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The Free Sheet
Sun reporterGo West The Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks brings a touch of the West to Baltimore. As part of its Wednesday Lunch and Leisure series, the department hosts a Western hoedown. Bring food and listen to a live band play country music....Tags: Festive Event, Annapolis, Painting, Patterson Park, Arts
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'Occupant'
linda.winer@newsday.comEdward Albee doesn't often write plays about real people - at least ones he is willing to identify. In 1959, there was jazz legend Bessie Smith, rejected by a white hospital in "The Death of Bessie Smith." In 1991, there was "Three Tall Women," his...Tags: Virginia, Anne Bancroft, Louise Nevelson, Theater, Rosalind Russell
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Hip-hop is full of eccentric characters, but most of their oddball behavior is an affectation. Lil Wayne is the real deal. "We are not the same/I am a Martian," he declares on "Phone Home," one of many hits-in-waiting on his long-awaited sixth solo album....Tags: Eric Clapton, Bodies of Water, Solomon Burke, Folk Music, Connecticut Classical Guitar Society
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Revisiting culture critic's essays
Tribune NewspapersIn the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...Tags: Lionel Trilling, Popular Music, Leslie Fiedler, Elvis Presley, Bernard Malamud
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New On CD: Lil Wayne, Jakob Dylan, James Hunter
LIL WAYNE Tha Carter III Cash Money/Universal Motown Hip-hop is full of eccentric characters, but most of their oddball behavior is an affectation. Lil Wayne is the real deal. "We are not the same/I am a Martian," he declares on "Phone Home," one of many...Tags: Eric Clapton, Bodies of Water, Solomon Burke, Folk Music, Connecticut Classical Guitar Society
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Resurrecting Leslie Fiedler, a high priest of pop culture
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...Tags: Popular Music, Bernard Malamud, New York University, Marshall McLuhan, Literature
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An unflinching look at 'The Oldest Profession'
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEThe Oldest Profession: "The Golden Girls" was never like this. Paula Vogel's early Reagan-era piece traces the diminishing fortunes of an aging madam and four of her employees who are also "of a certain age" through 50 years of friendship. Containing...Tags: Ava Gardner, Theater, Manhattan, Mae West, Will County
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A number of black-authored books getting released again
The Hartford CourantTwo voices of black literature in America are being heard once more. Richard Wright, whose Native Son and Black Boy are 20th century classics, and Richard Bruce Nugent, one of the founders of the Harlem Renaissance literary movement, are each represented...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Tribune Company, Zora Neale Hurston
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Wise men, and Garth Brooks
'Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go," was the daily thought printed at the bottom of December in the 2007-2008 academic monthly calendar I bought at my son's college. The apercu, written by T.S. Eliot, was...Tags: Mass Media, Bodies of Water, Reviews, Country Music, New York Times
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January 3, 2008
Question: Who was the first woman to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? a) Aretha Franklin b) Diana Ross c) Bessie SmithTags: Diana Ross, Rock and Roll Music, Aretha Franklin, Music
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