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'The Dumbest Generation' by Mark Bauerlein
Special to The TimesJuly 5, 2008 In the four minutes it probably takes to read this review, you will have logged exactly half the time the average 15- to 24-year-old now spends reading each day. That is, if you even bother to finish. If you are perusing this on the...Tags: Family, Popular Music, History, American Idol, People
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'Popular and influential' comic book artist
By Valerie J. Nelson LOS ANGELES — Michael Turner, a leading contemporary comic-book artist who was known for the highly stylized covers he created for major titles and for drawing shapely female characters with curves as commanding as their...Tags: Los Angeles, San Diego (San Diego, California), Santa Monica, Death and Dying, Sales
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Shelf Life
Forum Publishing GroupSometimes I think it must get tiresome reading about how much I love to read. Though when I think that, the truly obsessive reader in my brain wonders how anyone could ever tire of such a thing. But I do tend to write about it ad nauseam. It is a...Tags: David Oliver, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Dance, Vehicles, Michael Crichton
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Free for all
THURSDAY Family: Millennium Park, Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, Chase Promenade, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Family activities and performances. Nature/family: Chicago Park District Northerly Island, 1400 S. Lynn White Drive, Field House, 10 to 11 a....Tags: Transportation, Theater, Music Industry, Dance, Road Transportation
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'Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement' by Harper Barnes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 4, 2008 As you read St. Louis journalist Harper Barnes' new history, "Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement," it's hard not to zero in on the cold reality that this is a single nation of multiple histories. And...Tags: Los Angeles, Civil Rights, Labor Disputes, Justice and Rights, History
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'I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone' by Stephanie Kuehnert
Special to The TimesJuly 3, 2008 After 50 years, rock 'n' roll still maintains a messianic hold on a great many of us: It makes us move, shapes our identities, infects our souls. We hand ourselves over to it, drawing upon its melodic force to push us past life's dead ends....Tags: Los Angeles, Literature, Rock and Roll Music, Music Industry, Courtney Love
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HBO snares Sloane Crosley's 'Cake'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 3, 2008 The deal HBO options Sloane Crosley's bestselling "I Was Told There'd Be Cake," a collection of wry, mordantly funny essays about a twentysomething New Yorker struggling to get by in Manhattan and the bizarre dilemmas she encounters. The...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), West Hollywood, Books and Magazines, Manhattan
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WaPo's "Lost Book Club"
The TV ZoneAnd...before I let this oversight go one more minute, did you know that the Washington Post has a "Lost Book Club" too? ABC.com launched one yesterday, but the WaPo's Jen Chaney tells me they've had one up and running......Tags: Clubs and Associations, Washington Post Company
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'Painter In a Savage Land' by Miles Harvey
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 2, 2008 Glimpsed in history's rearview mirror, events seem to follow one upon the other with fluid inevitability. Thus, the 516-year arc from Columbus' first wondering footfall on the shore of the New World to this morning's traffic jam on the 405...Tags: Family, Petroleum Industry, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), History, Virginia
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'The Book of Getting Even' by Benjamin Taylor
Special to The TimesJune 30, 2008 At 166 pages, "The Book of Getting Even" is a mortar shot of a novel -- the trajectory is steep, the narrative moves at tremendous velocity and the book ends with a bang. Yet it also is a bittersweet and redemptive love story, richly...Tags: Family, Judaism, History, Reinhold Niebuhr, Saul Bellow
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