May 22, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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Pop & Hiss
On John Mayer's new album "Born and Raised," he travels to Montana to get away from the city, and the result is expert musicality filled with charm and honesty -- and an impressive level of self-absorption within his lyrics. Times pop music critic Randall...
Jan 8, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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The quietest room in Hollywood may be the office where John Williams composes. In a bungalow on the Universal Studios lot, steps from the production company of his most frequent collaborator, director Steven Spielberg, Williams works alone at a 90-year-...
Dec 30, 2011
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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In an anecdote that sticks to the memory like an overdone cookie on an undergreased cookie sheet — those 2011 holiday baking mishaps still rankle — an American visiting the Sorbonne is accosted by a French student.
"You Americans!" the...
Oct 3, 2011
|Story| WXIN-LTV
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CNN Contributor
For the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men.
Now, society has rightly celebrated the ascension of one sex. We said, "You go girl," and they went. We celebrate the ascension of women but...
Oct 20, 2011
|Story| Glendale News Press
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Karen Michael Dixon
June 12, 1937 - September 27, 2011
Loving, adoring mother of Lauren Michael Sanda and Leslie Elaine Sacks. Special Grammie to Siena Paige Sacks. Karen is survived by her beloved sister, Dorothy Frances Page and cousin, Justine...
Jul 31, 2011
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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The genesis of "... i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces," a new book of vintage photographs with musical accompaniment, came simply, during one of artist Steve Roden's regular visits to the flea market.
"This is how it always happens —...
Nov 25, 2010
|Story| Coastline Pilot
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
—William Wordsworth
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Monday dawns crystal clear, with long, clear views out to Catalina. It's enough to make one want to run and play — frolic, even. This certainly seems to fit the season....
Dec 27, 2009
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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REBECCA SKLOOT
SCIENCE JOURNALIST
When Rebecca Skloot was a high school student, she learned about HeLa cells, the first human cells to be successfully reproduced in a lab. They'd become the standard for medical research, classrooms, even in space --...
Jul 9, 2010
| Los Angeles Times
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Jacket Copy
Last year, the National Endowment for the Arts declared Reading on the Rise after issuing a dire report five years earlier, Reading at Risk. This back and forth about the state of reading -- who reads, what they read and......
Aug 1, 2010
| Los Angeles Times
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Pop & Hiss
The harpist, pianist and singer, who has crafted a body of work that sounds like none other, stirs fans’ ardor and fills the hall with precisely rendered melodies.On Saturday at L.A.'s ornate Orpheum Theatre, the downtown venue originally built for........
Jul 19, 2009
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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'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...
Mar 1, 2009
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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The Ballad
of Dorothy Wordsworth
A Life
Frances Wilson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 318 pp., $30
Literature is supposed to be a serious, solitary profession. Then why were William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their best friend Samuel Coleridge...
