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It's a perfect week to preserve my piles
This is National Preservation Week. Which means that, if you are a librarian, you are probably already setting out the chips and mixing up a big punch bowl of sloe gin fizzes. Yeah man, this is the week that, according to The Washington Post, we call...
Tags: Waste Management Incorporated, Enrico Caruso, The Washington Post, Emily Dickinson, Libraries
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Obama to host concert honoring Carole King, recipient of 2013 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is putting on a show at the White House next week for singer-songwriter Carole King. She's the first woman to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. The White House says...Tags: Barack Obama, PBS (tv network), Washington, DC, Politics, White House
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MD--Mid-Atlantic Daybook
BC-MD--Mid-Atlantic Daybook Mid-Atlantic Daybook Associated Press Mid-Atlantic Daybook for Friday, May 17. MID-ATLANTIC The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to...Tags: Habitat for Humanity International, Barack Obama, Elections, Politics, 1st Mariner Arena
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Carole King to be honored with Obama-hosted show, Gershwin Prize
Carole King seems to have fans in high places: The singer-songwriter's life will be staged with an eye toward Broadway, and next week her oeuvre will be honored at the White House. Officials announced Friday that President Obama will host a star-studded...Tags: Human Interest, Barack Obama, PBS (tv network), Entertainment Events, Music Theater
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The men who would be Gatsby
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of a handful of actors who have portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tragic protagonist “The Great Gatsby” in film and TV over the last 87 years. Warner Baxter, who won the best actor Oscar as the Cisco Kid in the...Tags: Truman Capote, Macdonald Carey, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment
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READER SUBMITTED: Wethersfield Library Adult Summer Reading Program Kick-Off With Gina Barreca
WethersfieldWethersfield Library, 515 Silas Deane Highway, Wethersfield is pleased to announce that Dr. Gina Barreca, professor, writer and humorist, will be the guest speaker at the 2013 Adult Summer Reading Program kick-off. Join us Monday, June 10 at 7 p.m. in...Tags: Wethersfield, Oprah Winfrey, Phil McGraw, NPR, Education
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Sweden's king, queen to visit Smithsonian, Library of Congress, Kennedy Center in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) — The king and queen of Sweden are expected to visit several Washington cultural institutions during their trip to the United States. On Thursday, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden are expected to visit the Library...Tags: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Ernest Hemingway, New York City, Sweden, Washington, DC
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Latest Maryland and Delaware news, sports, business and entertainment:
Md. GOP calls for expanded jail investigation ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland House Republicans are calling for a wider investigation into corruption at correctional facilities as Gov. Martin O'Malley announces additional steps to enhance security...Tags: Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Ernest Hemingway, Human Interest, Jack Markell, Personal Weapon Control
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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
Column: Sales tax bill ill-advised
It was a happy day for me when, years ago, the Little Professor Book Center opened in Lakewood Mall. It was an equally sad day when it recently closed its doors. In today's environment, a small bookstore has one big problem and one insurmountable...Tags: Literature, Book, E-Commerce Industry, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.
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Plucking words in times of need
Early in his speech in Boston on Thursday, President Barack Obama summoned up a piece of poem. "It was a beautiful day to be in Boston," he told the congregation in the cathedral, remembering Monday, before the bombs went off. "A day," Obama went on,...Tags: Literature, Barack Obama, Yeast Infection, Sports, Poetry
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Nathaniel Paradis earns Eagle Scout award
On Feb. 25, 17-year-old Nathaniel Joseph Paradis earned the highest rank to be attained in the Boy Scouts of America. He became the 29th Eagle Scout of Boy Scout Troop 899 in Fallston. Nathaniel's Eagle Scout service project entailed leading interview...Tags: Boy Scouts of America
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