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Brad Paisley takes sonic twist on new album, explains 'Accidental Racist'
“For me it's no fun to be a predictable guy in music,” says Brad Paisley. Indeed, the country star delivers the unexpected with his ambitious new release “Wheelhouse” (Arista Nashville). The 17-track album is crammed with the...
Tags: Andy Griffith, Kill Bill (movie), Starbucks Corp., Music Industry, Brad Paisley
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U.S., county celebrated bicentennials in 1976
"Rediscover America 1976 Bicentennial Celebration, United States of America-Washington County, Maryland, 1776-1976" was the full name of an event that would involve most of the members of the Washington County Historical Society and the community, as a...Tags: Washington, DC, Festive Events, Culture, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Review: 'Mud' is a triumph for Matthew McConaughey, Jeff Nichols
"Do you love her?" Wistful and hoping for a yes, the rough-hewn Arkansas boy who asks that question can't quite hold the gaze of the stranger, but his voice is insistent. The question comes early in "Mud" and will haunt the 14-year-old and the movie...Tags: Joe Don Baker, Movies, Ray McKinnon, Reese Witherspoon, The Tree of Life (movie)
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'Mud': Matthew McConaughey evokes Newman and McQueen
In "Mud," an evocative highlight of the American movie year so far, Matthew McConaughey slips easily into the role of a haunted, lovelorn killer on the lam, hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River along the Arkansas Delta region. Two...
Tags: Movies, Ray McKinnon, Reese Witherspoon, The Tree of Life (movie), Central Intelligence Agency
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Politicians have a knack for turning indignity into opportunity
Mark Twain noticed that a cat that sits on a hot stove once will never sit on it again. But, he said, it won’t sit on a cold stove, either. Politics is different, because in politics we discover the opposite extreme is true. Having sat on a hot...
Tags: Politics, Anthony D. Weiner, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, The Herald-Mail, New York City
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VOD Spotlight: Matt Damon and John Krasinski in “Promised Land”
Channel Guide MagazineWhen Matt Damon and John Krasinski set out to bring what Krasinski calls an “exploration of modern-day American identity” to moviegoers, the pair zeroed in on a tableau happening across the land — rural communities mired in economic... -
Orlando Repertory Theatre opens 'Tom Sawyer'
Orlando Repertory Theatre continues its 10th-birthday season with "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," which opens Saturday. Based on the novel by Mark Twain, this version for young audiences was and conceived and written by Ken Ludwig of "Lend Me a Tenor"...
Tags: Theater, Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Music
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Extra, extra! 'Illegal immigrant' and other language changes
For U.S. reporters and editors, the term “illegal immigrant” looks to be going the way of the eight-track tape. The Associated Press is the news service that prompted Mark Twain to say, “There are only two forces that can carry light...
Tags: Politics, Republic of Ireland, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, The Associated Press
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Kingsley Guy: South Florida economic future looks good
As Mark Twain noted, history doesn't repeat itself, but "sometimes it rhymes," and South Florida may be in for one of those rhyming moments as it emerges from the economic doldrums of the past half decade. Turn the clock back a hundred years: Henry...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Port Everglades, Railway Industry, Rick Scott, Labor Markets
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Literature's greatest hits
Name your favorite, the one book that most sticks in your mind. Over nearly four years, photographer Catherine Wagner made that request of friends, acquaintances and outright strangers. She kept a tally on her iPhone and turned the top vote-getters into...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Apple iPhone, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Photography
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A Hollywood of the mind
Specktor will appear at the Festival of Books on Sunday at noon on the panel "Fiction: Inside Hollywood" with Adam Braver, Alex Espinoza and Nina Revoyr. More information: latimes.com/festivalofbooks Matthew Specktor knows the offices of talent agency...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Authors
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'The Accursed' by Joyce Carol Oates: An engrossing throwback
In her long and famously prolific career as a novelist, Joyce Carol Oates has worked in many different modes, from the social realism of her National Book Award-winning "them" (1969) and the neo-Gothic storytelling of "Bellefleur" (1980) to the...
Tags: Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Politics, Princeton University, Chicago Tribune, Government
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