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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in New York City for nature lovers
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has a wild side and it has nothing to do with its honking yellow taxis, towering skyscrapers and celebrity-studded nightclub crowds. It's about soaring bald eagles, quiet tidal salt marshes and sweet berry brambles...Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Wildlife, Downtown (Brooklyn, New York), Lifestyle and Leisure, Frederick Law Olmsted
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Thursday's TV Highlights: Esther Williams tribute on TCM
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 9 - 15, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Save Me Betty White guest stars as God in...
Tags: Jorma Taccone, Robin Thicke, Jeffrey Donovan, Jay Baruchel, Television Industry
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Tourists find a forest of options for climbing family trees
Credit the Internet and baby boomers. For Americans of European lineage, the urge to learn the stories of our ancestors on the other side of the pond continues to fuel a strong interest in ancestral travel. Genealogy ranks among the top search...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Emigrants, Science and Technology, Research, Germany
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Nuns on the Bus stop in Apopka today to press for immigration reform
“Nuns on the Bus” -- a group of Catholic Sisters on a 15-state bus tour -- are bringing their campaign for immigration reform to the Hope Community Center, 1016 N Park Ave., Apopka, at 4 p.m. today, June 3. On Sunday, June 2, the bus stopped...
Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Winter Park, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Apopka
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Five questions for Toby Bozzuto
Toby Bozzuto seemed headed for a career in the music industry. The son of Thomas S. Bozzuto, a founding partner of developer The Bozzuto Group, Toby Bozzuto interned for Blues Traveler in college, working in the band's management office in Carnegie...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Realty, Sony Corp., Finance
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Predictions reach high pitch for Cannes awards
Unlike the Grammys or the Oscars, the Cannes Film Festival awards keep things simple and the numbers low. At the 66th closing ceremony tonight, main competition jury president Steven Spielberg and his illustrious colleagues (Nicole Kidman, Christoph...
Tags: Ethan Coen, Arts and Culture, Steven Spielberg, Amour (movie), Cannes Film Festival
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James Gray brings a film to Cannes five years after divided reaction
CANNES, France — For the better part of two decades, director James Gray has been making textured dramas about people, often immigrants and their children, who experience all manner of frustration and struggle. It prepared him well for the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Gwyneth Paltrow, Two Lovers (movie), Jeremy Renner, Cannes Film Festival
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Honoring our nation's diversity and immigration laws
As long as The Associated Press and various other media outlets are redefining how we can speak about people "living in or entering America illegally or without legal permission" ("illegal immigrants" now is verboten), we should finish the job: Stop...
Tags: Human Interest, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Politics, Migration
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Cannes 2013: Coen brothers, Alexander Payne bound for film festival
The Cannes Film Festival is making a statement at this year's gathering: We still really like Americans. The main competition will feature four directors from the U.S. -- Alexander Payne (“Nebraska”) Joel and Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn...Tags: Arts and Culture, Amour (movie), Drive (movie), Cannes Film Festival, Paramount Pictures
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Brooklyn Festival samples the new classical music of the borough
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...Tags: Arts and Culture, The Antlers (music group), Fort Greene, Science and Technology, Music
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Immigration rally at Capitol as senators race to finish bill
WASHINGTON--The bipartisan group of senators pushing to finish a sweeping immigration bill met late Wednesday as thousands of advocates gathered outside the Capitol, many waving American flags, to lend urgency to the effort. The first draft of the...
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Politics, Executive Branch, Migration, National Security
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Studying the percentages
I have now become the Ellis Island for bisexuals. I tried to avoid it, but they are drawn to me. Consider my recent experience at the Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip: I go there to hang out with some of the comics and watch the show. It's a very...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking
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