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Harold Norse dies at 92; Beat poet was a literary beacon in the gay community
Harold Norse, a San Francisco poet often associated with the Beats, who was mentor or peer to many of the greatest talents in 20th century American literature, including Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski, has died....Tags: Brion Gysin, History, New York, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Jack Kerouac
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When famous writers feud
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are not the only literary friends to see their relationship go cold. Indeed, the history of literature is a history of betrayals, of writers turning on each other and collaborations falling apart. Below, we give...Tags: Jack Kerouac, French Literature, Punishment, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Crime, Law and Justice
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'The Peep Diaries': Everybody's watching
Three years before Sept. 11, 2001, I attended the eighth annual Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference in Austin, Texas, and listened to Don Haines of the American Civil Liberties Union give a lunchtime talk called "Is Big Brother Watching You?"...Tags: Los Angeles, South Carolina, Criminals, Bill Clinton, Electronics
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Jim Carroll dies at 60; poet and punk rocker wrote about travails in 'The Basketball Diaries'
Jim Carroll, a poet and punk rocker whose wry tales of rocky adolescence as an athlete-turned-junkie in the 1978 memoir "The Basketball Diaries" resonated deeply with a generation of disaffected youths, died Friday at his home in New York City. He was 60....Tags: Keith Richards, Jim Carroll, Basketball, Jack Kerouac, Patti Smith
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Turn It Up
TÊTE-à-TÊTE: GREG KURSTIN
Think of him as a Swiss Army knife of the music industry. This Los Angelesbased multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer has worked with artists as diverse as Ben Harper, Janes Addiction, Kylie Minogue and Pink. His most...Tags: Wilco (music group), YouTube, New York, Music Industry, Lily Allen
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James Franco as Allen Ginsberg: Tonight at Sundance
Jacket CopyBeat fans in Park City will be lining up tonight to see "Howl," the film about Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem and the censorship fight around it, starring James Franco. It's one of 16 films in dramatic competition at the Sundance...... -
Live review: Justin Townes Earle at the Echo
Pop & HissSteve Earle's son's stripped-down songs run the emotional gamut. Justin Townes Earle is a young man of awesome traditions, who signifies his heritage every time he signs his name. Talent isn't a genetic trait that can be inherited, but Earle...... -
Hot Property: James Franco sells Sunset Strip compound for $3.3 million
Money & CompanyActor James Franco, who plays Allen Ginsberg in the film "Howl," has sold his Sunset Strip-area compound for $3.3 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows. The Spanish-style villa, built in 1923, has three bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms in 4,000...... -
Whoa dude, it's the Grateful Dead with Washington and Lincoln
Culture MonsterDennis Larkins can be forgiven his feeling of déjà -vu, as he strolls through the new Grateful Dead exhibit at the New York Historical Society. Thirty years ago, he and Peter Barsotti created an iconic poster for the bandâs 1980 shows...... -
Site of Venice West Cafe, Beat Generation hangout, designated city landmark
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles City Council on Friday approved a new city landmark -- a Venice building that from 1958 to 1966 was a hangout for disciples of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other Beat Generation pioneers who planted the seeds...... -
The ballad of a classic guitar shop
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMost Southland music fans know McCabe's Guitar Shop for the innumerable folk, country, blues, jazz and world-music concerts presented over the decades in the tiny back stockroom that can hold about 150 folding chairs when all the instrument cases are...Tags: Jack Elliott, Jackson Browne, Los Lobos (music group), University of California, Los Angeles, Music Industry
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He's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verse
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAugust Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings. Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler's...Tags: Corporate Crime, Charles Bukowski, Suicide, Natalie Portman, Colleges and Universities
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