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Aussies suffer another costly hailstorm
Maryland WeatherThe National Weather Service's Sterling forecast office recorded its first (non-snow) thunderstorms of the year on Monday, and with them came some 1-inch hail.But that hail pales in comparison with the storms that have pounded parts of Australia during...Tags: Melbourne (Australia), Weather, Weather Reports
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Australian film 'The Sapphires' finds its American soul
"The Sapphires," which opens Friday, is the crowd-pleasing, based-on-actual-people story of four young Aboriginal women who team up with a male Irish manager and perform for American troops in Vietnam, so it's covering its bases internationally. The...
Tags: The Sapphires (movie), The Staple Singers (music group), Bridesmaids (movie), Entertainment, Gladys Knight
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Tennis great Rod Laver loses his partner in life
The biggest grand slam of Rod Laver's life had nothing to do with major tennis tournaments. He met Mary Shelby Peterson at the Jack Kramer Tennis Club. Then, in 1966, at a church in San Rafael, he changed that to Mary Shelby Laver. Game, set, match....
Tags: Australian Open, Bjorn Borg, Lew Hoad, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Tennis
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SXSW 2013: For Amanda Palmer, it takes a village
AUSTIN, Texas -- Amanda Palmer concluded her panel Wednesday at the South by Southwest Music Conference by pulling out a ukulele, bashing out a few chords and rhyming "banish evil" with "save the people." Fortunately, Palmer is better at financing albums...
Tags: Arts and Culture, PJ Harvey, Entertainment, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Music
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Helen Reddy ready to roar again
Before there was a King of Pop, Helen Reddy was being called the Queen of ’70s Pop thanks to her string of 15 Billboard top 40 songs and three chart toppers, starting with the anthemic “I Am Woman.” This rich-voiced, auburn-haired...
Tags: American Idol (tv program), Washington, DC, Rupert Murdoch, Carol Burnett, Helen Reddy
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The end of upward mobility
As Americans we like to think we with live in the land of opportunity where hard work and diligence pay off with a rise up the social and economic ladder to a standard of living that's the envy of the world. It's a myth. It's not that we don't want that,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), World Bank Group, Students, Graduation, Family
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Roberts rivets readers with tale of Mawson 'Alone On The Ice'
It's not likely I'll ever have a chance to visit Antarctica. So it follows that I'm unlikely ever to be alone on the ice at the bottom of the world. Thanks to adventure author David Roberts, I don't need to go south to learn the tribulations faced by...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, England, Snow Storms, Antarctica
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'The Sapphires' a tuneful trip to Vietnam ★★ 1/2
Some diversions invite comparison more readily than others. Take "The Sapphires," the most chipper film ever set in Vietnam. Already, many have seen it and liked it. If you enjoyed "Strictly Ballroom" or "The Commitments," which is to say if you fell...
Tags: Literature, Movies, Arts and Culture, The Sapphires (movie), Raquel Welch
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A searingly honest 'Rain' pours across the stage in Oak Park
At one point in "When the Rain Stops Falling," the deeply moving Australian play by Andrew Bovell now in a richly textured and searingly honest production from director John Gawlik at the Circle Theatre in Oak Park, a battered and melancholy young woman...
Tags: Lincoln Center, Arts and Culture, Celebrities, Abusive Behavior
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Plenty of Shame
At the very same moment one evening last week I heard my wife shouting at the television the same thing I was at the same time, “what are you doing?” So who where we shouting at? It was Brian Williams of the NBC Nightly News, one of the...
Tags: Television Industry, Television, Entertainment, NBC (tv network), YouTube
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This is how we will be judged: saving our kids
As a member of the White House Press Corps, I've attended a lot of events at the White House. But none more moving or powerful than this week's announcement by President Obama and Vice-President Biden of their plans to deal with gun violence. In the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, John Howard
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Viewpoint: Swiss visitors keep this writer entertained
While trying to think of something to write about for this week’s column, I stumbled on the first column I ever wrote for this newspaper. It was written the summer of 1991. My cousin Heinz Pfister and his wife, Trudi, were visiting Holtville at...
Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Disneyland Park, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Swiss Confederation
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