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Bratislava, Slovakia: A velvety visit to old city with new touches
If your destination is Bratislava, be prepared for a few questions: Is that in Eastern Europe? (No, it's in Central Europe.) Capital of Slovenia, right? (Uh, no.) Where is that? (The last question courtesy of a Customs employee at LAX.) Until recently,...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Slovakia, Foods and Beverages, Tour Operations Industry, Czech Republic
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'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early Tuesday. He was 83. Longtime friend and caretaker Lynn...Tags: Ridgefield, FAO Schwarz, Stroke, Danbury, Awards and Prizes
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'Spring Awakening' team to bring fairy-tale show to La Jolla
Culture Monster`Spring Awakening' creators Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater are working on a musical based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, `The Nightingale.' It will have a workshop staging this summer at La Jolla Playhouse.... -
Warner Bros. to release Samuel Goldwyn film library on DVD
Company TownWarner Bros. has signed a multi-year deal to release 73 classic films from produced by industy legend Samuel Goldwyn on DVD.... -
Book review: 'The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens'
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by Jenny Hartley Oxford University Press: 458 pp., $34.95 This is the bicentennial year of Charles Dickens' birth. We need no reminder of his eminence as novelist, but there are celebrations of his other...
Tags: John Forster, Wilkie Collins, Book, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving
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'Arrietty,' 'The Borrowers' and the appeal of all things small
Kids — tykes, urchins, tots, moppets, bambinos, waifs, ragamuffins, cherubs and small fry — are fascinated by smallness. Consider their films: "Antz," "A Bug's Life," "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," "Toy Story," "The Rescuers," "The Secret of...Tags: Gulliver's Travels (movie) , Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Spirited Away (movie), The Rescuers (movie)
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The Reading Life: Elissa Schappell's 'Better Girls'
Jacket Copy"Female archetypes and stereotypes don't simply spring out of the ether or men's imaginations. There is complicity among some women to play along, to play up or over their assigned roles," says Elissa Schappell, author of "Building Blueprints for Better... -
'The Amazing Race' recap: From Legoland to Van Damme
Show TrackerTraveling through Europe, the teams find they have to wear tiny bikinis to show off their physiques, while one team loses their train tickets.... -
PASSINGS: Leo Kirch, Roland Petit, Cal Montney, Lee Vines, Googie Withers, Frank Billerbeck
Leo Kirch
German media mogul
Leo Kirch, 84, who turned his one-man film distribution company into Germany's second-biggest media business before losing control of it after a gamble on pay television, died Thursday in Munich. His family did not give...Tags: Music Theater, Bing Crosby, Movies, Danny Kaye, Entertainment
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Talking with playwright Stephanie Fleischmann about her 9/11 play
Culture MonsterPlaywright Stephanie Fleischmann talks with Charles McNulty about her 9/11 play "What the Moon Saw, or 'I Only Appear to Be Dead,'” which opens Sept. 9 at Son of Semele.... -
Theater review: 'What The Moon Saw...' at Son of Semele Theater
Culture MonsterCharlotte Stoudt reviews Stephanie Fleischmann's meditation on 9/11 at Son of Semele Theater... -
Roland Petit dies at 87; acclaimed choreographer
Acclaimed choreographer Roland Petit, whose creations dazzled stages from Paris to Hollywood and inspired dancers, writers and designers, has died. He was 87.
The Paris National Opera said Petit's wife, Zizi Jeanmaire, informed them that the...Tags: Orson Welles, Companies and Corporations, Music Theater, Alvin Ailey, Bing Crosby
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