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A Hammett anniversary run
The Baltimore SunI have enjoyed a run through some of the Baltimore sites related to famous mystery author Dashiell Hammett, just in time for the 50th anniversary of his death, which will be Monday. Here's how it goes: I start my Saturday run at the Baltimore Sun...Tags: Courtland, Mount Royal, Charles Street, Mystery (genre), Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
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A who's who of Maryland (abridged)
Special to Baltimoresun.comWhile you may be coming to Maryland to earn your fame and fortune, the majority of the Free State natives listed below took their talents elsewhere. The exceptions are marked with asterisks. Actors/actresses Bess Armstrong, John Astin, John Wilkes Booth,...Tags: Al Kaline, Jada Pinkett Smith, Leon Day, Migration, Spiro Agnew
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Crowded Kitchen Players marks 50 shows with its first musical, "Animal Crackers"
The Marx Brothers and the Crowded Kitchen Players have a lot in common. Like the late Brothers, the Quakertown-based theater group is irreverent, outlandish, bawdy and has put in years of hard work to earn its laughs. So "Animal Crackers," the basis...
Tags: Movies, The Pennsylvania State University, The Front Page (movie), Music Theater, Celebrities
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Bad writers are off to good start
This and that: •Entries have been pouring in for my local version of San Jose State University's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, created in memory of Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. The goal is to write the worst possible first...Tags: South Whitehall Township, Jamie Moyer, Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Coca-Cola Co., Allentown
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IMAGE Wanton Ways
LA Times MagazineMysterious scents of noir fiction sure to liberate your own inner femme fatale... -
Ten Most Wanted
LA Times MagazineA year in crime fiction, curated by Mysterious Bookshop maestro Otto Penzler... -
Go away with Samuel Park
Tribune Media ServicesBorn in Sao Paulo, Brazil to Korean parents, author Samuel Park, who now resides in the United States, enjoys dual citizenship. "I left Brazil at age 14 (for Los Angeles), so my Portuguese is pretty fluent, even though I don't have any Portuguese-speaking...Tags: Brazil, Colleges and Universities, Manhattan (New York City), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts
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Martin Poll dies at 89
VarietyProducer Martin Poll, best known for producing 1968's "The Lion in Winter," starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, died of natural causes on April 14. He was 89. "The Lion in Winter" received nine Academy Award nominations and won three. Poll...Tags: Jeff Bridges, James Coburn, CBS Corp., Burt Reynolds, Sidney Lumet
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Oscars by the Numbers
LA Times MagazineSurprising stats from the most famous awards show of them all... -
Interview: When 'L.A. Noir' meets 'The Walking Dead'
Jacket CopyThe author of the true chronicle of mid-century mobsters and cops talks about his book being developed for TV by Frank Darabont, who breathed life into the zombie story "The Walking Dead."... -
Tough guys, unite
Cultural criticCornell Woolrich (1903-1968) knew his way around two things: rock-hard prose and stone-cold corpses. He was a wizardly writer of mysteries, a man who could ratchet up the menace and dread by steady, excruciating degrees. His sentences were of the...Tags: Julia Keller, Mystery (genre), Alfred Hitchcock, Agatha Christie, Newspaper and Magazine
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Friends of the Library: Leece to speak at annual meeting
"Got Books?" will be the title of a speech by Costa Mesa City Councilwoman Wendy Leece, when she appears as the featured speaker at the Friends of the Costa Mesa Libraries annual meeting. The event will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Mesa Verde United...Tags: Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Crime (genre), Computing and Information Technology Industry, Libraries, Landforms
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