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'Hands on a Hardbody' drives to Broadway from La Jolla
Perhaps proving that time and tastes may change, but dreams of a free car are forever, the musical "Hands on a Hardbody" will make the leap from the West Coast to Broadway for the 2012-13 season. The La Jolla Playhouse production, which is based on S.R....
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Phish (music group)
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Companies are removing oil from their products to cut costs
With crude prices bouncing around above $90 a barrel, many companies are trying to wring the oil out of their operations. Ford Motor Co.is using soybean foam in its upholstery.McDonald's Corp.is testing paper cups for hot drinks in place of polystyrene...
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Companies and Corporations, Biofuels, Ford, Natural Resources
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Authors in L.A.: Buzz Bissinger, Richard Ford and Joe Pantoliano
Jacket CopyThe writer Buzz Bissinger, who appears in Pasadena on Tuesday (details below), has one of those names that feels made up for a superhero comic book. Over the years, however, the quality of his work has made him one of...... -
The great Pacific garbage reality
For months, West Coast residents have been bracing for an onslaught of items drifting toward us since last spring's tsunami in northeastern Japan, which swept apartment buildings, cars, even entire villages, into the sea. Now we are seeing the first...
Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Fishing, Natural Disasters, Entertainment Events
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Times-Picayune in New Orleans cuts publication to 3 days a week
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details.The New Orleans Times-Picayune will move to a three-day-a-week print schedule in the fall, becoming the largest metro newspaper to cut back paper publication in what has increasingly become an electronic world of information. The paper -- owned by...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Newspaper and Magazine, Science and Technology, Media Industry, Entertainment Events
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The New Yorker tries Twitter fiction with Jennifer Egan
Jacket CopyThe New Yorker teams up with Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jennifer Egan to try serializing a short story through Twitter.... -
Blank Theatre's young playwrights' festival turns 20
Playwright Stephen Karam has made a splash off-Broadway with one play and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize with another. But for memorable moments in his stage career, he says there's nothing quite like his teenage triumphs in the Blank Theatre's...
Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Garry Marshall, ER (tv program), Awards and Prizes
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San Diego reporter won a Pulitzer for account of 1923 eclipse
The newspapers and websites were full Monday morning with stories about Sunday's eclipse: finely done accounts with facts, figures, quotations and on-the-scene reporting.
Will any win the Pulitzer Prize? Only time will tell.
But if so, there is...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Journalism, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, Newspapers
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Federal judge blocks National Defense Authorization Act provision
In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest...
Tags: National Defense Authorization Act, Laws, Politics, Lawyers, Leon Panetta
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Mike McGrady dies at 78; journalist behind sexy bestselling hoax
In the summer of 1966, Newsday columnist Mike McGrady threw down the gauntlet to a trusted coterie of fellow journalists: Produce a novel so poorly written and relentlessly focused on sex that it would fly off bookstore shelves. Two dozen colleagues,...Tags: Walter Cronkite, The Wall Street Journal, Harold Robbins, Periodicals, Awards and Prizes
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Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street
Jacket CopyBarbara Demick says that" real Sarajevans don’t like to talk about the war," but her book, "Logavina Street," follows the lives of a small community during the conflict. It has been re-released, with additional materials, commemorating the 20th... -
'Visions of Empire' at the Huntington Library looks at U.S. railroad
Culture Monster will occasionally visit museum exhibits dealing with history, anthropology, science or sociology. The show: "Visions of Empire: The Quest for a Railroad Across America, 1840-1880" at theHuntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical...
Tags: Transportation, Union Pacific Corporation, Railway Transportation, Arts, Apple iPad
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