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Plan your week's local entertainment
Free for all Here are some of the free, or nearly free, events happening in your neighborhood this week. Tuesday • "The Water Horse," 7 p.m. Bring the kids out to enjoy an outdoor showing of this family movie playing at Buckroe Beach Park, N....Tags: Kyra Sedgwick, Miley Cyrus, Television Industry, Billy Ray Cyrus, Television
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Readings and book events on Long Island
Thursday Jill Amy Rosenblatt reads from her first novel, "Project Jennifer" (Kensington), about a Long Island secretary whose life is being ruined - by women named Jennifer. At 7 p.m., Book Revue, Huntington, 631- 271-1442. Vincent Louis Carrella...Tags: Tennessee, Kensington, Drug Trafficking, Long Island, Crimes
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Shelf Life
Forum Publishing GroupApparently, July is American Heritage Month. Our national impulse to leave no month unthemed persists. But I have to assume July is an easy month to theme considering the national holiday contained within it. So, Independence Day turns July into...Tags: Marketing, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Revere, Revolutions, Museum of Discovery and Science
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Live: Moby in KCRW Sessions
Special to The TimesThursday night at the Malibu Performing Arts Center, Moby presided over what Nic Harcourt of KCRW called "a partially seated rave." Harcourt hosts "Morning Becomes Eclectic," one of the Santa Monica public radio station's most popular programs, and...Tags: David Bowie, Radio Industry, Santa Monica, Culture, Music
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"Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s," edited by Jonathan Lethem
Boston GlobeIs Philip K. Dick the father of the paranoid style in American fiction? "Every pay phone in the world was tapped," a character thinks in "A Scanner Darkly." "Or if it wasn't some crew somewhere just hadn't gotten around to it." As it happens, that...Tags: Life on Mars, Fiction, Franz Kafka, United Nations, Philip K Dick
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'American Tales'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJudging by its title, "American Tales" might sound like entertainment tailor-made for the July 4 weekend. But this excellent new musical from the Antaeus Company waves its star-spangled banner with an eccentric difference. Based on two classic 19th...Tags: Mark Twain, Music, Music Theater, Theater
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'Ark of the Liberties' by Ted Widmer
Ark of the Liberties
America and the World
Ted Widmer
Hill & Wang:
380 pp., $25
Woodrow Wilson is a tip-of-the-tongue name in foreign policy circles these days, largely because the members of the Bush administration are seen as revamped Wilsonians....Tags: Protestant, Tennessee, Christianity, John Winthrop, National Government
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'American Tales' at Deaf West Theatre
MARK TWAIN and Herman Melville are renowned for capturing the salt, wit and dreams of their eras. But the two musicals they've inspired for the world premiere of "American Tales" -- presented by the Antaeus company -- reveal the authors' uncelebrated...Tags: Mark Twain, Lawyers, Justice System, John Ashcroft, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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14 classic reads for the summer
amNY.comClassics can not only change your life, but even help to shape an entire country's self-image. Here are some classic 'national works' from the U.S. and beyond to put on your summer reading list. China: Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West, 1590s One of the...Tags: Poetry, Ernest Hemingway, Literature, Melville, Dante Alighieri
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Whale sightings off Chile raise hope
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFrom the earliest days of exploration, mariners in Chile's cool southern waters marveled at the abundance of whales. A Jesuit naturalist wrote of the sea "boiling" with the spouts of the leviathans. Among 19th century Nantucket boatmen, the island of...Tags: Natural Science, Medical Research, Population, Global Change, Global Warming
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BIRTHDAYS: Places you may not think of that host parties
247-4789Once a year, it happens. Your child's birthday comes and suddenly, it's up to you to plan a special day that will make your little one feel like royalty. But wait — you're still finding pieces of candy in the grass from last year's piñata? Can't...Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, Gymnastics, Virginia Air and Space Center, Physical Fitness, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Changes in store for South Street Seaport
dfreedlander@am-ny.comThe South Street Seaport, an area for decades dismissed as "just for tourists," has re-emerged in the forefront of New Yorkers' minds as architects, preservations and local residents wrestle over the waterfront of the future. It's been two years since...Tags: Economic Policy, Downtown (Brooklyn, New York), Statue of Liberty, Financial District, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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