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Hey Ravens fans! Readings for Purple Friday
As the Baltimore Ravens get ready for this weekend's game, folks are geared up for a special playoff edition of Purple Friday, with colorful sweatshirts, caps, shirts, sweaters, etc. For the bookish, here are some favorite purple titles, to get in the...Tags: Zane Grey, Abusive Behavior, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Reggie Watts brings wooly show to the Mammoth
Reggie Watts' story is much like that of any other comic: He was a class clown, always goofing off and playing jokes on everybody, much to the consternation of his teachers.
But during his youth in Great Falls, Mont., he also was in the school...Tags: Minority Groups, HBO (tv network), Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Conan (tv program)
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Lewis Museum marks sixth year with free events
The story goes that Reginald F. Lewis, the remarkably successful Baltimore-born lawyer, businessman and philanthropist, learned the value of saving money from his grandmother. She gave him a tin cup to hold his earnings from delivering papers when he...Tags: Minority Groups, Maryland, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Arts, Pratt Street
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At Akwaaba B&B, curl up with writers
Sun StaffAuthor Walter Mosley's room is dark and mysterious with midnight-blue walls, black velvet drapes and lamps that shine interrogationlike spotlights across the walls. It's a room befitting the popular creator of a series of detective novels. Toni Morrison'...Tags: Minority Groups, Arts, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Fiction
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'Jitney': Vehicle for a friendship
Sun Theater CriticThe friendship between playwright August Wilson and director Marion McClinton began two decades ago when they both lived in St. Paul, Minn. Since then, Wilson has won two Pulitzer Prizes (for "Fences'' and "The Piano Lesson''), and McClinton has acted...Tags: Poetry, Minority Groups, August Wilson, Death, African Americans
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Walker's 'Color Purple' now onstage
The touring production of "The Color Purple" will bring Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning story to the stage with Miss Celie, Shug Avery, Harpo, Mister and a cast of spirited singers and dancers in gospel, jazz and blues songs including "Push Da...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Entertainment Events, Tony Awards, Awards and Prizes, Music
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‘Pariah’ director Dee Rees' odd path: bunion pads to Spike Lee
24 FramesDee Rees, the writer and director behind the new lesbian coming-of-age film “Pariah,” spent her formative career years marketing panty liners and bunion pads for Procter & Gamble and Dr. Scholl’s before a chance encounter prompted a... -
Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist
Jacket CopyMichael Chabon's choice of the independent Open Road Media for e-book editions of Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys includes a frank -- if not comprehensive -- discussion of royalty rates for authors.... -
Allee Willis goes 'Soup to Nuts'
Pop & HissWillis’ entire career is a testament to the joy of idiosyncrasy, leavened with a serious devotion to artistic craft.... -
Unclassified Info: Thanks for taking part in the debate
What do I have in common with a growing list of authors that include Salman Rushdie, Lemony Snicket, Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker? If you said we’re regulars at Mario’s deli, you’d be wrong. Except in my case, where you would have...Tags: Media Industry, Gloria Steinem, Libraries, Salman Rushdie, Occupy Wall Street
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PEN Center USA 2011 awards to feature Dave Eggers, Robert Pinksy
Jacket CopyThe 2011 PEN Center USA award winners include Father Gregory Boyle. Dave Eggers and Robert Pinsky will be special honorees at the November awards dinner.... -
Zora Neale Hurston festival gets change in leadership
In the two decades since Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker kicked off Eatonville's first Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts in 1990, the annual January event has grown from a few hundred visitors to more than 100,000.
It started as a way to...Tags: File Sharing, Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston, Business Enterprises, Charity
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