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The story of the Penn State Nittany Lion
BASEBALL URBAN LEGEND: A Penn State baseball player came up with the "Nittany Lion" mascot at a baseball game as a response to taunts from fans of another team. As I have detailed in a number of legends over the years (like this tale of the Georgetown...
Tags: Culture, The Pennsylvania State University, Baseball, Ceremonies, Michigan Wolverines
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Poem: Stanley Plumly's 'Cancer'
In recent years, poet Stanley Plumly gave readers "Posthumous Keats," a gorgeous, award-winning prose meditation on the great English Romantic poet's life and death. With "Orphan Hours: Poems" (W.W. Norton: $25.95), the Distinguished University...
Tags: College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Mouth, Cancer, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Go, stop, order, chaos: the rhythm of Los Angeles
What is the rhythm of Los Angeles? Before hearing poet Wanda Coleman speak at the Los Angeles Central Library recently, it had never occurred to me to think that L.A. has a rhythm. Coleman is an L.A. native whose poems have taken her around the world as...
Tags: Edith Piaf, Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Mexico
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Review: Patchy poetry in Long Beach Opera's 'Ainadamar'
Long Beach Opera's new production of Osvaldo Golijov's "Ainadamar" comes at an important time. The opera is a meditation on the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca's murder by the fascists during the Spanish Civil War, which is ever relevant, especially in...
Tags: David Henry Hwang, Culture, Walt Disney, Music, Entertainment
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UCLA series' new leader picks big names, restores plays to mix
While they adjust to a new name for the long-running performance series anchored at UCLA’s Royce Hall, audiences may be reassured by the selection of major names that Kristy Edmunds, the new director who tweaked the title, has included in her...
Tags: Concerts, Charles Bradley, John Ford, Entertainment Events, Celebrities
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A totally Californian poet laureate
Wearing jeans, green sneakers, a hipster straw bowler and a Buddhist symbol around his neck, the new poet laureate of California opened his weekly poetry workshop at UC Riverside with stretching and breathing exercises.
"Let's detox our cluttered...Tags: Culture, Education, Concerts, Jerry Brown, Politics
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Lil Boosie murder trial: Did his lyrics show an intent to kill?
Lil Boosie, a gangsta rapper of national renown, is facing first-degree murder charges in his hometown of Baton Rouge, La., and this week prosecutors introduced his own recordings into court. The musician's violent and threat-filled lyrics, they say, show...
Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Trials, John Gotti, Music
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Karmin drops covers, finds success with album 'Hello'
Pop & HissNearly a year ago, pop duo Karmin found itself the music industry’s most exciting upstart after becoming a YouTube sensation -- their spit-polished, homespun covers of ubiquitous hits like Chris Brown’s “Look At Me Now,” LMFAO&#... -
Kinsley: Mitt Romney, the early years
How well I remember the day many years ago that I was walking through the quad at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Choate: Michael Kinsley's May 13 column misspelled the name of a Connecticut school. It is...
Tags: The Washington Post, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut), Mitt Romney
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When Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land' went to school
Pop & HissA new book traces the history of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land.' In the 1950s, Woody Guthrie's best-known song became part of elementary school education through the efforts of music publisher Howie Richmond.... -
The Siren's Call: Where's Rimbaud?
Los Angeles TimesIn the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their "lost" years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he imprisoned in a cave or was he killed?), Shakespeare...Tags: Bob Dylan, Literature, Arthur Rimbaud, Dorothy Lamour, Marguerite Yourcenar
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The Siren's Call: A once and future epic
Behind the action of Simon Armitage's marvelous translation of the Middle English epic "The Death of King Arthur" (W.W. Norton: 306 pp., $26.95), there's an unmistakable mood of bitterness. It has nothing to do with Arthur's fate — yes, there's...Tags: England, Bernard Cornwell, Rome (Italy), France, Literature
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