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Feedback: What's your favorite book for the beach?
"Tortilla Flat" by John Steinbeck. — Olayinka Hassan, Chicago "From the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall: Travelers' Best, Worst and Most Ridiculous Stories From the Road" edited by David Slenk. It's a travel book that includes stories from multiple...
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National Endowment for the Arts announces new Big Read grants
Jacket CopyThe National Endowment for the Arts will make 78 grants totaling $1 million for The Big Read projects nationwide in 2012-2013.... -
88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
HEAT WAVE BUILDS IN THE DAYS AHEAD!
BRUTAL HEAT BUILDS IN… Misery loves company, so this latest drought comes with more high heat! Excessive heat and at times dangerous humidity will be returning to the area by Thursday and will last for the entire upcoming weekend. 100°...
Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Washington, DC, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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'Snow White's' Kristen Stewart still wants new 'East of Eden' pic
24 Frames"Snow White and the Huntsman" star Kristen Stewart, who has long said she loves "East of Eden," wants a new film version of the John Steinbeck classic. KStew made the comments in an interview with Garrett Hedlund, her costar in "On the Road."... -
Tips for road trips with your pet
In last week's column, I opened a window to the glamorous life of traveling alone and offered a few tips to keep the voices in your head from shouting down your sanity.
Of course, most vacationers don't go it alone. Even the single among us can take...Tags: Travel, Rabies, Vaccines, Trips and Vacations
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Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
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Tom Morello keeps punk-rock spirit of Woody Guthrie alive
Tom Morello says he rarely gets nervous anymore before he performs, in part because he’s done just about everything from rocking stadiums with Rage Against the Machine to participating in protest rallies around the world as a guitar-thrashing...
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Woody Guthrie's music welcomes new multitudes
Decades ago, Woody Guthrie wrote the sparse lyrics for a song he never got around to recording, “New Multitudes,” a plea to future generations to stay the course: “Give me my new multitudes/Gonna build my world over/Gotta have new...
Tags: My Morning Jacket (music group), Jeff Tweedy, Banking, Music Industry, Arlo Guthrie
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Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth
Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...
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Banshee scores best direction award for 'The Crucible'
Last Monday night, the local theater community gathered for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards at the recently opened, multimillion-dollar A Noise Within venue in Pasadena. Among the winners was the Burbank-based Theatre Banshee company, which...
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