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Read an E-Book Week
Read an E-Book Week

Have you tried reading a book yet on your nifty new electronic whatever? Now's the time to try.

Playing options abound, but gory, cool title still flawed
Playing options abound, but gory, cool title still flawed

I am lucky that I've never been one of those people who says or thinks violent thoughts. So why then do I enjoy, in "Aliens vs. Predator"?

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'

This is the best thing you'll see all day. (Other than "Lost.") And yes, it's a trailer for a book.

Book Events in Our Area
Book Events in Our Area

What's going on locally in the world of books? Read on . . .

Photog documented 'Bikeriders'
Photog documented 'Bikeriders'

In the years just before "Easy Rider" would introduce Main Street America to Captain America and Billy, photojournalist Danny Lyon was hanging out with Cockroach, Zipco, Sparky, Cowboy and other members of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang.

  • Read an E-Book Week
  • Playing options abound, but gory, cool title still flawed
  • 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'
  • Book Events in Our Area
  • Photog documented 'Bikeriders'

Cultural Studies

Photog documented 'Bikeriders'

In the years just before "Easy Rider" would introduce Main Street America to Captain America and Billy, photojournalist Danny Lyon was hanging out with Cockroach, Zipco, Sparky, Cowboy and other members of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang.
February 26, 2010 1:00 AM
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Game Dork: Battle demons, censors in game that emulates 'God of War'

Generations ago, Spencer Tracy starred in "Dante's Inferno," a movie that briefly depicted nude women in Hell. That was in 1935, the beginning of a 30-year ban on film nudity.
February 24, 2010 11:30 AM
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Bawdy Greek play draws actress out of retirement

In "Lysistrata," that ancient Greek play, the women of Greece decide to withhold sex from their husbands and lovers until the men end the Peloponnesian War.
February 19, 2010 1:00 AM
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Trends and entertainment news by Tom Iacuzio
Who will win at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards?

I have to be honest, I'm surprised they are even letting me write an Oscar story after my embarrassing Golden Globes showing in January but, alas, here I am again.

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'Godspell' set after 9/11

A Daytona State College production of "Godspell" will be set amid the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
February 19, 2010 1:00 AM
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Film fills in gaps of African-American history

'Filling the Gap' depicts 'information left out of school textbooks about African-American contributions to this country,' says one of the film's producers.
February 19, 2010 1:00 AM
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Baraka is back with 'Black Music'

When Amari Baraka (formerly known as Leroi Jones) wasn't writing Beat-influenced poetry in the early 1960s, he was penning essays and criticism on jazz music.
February 18, 2010 9:00 AM
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Literature & the Arts

New music museum in Jamaica to show Marley, Tosh
Edward Steichen fashion photo exhibit hits Florida
Ansel Adams' son sues Calif. museum over prints
Slugger Museum offers glimpse into baseball's past
New museum on life of Chopin opens in Warsaw
Critics mixed on Lloyd Webber's 'Love Never Dies'
Animal activists target Calif. sushi restaurant
Mass. Sen. Scott Brown to release memoir in 2011
Barker donates $2.5 million to create PETA offices
NY writer accused of abusing foreign assistants
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C. A. Bridges looks at TV, movies, pop culture and other magnificent time-wasters.
The making of a book cover

Ever wanted to watch a book cover get made? Orbit Books' creative director Lauren Panepinto captured "6 hours of my onscreen compositing, retouching, color correction, type obsessing" and squashed it down into a minute and a half.

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