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It's Your Anniversary: Underground hip-hop Project Blowed is 17
Pop & HissThe underground hip-hop Project Blowed turns 17 -- with parties at the House of Blues on the Strip and the HOB in Anaheim. Also, Pop & Hiss looks back at some of the best projects released by Blowedians (almost all of whom will be playing the... -
Art review: 'Glenn Ligon: America' at LACMA
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight reviews Glenn Ligon's mid-career retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art... -
Open Mike Eagle picks his five favorite current comedians
Pop & HissL.A.-based rapper Open Mike Eagle picks his current five favorite comedians.... -
PST, A to Z: 'Identity and Affirmation' at CSUN Art Galleries
Culture MonsterPacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is...... -
Mark Twain stamp is coming to post offices June 25
Jacket CopyMark Twain will appear on a new stamp, with a celebration at the Hannibal, Missouri post office June 25.... -
Wednesday night in Los Angeles: Mike Mills with 'Beginners' [Video]
Jacket CopyWriter-director Mike Mills, who published a book of illustrations to accompany his new film Beginners, appears Wednesday night in Los Angeles.... -
Book review: 'The Cross of Redemption' by James Baldwin, edited by Randall Kenan
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Cross of Redemption Uncollected Writings James Baldwin, edited by Randall Kenan Pantheon: 308 pp. $26.95 Not infrequently, James Baldwin found himself quite publicly fielding a deeply presuming question. Though versions varied over time, the rough...Tags: Crimes, Elia Kazan, Assault, Civil Rights, Book
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A new collection of James Baldwin's writings
Jacket Copy"Writers are obliged, at some point, to realize that they are involved in a language that they must change," James Baldwin wrote. "And for a black writer in this country to be born into the English language is to realize...... -
Michael Chabon named chairman of MacDowell Colony board
Jacket CopyMichael Chabon is named chair of the board of directors of the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough NH, a major artist residency program.... -
Margaret Burroughs dies; founder of Chicago's DuSable Museum of African American History
Margaret Burroughs, an artist and teacher who founded the nationally recognized DuSable Museum of African American History in the living room of her home on the South Side of Chicago almost 50 years ago, died Sunday of unspecified causes at home,...Tags: Arts, African Americans, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Family, Music
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Summer reading: 60 titles for 92 days
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Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
Daniel Pinkwater
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pinkwater brings a magical realist perspective to YA fiction in the third volume of the series that begins with "The Yggyssey" and "The Neddiad."
The Clock Without a...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Science and Technology, Sociology, The Beatles (music group), Movies
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20 classic works of gay literature
Jacket CopyToday U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker struck down Proposition 8, ruling that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. Proposition 8 was a 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in California. Both sides had said......
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