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Theater and dance listings: April 26-May 2
NOW ON: THEATER
'NIGHT, MOTHER: Surfside Players Second Stage production of the Marsha Norman drama: 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays (through April 28); Surfside Playhouse, 320 S. Fifth St., Cocoa Beach; $10; 321-783-3127.
THE ADVENTURES OF...Tags: Career and Workplace, Sherlock Holmes (movie), Advanced Training, Peter Morgan
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours at the top of Europe
ReutersINTERLAKEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - The Virgin, the Monk, and the Ogre — in German, the Jungfrau, the Moench and the Eiger — are three classic Swiss mountains that for centuries have drawn artists, thrill-seekers and tourists. For a weekend...Tags: Transportation, UNESCO, Glaciers, Railway Transportation, Tourism and Leisure
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Eddie Huang talks about his memoir, "Fresh Off the Boat"
You must be a specific type of person for the name Eddie Huang to register. Chances increase if you: 1) live in New York, 2) are plugged into the restaurant scene and read food gossip blogs, 3) are active on social media sites like Twitter, and 4) are...
Tags: Alexander Wang, Dining and Drinking, Bobby Womack, Entertainment, Chicago Tribune
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The amazing Huell Howser: A traveler's appreciation
If your job is traveling around California, as mine has been on and off since 1992, you get used to two things. First, wherever you go, the odds are good that Mark Twain beat you to it 140 years ago. Second, the odds are even better than Huell Howser,...
Tags: Entertainment, Yosemite National Park, Robert Lloyd, Tom LaBonge, Trips and Vacations
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Vatz: I don't discriminate against Democrats
I believe it was an English preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (and not Mark Twain, to whom the saying is often attributed), who once said, "A lie travels 'round the world, while truth is putting on her boots." Blaine Taylor states that I have failed to...Tags: Government, Ken Ulman, Politics, Democratic Party, Executive Branch
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Mark Binelli on Detroit, Los Angeles, and our urban future
Mark Binelli is a novelist, Rolling Stone journalist and native Michigander. Born and raised near Detroit, he returned to the city to write "Detroit City is the Place To Be: The Afterlife of An American Metropolis." The book explores the many desolate...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Mike Davis, Festive Events, Manhattan (New York City), Scientology
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Still no cure for the Common Core
Some educational experts know that one weakness in American education is the reading of too many fictional works and too few informational texts. When the purpose of education is to prepare students for “a global economy,” literature...Tags: The Washington Post, George Bernard Shaw, Globalization, Literature, William Shakespeare
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Val Kilmer taking his offbeat Mark Twain show on the road
Although it seems like Hal Holbrook has owned the role of Mark Twain for decades, another actor has staked a theatrical claim to the white-haired novelist and wit. Val Kilmer has been working on "Citizen Twain," a solo play in which he plays the writer,...
Tags: Top Gun (movie), Hal Holbrook, Kirk Douglas, Heat (movie), Arts and Culture
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Daschle: Farming, food security and the future
Thomas A. Daschle was the distinguished speaker at the Ag Outlook Forum in Washington, D.C. Here is the speech taken from the United States Department of Agriculture website. In South Dakota we have a special term to describe agricultural issues. We...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Global Change, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Iron (dietary supplement)
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Prison inmate is charged with 10-year-old murder in Hollister
ghartley@schurz.comFORSYTH, Mo. -- A convicted bank robber is charged with killing a woman from Hollister 10 years ago. The Taney County prosecuting attorney charged Phillip Dodd, 40, with first-degree murder on Thursday. Dodd is charged with killing Becky Sutton on...Tags: Lawyers, Murder, Justice System, Trials, Wildlife
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'Treasure Island' author Robert Louis Stevenson returns
A brief, long-lost essay by "Treasure Island" author Robert Louis Stevenson will be published on Friday, the Associated Press reports. The essay will appear in the Strand magazine, a mystery fiction quarterly out of Birmingham, Mich. The Strand has...
Tags: Dashiell Hammett, Graham Greene, Fiction, Literature, Authors
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Tina Fey kicks off Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio Season 19
Channel Guide MagazineBravo's long-running series Inside the Actors Studio, and its venerable host James Lipton, will welcome actress, comedian, writer and producer Tina Fey to the stage to kick off its 19th season March 19. Best known to TV fans for her work on Saturday Night...
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