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South Florida engineer becomes Obama's chosen poet
On a sunny South Miami morning, Richard Blanco took the podium at a groundbreaking ceremony for his latest project on Sunset Drive. It was spring 2008, and Blanco had directed the renovation of the busy avenue, urbanizing the stretch that serves as the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, South Miami, The New York Times, Georgetown University, Education
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Richard Blanco discusses his Inauguration Day poetry reading
When Richard Blanco was named as the 2013 inaugural poet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith said in an email that the White House had made an ideal choice, citing the scope of his poems, "their beautiful fidelity to private experience, to...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Bill Clinton, Authors
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Sundance darlings eye alternative distribution platforms
Not that long ago, premiering a star-driven Sundance Film Festival movie on a video-on-demand channel was an admission of failure. But last year's festival produced two huge on-demand hits, Richard Gere's crime drama "Arbitrage" and Kirsten Dunst's...Tags: Sweetwater, Shia LaBeouf, Daniel Radcliffe, Entertainment, Lobbying
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'Lovelace' helmers to make Oscars documentary for TCM
EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Awards get a fair amount of coverage (and then some) from Web prognosticators. But a full documentary treatment is a much rarer thing. That’s the effort the decorated documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Harvey Milk, Entertainment, Academy Awards, Amanda Seyfried
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Your 2013 Sundance reading list
The Sundance Film Festival is well under way, giving us a preview of the independent features that may soon be coming to screens near us. The mix is interesting and sexy this year, and includes a good share of auteurs who've both written and directed...
Tags: Shailene Woodley, Josh Lucas, Daniel Radcliffe, Denis O'Hare, Entertainment
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Monday Morning Coffee: For NePa's Blake, a key role in helping distressed cities.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're back in the office for our first day of work after a protracted holiday break. And while we didn't exactly slack our way through the holidays, today represents the first time we'll be flexing...... -
Two local actors to have films premiere at Sundance
TV WatchersAllen grad Amanda Seyfried and Emmaus grad Dean DeHaan will both see recent films have their premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah. Amanda's "Lovelace" and Dean's "Kill Your Darlings" are among the 115 films...... -
Film review: 'On the Road' to a Razzie
It's long been said that Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" is unfilmable. Sadly, there is little in Walter Salles' adaptation to counter that notion. Salles has displayed his filmmaking chops in (among others) “Central Station” and “...
Tags: Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, On the Road (movie), Entertainment, Walter Salles
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The Hudson and 'On the Road' are finally in gear
From inside the rocket-shaped time capsule of a silver 1949 Hudson Super Six, West Hollywood looked astonishingly modern to Brazilian director Walter Salles. Salles, who has devoted the last eight years to adapting Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" for the...
Tags: Documentary (genre), Viggo Mortensen, Entertainment, Lobbying, Travel
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Review: 'On the Road' is achingly romantic
There are as many visions of "On the Road," novelist Jack Kerouac's vivid anthem to the romance of youthful freedom and the getting of experience as there are readers. It's a book so influential yet so personal that each succeeding generation since its...
Tags: Literature, Viggo Mortensen, Entertainment, Walter Salles, Ken Kesey
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Poet Jack Gilbert has died
The poet Jack Gilbert, who had been battling dementia for many years, died Tuesday in Berkeley. He was 87. Gilbert -- who was featured in Monday's L.A. Times -- had been in frail condition at a nursing home for several years before he developed...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Poetry, Awards and Prizes, Alzheimer's Disease
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Karl Rove likes reading Jorge Luis Borges. Yes, that Karl Rove.
Karl Rove: Fox News commentator, conservative who caused consternation on election night, major Republican strategist. And fan of metafictional writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yes, really. The news comes from Rove's own website (via Twitter). Since 2010, Rove...
Tags: Jorge Luis Borges, Twitter, Inc., Fox News Channel (tv network), Authors, Media Industry
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