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Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure
Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...
Tags: Bruce Norris, Imperial and Royal Matters, Charles, Prince of Wales, PBS (tv network), Colleges and Universities
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Sanford and Hicks go to Congress, The CIA goes to Hollywood and CNN stays put
Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been elected to the House (or at least that's where we hear he's going). Welcome to your trends report for Monday, May 8, 2013. Sanford will head to Capitol Hill after facing off against Elizabeth...
Tags: New York Knicks, Twitter, Inc., Oxygen (tv network), Government, Osama bin Laden
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NPR was, well, different early Monday morning in Baltimore
The Baltimore SunTechnical difficulties, as they euphemistically say in broadcasting, left some NPR affiliates like Baltimore's WYPR scrambling Monday morning. WYPR confirmed that it had problems with the National Public Radio feed Monday. WTMD General Manager Steve...Tags: Radio, NPR
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'House of Cards' show-runner to visit Towson University
The folks at "House of Cards" sure love the Baltimore area. Not only is the majority of the political thriller filmed in and around the city (and, full disclosure, in The Baltimore Sun newsroom), now the show's head honcho, Beau Willimon, is slated to...
Tags: House of Cards (tv program)
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How come we don't hear about 'conservative media bias'?
Liberal media bias. So incessant is this complaint from conservatives that the three words string together as one, like Holy Roman Empire. But like the old saw about that infamous regime being neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, liberal media bias...
Tags: NPR, Book, Rick Santorum, Periodicals, Freedom of the Press
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Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky to give recital for Washington Performing Arts Society
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the Russian baritone who will give a recital for the Washington Performing Arts Society at the Kennedy Center Wednesday night, has one of the finest voices of our time. He doesn’t mind saying so himself. “It is still a...
Tags: Russia, Music, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, People (magazine)
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Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the umpteen conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through...
Tags: All in the Family (tv program) , The Wire (tv program), Patrick Goldstein, Avatar (movie), Abortion Issue
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Kevin Spacey brings star power to 'House of Cards'
It was a steamy weeknight in July on Centre Street, and the extras in black tie were flagging. The $100 million series "House of Cards" was prepping a crowd scene outside the Peabody Institute, across from the Midtown BBQ & Brew. For more than two hours,...
Tags: Kevin Spacey, Charles Dickens, Television, Netflix Inc., Celebrities
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Of course Al Jazeera has a bias, but it's not what most critics think
The Baltimore SunReading some of the nutty coverage of Al Jazeera's purchase of Current TV from Al Gore, I am not sure whether the problem is ideology or ignorance when it comes to the sorry state of media criticism today. Last week, I explained why I thought Al...Tags: Current TV (tv network), Television, Frontline Limited, Al Jazeera (tv network), Television Industry
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Groundhog Day in Gaza
In the film "Groundhog Day," Bill Murray wakes up each morning and relives the previous day. A similar scenario is playing out in the Middle East between Israel and her enemies. The deadly "movie" always goes like this: Israel is shelled or attacked...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Iran, United Nations, Hamas, Islam
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The ripple effect of the arts
Popular among economists, sociologists and software engineers, the phrase "ripple effect" has also been adopted by arts and cultural thought leaders to describe the powerful impact of the creative sector on our shared communities. Here at Center Stage,...
Tags: Arts, Anna Deavere Smith, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Los Angeles Times, Neil LaBute
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Secure the borders, but let's not lock the doors
Since the beginning of the republic, there has been a dynamic tension between constantly expanding diversity driven by immigration and the relentless homogenizing force of common American culture. And there's nothing like a long drive on an interstate...
Tags: Music Industry, Starbucks Corp., Mariah Carey, NPR, Highway Transportation
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