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		<title>1st Annual LA Gang Violence Prevention and Intervention Conference, May 21/22.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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An important 2-day conference to discuss effective and innovative community-based programs aimed at reducing gang violence in Los Angeles, takes place next Monday and Tuesday, May 21 and 22. 
The event, sponsored by the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, Hospitals Against Violence Empowering Neighborhoods and Los Angeles County Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday&#8217;s Juvenile Justice Must Reads (Plus Bear &amp; Wolf Stories)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker


USING PHOTOGRAPHS TO CHANGE MINDS ABOUT LOCKED UP KIDS
The Juvenile-in-Justice project, created by Photographer Richard Ross, documents the conditions youths live in within the juvenile justice system. The project is intended to raise awareness and will include traveling exhibit and a book&#8211;both due Fall 2012. The Juvenile-in-Justice book will include over 1000 photos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LA Times Festival of Books This Weekend!  Just Go!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Today, Friday,  Festival of Books weekend begins with the LA Times Book Awards tonight, followed by two full days of fest-ing on the USC campus, featuring author interviews, panels, readings, cooking demonstrations, kids activities, and all manner of other events centered around the celebration of writers and readers.
I&#8217;m moderating a panel on Saturday at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Levon Helm: 1940 &#8211; 2012.   Godspeed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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To paraphrase what was once written about Raymond Chandler,  Levon Helm sang as if pain hurt and life mattered&#8212;but also with an  irrepressible resilience.  When Levon sang, it was as if the song had always existed.
The son of a cotton farmer and front porch musician out of Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, Helms&#8217; high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Prison Phone Strategy, Death Row Guy Attorney&#8230; &amp; No Fiction Pulitzer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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With Taylor Walker



 NEW UMBRELLA PHONE TECHNOLOGY WILL BLOCK CELL PHONE CALLS FROM PRISON SAYS CDCR

On Monday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced that it was implementing a new inmate telephone system  that will both curb unauthorized cellphone use in lock-ups, and also reduce call rates for prisoners&#8217; families. Global Tel*Link was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must Reads &amp; Short Takes for Cesar Chavez Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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it slipped my mind that today was Cesar Chavez Day.  So since many are taking the day off (and, yes, many of us aren&#8217;t), the promised Part 2 of Aero Bureau will appear Monday, not today.
In the meantime, watch the hour-long PBS video on the Farm Worker&#8217;s Movement at the end of the post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Bergman:  &#8220;We&#8217;re All Bozos on this Bus&#8221; &#8211; 1939 &#8211; 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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He was a master of absurdist comedy with a heart the size of Wyoming. 
A co-founder of the Firesign Theater and one of the smartest men I have  ever known or ever will know, Peter Bergman,  was a magician in every important sense of that word.
Goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finalists for LA Times Book Awards Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The finalists for the LA Times Book Awards were announced on Tuesday.  (The full list is here.)
This year, I was one of the three judges for the Mystery Thriller category,  along with Dick Lochte and Michele Slung.  (for the last two years,  I&#8217;ve judged Current Interest in nonfiction, so this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT&#8217;s Anthony Shadid, Dead in Syria&#8230;Grace and Courage Personified</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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At 8:24 p.m. Thursday night, after hearing about the death of two-time Pulitzer winning New York times reporter, Anthony Shadid,  famed journalism/digital media professor Jay Rosen tweeted the heart of the matter: 

&#8220;Typically, great journalists are great stylists or great reporters. How many are great at both and at courage? Almost none. @anthonyshadid.&#8221;
Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitney Houston:  1963 &#8211; 2012 &#8211; R.I.P.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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One of the best voices gracing the world of pop music, a beauty with a trillion dollar smile, Whitney Houston seemed to find little peace.
 Yet her talent remains incandescent.  
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