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La Caņada History: La Caņada Presbyterian Church celebrates 25 years
Ten Years Ago Destructive winds battered La Caņada for a 36-hour period in early January 2003, uprooting trees and downing power lines. Two homes, one on Lombardy Drive and the other on Angeles Crest Highway, sustained heavy damages when large trees...
Tags: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Schools, Elementary Schools
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10-20-30 Years Ago
Ten Years Ago: Two men wearing Ninja masks robbed Citizen's Business Bank in La Caņada on a Friday afternoon, shortly before closing. The men waved their guns in the air and pushed one teller to the ground during the robbery, according to the branch...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jerry Brown, U.S. Postal Service, Bakersfield, Kern County
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Counting down to Lit Fest
(This selection is edited for clarity and length.) Tom Acitelli What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Who is an author you'd like to meet, dead or alive?...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Kanye West, Thelonious Monk, Restaurants, Blockbuster
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To the Class of 2013: Resist simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world that...
Tags: Authors, Yale University, Class Conflict, Graduation, Abraham Lincoln
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Authors, Yale University, Class Conflict, Graduation, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Waukegan Public Library gets national award at White House ceremony
At a White House ceremony Wednesday, first lady Michelle Obama honored the Waukegan Public Library for setting goals more ambitious than providing a quiet building full of books. The north suburban library was one of 10 institutions to win this year's...
Tags: Waukegan, Libraries, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Fantagraphics’ ’50 Girls 50′ pays tribute to EC Comics sci-fi legacy
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesREVIEW Golden-age publisher EC Comics’ rise and fall was tied to its horror titles “Tales From the Crypt” and “The ...... -
Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary Los Angeles
Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times' books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more than two dozen books set in and around L.A., as...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Ernest Hemingway, Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Smith: Selling the idea of opportunity
My first real job out of college was at a wholesale hardware company. I started out as the sales manager, though at 25 I knew nothing about sales or managing. The scuttlebutt around the office was that the owner hired me because he thought I was a...Tags: Dentistry and Dental Health, Colleges and Universities, Marketing
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Lessons from a literary master
By Julia KellerHe was the J.K. Rowling of his day, writing sprightly, adventure-driven, insanely popular books ostensibly aimed at kids but which sober and responsible adults — if backed against a wall with the cold tip of a pirate's cutlass jammed against their...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Literature, Periodicals, Authors, Stephen King
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Mother-Son Book Club
We are a group of mothers and sons in Riverside who have met since summer 2002. Our sons were all friends entering fourth grade, and one of the moms suggested starting a book club for the boys. We all thought she was crazy because we didn’t think...
Tags: Orson Scott Card, Mark Twain, Michael Crichton, Colleges and Universities, Fiction
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Banned book club a real-time lesson in censorship
Four Hundred Fifty-One Degrees is not a boy band. The group was founded by a boy, and it is led by a boy, but its ranks are primarily girls. It came together just 18 months ago and, depending on the week, it claims 15 to 20 members. That fluctuation...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Politics, Fiction, Teaching and Learning, Iran
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Mar 24, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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