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		<title>7 Tips 4 Getting the Most Out of the LA Times Festival of Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This weekend the glorious LA Times Festival of Books will be held at its new location on the USC campus, after 15 years at UCLA. 
The line up of authors and other intriguing panelists is, as usual, excellent. (You can find the Saturday and Sunday schedules here.)
Both days are filled with more great events than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiotic PC-ness versus Mark Twain, History, Literature and Intelligent Discourse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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If I had to choose one novel above all others to represent the glories of American literature it would be The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  It&#8217;s not perfect.  Many critics, myself included, believe that Twain stumbles slightly when he reintroduces Tom Sawyer in the last quarter of the book.  But, like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GLOW Santa Monica Happening Tonight, 9/25</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The event known as GLOW Santa Monica will take place Saturday night, from dusk &#8217;till dawn (7 pm &#8211; 3 am).  It&#8217;s free and features  20 original light installations, art displays and exhibits created by an array of local and international artists for one night and one night only&#8212;on Santa Monica Beach, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Morality of &#8220;24&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 07:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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After 8 seasons, Monday night was the last night of the series, &#8220;24.&#8221;  
Most times, no matter its popularity,  a TV series is just a TV series.  But in the case of this TV show, when the series&#8217; main character, Jack Bauer, was referenced more than once on the floor of Congress, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Jackson:  the News Insanity &amp; the Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Michael Jackson &#8211; Black Or White (Official Music Video) &#8211; Watch more funny videos here

I realize I haven&#8217;t said anything about the death of Michal Jackson.  For one thing, I have been traveling the past few days, but mostly I have been silent because I found it more than a bit vexing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electricity Down Leads to Blogging Pause</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not kidding.  The neighbors&#8217; tree took out the power line. Ah, Topanga!
There is much to tell&#8230;.Nuggets of juicy news from the LA Times Book Fest&#8230;.A new story or two of former gangmembers redeemed (with video)&#8230;and more.
Expecting power&#8211;and&#8212;resumed blogging Monday mid-morning.  
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		<title>Zell and The Art of Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m a bit slow on the uptake this morning so didn&#8217;t check my email until just now&#8230;.or I&#8217;d have had this up earlier.  Courtesty of Mr. Sam Izdat over at TellZell.
LOS ANGELES, Calif&#8212;Merry pranksters scaled a Los Angeles Times building Thursday to unfurl a three-story high banner protesting news cuts by the paper&#8217;s owner, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can the LA Times Book Review Be Saved?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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With the scheduled July 27 demise of the Sunday LA Times Book Review looming ever closer, this past Monday morning former LA Times Book Review editor, Steve Wasserman, and three  other former editors of the Book Review section&#8212;Sonja Bolle, Jack Miles, and Digby Diehl&#8212;wrote an open letter protesting the loss and urging people to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And crown thy good with brotherhood&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/life-in-general/2008/admin/and-crown-thy-good-with-brotherhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY 4th!!!!



PS:  So what songs do you think we should be playing today?  Lists!  We need lists!   (Yes, I too had some others&#8212;Tom Morello doing This Land Is Your Land, among them.  But at the last minute, I settled on the classics. )
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;The Music Saved Me.  I&#8217;m Sure of It.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Nothing stops a bullet like a cello?

Sunday&#8217;s 60 Minutes featured a profile of the Los Angeles Philharmonic&#8217;s next music director, the astonishingly young (26-years-old), astonishingly curly-headed, and just plain astonishing Gustavo Dudamel, who is slated to take over from Esa-Pekka Salonen in 2009.

The video of the segment, which can be found on the 60 Minutes [...]]]></description>
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