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    May 30, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  1. ArtSpace Enlivens Artists, and Their Art Remains (for Two More Days)

    Artspace is winding down three separate exhibits this Thursday. It’s worth heading over during the final hours that the works are on display. The main one was devised in the space, all three are community-minded, and a collaborative glow simply emanates from the joint.
    Artspace is winding down three separate exhibits this Thursday. It’s worth heading over during the final hours that the works are on display. The main one was devised in the space, all three are community-minded, and a collaborative glow simply...

    Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Common, Artspace, Arts

    2. Feb 19, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Miriam Hansen dies at 61; scholar of early American cinema

    Miriam Hansen, who introduced a new level of sophistication to film studies with her groundbreaking study of American silent film and research on cinema and the human senses, died of cancer Feb. 5 in Chicago. She was 61.
    Miriam Hansen, who introduced a new level of sophistication to film studies with her groundbreaking study of American silent film and research on cinema and the human senses, died of cancer Feb. 5 in Chicago. She was 61. Hansen was a professor of...

    Tags: University of Chicago, Colleges and Universities, Chicago Tribune

    3. May 11, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Influences: Los Angeles composer Hugh Levick

    Culture Monster
    Hear Now: A Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers will offer pieces by a few well-known figures -– provocative British transplant Thomas Adès, longtime USC professor Stephen Hartke, someone named Esa-Pekka Salonen -– as...
    4. Oct 31, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Book review: Willy Wonka's creator

    Storyteller
    Storyteller The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl Donald Sturrock Simon & Schuster: 658 pp., $30 I was sitting on an airplane with a copy of "Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl" when an elegant woman in the seat next to me murmured,...

    Tags: Diets and Dieting, Vegetarian Diet, Arts and Culture, Biography (genre), Literature

    5. Jun 20, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. The Kushner effect, an angel in American playwriting

    Few plays have affected me as viscerally as "Angels in America." I can still recall my state of mind in the theater, having traveled to New York from New Haven, where I was in graduate school, to see both parts ("Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika") in a single marathon day in the late fall of 1993. To put the matter clinically, I was overwhelmed.
    Few plays have affected me as viscerally as "Angels in America." I can still recall my state of mind in the theater, having traveled to New York from New Haven, where I was in graduate school, to see both parts ("Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika")...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Theater, New York, Literature, George W. Bush

    6. May 28, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Art review: Scott Short at Christopher Grimes Gallery

    Culture Monster
    What hath Xerox wrought? Scott Short’s new paintings are both gorgeous and inane, superficial yet sophisticated — in that insular, art-world way that validates exercising even the slightest concept to exhaustion. They make a striking first impression....
    7. Oct 4, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. New in paperback: Huxley's demons and the grace of Hanif Kureishi

    <b>Aldous Huxley: "The Devils of Loudun</b><b>" (HarperPerennial)</b>
    Aldous Huxley: "The Devils of Loudun" (HarperPerennial) In 1643, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. The convent's charismatic priest was eventually convicted of seducing the nuns in his charge...

    Tags: Death, Salvador Allende, Colleges and Universities, University of California, England

    8. Sep 5, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Meet the gimmick books

    One had to relive eighth grade. Another grew a beard so long and unruly it became more famous than its wearer. Yet another got to meet Richard Simmons on a cruise ship and was ranted at by a whole raft of motivational speakers.
    One had to relive eighth grade. Another grew a beard so long and unruly it became more famous than its wearer. Yet another got to meet Richard Simmons on a cruise ship and was ranted at by a whole raft of motivational speakers. They're not professional...

    Tags: Death, Hans Christian Andersen, Drugs and Medicines, Football, James Frey

    9. Sep 9, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Shifting realities

    By Ed Park Repetition is never a good thing. In "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," Jorge Luis Borges cites or invents a Gnostic saying. "Copulation and mirrors are abominable," he writes, because both reproduce the visual universe, which is illusory. People...

    Tags: Death, Armed Forces, Defense, Entertainment, Sports

    10. Mar 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. New in paperback: Richard Yates, Denis Johnson, Charles Baxter and more

    Barry Day (ed): "The Letters of Noel Coward" (Vintage) "The human race is a let down. It thinks it's progressed but it hasn't. It thinks it's risen above the primeval slime but it hasn't -- it's still wallowing in it!," says Gilda in Noel Coward's...

    Tags: Death, Patricia Highsmith, Samuel Beckett, Charles Johnson (football, defensive end), Graham Greene

    11. May 18, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Strange new frontiers

    "WHAT is it?"
    "WHAT is it?" So begins, with delicious confusion, the first chapter of "The Great Romance" (Bison Books/University of Nebraska: 170 pp., $17.95), as the narrator emerges from a centuries-long slumber into a weird, telepathically perfected world. The...

    Tags: New Zealand, Satellite Technology, Edward Bellamy, Climbing, Stranger Than Fiction

    12. Jul 20, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. True New Yorker

    About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker piece "The Rats on the Waterfront":
    About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker...

    Tags: Death, Arts and Culture, Salman Rushdie, Natural Resources, England

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