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Annual Hay Festival is one for the books
The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...Tags: Festive Event, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Jonathan Coe, John Irving
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Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves in the cast of 'Margaret Garner'
Tribune criticCasting has been announced for the Chicago premiere of the opera "Margaret Garner," which the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University will present Nov. 1-9 in association with Michigan Opera Theatre. Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, for whom composer...Tags: Roosevelt University, Jason Collins, Music Theater, Torrance, Classical Music
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'Who's who' in New Jersey Hall of Fame
TRENTON, N.J. — What comes to mind when you think about Yogi Berra, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Toni Morrison ? Did you guess New Jersey? They all have strong ties to the Garden State, and they're among the first 15 people to be inducted...Tags: Yogi Berra, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Albert Einstein, Meryl Streep
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Theater Of Color
Courant Staff WriterWhat's the most popular play on Broadway? It's not Pulitzer Prize winner "August: Osage County," or "Macbeth," starring Patrick Stewart. It's the all-black cast production of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," whose weekly grosses have hit...Tags: TheaterWorks, Minority Groups, August Wilson, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Hartford Stage
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The Boss, Sinatra among N.J. Hall of Fame's first inductees
Pop quiz: What comes to mind when you think about Yogi Berra, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Toni Morrison? Brilliant minds, inspiring souls, trailblazers -- all are likely responses.
And ... New Jersey?
Yep. They all have strong ties to the oft-...Tags: Yogi Berra, Bill Bradley, Bruce Springsteen, National Football League, The White House
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Fox honcho says no one dies in 'Sex and the City'
Baltimore SunPeople keep asking me if someone dies in the Sex and the City movie? The answer is No. No one's even sick, for that matter. This is an urban myth. All the characters remain alive and breathing ready for a sequel, or a sequin. Is there a happy ending?...Tags: Carole King, Jose Saramago, Film Festivals, Amy Winehouse, Awards and Prizes
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'Ballad of Emmett Till' comes to stage at a momentous time
Tribune criticWho was Emmett Till of Chicago? A boy? A man? A metaphor? A mutilated corpse on the pages of Jet magazine? A catalyst for a civil rights movement that changed the face of a nation? All of the above? Even nearly 53 years after his 14-year-old body washed...Tags: Poetry, Minority Groups, Folk Music, Death and Dying, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Ted Kennedy endorses Obama, citing his 'extraordinary gifts'
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersDeclaring that "it is time for a new generation of leadership" in America, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president Monday, wrapping the young politician in the mantle of America's best-known political dynasty. He was joined in a...Tags: Government, Patrick J Kennedy, Primaries, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, George Bush
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Bill Clinton finds role to help wife's campaign
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - This small Western hamlet, best known for a bloody race riot involving white and Chinese coal miners in 1885, might not be the first place one would expect to find the former leader of the free world. But here was Bill Clinton,...Tags: Government, National Government, The White House, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
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Debate gets fiercely personal
Tribune correspondentsMYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—The smoldering acrimony between the Democratic presidential front-runners flared openly as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded charges in a debate Monday about who is dishonest, who is cowardly and who is doing the bidding...Tags: South Side, Martin Luther King Jr., Health Treatments, Government, Minority Groups
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