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McCann, Stiles Win National Book Awards
Listen:Nov. 19, 2009 | Lynn Neary | National Public Radio | 0 comments
The 60th annual National Book Awards were handed out Wednesday night in New York. Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize. T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, The First Tycoon, was the nonfiction winner and Keith Waldrop's Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy won for poetry.
100 years of Johnny Mercer, pop poet laureate
Nov. 18, 2009 | Jeff Lunden | NPR | 0 commentsHe wrote the words, and sometimes the music, for more than 1,500 songs, among them "Skylark," "Blues in the Night" and "Moon River." He had a few hits himself on Capitol Records — which he started. He was a great American lyricist, and today is marks the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Sexing up the PG-13 vampire ... but not too much
Listen:Nov. 18, 2009 | Beth Accomando | NPR | 0 comments
New Moon, the second movie installment in the hit Twilight saga, opens this Friday. With a target audience of teen and tween girls, the films straddle the line between sexy and chaste. Some fans say this can send mixed messages.
L.A. Times: The Arts
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art is hard hit by recession
- Music review: Gustavo Dudamel and Gil Shaham play Mozart and Berg
- Theater project holds a mirror up to the recession
- Movie review: 'La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet'
New York Times: Arts
- Music: John Mayer Just Has to Please the Girls
- The TV Watch: The Fine Art of Quitting While She’s Ahead
- To Blacks, Precious Is ‘Demeaned’ or ‘Angelic’
- From Mom’s Basement to the Top of the Chart
L.A. Weekly
- Hollywood's Catered Stimulus
- When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues
- L.A. WEAKLY — GET IT?! THAT'S FUNNY!
- IF A MIME PERFORMS AT UCB AND EVERYONE LAUGHS, DID HE MAKE A SOUND?
L.A. Times: Entertainment News
- Oprah: 'It's time to leave'
- 'New Moon' poised for biggest box office day ever
- NBC's 'Nightly News' anchor Brian Williams shows his lighter side
- USC professor creates an entire alien language for 'Avatar'
Variety
- Life after death on Broadway
- 'New Moon' breaks box office records
- Spielberg, King team on 'Dome'
- 'Avatar' toys with augmented reality
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Tender Greens
Tender Greens is like your favorite rock band where you want to keep it a secret but also hope for tremendous success. And successful it is. Healthy and tasty salads and veggies, lean cuts of steak, chicken and tuna all served up in a 'fast food' style and price tag - but in a much better environment and quality. The flatiron angus steak with Yukon Gold potatoes top out my list. I also love to get the line caught ahi tuna with a baby spinach and goat cheese salad - quite tasty when I'm shooting for lighter fare. Makes for a nice and not-too-expensive dinner, and an excellent lunch as well.
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