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    Oct 14, 2011 |Story| Glendale News Press

  1. Finding, losing self at Brand art exhibit

    For 40 years, the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale has produced a national juried art exhibition of works on paper submitted by artists from across the United States. “Brand 40: Fortieth annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper: Entrances & Exits” was officiated by juror Peter Frank, an art critic and curator at the Riverside Museum of Art, who culled through hundreds of entries to organize the show. Of the 10 donor prizes awarded, the most significant is the “Jane Friend Purchase Award,” which purchases the winning art piece to add to the permanent Brand Library and Art Center collection.
    For 40 years, the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale has produced a national juried art exhibition of works on paper submitted by artists from across the United States. “Brand 40: Fortieth annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper:...

    Tags: Libraries, Chris Perry, Arts and Culture, Fine Arts, Arts

    2. Oct 30, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. John Harris Burt dies at 91; former rector at Pasadena's All Saints Episcopal Church

    John Harris Burt, a retired bishop who advanced a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-allsaints1-1305%2C0%2C1554400.story">tradition of social activism at Pasadena&rsquo;s All Saints Episcopal Church</a> with his bold support of the civil rights movement when he was rector in the 1960s, died Oct. 20 at his home on Lake Superior outside Marquette, Mich. He was 91.
    John Harris Burt, a retired bishop who advanced a tradition of social activism at Pasadena’s All Saints Episcopal Church with his bold support of the civil rights movement when he was rector in the 1960s, died Oct. 20 at his home on Lake Superior...

    Tags: Ohio, Wrigley Field, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Lower East Side, Columbia University

    3. Jan 25, 2011 |Story| Winchester Sun

  3. Patrick: Remembering Sargent Shriver

    A great American warrior was laid to rest Saturday &mdash; a &ldquo;warrior for peace and against poverty.&rdquo;
    A great American warrior was laid to rest Saturday — a “warrior for peace and against poverty.” That was how former President Bill Clinton once described Sargent Shriver, who died last week at the age of 95. He was the other kind of...

    Tags: National Security, Government, George W. Bush, Peace Corps, Politics

    4. Sep 23, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. A slow day at the FBI

    Opinion L.A.
    This week the inspector general of the Justice Department issued a report about FBI surveillance of several groups, including Greenpeace and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The report concluded that none of the groups was investigated by...
    5. Oct 19, 2010 | Orlando Sentinel

  5. Edward Norton–Is he a collaborator?

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    For Edward Norton, it’s all about “collaboration,” and having input on the character and story he helps get on the screen. “I don’t think it’s that unusual to want to contribute, bring your ideas to the script,”...
    6. Nov 15, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Tom Shadyac: Life begins after you give away your Hollywood toys

    The Big Picture
    Correction: In writing about a scene from Tom Shadyac's new film, "I Am," I inaccurately transcribed a line of dialog. When Shadyac talks about his agent, he actually says: "My agent. A source of stress in show business!" My apologies.......
    7. Aug 25, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Maile Meloy has it her way with 'Both Ways'

    Every writer has a personal stash of the misbegotten, that folder on the computer -- or section in the filing cabinet -- for work that the author has given up trying to fix. Maile Meloy, 37, revisited hers three years ago when the literary quarterly Granta asked to publish a new story to go with her listing as one of the "Best of Young American Novelists."
    Every writer has a personal stash of the misbegotten, that folder on the computer -- or section in the filing cabinet -- for work that the author has given up trying to fix. Maile Meloy, 37, revisited hers three years ago when the literary quarterly...

    Tags: University of California, Irvine, Crimes, Montana, Crime, Law and Justice, Book

    8. Feb 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. New in paperback

    Al Alvarez: "The Biggest Game in Town" (Picador) Back in the early 1970s, Al Alvarez wrote "The Savage God," a study of suicide which contributed in no small part to the mythology that came to surround his friend, the great poet Sylvia Plath. A poet...

    Tags: Mark Twain, Climbing, Poetry, Roman Catholicism, Indiana Jones (fictional character)

    9. Feb 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. 'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor,' by Brad Gooch

    Flannery
    Flannery A Life of Flannery O'Connor Brad Gooch Little, Brown: 416 pp., $30 Brad Gooch opens "Flannery," his biography of Flannery O'Connor, with a lost moment: an account of how when O'Connor was 5, the Pathe newsreel company sent a cameraman to...

    Tags: Health and Safety at School, Georgia, Arts and Culture, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor

    10. Jul 17, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Earthy but less earthly at a Vina monastery

    Times Staff Writer
    Finally, I could rest in Peace. "Peace," it turned out, was the name of the room where I stayed during a recent retreat at the Abbey of New Clairvaux. This remote Cistercian-Trappist monastery welcomes visitors needing a break from today's frenetic...

    Tags: San Francisco, CEC Entertainment, Inc., Travel, Stanford University, Sacramento

    11. Nov 27, 2001 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. On the run and living scared

    Sun Staff
    Part 3 of 4 There is a contract out on me. On March 29, 1996, Charlie Wilhelm made this entry, his first, in a journal that would document his two-year exile from Baltimore. Relocated to a small town in Alabama and living under a phony name, Charlie...

    Tags: Wages and Pensions, Hotels and Accommodations, Health, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice

    12. Aug 31, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. New England Shaker sampler

    When you first see the village, sleeping on the flank of the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, you think of impossibly perfect places: Shangri-La, Brigadoon, Moon River. You think of the world the way it ought to be: everything clean,...

    Tags: Ohio, Upper West Side, Aaron Copland, New York City, Canterbury

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