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Parsons release a discovered trove
Special to The TimesAmoeba Music in Hollywood is so massive that you can feel overwhelmed. Between the new and used bins in the block-long store, you can find albums by thousands of artists. But if Amoeba co-founder Dave Prinz had to limit his offerings to a single artist,...Tags: Concerts, Country and Western (genre), Entertainment, Music Industry, The Eagles (music group)
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At home among the dead
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterManila -- Sometimes on the hottest nights, when the air inside her shanty barely stirs, Mellie Soliman lays her head on the cool, black marble surface of the living-room crypt and finds relief. Yet the nights are not always restful in this place called...Tags: Entertainment, Health, Arts and Culture, Career and Workplace, Cairo (Egypt)
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'Bury the Dead' at the Actors' Gang
Special to The TimesEvery American war, Gen. Henry Shelton once observed, must pass the "Dover test": the public's ability to tolerate the sight of slain servicemen and women arriving at Dover Air Force Base in flag-draped caskets. Since 1991, however, the Pentagon has...Tags: International Military Interventions, Gang Activity, Wars and Interventions, Death, Armed Forces
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Book with a buried treasure
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe book cost $2 million at auction, but large sections are unreadable. Some of its 348 pages are torn or missing and others are covered with sprawling purple patches of mildew. Sooty edges and water stains indicate a close escape from a fire. "This...Tags: Archimedes, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Health, X-rays, Walters Art Museum
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Rocks around the clock
Special to The TimesThree blown tires. Two burned-out lights. No sleep for 20 hours. It's 3 a.m. at the 24 Hours of Moab mountain-bike race, and a frantic Mike Bahel is on foot, desperately pushing his bike through the freezing Utah canyonlands. The second dead lamp has...Tags: Metallica (music group), Soundgarden (music group), Gaming, Sleep Deprivation, Entertainment
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Crying and Digging
Nancy Rommelmann last wrote for the magazine about Microsoft's Smart Home.For centuries in America, we tended to our dead. People died at home, and relatives prepared the body, laid it out in the parlor and sat by as callers paid final respects. The body was buried in the family cemetery, if there was one, or on the back 40;...Tags: Rivers, Rudolf Steiner, Protestantism, Gaming, Ecosystems
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We can choose the Dead Sea or the living well
If we were to travel west out of Jerusalem we would soon find ourselves going down out of the Judean hills. Reaching the bottomlands we would be in the Jordan Valley. The air would be very hot and sticky. The ground would be baked, dry to the point of...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Religion and Belief
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66 finalists named for lucrative Knight Arts Challenge grants
One of the remarkable things about the 66 finalists announced Monday for the annual Knight Arts Challenge grants is their range, both artistically and geographically. Over the course of five years, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has...
Tags: Entertainment, Literature, Florida International University, Music Industry, Museums
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Promoter has big names coming to play out in the country
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGWhen Rob Hunt moved to Berks County 20 years ago, he says he found the vistas so beautiful it suggested music to him. Literally. Hunt quickly found out he wasn’t alone, and that music was part of the fiber of...... -
Counting down to Lit Fest
(This selection is edited for clarity and length.) Tom Acitelli What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Who is an author you'd like to meet, dead or alive?...
Tags: Julia Child, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), Periodicals, Harry Potter (fictional character), NCIS (tv program)
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Review: Mickey Hart Band helps launch Kempton Music Center
Reading Eagle, Pa.It was like attending a large Memorial Day cookout in a public park. With live music performed by an ensemble led by a former member of the Grateful Dead, of course. Perfectly typical. The Mickey Hart Band brought jams, polyrhythms and even a multi-...Tags: Concerts, Jerry Garcia, Entertainment, Music, Memorial Day
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Men's Rugby: Dead Rabbits suffer stinging loss
Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.Saturday's Southern California Rugby Football Union Division 4 championship match between the Dead Rabbits and the Imperial Beach Stingrays pitted two teams that were only in their third year of competition. The teams split two matches earlier in the...Tags: Football, Sports
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