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Chuck Norris comes to the defense of Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow has a lot of defenders, but there's one in particular that no one will want to mess with: Chuck Norris. "Tebow is a player who rises to the occasion and delivers big in critical moments," Norris wrote for his blog on Newsbusters.org. "He...
Tags: Tim Tebow, Sports, National Football League, Football, FIFA World Cup
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Chez Panisse rebuilds after fire, to reopen on summer solstice
Chez Panisse in Berkeley is set to reopen June 21, more than three months after a fire destroyed much of the electrical systems and plumbing of the 42-year-old restaurant. It isn’t the first time the famous Berkeley restaurant has burned. Thirty...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Review: Pacific Symphony salute to Duke Ellington fails to swing
What do we do with the Duke? He was, most agree, the greatest jazz composer who ever lived. And more. Duke Ellington was the soul of American music. David Schiff has just written a brilliantly illuminating book, "The Ellington Century," that places...
Tags: BBC, Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Music Industry
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'Mad Men' recap: Slave to love
Being a "Mad Men" fan these days feels a little like being a woman who, after dating a string of jerks, finally gives a nice guy a chance and discovers that, hey, there's something to this after all. One of the ongoing debates about this season is...
Tags: AMC (tv network), Linda Cardellini, Adultery, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Mayo Clinic
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Duke Ellington's music lives to be heard
It's no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That's done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined by admirers who realized that no existing musical...
Tags: Music, Services and Shopping, Arts and Culture, Stan Kenton, Culture
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'Mad Men': It's a shameful, shameful day
On an early spring evening, Don and Megan are headed to the New York advertising awards and Arnold and Sylvia are going to D.C. where the doctor will give a last-minute (Got that, Don? She didn’t have time to tell you) speech. “Come Monday...
Tags: Central Park, John F. Kennedy
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Blackface parody video at UC Irvine reminds students of past racism
A member of a UC Irvine fraternity seen wearing blackface in a parody music video isn’t the first time charges of racism have been lobbed at the campus community, students said. “This blackface video isn’t the first, nor is it the...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Racism, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice
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House votes to honor victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing
WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the...
Tags: Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, John Lewis, Justice System, Civil Rights
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev was disruptive twice at Cambridge mosque
The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon worshiped at the Islamic Society of Boston’s mosque in Cambridge, with the older brother disrupting services and challenging the congregation’s moderate theology, the society...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Sports, Religion and Belief, Shootings, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Police tell of showdown with Boston bombing suspects
BOSTON — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings remained under heavy guard in a hospital Saturday, with an injury to his neck complicating how he would be interrogated and held for trial. The neck wound apparently did not...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hospitals and Clinics, Fenway Park, Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Donohue, Jr.
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Bryan Cranston to play LBJ in play by Robert Schenkkan
Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's "Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. "All The Way" will open the new season at...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Bryan Cranston, Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, Michael McKean
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L.A. County to offer free meningitis vaccine to low-income residents
Los Angeles County health officials on Wednesday began offering free meningitis vaccinations to low-income and uninsured residents while downplaying fears about a potential outbreak of the disease. "We really sympathize with the heightened concern...
Tags: AIDS, Preventative Medicine, Personal Income, Diseases and Illnesses, Hospitals and Clinics
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