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Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed lists his home in Santa Barbara at $4.95 million
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed has listed his mountainside retreat in Santa Barbara for $4.95 million. The 25-acre ocean-view estate, which includes a swimming pool, fruit trees and a guesthouse, was designed as a creative...
Tags: Cartoons, Entertainment, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Entertainment Events
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New ad for 'Oz: The Great and Powerful' aims to tickle Baum fans
Sunday night’s SAG Awards broadcast featured a sneak peek of Disney’s “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” showing the black-and-white world of James Franco’s Kansas huckster morphing into color when the soon-to-be-wizard lands in...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Tim Burton, Oz the Great and Powerful (movie), The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939)
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Join the very funny Dave Barry for a live video chat on Monday
Who wins a Pulitzer Prize for being funny? Dave Barry, that's who. Technically, he won the prize for commentary for his columns at the Miami Herald -- where his job was, and is, "to write about issues ranging from the international economy to exploding...
Tags: Literature, Matt Groening, The Miami Herald, Awards and Prizes, Authors
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Watch 'Family Guy' take on Broadway in theater-themed episode
[This post has been updated.] "Family Guy" on Fox gave its satirical regards to Broadway on Sunday in a new episode in which Brian and Stewie face off as rival playwrights battling for supremacy in the Griffin household. Sunday's episode featured...
Tags: Music Theater, Entertainment, Broadway Theater, Awards and Prizes, A Streetcar Named Desire (movie)
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Fred Kaplan's 'The Insurgents' takes on Petraeus and policy
-------------------- The Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster: 400 pp, $28 -------------------- Everyone knows — or thinks they know — about the influence exerted by the...
Tags: Barack Obama, The Pentagon, U.S. Army, Iraq, Entertainment Events
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New Western governor sets his sights on climate change solutions
When we were classmates at Ingraham High School in Seattle, Jay Inslee was quarterback of the football team and a key player on the state champion basketball squad. I was a fledgling cartoonist and editorial writer on the student newspaper. On Wednesday...
Tags: Cartoons, Barack Obama, Entertainment, Ecosystems, U.S. Congress
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Anna Deavere Smith wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Anna Deavere Smith, famed for creating one-woman, documentary theater pieces about taut social issues in which she portrays multiple people she’s interviewed, has won the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the most lucrative awards in...
Tags: Tony Kushner, Awards and Prizes, AIDS, Celebrities, Anna Deavere Smith
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'Prosperous Friends' by Christine Schutt observes a lonely couple
-------------------- Prosperous Friends A Novel Christine Schutt Grove: 205 pp., $24 -------------------- Christine Schutt's latest novel, "Prosperous Friends," opens, and closes, with an aging husband and wife who would rather die together so that...
Tags: Literature, Awards and Prizes, Authors, Fiction, Entertainment Events
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads
Today the nation honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the reverend and activist who led the American civil rights movement. As King studied nonviolence as practiced by Gandhi and imagined by Henry David Thoreau, now his own life and work are the...
Tags: Stanford University, Civil Rights, Awards and Prizes, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest
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Lincoln's slavery tactic
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago this week, has often been criticized by blacks, by radicals and also by mainstream historians who doubt its significance as a turning point in the Civil War and in American...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Unions, Gore Vidal, Social Issues, Abraham Lincoln
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Donald Margulies' multiculti holiday tale
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies talks about his inspiration for his new play, "Coney Island Christmas," which runs through Dec. 30 at the Geffen Playhouse. Tell me about "Coney Island Christmas." "Coney Island Christmas"...
Tags: Entertainment, Christmas, Religion and Belief, Holidays, Passover
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L.A. area theaters hope to strike holiday gold
"What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?" — Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol." At the box office there is no "Bah! Humbug!" The recompense that two big Southern California theaters...
Tags: Music Theater, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (tv program), Nigel Lythgoe
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