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7Days: 8/25 - 8/31
Thursday, August 25
FREAKS AND GREEKS
If any country is America's brethren, it's Greece. It also went from being a trailblazer in the field of democracy and the center of global culture and commerce to a humiliated deadbeat nation. (It took Greece...Tags: Christianity, Western Connecticut State University, Massachusetts, Westport, Christian Orthodoxy
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50 SHOWS FOR FALL
As we bid farewell to the Summer of Swelter, it's a grand time for pulling up the appointment app on your smart phone (or pulling out the day planner, if you're a traditionalist) and setting aside some play dates with the hottest shows in town.
BIG DEALS...Tags: Documentary (genre), Manhattan (New York City), Social Problems, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Eliza Doolittle (music group)
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Cliff Robertson dies at 88; actor starred in films and on stage and TV
Cliff Robertson, who starred as John F. Kennedy in a 1963 World War II drama and later won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a mentally disabled bakery janitor in the movie "Charly," died Saturday, one day after his 88th birthday.
Robertson, who also...Tags: Dina Merrill, Documentary (genre), People (magazine), Newspaper and Magazine, John F. Kennedy
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Local man will dress as city symbol in annual Mummers Parade
marieg@herald-mail.comEditor's Note: Alsatia Club representatives and Hagerstown officials are scheduled to meet Saturday morning to decide whether the Mummers Parade will be held in the evening despite a forecasted snowstorm. Although the weather has a will of its own and...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Documentary (genre), Alexander Hamilton, Ceremonies, Festive Events
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PASSINGS: Harry Lawenda, Axel Axgil, Phyllis Love
Harry Lawenda
Interior design firm's creative force
Harry Lawenda, 87, an interior designer who was the creative force behind the influential Kneedler Fauchere design firm founded by his late wife, Dorothy Kneedler Lawenda, died at his Los Angeles...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Entertainment, Obituaries, Gays and Lesbians, Justice and Rights
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On the eve the grand opening on Clark Street, 10 moments in Black Ensemble's 35-year history
Most arts organizations have carefully worded mission statements, filled with arty buzzwords and forged by groups. Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater's mission statement was written by one woman and just gets right down to it: "to eradicate racism." Most...Tags: Otis Redding, Illinois Governor, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Koko Taylor
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Our Laguna: Mayor helps strike up the band
The Laguna Community Concert Band scored another hit performance Monday at the Festival of Arts. The concert was a musical triumph that few would have imagined when the idea of a community band was first conceived over a cup of coffee in 1998 at Zinc...Tags: Elections, Festive Events, Peggy Lee, Lifestyle and Leisure, Artie Shaw
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Book review: 'Thoughts Without Cigarettes' by Oscar Hijuelos
Los Angeles TimesThoughts Without Cigarettes A Memoir Oscar Hijuelos Gotham Books: 367 pp., $27.50 Was there ever a time and place more alive and unpredictable than New York City in the middle decades of the 20th century? Oscar Hijuelos was lucky enough to live there...Tags: Hispanic and Latino Americans, Literature, The New York Times, Connecticut, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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The date from hell finally fires up 'Becky Shaw'
Veterans of the mating wars will recognize the scene, from one agonizing side or another. There has been a single date — an awkward date that began with the tactless suggestion that the woman's dress resembled a birthday cake — but it...Tags: Humana Incorporated, Comedy (genre), Celebrities
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'Mile Marker Zero': A literary look back at Key West's high times
Suddenly, I have a hankering to hoist a beer at Capt. Tony's, on that barstool with Bob Dylan's name painted on it, looking out the door at the free-spirited lifestyle of Key West.
Yeah, the scene on Duval Street isn't the anarchistic scene that it was...Tags: Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dylan, Key West
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Brother and sister at center of an intimate 'Glass Menagerie'
“You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?” asks sozzled Tom Wingfield of his pathologically shy sister. But the answer...Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Marcus Gardley Named Aetna Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage
Hartford CourantPlaywright-poet Marcus Gardley will be the Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage during the 2011-2012 season. Gardley was awarded the 2011 PEN Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright. He was recently chosen as one of “50 writers to watch&...Tags: Entertainment, Yale Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Music Theater, Aetna Inc.
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