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History of UCI commune to be displayed
UC Irvine — The year was 1968. The Age of Aquarius was in full swing. The Tet offensive was pushing forward. And, Joan Didion's "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" was published. It was amid this period of cultural and political upheaval that UCI ,...
Tags: Culture, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Education, Arts
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5 Questions for Candace Nelson
Daily Dish5 Questions for Candace Nelson of Sprinkles Cupcakes... -
Carol Burnett to publish memoir about her daughter
Jacket CopySimon & Schuster will publish a memoir by Carol Burnett of her relationship with her daughter, who died of cancer in 2002.... -
Rodriguez: L.A.'s way is the freeway
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's office released a mildly amusing list of 53 suggestions for surviving "Carmageddon," one for every hour the 405 will be closed this weekend between the 10 and the 101. In the hope that you'll stay off the...Tags: Transportation, Road Transportation, Science and Technology, Traffic, Los Angeles International Airport
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Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYou're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles — not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Mountains. This means you'll be well-fed, well-rested and...Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, 12 (movie, 2007), Photography and Video, Italy, David Hockney
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Philanthropist gives away more than $331 million with hands-on approach
Tribune staff reporterAnn Lurie isn't very good at being merely a name etched in granite. Take the coming fundraising gala to celebrate the completion of the new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, a 1.25 million-square-foot facility in Streeterville with...Tags: Charity, Colleges and Universities, Kenya, Companies and Corporations, Realty
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'The Guardians: An Elegy' by Sarah Manguso
Tribune NewspapersThe Guardians: An Elegy Sarah Manguso Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 128 pp., $20 For more than a year, I've been on a reader's grief patrol. Memoir about a mother dying of cancer? Story of a husband's stroke? Taking care of a declining relative on a...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Suicide, Central Park, Manhattan (New York City)
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Thomas Kinkade's artistic legacy up for grabs
The death of popular artist Thomas Kinkade is certain to ignite controversy regarding the painter’s legacy. Known for his renderings of luminous landscapes and street scenes, often captured at twilight, the so-called painter of light, a Christian...Tags: Landforms, Mountains, Arts and Culture, Albert Bierstadt, Los Angeles Times
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Beautifully packaged reads
Abuse, betrayal, addiction and grief form the base for memoirs these days — even beautiful ones like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. But Swim: Why We Love the Water, by pioneering TV news correspondent Lynn Sherr, breaks from the...
Tags: Health, Chicago Tribune
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Lessons of 'Arborgeddon'
There's a part of us that secretly likes disasters. Well, maybe not so secretly. That's why Joan Didion's famous riff on the Santa Ana winds — "the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse" — is hauled out several times a year to explain what L....Tags: Natural Disasters, Netherlands, Los Angeles Times
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The Chicago Tribune's favorite books of 2011
As 2011 comes to a close, we take a minute to reflect on the year's best in the world of publishing. Here is the list of our favorites, all published this year: FICTION "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain This gorgeous novel portrays the whirlwind...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Companies and Corporations, Amanda Foreman, Terrorism, Politics
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Christopher Hitchens dies
Christopher Hitchens, the author and Vanity Fair essayist, has died at age 62. Erik Wemple's blog in the Washington Post strings together some memorable tributes to Hitchens, whose writing talents were equalled by his ability to drink others under the...Tags: The Washington Post, Cancer, The New York Times, Osama bin Laden, Christopher Hitchens
Jul 17, 2012
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May 29, 2012
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May 22, 2012
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Jul 9, 2011
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Sep 25, 2011
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Apr 9, 2012
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Mar 18, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 7, 2012
|Story| Glendale News Press
Apr 15, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Dec 15, 2011
|Story| Glendale News Press
Dec 16, 2011
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Dec 16, 2011
| Baltimore Sun
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