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Friends of the Library: Help libraries create a city of learners
"A democratic society in the knowledge age demands that its citizens learn continually, adapt to change readily, and evaluate information critically … U.S. museums and libraries are at the forefront in the movement to create a nation of learners. As...Tags: Arts and Culture, Landforms, Museums, Libraries, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Mesa Musings: Novels are a labor of love and then some
Over the last two years I've written the equivalent of a novel. I say "equivalent" because I haven't actually produced a novel. My claim is a bit like the guy who went to a batting cage, slapped 20 grounders, and claimed he'd hit the "equivalent" of a...Tags: Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crimes, Espionage and Intelligence, Restaurants
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Watch the 1st 14 minutes of Syfy's 'Defiance'
RedEyeSyfy's new space Western "Defiance" premieres April 15, but you can see almost 15 minutes of the post apocalyptic series right here! The show is set in a near-future Earth that has been destroyed by warring alien races, but then rebuilt and shared by...Tags: Tony Curran, Mia Kirshner, Syfy (tv network), Julie Benz, here! (tv network)
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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Grimm' on NBC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 24 - 30, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Fashion Star The designers must create...
Tags: Interior Policy, Halle Berry, Allergies, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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Books for Lent
Lent's mortifications are getting a little, um, much right about now, aren't they? We're in 33 days, by the Western church's count, and those meatless Fridays, those extra prayers, and that seemingly fabulous idea at the time (one too many hurricanes on...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Authors, Lent, Mardi Gras, Christian Orthodoxy
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'Treasure Island' author Robert Louis Stevenson returns
A brief, long-lost essay by "Treasure Island" author Robert Louis Stevenson will be published on Friday, the Associated Press reports. The essay will appear in the Strand magazine, a mystery fiction quarterly out of Birmingham, Mich. The Strand has...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Mark Twain, Authors, Fiction, Literature
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Mohsin Hamid comes home to roost in Pakistan
Many of the characters in Mohsin Hamid's novels are cultural nomads, hopscotching between the Islamic world and the Western capitalist world, the spiritual and the material, Urdu and English, the undernourished countryside and the teeming mega-city. It'...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), England, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (movie), Heroin, Authors
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“Parade’s End”: HBO miniseries showcases World War I’s effect on British society
Channel Guide MagazineParade's End airs over three nights on HBO, Feb. 26-28. Parade's End HBO Part 1: Feb. 26, 9pm Part 2: Feb. 26, 10:05pm Part 3: Feb. 27, 9pm Part 4: Feb. 28, 10:05pm Part 5: Feb. 28, 9pm What is it that’s so fascinating about pre-World War I Britain?... -
Self-help for the literary set
The great theorist of psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan envisioned desire as “caught in the rails of metonymy, eternally extending toward the desire for something else.” In the rhetorical figure of metonymy, a signifier points toward something...
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Matthew Macfadyen hunts Jack the Ripper in BBC America’s “Ripper Street”
Channel Guide MagazineWhitechapel, London, 1889. The time and the place are synonymous with the most infamous unsolved murder cases in history, and they’re the setting for this new series coming to BBC America’s Dramaville beginning January 19. Matthew Macfadyen... -
‘Following,’ ‘Bates Motel,’ ‘Defiance’: Next in promising genre TV
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.com“Fringe” might have just concluded its run last week with an emotional two-hour finale, but that's hardly reason for discerning ...... -
In 'Restless,' William Boyd spies overlooked World War II chapter
British novelist and screenwriter William Boyd doesn't buy the conventional wisdom that a writer should never adapt his own books. His long list of industry credits includes scripts based on his own work (the miniseries "Any Human Heart"), novels by the...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Manhattan (New York City), Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment
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