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Revisiting Federico Garcia Lorca in a novel -- and in the writer's own voice
The great poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was already one of Spain's most popular writers when he was executed by right-wing militiamen in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His body has never been found. The shadowy circumstances...Tags: Poetry, Book, Spain, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture
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Review: "A Curious Man" by Neal Thompson
In 1933, Robert Ripley crash-landed into Chicago, opening his first "Odditorium" exhibition at the World's Fair. At the showing, writes Neal Thompson in “A Curious Man,” a fascinating and fun biography of the "Believe It or Not!" creator,...Tags: The Boston Globe, Robert Ripley, Heart Attack, NBC (tv network), Arts and Culture
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Author Lisa Scottoline talks grief, crabs, podiatry
On paper, Lisa Scottoline is a little intimidating. She's got more than 30 million copies in print of her books, including 20 best-selling novels. She writes a weekly column, with her daughter, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a graduate of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Physical Fitness and Exercise, University of Pennsylvania, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Yale University, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Class Conflict, Graduation
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On Education: James Ellroy enthralls GCC
If anyone worried James Ellroy might dumb down the salty language laced throughout his crime novels for an appearance at Glendale Community College this week, they wouldn't have been disappointed. Within 90 seconds of taking the stage, the author of "L....
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Dallas Willard, Jack Butler, Fredrick McKissack
Dallas Willard Influential Christian philosopher taught at USC for 47 years Dallas Willard, 77, an influential Christian philosopher who taught at USC for 47 years and chaired the philosophy department in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Woodland...Tags: Terry Bradshaw, Philosophy, Football, Champ Bailey, Dialysis
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Pasadena's writer-driven LitFest gets bigger this Saturday
If Los Angeles can have a book festival -- the just-concluded Los Angeles Times Festival of Books -- and even the suburb of nearby Duarte (pop. 21,000) can have one, why not Pasadena? Pasadena is famous for the Rose Parade, Caltech and Jackie Robinson,...
Tags: Festive Events, Jonathan Gold, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Hans M. Wuerth: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people'
When on Jan. 30, 1933, then-German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the country's chancellor, it changed German as well as world history. Twelve years later, Hitler ended his own life, but not before millions of victims had perished. Several...Tags: Nazi Party, Ernest Hemingway, Berlin (Germany), Book, Moravian College
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Benghazi: The Obama spin continues
"Bumps in the road." — President Barack Obama on the unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East that included the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, an information officer, and two Navy SEALS. "Crude and disgusting"… "an...Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Jay Carney, White House, Al-Qaeda
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To do Thursday: Delray's On the Ave, author Ben Greenman and singer Nicole Henry
Books Ben Greenman: "It's not the most-exciting thing to get up in a bookstore and read a book that you wrote," this Miami-raised writer said in a 2011 interview. "It's not as interesting I would guess — though I've never done it — as...
Tags: Music, Delray Beach, Coral Gables, LeBron James, Britney Spears
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Was the Revolutionary War a reactionary war? 'Bunker Hill' reconsiders history.
It turns out the modern incarnation of the tea party may have more in common with the original Boston hell-raisers than people think. Americans have long romanticized the events leading to the Battle of Bunker Hill and the start of the American...
Tags: Armed Forces, Tea Party Movement, Book, Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Hildebrand to perform at St. Mark's on May 19
David Hildebrand will present a concert of Music of the War of 1812 in America, Sunday, May 19, at 4 p.m. at the St. Mark’s Fellowship Center, 18313 Lappans Road, Boonsboro. Call 301-582-0417 or go to www.stmarkslappans.org for more information...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diabetes, Memorial Day, War of 1812
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