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Harry Potter phenomenon is gone with the proverbial wind
Universal Orlando last week announced Diagon Alley, an expansion to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which opened in 2010. Coming on the heels of the new Transformers ride, the expansion will no doubt be a success. But if the students in my...Tags: Arts and Culture, The New York Times, Students, Rollins College, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: Newspapers, Teachers, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Authors, Newspaper and Magazine
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English and thermodynamics
The Baltimore SunAs a journalist, I gravitate toward the lurid. That's just how we roll. If some post-adolescent crank tries to set up a "white student union" at Towson University, he is guaranteed ink. If some crackpot explains that George W. Bush was behind the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Minority Groups, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Science and Technology
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Five books by Chicago authors appearing at Lit Fest
In Thomas Dyja's cultural history of Chicago, "The Third Coast," he writes that in Nelson Algren's day, "being Chicago's Famous Writer was like winning the heavyweight title — there was only one at a time, and you kept the belt for as long as you...
Tags: Rogers Park, Arts and Culture, Edgar Allan Poe, Nelson Algren, Poetry
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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor
Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....
Tags: Aberdeen Proving Ground, U.S. Army, Religion and Belief, Nazi Party, Mathematics
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How Deepa Mehta Overcame Protests to Film Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children'
ReutersMay 03 (TheWrap.com) - Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" is a sprawling book that its author has described as a "love letter to India" -- a chronicle of the country's birth and occasionally troubled history as experienced by a boy born at the...Tags: Sri Lanka, Religion and Belief, Freedom of the Press, Ruhollah Khomeini, England
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Poll: The feds' selective scrutiny of tax-exempt 'patriots'
Vindicating the complaints of some "tea party" activists, a top IRS official admitted Friday that the agency had singled out such groups for scrutiny in the months leading up to the 2012 election. The revelation (accompanied by an apology from Lois...
Tags: John Boehner, Religion and Belief, Interior Policy, Health Insurance Cost, Barack Obama
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In a Warming World, 'Cli-Fi' Is Here to Stay
ReutersMay 03 (TheWrap.com) - More than a year ago, I wrote a blog post here headlined "The Next Big Genre: 'Cli-Fi' -- Climate Fiction, in Which 'Mad Max' Meets 'The Road'" -- and now comes NPR and the Christian Science Monitor with two very good trend-...Tags: George Clooney, Global Change, Science and Technology, Genres, Entertainment
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Jewish convert from Nazi family to discuss today's climate of violence
Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger had to look no further than his own life for material when writing his first book. The only son of a former Iron Cross-decorated Nazi tank commander, he converted to Judaism and ended up serving as a medical officer in the...
Tags: Tom Cruise, Religion and Belief, Israel, North Miami Beach, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Pasadena's writer-driven LitFest gets bigger this Saturday
If Los Angeles can have a book festival -- the just-concluded Los Angeles Times Festival of Books -- and even the suburb of nearby Duarte (pop. 21,000) can have one, why not Pasadena? Pasadena is famous for the Rose Parade, Caltech and Jackie Robinson,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Jonathan Gold, Authors
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Mad Cow Theatre announces 2013-14 season
Mad Cow Theatre's 17th season will include recent Broadway hits "Venus in Fur" and "Other Desert Cities," as well as classics, including Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and the 1970s rock musical "Hair." The annual Orlando Cabaret Festival...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Music, Entertainment, Music Theater
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Awards this week: Edgars, Ellies
Just when you thought literary awards season was over, there were not one but two occasions to get dressed up and applaud great writers and their publications Thursday. They both took place in New York -- meaning we didn't have to hit the dry cleaner --...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Google+, The Wire (tv program)
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