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New York Real Estate: Morningside Heights
Special to amNewYorkDubbed New York's "Academic Acropolis" because of the many schools that call the area home, Morningside Heights boasts a vibrancy and diversity infused with the spirit of higher education. The area's largest employer and landlord, Columbia University,...Tags: Subway Transportation, Transportation, Subway Transportation Industry, Groucho Marx, Real Estate Agents
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He's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verse
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAugust Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings. Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler's...Tags: Charles Bukowski, Corporate Crime, Natalie Portman, Rentals, Fraud
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'Still Alive! A Temporary Condition' by Herbert Gold
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 23, 2008 If America had the literary culture it ought to have, every city would have a writer like Herbert Gold. They would be rooted rather than regional. Their sensibility would be cosmopolitan rather than provincial, though their focus would...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Mark Twain, Saul Bellow, Philosophy, Henry Miller
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Lennon 'Peace' lyrics sell at auction for $833,654
Christie's auction house has sold John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" for $833,654. The lyrics were written during Lennon's 1969 Bed-in protest for peace at the Queens Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Christie's spokeswoman Zoe...Tags: John Lennon, Petula Clark, Poetry, Auction Service
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MYSTIC RHYTHMS
The Associated PressIt was 1961, and Allen Ginsberg was in search of life's meaning. His quest would lead him to the gurus and ashrams of India, to its streets and heady opium dens. It is a journey that Deborah Baker tells through journals, letters, memoirs and other...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, David Amram, Medicine, Religious Leaders
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A Prophet returns
A writer's ideas are his legacy. After he dies, it's up to executors, heirs, lawyers, agents and colleagues to keep them alive -- and perhaps especially up to us, the readers, to thread those ideas through the weave of history, the passage of time, our...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Sales, Photography, Fiction, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Beat Poetry Festival Underway Around The State
This is the week of the Connecticut Beat Poetry Festival. From now through Sunday, various venues throughout the state will host readings, most of which have specific themes. On Saturday, three venues in Middletown will host poets. At 2:30 p.m. in The...Tags: Charles Bukowski, Wesleyan University, Buddhism, Poetry, Sacred Heart University
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Is it back to the Westside for Tom Arnold?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNot unlike Saul Steinberg's famous 1976 New Yorker magazine cover illustration called "View of the World From 9th Avenue," there are those who see the Westside of Los Angeles as the center of the universe -- and every place else is, well, elsewhere. Now,...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Sales, Real Estate Sellers, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Jimmy Fallon
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"A Blue Hand" by Deborah Baker
By Wendy Smith nyone familiar with "In Extremis," her Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of poet Laura Riding, knows Deborah Baker has little interest in conventional lives or conventional narrative. Her new book, "A Blue Hand," which mostly follows...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, Illnesses, Gary Snyder, Philosophy
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6 countries to stretch your $$$
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles TimesLonging for an out-of-country excursion but feeling a little poor because you have only dollars in your pocket? Even with the fast-eroding value of the dollar against other currencies, you still can find international destinations where your buck goes a...Tags: Forests, Economy, Poverty, Television Industry, Tangier
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Novelist Norman Mailer Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNovember 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...Tags: Alfred Kazin, John F. Kennedy, John Dos Passos, Awards and Prizes, Joan Didion
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City Living: Ozone Park, Queens
Special to amNewYorkIn 1880, when Benjamin W. Hitchcock and Charles C. Denton first began slicing up Ozone Park, they chose the community's name to remind potential buyers of the salty breezes blowing in from the Atlantic Ocean. Ozone Park today enjoys a rich history --it's...Tags: Long Island, Eliot Spitzer, Consumer Electronics Industry, Sales, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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