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Gaithersburg is a small-town oasis in suburban sprawl
Special To The SunHidden amid big-box stores and chain restaurants lies the real Gaithersburg, a diverse Montgomery County community that has a storied history. It's hard to imagine in today's suburban sprawl, but Gaithersburg was once a rural summer home for Washington...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Gaming, Furniture, Sandwiches, Foods and Beverages
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Review: With 'Dulce Rosa,' L.A. Opera takes its show on the road
This review has been updated. See below for details. While the proposed “subway to the sea” may be decades away if it ever comes, Los Angeles Opera isn’t waiting for it to happen. The company is making the trek from downtown...
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Metropolitan Opera disbands ballet company, gives dancers buyouts
It’s the end of an artistic era: After more than a century, the Metropolitan Opera has disbanded its ballet with a modern-day buyout. The eight remaining members of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, down from 16 in 2011, agreed Monday to leave the...
Tags: Dance, Culture, Entertainment Events
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'Dulce Rosa': An Isabel Allende tale turns operatic
Composer Lee Holdridge says his new opera, "Dulce Rosa," hits "very close to home" for him in several ways. First, as a native Latin American. Second, as the son of a passionate, indomitable woman. And, third, as a lifelong aficionado of stage drama...
Tags: Mexico, Costa Rica, Music Industry, New York City
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LeaLA aims high and wide in 2013 Spanish book festival
The organizers of the LéaLA Spanish-language book fair want to make the annual event in Los Angeles one of the biggest book gatherings in the United States. The schedule announced Tuesday for this year’s event makes the organizers’ ambitions...
Tags: Mexico, Book, Literature, Authors
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Isabel Allende, a life of letters
Somewhere between her Chilean family's life-or-death political realities and its intuitive, fantastical imagination is where Isabel Allende writes. Where she lives is the Bay Area, arriving in California about 25 years ago with a famous surname she's gone...
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What to read in limbo: a peek at the Guantanamo prison library
If you’re stuck in a cell — and in legal limbo — for an undefined period that might be forever, what do you do? You read, of course. The library at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was established during the Bush administration, in...
Tags: Libraries, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, The New York Times, Fiction, The Miami Herald
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A teen's quest for self-discovery in 'Maya's Notebook'
Whatever happened to magic realism? The question arises when dipping into "Maya's Notebook," Isabel Allende's bruising, cinematically vivid new novel. It's an exercise in gritty realism rather than the fanciful folkloricism that Allende has been known...
Tags: Book, Junot Diaz, FBI, Interpol, Cocaine
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Review: "Maya's Notebook" by Isabel Allende
As Maya Vidal writhes on a filthy mattress, hog-tied with an electrical cord, she wonders how much worse this confinement by killers is going to get once the pangs of her drug addictions kick in. Readers of Isabel Allende's new novel, “Maya's...
Tags: Chile, Chicago Sun-Times, Blackmail and Extortion
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Review: 'A Fierce Green Fire' recounts environmental struggle
A kind of crash course in 50-plus years of environmentalism, the documentary "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet," adapted from the book by Philip Shabecoff, proves a worthy reminder of how much has been done to help heal our planet's...
Tags: Meryl Streep, Earth Day, Greenpeace, Ashley Judd, Movies
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Anna Deavere Smith wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Anna Deavere Smith, famed for creating one-woman, documentary theater pieces about taut social issues in which she portrays multiple people she’s interviewed, has won the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the most lucrative awards in...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Rodney King, Fine Artists, New York University, Crown Heights
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