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'Carmina Burana' a boisterous opener for Columbia Pro Cantare
Columbia Pro Cantare opens its 36th season with a choral blast when it does Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 8 p.m., at Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School. It's such a popular piece of classical music that audiences seemingly...Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Classical Music (genre), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Music
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Fourth time's not the charm for French anti-war novel 'War of the Buttons' ★★
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe fourth screen adaptation of Louis Pergaud's 1912 novel (and one of two dueling versions to hit French theaters within a week of each other), this "War of the Buttons" melds the book's anti-militarist story of feuding rural schoolboys to a...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Guillaume Canet, Arts and Culture, Movies, Laetitia Casta
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Nguyen Chi Thien dies at 73; poet, Vietnamese prisoner
The poet was a familiar figure, striding through Little Saigon, sipping tea, sharing wisdom, his head covered with his trademark fedora. He liked to read through the night, not too tired to dissect a bit of homeland politics. He lived simply, renting...
Tags: Prisons, Justice and Rights, Human Rights Watch, Russia, Tuberculosis
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Film review: 'Paradise' revisited
Thanks to digital technology, film — that is, the actual, physical substance — is disappearing faster than, hmm, let's say, adding machines and manual typewriters disappeared in earlier upheavals. Whether or not new technology is also having a...
Tags: Academy Awards, Movies, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Romance (genre)
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'Well Digger's Daughter' is good old-fashioned French filmmaking
Let "The Well-Digger's Daughter" take you back in time, not once but several times over. This traditional French film tells the story of a complicated romance between a rich man's son and a poor man's daughter in the Provence region of a century ago, a...Tags: Movies, Romance (genre), French Movies, World War I (1914-1918), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (movie)
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On Theater: Touring silver jubilee production of 'Les Mis' is a must-see
How do you improve on what is, arguably, the greatest of all musicals? In the case of "Les Miserables," now in residence at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the process is not so much improvement as enhancement. This touring 25th anniversary...
Tags: Victor Hugo
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Roberto Bolano's 'Woes of the True Policeman' a sketchy work
-------------------- Woes of the True Policeman A Novel Roberto Bolaņo, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 256 pp., $25 -------------------- An early death isn't the end for a writer. Like a special dispensation from...Tags: Liver Disease, Arts and Culture, Book, Heroin, Robert J. Lopez
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The Words
Fox 5 San Diego staffWhen "PECLB0000005706">Bradley Cooper was starring in Limitless, I thought I’d hate it based on the premise. He was a writer suffering from writer’s block. He comes across a drug dealer that gives him a pill that makes him smart. This...Tags: Jeremy Irons, J.K. Simmons, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Olivia Wilde
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Mystery-thriller book review: 'Broken Harbour'
Summer might be drawing to a close, but don't worry — there's still plenty of time to squeeze in a few more chills provided by new mysteries and thrillers from Karin Fossum, Tana French and Thomas H. Cook. * The Irish seaside enclave that provides...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Literature
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Review: Elie Wiesel's 'Hostage' is in a contrived situation
Los Angeles Times Book Critic-------------------- Hostage A Novel Elie Wiesel, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson Alfred A. Knopf: 214 pp., $25.95 -------------------- It's hard to read Elie Wiesel's new novel, "Hostage," without thinking about his classic...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, Kidnapping, Chess Playing
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Review: Laurent Binet deftly juggles Nazis and war heroes in 'HHhH'
-------------------- HHhH A Novel Laurent Binet, translated from the French by Sam Taylor Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 336 pp., $26 -------------------- Laurent Binet tackles the story of a Nazi and the two Czechoslovakian war heroes who set out to...
Tags: Madeleine Albright, Invention and Innovation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Fiction, Adolf Eichmann
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Review: 'The Twenty-Year Death' by Ariel S. Winter is 3-in-1 noir
-------------------- The Twenty-Year Death A Novel Ariel S. Winter Hard Case Crime: 672 pp., $25.99 -------------------- Noir is, first and foremost, style. It's like kabuki, or, more to the point, the blues — a folk art defined by its...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Movies, Ernest Hemingway, Jim Thompson, Georges Simenon
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