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City Lights: The Poet Laureate of reader comments
Last week, Times Community News got a surprise visit from a poet. No, Rita Dove or Mark Strand didn't stop by the newsroom. But our story on DrunkRescue, a new Huntington Beach business that offers rides home for out-on-the-town drunks, got an online...Tags: Whitney Houston, Petroleum Industry, Ogden Nash, Rita Dove, Orange County Register
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Geraldine R. Dodge poetry festival begins Thursday
Jacket CopyWhen the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival kicks off Thursday night, some in the crowd will remember that it almost didn't happen. The nation's largest all-poetry festival -- lasting four days, with almost 20,000 attendees -- was nearly a victim...... -
'Essays' by Wallace Shawn
Theater CriticArtists are in the business of simultaneously de-familiarizing and re-familiarizing us with the world around us. "Habit is a great deadener," Samuel Beckett explained, and art lends us a new pair of spectacles with which to view reality anew. Reading...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Wars and Interventions, Noam Chomsky, Death, The New York Times
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Obama's candid, uh, conversation with House Republicans and how to read it
Top of the TicketDemocratic president meets, speaks, takes questions and gives back candid replies to probably his harshest Washington critics.... -
Book calendar for the week of Feb. 9, 2009
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Toby Barlow The author of "Sharp Teeth" will present and sign his debut novel. Diesel Bookstore, 225 26th St., L.A. 3 p.m. Free. (310) 576-9960.
Norman Klein, Margo Bistis and Andrea Kratky Tom Lesser will moderate a discussion featuring the...Tags: Ray Bradbury, Libraries, The Daily Show (tv program), Academy Awards, Colleges and Universities
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Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: Sociology, Harry Potter (fictional character), Truman Capote, Knut Hamsun, Rosie O'Donnell
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