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Florida's overlooked coast
Travel EditorMatlacha was a surprise. But then most things here on the southwest coast were a surprise. I had driven I-75 between Fort Myers and Sarasota numerous times, and always wondered what lay to the west, along the water. Now I was finding out. Matlacha...Tags: Christianity, Sony Corp., Florida, Travel, George W. Bush
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Unsettling landscape
TRIBUNE REPORTERBeneath the Roses Photos by Gregory Crewdson, essay by Russell Banks Abrams, 140 pages, $60 Norman Rockwell brought us a singular vision of small-town America, as did Edward Hopper. Now photographer Gregory Crewdson has created a new, uniquely...Tags: Norman Rockwell, Arts and Culture, Walker Evans, Photography, Diane Arbus
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Pack of liars
The Reserve By Russell Banks Harper, 287 pages, $24.95 In summer 1898, philosopher William James climbed Mt. Marcy, highest peak in the Adirondacks and a geographic locus of Russell Banks' new novel, "The Reserve." Writing to his wife of his trip in...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Heart Attack, Car Guides and Reviews, Wallis Simpson, Death
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Artful ways to dodge the Midwest blahs
Special to Tribune NewspapersAbout this time of year, everyone craves color. Enough of barren trees and the grime left behind after a snowy winter. Spirits are in dire need of uplifting after weeks of grim economic news. Everyone needs beauty, a shot of creativity, an injection of...Tags: Michael Graves, Claude Monet, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Richard Serra
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Alice Tully Hall's makeover resounds
At a time when the moneyed life in New York feels as if it is being sucked into the sewers, the reopening of Alice Tully Hall, the chamber music venue at Lincoln Center, feels like an eddy in the stream.
After the hall had been caged for almost two...Tags: Arts, Carnegie Hall, Heavy Engineering, Florida, Politics
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John Updike dies at 76; Pulitzer-winning author
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Updike's death from lung cancer was...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Philip Roth, John Updike, Washington, DC, Civil Unrest
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An uneasy accord
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLAST year, one of Canada's most prestigious museums approached the cartoonist Seth, whose work combines realistic, character-based storytelling with a muted, nostalgic visual style reminiscent of Edward Hopper, about a show of contemporary artists who use...Tags: Immigration, Pulitzer Prize Awards, David Cronenberg, Philip Roth, Newspapers
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Hugely popular painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91
Andrew Wyeth, whose realistic yet often melancholy paintings of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America's most popular living artists, and whose 1948 landscape "Christina's World" was one of the 20th century's most famous artworks, died...Tags: Washington, DC, Family, Norman Rockwell, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon
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Colony in Pacific Palisades nurtured top artists in 1950s, 1960s
When times are good, artists and writers get the support they need, enriching city life in unquantifiable ways. But when the economy heads south or the rich lose interest, artists are among the first to suffer. Today we're hearing predictions of fewer...Tags: Tennessee Williams, Buddhism, Arts, Education, Topanga
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A little synergy on the 'Prairie'
Special to The TimesFOR 30 years, Garrison Keillor has spent his Saturday nights putting on an old-fashioned radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," the live variety program heard nationwide by 4 million listeners. But while building an institution by raising Midwestern...Tags: Joffrey Ballet, Starbucks Corp., Garrison Keillor, Robert Altman, Kevin Kline
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Alive with more than history
Times Staff WriterIt's been decades since movie studios had movie stars on contract. And you're as likely to stumble across movie filming on a downtown L.A. street as on the Universal Studios back lot these days. But the studios still have that special feel of a gated...Tags: Anthony Perkins, General Electric Company, Television, Family, Bee (insect)
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One-man show
Times Staff WriterNO one said it was going to be easy. But with his first season behind him and his second already underway, Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie has yet to communicate a clear theatrical game plan. Questions concerning his artistic...Tags: Alfred Molina, The Drowsy Chaperone (musical), August Wilson, Minority Groups, Kentucky
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