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Milo O'Shea, Irish actor of stage and screen, dies at 86
Milo O’Shea, an Irish stage and screen actor known for his roles in films as varied as “Ulysses,” “Barbarella” and Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet,” has died. He was 86. O’Shea, who also had...
Tags: Franco Zeffirelli, Jane Fonda, Obituaries, Celebrities, Paul Williams
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Where to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in L.A. area — no blarney
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. At least that's what James Joyce, one of Ireland's most famous writers — and a notorious drinker — once said. The phrase rings particularly true on St. Patrick's Day, the saucy Irish holiday that is...
Tags: Breads, Jessica Gelt, Music, Speakeasy (music group), Bars and Clubs
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Community gathers at the Last Bookstore
The staircase is narrow and creaky, with a bookshelf made from a 100-year-old harp case teetering on the precipice of collapse at the top of the landing. Overflowing with open books, pages wildly askew and dangling from uneven shelves, the bookcase...
Tags: Artists, Indiana Jones (fictional character), Music, Services and Shopping, Books and Magazines
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Review: Encounter with postwar giants at Southwest Chamber Music festival
Southwest Chamber Music's 2013 L.A. International New Music Festival, in progress at the Colburn School's Zipper Concert Hall, is doing its attentive bit to broaden international musical relations. We hear too little music from Mexican, Korean or even...
Tags: Music, Health Treatments, Music Industry, World War II (1939-1945), Festive Events
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On the Spot: Why seating on flights is up in the air
Question: Can an airline bump passengers from previously purchased, extra-legroom seats? Last summer we checked in online for a United Airlines Boston-to-San Francisco flight and learned that we had been bumped back to regular coach from our previously...
Tags: Air Transportation Delays, United Air Lines, Air Transportation Industry, Transportation, Trips and Vacations
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China's surprise bestseller: 'Finnegan's Wake' by James Joyce
Readers in China have been snapping up copies of James Joyce's notoriously difficult novel "Finnegan's Wake," published in Chinese for the first time. Its publisher says that the first print run sold out in five weeks. The Associated Press reports...
Tags: China, Shanghai (China), Authors, Arts and Culture, Book
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All of these covers are just like the others
Welcome to the first book meme of 2013: the charred cover. It happens sometimes -- a cluster of books arrive with covers that bear a resemblance to one another. During the chick-lit era, there were scads of novels with illustrations of high heels,...
Tags: Authors, Book, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fiction
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Live video chat with Will Self on 'Umbrella' and more, Tue. Jan 15
Novelist, journalist, sometime bad boy and frequent literary provocateur Will Self is hard to miss in England. He's 6-feet-5, for starters; what's more, he's terrifically prolific, publishing literary works of fiction and nonfiction almost every year. His...
Tags: NPR, Arts and Culture, Fiction, England, Scientology
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Video Interview: Will Self on his challenging new novel 'Umbrella'
Will Self joined us from the office of his London publisher, Bloomsbury, to talk about his challenging new novel "Umbrella." It was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Just released in the U.S. by Grove/Atlantic, "Umbrella" is told in stream-of-...
Tags: World War I (1914-1918)
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Elliott Carter dies at 103; inventive American composer
Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York,...
Tags: Peabody Conservatory, Colleges and Universities, John Ashbery, Leopold Stokowski, World War II (1939-1945)
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Review: Zadie Smith's 'NW' a powerful exploration of lives adrift
-------------------- NW A Novel Zadie Smith Penguin: 416 pp., $26.95 -------------------- Zadie Smith's fourth novel, "NW," is a return of sorts to the voices and the northwest London landscape of her 2000 debut, "White Teeth." Like that book, it...
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