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Happy banned books week!
Jacket CopyBanned Books week begins today, runs through October 30, and includes everything from challenged children's books to banned erotica.... -
PST, A to Z: 'Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987' at UAM CSULB
Culture MonsterPacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is...... -
Marshall Lumsden dies at 88; founding editor of West magazine
Marshall Lumsden, the founding editor of West, a Sunday magazine the Los Angeles Times introduced in 1966, died Friday at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica. He was 88.
His death was caused by complications from colon cancer, said his wife, Wini....Tags: World War II (1939-1945), William Saroyan, Colon, Periodicals, Columbia University
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N.Y. union seeks to curb teacher data
The New York City teachers union argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the nation's largest school district should not follow through with its plan to disclose evaluation information about some 12,000 teachers by name, saying it could do...Tags: Human Interest, Teachers, News Agency, Examinations, Teachers Unions
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DVD pirates running rampant in China
Los Angeles TimesPoking around a pirate DVD shop down the block from the Apple Store in central Beijing one recent afternoon on her lunch break, Zhou Xin eyed the floor-to-ceiling selection of Oscar-nominated films, indie flicks and B-movies such as "Nude Nuns With Big...Tags: Academy Awards, Organized Crime, Avatar (movie), Entertainment, Beijing (China)
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Berlin Film Festival focuses on Iran
As the Berlin International Film Festival kicked off last week, the upheaval in Egypt was on everyone's lips here in the German capital. But it was the bitter aftermath of Iran's 2009 populist uprising that truly infused this year's Berlinale.
The...Tags: Film Festivals, Documentary (genre), Social Issues, Tehran (Iran), Elections
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Warner Bros. to distribute films in China on cable TV
In the latest sign of Hollywood's accelerated efforts to expand its presence in the fast-growing Chinese market, Warner Bros. Entertainment has announced plans to offer its movies via cable television there, the first such venture by a major studio....Tags: Film Festivals, Imax Corp., Entertainment, Time Warner Inc., Rupert Murdoch
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Reel China: Targets an elusive film fan — the Chinese American
For years, Chinese films shown in U.S. theaters have fallen into two distinct camps, both driven by largely white patrons: martial-arts movies for young men, such as Jet Li's "Hero," or critically acclaimed art-house fare, such as Kaige Chen's "Farewell...Tags: Film Festivals, Globalization, Organized Crime, Beijing (China), Entertainment
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Struggles of 'City of Life and Death'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAmong the most painful chapters in modern Chinese history is Japan's 1937 invasion of Nanjing. Hundreds of thousands were killed, countless women were raped, and soldiers and civilians alike suffered unspeakable brutalities. So when Chinese writer-...Tags: Sports, Film Festivals, Toronto International Film Festival, Dance, Entertainment
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China's cinematic revolution
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEver since the 1920s, Chinese film history has been grouped into large, monolithic blocks, as imposing as the Great Wall. There's the First Generation of silent-movie pioneers, the Fifth Generation of "post-Maoist humanists," the Sixth Generation that...Tags: Sports, Samuel Beckett, 2016 Olympic Games, Entertainment, Documentary (genre)
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Anatomy of an Afghan war tragedy
Nearly three miles above the rugged hills of central Afghanistan, American eyes silently tracked two SUVs and a pickup truck as they snaked down a dirt road in the pre-dawn darkness.
The vehicles, packed with people, were 3 1/2 miles from a dozen U.S....Tags: Travel, Terrorism, Entertainment, Transportation Industry, Firearms
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New York to release teachers' ratings
The New York City school system announced Wednesday that it will release ratings for nearly 12,000 teachers based on student test scores, potentially giving the public an unprecedented window into the effectiveness of instructors at the nation's largest...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Examinations, Teachers Unions, Elections, Columbia University
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