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Bob Dylan inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters; Chabon gives keynote speech
AP National WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Michael Chabon had long been mystified by that Bob Dylan lyric about "midnight's broken toe." The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, the keynote speaker Wednesday at the annual induction ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and...Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Industry, Arts and Culture, Artists, Manhattan (New York City)
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Lil Wayne apologizes to Emmett Till family
Months after Lil Wayne created a firestorm for lyrics that name-dropped slain civil rights figure Emmett Till along with a vulgar sexual reference, the rapper has formally apologized to Till’s family. In a letter sent to the Till family, which...
Tags: Civil Rights, Entertainment, Abusive Behavior, Sports, Emmett Till
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Student wins poetry contest
May Overby Elementary School fourth-grader Ashlyn Dinger won top honors in POET Biorefining's "POET Tree" contest. Students were asked to submit poems about nature for Arbor Day and National Poetry Month in April. Regan Stoick of Mobridge-Pollock...Tags: Elementary Schools, Schools
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UCLA Library's 'I'm a Stranger Here Myself' takes on the Beats
The story of the Beat Generation is often seen as a tale of two cities: The movement began in New York and blossomed in San Francisco. A UCLA Library exhibit sheds light on "a third, lesser-known hub" — Los Angeles, specifically the beachside...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Libraries, Arts and Culture, Newspaper and Magazine
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Counting down to Lit Fest
(This selection is edited for clarity and length.) Tom Acitelli What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Who is an author you'd like to meet, dead or alive?...
Tags: Julia Child, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), Lost (tv program), Nick Hornby, Thelonious Monk
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Rohrersville Band to open season May 19
The Rohrersville Cornet Band of Washington County will open its 277th season Sunday, May 19. The spring concert in the band hall on Main Street in Rohrersville will begin at 3 p.m. Holly Feather will direct the band as it performs concert favorites...Tags: Museums, Spaghetti, Arts and Culture, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Fine Arts
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Lil Wayne, PepsiCo's Mountain Dew part ways after controversy
In a week that has already seen PepsiCo pull an ad developed by Odd Future ringleader Tyler, the Creator, the beverage giant is severing ties with another rapper, Lil Wayne. PepsiCo announced it has ended its partnership with the rapper over a vulgar...
Tags: Civil Rights, OFWGKTA (music group), PepsiCo Inc., Abusive Behavior, Emmett Till
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Taylor Mead dies at 88; underground film legend and bohemian artist
Taylor Mead, an underground cinema legend whose comic charm and sense of the surreal inspired Andy Warhol and other seminal figures in the alternative film world, died Wednesday in Denver. He was 88. A fixture of bohemian New York who was also a poet...
Tags: Movies, Celebrities, Robert Downey Jr., Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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READER SUBMITTED: Avon Native Wins Fulbright Award
AvonAvon native Brendan Walsh, a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Southern Connecticut State University, has been selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2013-2014 to Laos, where he will teach English at Ventiane...Tags: Southern Connecticut State University, Colleges and Universities, Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), Arts and Culture, Laos
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Michelle Tea turns a radical eye on YA in 'Mermaid in Chelsea Creek'
NEW YORK — Michelle Tea has been a horoscope writer, an activist and a sex worker. She never graduated from college, but she has written a novel, a poetry collection and four memoirs — one of which, "Valencia," is being made into an...Tags: Book, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Authors, Arts and Culture, Artists
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The wandering camera
A storage unit, a garage, a car, a professor's office and a tent on a campsite. These are only a few of the 24 Irvine spots where Richard Newton bunked over two years in the early 1970s. This nomadic life — the yearning to feel out new...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Arts and Culture, Museum of Modern Art, Artists, Henrik Ibsen
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A poem for a planet: Send your haiku to Mars
The MAVEN spacecraft is leaving for Mars in November. Along with scientific gear and advanced communication technologies, it will be bringing along some poetry. It could be yours. NASA launched -- or, rather, opened -- the poetry contest on Wednesday....
Tags: NASA, Google+, NASA Mars Exploration Program, NPR
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