Globe awards for best picture, "Atonement" and "Sweeney Todd" both failed to make the Producers Guild of America shortlist. Instead, the candidates for the PGA's Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year award are the teams...Tags: Film Festivals, Movies, Documentary (genre), There Will Be Blood (movie), Michael Moore
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Jimmie Rodgers: A voice that carried
![Bear Family Records' remarkable new release, "Let Me Be Your Sidetrack: The Influence of Jimmie Rodgers," makes a persuasive argument that Rodgers is one of the most important figures in the history of country music.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-09/42392292-16164707.jpg "Bear Family Records' remarkable new release, "Let Me Be Your Sidetrack: The Influence of Jimmie Rodgers,\" makes a persuasive argument that Rodgers is one of the most important figures in the history of country music.")
Special to The TimesBear Family Records' remarkable new release, "Let Me Be Your Sidetrack: The Influence of Jimmie Rodgers," makes a persuasive argument that Rodgers is one of the most important figures in the history of country music. According to the liner notes for...Tags: Alison Krauss, Merle Haggard, Elvis Presley, Bono, Music Industry
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