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Geraldine R. Dodge poetry festival begins Thursday
Jacket CopyWhen the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival kicks off Thursday night, some in the crowd will remember that it almost didn't happen. The nation's largest all-poetry festival -- lasting four days, with almost 20,000 attendees -- was nearly a victim...... -
Obama's candid, uh, conversation with House Republicans and how to read it
Top of the TicketDemocratic president meets, speaks, takes questions and gives back candid replies to probably his harshest Washington critics.... -
Brentano Quartet will present Bach, Beethoven and Busoni at Norton Center for the Arts
Thursday, Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts will present the Brentano String Quartet in a program of Bach, Busoni, and Beethoven. Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to critical...
Tags: Arts, Lincoln Center, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Princeton University, Music Industry
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City Lights: The Poet Laureate of reader comments
Last week, Times Community News got a surprise visit from a poet. No, Rita Dove or Mark Strand didn't stop by the newsroom. But our story on DrunkRescue, a new Huntington Beach business that offers rides home for out-on-the-town drunks, got an online...Tags: Whitney Houston, Petroleum Industry, Rita Dove, Orange County Register, Ogden Nash
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Book calendar for the week of Feb. 9, 2009
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Toby Barlow The author of "Sharp Teeth" will present and sign his debut novel. Diesel Bookstore, 225 26th St., L.A. 3 p.m. Free. (310) 576-9960.
Norman Klein, Margo Bistis and Andrea Kratky Tom Lesser will moderate a discussion featuring the...Tags: University of California, Irvine, Ray Bradbury, Crime, Law and Justice, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), The Daily Show (tv program)
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Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: University of California, Irvine, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ray Bradbury, Demographics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Music review, 'Seven Last Words' by the Brentano String Quartet at Mandel Hall
Special to the TribuneWhen Haydn took on a commission in 1785 to set music based on Christ's final utterances as recorded in the New Testament, he was intrigued by its source, two faraway churches in the southern Spanish town of Cadiz. In accepting the invitation, he also...Tags: Cadiz Incorporated, Poetry, University of Chicago, Bible, Religious Texts
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'Essays' by Wallace Shawn
Theater CriticArtists are in the business of simultaneously de-familiarizing and re-familiarizing us with the world around us. "Habit is a great deadener," Samuel Beckett explained, and art lends us a new pair of spectacles with which to view reality anew. Reading...Tags: Noam Chomsky, Sports, Death, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Wallace Shawn
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