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Interview and performance: Boots Riley and the Coup
Never before has an interview subject assumed/joked that RedEye was a communist newspaper. Fans of Boots Riley’s veteran, socially conscious hip-hop act The Coup probably won’t be surprised that he mentioned it. “Do people assume that...
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Biz Markie, Patton Oswalt, Movies
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Good answers to why you've been jobless
Joyce Lain Kennedy - Careers NowDEAR JOYCE: What should I say, other than "duh," when an interviewer asks why I've been out of work for so long? Is this question even legal? -- J.R. An interviewer uses the legal why-jobless-so-long question as a time-saver to quickly uncover what's...Tags: Social Issues, Unemployment Benefits, Career and Workplace, Employment, Google Inc.
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‘Hobbit,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Big Bang Theory’: Geek goes mainstream
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comThis post has been corrected. See below. COMMENTARY It started with The Big Bang. Not the still somehow controversial theory ...... -
If religions can have limits, why can't gun owners?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsI got a lot of feedback on my Sunday column/letter to the NRA, but in the spirit of the season I figured I'd wait until after the holidays to fire back. At the end of the column, I rhetorically asked,......Tags: Interior Policy, Michael Mukasey, Separation of Church and State, Personal Weapon Control, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Hacktivist's suicide intensifies criticism of U.S. attorney, MIT
Aaron Swartz's legacy was already guaranteed, even at 26: He helped create Reddit and RSS, which distributes content over the Internet. But his suicide by hanging Friday has also stoked a politically malignant aftermath for the prosecutors pursuing 13...
Tags: Science and Technology, Punishment, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Networking and Internet
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Wikipedia, the people's encyclopedia
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can write and edit (yes, even you!), but most people don't think much about who performs those tasks. With half a billion people around the world relying on Wikipedia for information, we should. More than 1.5 million...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Israel, Dick Cheney, Social Media, Religion and Belief
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Vivid impressions of Russian culture in 'Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia'
Cuban author José Manuel Prieto's playful and fascinating book, “Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia,” is, according to Prieto's narrator, an encyclopedia-style guide to a book the narrator is planning to write about a man named Thelonious Monk...Tags: The New York Times, Russia, YouTube, Libraries, Trine Tsouderos
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I Am the Worst: Of Monsters and Men Edition
Errant followers of this blog may recall that this summer I went with a couple of friends to Iceland where we gallivanted around, interviewed the mayor of Reykjavik, and stayed in the band Of Monsters and Men’s old apartment. My friend Trin went...
Tags: Entertainment, World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment Events, Uptown, F-bomb Dropping
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City Lights: The play with the unprintable name
This column would be so easy to write if only I worked for OC Weekly. At that rakish-and-proud-of-it publication, just about anything goes, and that includes swear words. But here I am stuck at an apparently family-friendly paper, which poses a...Tags: Entertainment, Starbucks Corp., Arts and Culture, The New York Times, M (movie)
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The many what-if's of Richard Nixon
A century ago on Jan. 9, Richard Nixon was born in a Southern California agricultural subdivision dubbed Yorba Linda, in a 900-square-foot mail-order house assembled by his father. The centennial of America's 37th president won't be met with much...
Tags: Fred Thompson, Republican Party, Dianne Feinstein, Executive Branch, FBI
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Cultural Exchange: Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' endures
LONDON — Has anyone built a better "Mousetrap"? Britons just getting over celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee are now in the throes of another: the 60th anniversary of the world's longest-running play, "The Mousetrap" by Agatha...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Movies, Tony Awards, Michael Gambon, Arts and Culture
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As we celebrate Ray Lewis, don't forget murder victims
On the day Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis announced he would be retiring after this season, my thoughts drifted back to a bitterly cold winter day in a cemetery in Akron, Ohio. That's where Richard Lollar was buried and where his bespectacled...
Tags: National Football League, Super Bowl, Tennessee Titans, Witnesses, Michael Vick
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