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Racist image of Michelle Obama based on Versailles painting
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight looks at a racist Internet image of Michelle Obama, based on a Versailles painting... -
'YoMama' reference to Michelle Obama leads to, yes, an apology
Nation NowKansas House speaker Mike O'Neal has apologized for forwarding an email that referred to First Lady Michelle Obama as "Mrs. YoMama." The Republican lawmaker is not the first politician to apologize over such potshots.... -
Doomsday clock warning of nuclear power danger closer to midnight
TechnologyDoomsday clock: The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the world is just five minutes from midnight in its metaphorical doomsday clock.... -
Law professor's death probed as possible suicide
L.A. NOWLaw professor's death possible suicide: The death of Chapman University law professor Mary Katherine Baird Darmer, who perished after falling from a building is being investigated as a suicide, according to authorities.... -
UC Irvine Nobel winner F. Sherwood Rowland dies
L.A. NOWF. Sherwood Rowland, the UC Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the ozone layer, has died. He was 84. Rowland, known as Sherry, died Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar, the university...... -
Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry brings her analytical POV to cable news
Show TrackerAs a tenured professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans, a columnist for The Nation magazine, and, as of February, host of an eponymous weekend talk show on MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry maintains a schedule that would make even... -
The Siren's Call: A horn of plenty's worth of holiday reading
One Thanksgiving lesson most school kids probably don't receive has to do with the horn of plenty adorning festive paintings. For me it always seemed like a weird choice for carrying harvested food — what about a simple, flat-bottomed basket? But...Tags: Arts and Culture, England, Colleges and Universities, National Geographic Channel (tv network), Documentary (genre)
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Books that address pivotal points in history
"The past is a foreign country," novelist L.P. Hartley wrote, "they do things differently there." And those extra bits of time around the holidays — on a long drive to visit relatives or waiting for the holiday meal to cook — are perfect for...Tags: Yale University, Marco Polo, Poetry
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Coffee-table books
Art Nouveau
Norbert Wolf
Prestel, $75
The Art Nouveau movement covered it all — decorative arts, architecture, fashion, dance, advertising and more — and this book seeks to restore the movement's prominence in the discussion of modern art....Tags: Maya Angelou, Scott Tipton, Photography, Richard Avedon, Newspaper and Magazine
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Jon B. Lovelace dies at 84; head of American Funds
Jon B. Lovelace, who led the Los Angeles-based American Funds mutual fund company as it became one of the country's largest money management firms, has died. He was 84.
His family said Lovelace died of natural causes at his home in Santa Barbara on...Tags: Jon B., John Muir, J. Paul Getty Trust, Great Depression (1929), Yosemite National Park
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PASSINGS: John Neville, George Gallup Jr., Irving Geller
John Neville
Canadian actor and stage director
John Neville, 86, a British-born Canadian actor and stage director who played the title role in Terry Gilliam's 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and had a recurring role in "The X-Files" TV...Tags: Liver Cancer, John Neville, Entertainment, Evanston, Television
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