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Emily Rapp writes her way through grief in 'Still Point of the Turning World''
Emily Rapp is not one to sugarcoat hard truths, including the brutal diagnosis she and her husband received in January 2011 when they took their then-9-month-old son to a pediatric ophthalmologist because of concerns about developmental delays. Ronan,...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Judaism, Christopher Hitchens, Birth Defects, Esophageal cancer
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UCLA Festival of Preservation turns spotlight on Julie Harris, TV
The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology...
Tags: Tony Awards, Wines, Television Industry, Theodore Bikel, Billy Wilder
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Revved up about motorcycles zooming between cars
During his nearly 40 years as a columnist for this newspaper, my late father occasionally tweaked his readers — quite disingenuously — by belittling his cat, knowing the slur would stir invective so passionate and erudite that he could fill...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Services and Shopping, Rodney King, Vehicles
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The Bernard Madoff book collection: Rick Moody, Fyodor Dostoevsky
How does an author of seriously literary fiction discover one of his books was owned by Bernie Madoff, the investor who defrauded his clients of billions of dollars? He sees it listed in an auction on EBay. That's how Rick Moody came to know that Madoff's...
Tags: Authors, Auction Service, Tom Clancy, Caleb Carr, Rick Moody
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The writers behind Magnus Flyte come to Vroman's on Wednesday
When writers Christina Lynch and Meg Howrey decided to collaborate on the new novel "City of Dark Magic," they chose a pseudonym as fantastical as the novel itself: Magnus Flyte. Howrey isĀ a novelist whose two previous books have veered closer to...
Tags: Authors, Prague (Czech Republic), Stephen King, Genres
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Should you try Denny's 'The Hobbit' menu?
With Peter Jackson's film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" coming to screens this week, the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien are at the top of the mind. And the top of the menu, if you happen to be sitting at America's chain diner, Denny's. Denny's...
Tags: Potatoes, Pancakes, Foods and Beverages, Sausages, Lemons
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Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson!
Today is the 182nd anniversary of Emily Dickinson's birth. Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Dickinson may now be one of the most recognized names in poetry, but in her day, she kept much to herself. Her work was not widely known until after her death --...
Tags: Amazon Kindle Fire, Poetry, Social Media
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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: Jack Kerouac, Politics, Charles Bukowski, Poetry, World War II (1939-1945)
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Mick Jagger's 1969 love letters to be put up for auction
Next week promises to be a big one for fans of the Rolling Stones, with a new three-CD anthology due out Tuesday and a career-overview documentary set to premiere Thursday night on HBO. Now listeners can get a deeper (and perhaps less authorized) look at...
Tags: Entertainment, Auction Service, The Rolling Stones (music group), Mick Jagger, Music
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National Endowment for the Arts announces new Big Read grants
Jacket CopyThe National Endowment for the Arts will make 78 grants totaling $1 million for The Big Read projects nationwide in 2012-2013.... -
Post & Beam's well-seasoned restaurateur, Brad Johnson
Foodies tend to move like flocks of birds, swarming a chic eatery, and then — swoop — off to the next. One of their newer perches in Los Angeles is in a part of town that hasn't had much of the food spotlight. Post & Beam opened on New Year'...
Tags: College Sports, Howard Johnson, Diets and Dieting, Restaurants, Debbie Allen
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?...
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