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E. Donald Two-Rivers 1945-2008: Ojibwa poet, playwright
Tribune reporterE. Donald Two-Rivers, an Ojibwa Indian who left Canada at 16 and settled in Chicago's then rough-and-tumble Uptown neighborhood, took up writing while behind bars for robbery. He went on to win a national award for short stories, start a Native...Tags: Crimes, Green Mill, Wisconsin, Theft, Death and Dying
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Play dates
To submit listings online, go to metromix.com/listings. 79th Annual Chicago Boat, RV & Outdoors Show: Exhibitors showcase hundreds of the newest boats, RVs, accessories and travel destinations at what's billed as the largest show of its kind in the...Tags: Chicago Public Library, Music Theater, Holidays, Millennium Park, Andy Kaufman
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New symphony director says product offered is solid
Of The Morning CallThe Allentown Symphony Association believes it has hit a home run by choosing Sheila K. Evans as its new executive director. Given the 54-year-old Lincoln, Neb., native's extensive background in music, business and arts management, she seems to have all...Tags: Opera, Music Theater, Kansas City Royals, Corporate Officers, Major League Baseball
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joan.reminick@newsday.comOPEN: HAIKU IN WOODBURY Water trickling down a pebble-covered wall? Check. Sushi bar? Check. Pan-Asian menu? Check. Equipped with all the modern requisites, Haiku Asian Bistro & Sushi Bar has been serving up pad Thai, udon noodles, Sichuan peppercorn...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Steaks, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Burritos, Patchogue
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Allentown Symphony hires new executive director
The Allentown Symphony Association has chosen its new executive director. Sheila K. Evans, who has 27 years' experience in corporate marketing and has played violin in orchestras in Missouri, Michigan, Arizona and Nebraska, took over the association's...Tags: Opera, Music Theater, Government, National Government, Music Industry
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You're going to owe 'em for your poem
The scam : Scambusters says to beware of scam poetry contests. They promise fame and fortune and then charge ''winners'' to see their work in print. What is worse, everybody is a winner, Scambusters says. How it works: According to Scambusters, common...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine
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Armed with Asian box office success, John Woo takes Chinese war epic to audiences worldwide
AP Entertainment WriterHONG KONG (AP) — John Woo is preparing to introduce his first Chinese-language film in 16 years to foreign audiences after the historical epic proved a massive success in Asia. The Hong Kong native said Tuesday he has finished editing an...Tags: The Dark Knight (movie), Batman, Movies, John Woo
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Who will win a Golden Globe? We have our picks
rafer.guzman@newsday.comWith Seth Rogen, Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore, Sacha Baron Cohen and others on board as presenters, Sunday's Golden Globe awards ceremony is clearly hoping not to be a repeat of last year's disastrous telecast. That show amounted to little more than...Tags: Music Theater, Wall-E (movie), Nixon (movie), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (movie), Ralph Fiennes
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Scottish society sponsors Highland games
Forum Publishing GroupGet ready for some caber tossing, pipe bands and Highland dancing. The Plantation-based Scottish American Society of South Florida will celebrate its 26th Annual Southeast Florida Scottish Festival & Highland Game this Saturday. Year after year, the...Tags: Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Game Playing, Robert Burns, Games, Fort Lauderdale
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Book Review: Paul Harding's 'Tinkers' One Of 2009's Most Intriguing Debuts
Special to The CourantA book by an unknown author, from a new and nearly unknown press, lands on a reviewer's desk. What are the chances it will command her attention? Or turn out to be a beautifully written meditation on life, death, the passage of time and man's eternal...Tags: Iowa, Massachusetts, Book, Maine
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New in paperback: : Getting personal
"The Journals of John Cheever" edited by Robert Gottlieb (Vintage) "Good Friday. I neither fast nor make any observations of this somber time. I roam from the post office to the church, unsober. The central altar is dark, but on the left the priest has...Tags: Warren Beatty, Movies, John Travolta, John Steinbeck, World War II
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Turkey restores citizenship of celebrated poet in move to show its readiness to join EU
Associated Press WriterANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey restored the citizenship of its most famous poet Monday in a symbolic step meant to show it was addressing criticism of its human rights record in hopes of joining the European Union. Turkey stripped Nazim Hikmet of his...Tags: European Union, Human Rights, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Prisons
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