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Maged Zaher's out-to-lunch poem
There’s a handmade quality to Maged Zaher’s third volume of poetry, “Thank You for the Window Office” (Ugly Duckling: 74 pp., $15 paper), and not just because of the rough-hewn beauty of the book itself. No, the work here —...
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Decision on Los Angeles' first poet laureate nears
Dana Gioia spent many years doing battle in that viper's nest of bureaucrats and elected officials called Washington D.C. This fall the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and L.A. native found himself back home. In a series of...
Tags: Charles Bukowski, Emily Dickinson, Politics, Elections, Jack Kerouac
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'Fresh Prince' theme song after it's been Google translated 64 times
If you're a '90s kid, then you probably know all the words to the "Fresh Prince" theme song. But do you know what the lyrics would be if you translated them into Mandarin and back to English? Worse, what if you translated the lyrics into Mandarin,...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Entertainment, Music, YouTube
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Not again: New York maligns Los Angeles literary scene
Those New Yorkers really have a problem with us Angelenos. Maybe it’s because we have the temerity to live in this wonderful Mediterranean climate (the forecast today in L.A. is for a high of 70 with rampant sunshine; in Gotham, it’s 47...
Tags: J.K. Rowling , Lauren Conrad, Brooklyn (New York City), Queens (New York City), Arts and Culture
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Music review: 'Murderous Little World' worth further exploration
Something important is said in "Murderous Little World." But what? This is Canadian composer Linda Bouchard's music theater collaboration with several of her country's exceptional artists. She has based her work on seven poems from Anne Carson's "Men in...
Tags: Music Industry, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Music, Arts and Culture
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Eloise Klein Healy accepts L.A. poet laureate post in ceremony
The first poet laureate of the city of Los Angeles accepted her post in a room surrounded by books — books for children and her own slender volumes of poetry. Eloise Klein Healy, 69, was officially named L.A.'s poet laureate in a ceremony Friday...
Tags: Politics, Government, Antonio Villaraigosa, Authors
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Iamb who iamb: L.A. gets new poet laureate
She writes poems about our freeways, our food, and, true-blue fan of the Dodgers that she is, she dreams that one day she might see a poem up there on the big lighted board at Dodger Stadium. And now she just might. The city of Los Angeles’...
Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Antonio Villaraigosa
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'La Folie Baudelaire's' scandalous subject
-------------------- La Folie Baudelaire By Roberto Calasso Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen Farrar Straus and Giroux: 339 pp., $35 -------------------- Charles Baudelaire is more scandalous today than he was more than 150 years ago....
Tags: Fine Artists, Artists, Arts, Edgar Allan Poe, Arts and Culture
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Alicia Keys looks back at previous albums; 'Girl on Fire' hits No. 1
When Alicia Keys talked to The Times about her latest album, "Girl on Fire," the singer was candid about the newfound confidence she showcases on the disc. A decade into a career that boasts 14 Grammys and more than 35 million albums sold, Keys says she...
Tags: James Brown, Alicia Keys, Music, Entertainment
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Inauguration 2013: Richard Blanco's poem captures nation's hope, unease
In about 550 words, Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem created a metaphorical country and took it through the journey of a metaphorical day. “One Today” was an intimate and sweeping celebration of our shared, single identity as a people,...
Tags: Building Material, Highway Transportation, One World Trade Center
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Obama's inauguration poet is a fresh burst of firsts
President Obama's choice of the relatively unknown Cuban American poet Richard Blanco to read at his inauguration later this month caught many people in poetry circles by surprise. Blanco, 44, will be the first Latino poet, and the first openly gay...
Tags: Barack Obama, Human Interest
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National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for awards
The late journalist Anthony Shadid, Los Angeles writer Reyna Grande and the novelist Zadie Smith were among the finalists announced Monday for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards. Honors will be awarded in six categories: fiction,...
Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Carolyn Kellogg, Scientology, Wars and Interventions, Kevin Young
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