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London's mysterious Cheapside treasure to go on show
ReutersBy Li-mei Hoang LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) - Experts may be one tiny step closer to unravelling the mystery of who buried hundreds of dazzling jewels under a London neighbourhood during a turbulent period in English history covering the Civil War,...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Literature, Museums, Arts and Culture, Arts
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"Good News!" Playing at the Goodspeed Opera House
Goodspeed Musicals is bursting with good news. It's the theater's 50th anniversary. It was just featured on Michael Feinstein's PBS series "American Songbook." The 2013 Goodspeed season starts April 12. There'll be a Golden Anniversary Gala on June 17....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Goodspeed Opera House, Entertainment Events, Hartford Stage, PBS (tv network)
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Hartford Stage's 2013-14 Season
Hartford Stage has a 2013-2014 season: September 12 through November 10: Marivaux’s lusty comedy La Dispute and Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy Macbeth, played in repertory with the same director—new Hartford Stage artistic director Darko...
Tags: Hartford Stage, Entertainment Events, Steve Martin, Entertainment, Broadway Theater
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Hartford Stage's 50th Season Includes Premiere of Musical Comedy, Classics
The Hartford CourantA premiere of an original musical comedy, two classics performed in repertory, a reunion of the theater's five artistic directors, and a "rejuvenated" Dickens' favorite are highlights of Hartford Stage's 50th anniversary season beginning in September....Tags: Aetna Inc., William Shakespeare, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Somewhere (movie), Michael Wilson
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Musical Comedy Premiere Highlights Hartford Stage's 50th
Hartford CourantA world premiere of an original musical comedy, two classic performed in repertory, a reunion of the theater’s five artistic directors and a “rejuvenated” “A Christmas Carol” will be among the highlights of Hartford Stage&...Tags: Aetna Inc., William Shakespeare, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Michael Wilson, Arts and Culture
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Counter Intelligence: The Hart & the Hunter makes angelic biscuits
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticThe first thing anybody is going to tell you about the Hart & the Hunter, the restaurant in the new Fairfax District Palihotel, is that you should get the biscuits, which come four to an order and are served on a board. And you should get the biscuits,...Tags: Cheddar Cheese, Dining and Drinking, Shrimp, Foods and Beverages, Restaurants
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An end is in sight to the endless stories about endless debates
Change of SubjectDon’t stop me if you’ve heard this before. Because you probably have. There’s a move afoot in the U.S. Senate to reform the filibuster. But this time — No, really, wait! Don’t leave! — this time, it might actually... -
Artist's work focused on the Victorian
The Christmas Pudding English Traditional Into the basin put the plums, Stir-about, stir-about, stir-about! Next the good white flour comes, Stir-about, stir-about, stir about! Sugar and peel and eggs and spice, Stir-about, stir-about, stir-...Tags: New York City, Wars and Interventions, Hudson River, American Express Company, Arts and Culture
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Geno Smith plummeting after hot start, he still has shot at redemption
Everybody knows the story of the tortoise and the hare. It's one of Aesop's Fables in which a much-faster hare challenges a tortoise to a race. After jumping out to a big lead, the hare decides to take a nap and awakens to find the slow moving tortoise...
Tags: Vanderbilt Commodores, Mountain West Conference, Chicago Tribune, Google Inc., Jarrett Brown
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About those stones
There are nearly 150 fragments of famous structures and historic sites from around the world and all 50 states embedded in Tribune Tower. These pieces of history reflect the aspirations of the Tribune Tower's creators: To make the fledging skyscraper one...
Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Tribune Company, Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune, Landforms
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The Obama hare and Romney the tortoise
Victor Davis HansonThe 2012 race has turned into one of Aesop's classic fables. After each new media blitz against the no-frills Mitt Romney, a far cooler President Obama races ahead three or four points in the polls -- only to fall back to about even as the attention...Tags: Government Debt, Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, Alternative Energy
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Citizens and government
In the Aesop fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing and hopping and having an all-around good time while...Tags: Democratic Party, Literature, Arts and Culture, Martin O'Malley, Politics
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