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150 students tame Shakespeare
Acting isn’t just about reciting lines from a script, even if the script is by William Shakespeare. The eighth-grade students of John Muir Middle School in Burbank learned that lesson on Jan. 27 during the school’s 11th annual “Shrew...Tags: Teaching and Learning, John Muir, Students, Education, Teaching and Learning
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A word, please: As literate as Shakespeare
Recently, a Minnesota Public Radio talk show listener called to suggest to language experts Ben Zimmer and Grant Barrett a clever solution to a very perplexing and pervasive language problem. The problem crops up when we need to talk about a hypothetical...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Employees, Radio, Career and Workplace, Entertainment
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About something, or much ado about nothing?
Anyone who struggled through Shakespeare in high school might find some glee in picturing the Bard as a rude, uneducated, drunken lout who never actually penned his literary masterpieces. Well, that’s according to one theory put forth by the new...Tags: Mark Twain, Orson Welles, Arts and Culture, The Hollywood Reporter, Vanessa Redgrave
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Glee Club gives earnest final tour concert
Friendship between the director of Cornell University’s Glee Club and conductor of the Pasadena Master Chorale brought the two singing groups together Sunday afternoon for a joint concert at the La Crescenta Presbyterian Church.
The choir from...Tags: Ivy League, University of California, Los Angeles, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Education, Cornell University
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More melancholy this 'Wither's Tale'
Directly on the heels of the wacky "CHiPs the Musical" comes the Troubadour Theater Company's noticeably more sedate "A Wither's Tale." Almost a one-man show for founder Matt Walker, Shakespeare's romance gets a heartfelt and moving homage injected with...Tags: Health, Behavioral Conditions, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Music Theater, Entertainment
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Equal measures of comedy and drama
What a pleasure it is to have a classical theater company like A Noise Within in Los Angeles. From William Shakespeare to Henrik Ibsen, no playwright is deemedtoo "high-brow", and its actors' passion for the material is palpable on stage. Shakespeare's...Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Entertainment, Henrik Ibsen, Political Corruption
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Mailbag: Schiff downplays illegal immigration
Rep. Adam Schiff told a government class at Crescenta Valley High School that newly elected officials might be able to save California from drowning in red ink ("Political discourse," June 8). Did Schiff tell his captive audience that California...Tags: Mark Twain, Arizona, Culture, Claude Monet, Politics
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Baltimore theater companies in a building boom
Vincent Lancisi stands in a pile of rubble sweating under his hard hat, while all around him — board by board, pipe by pipe and hammer blow by hammer blow — a theater is taking shape.
It's still nearly eight months until the opening of...Tags: Starbucks Corp., Arts and Culture, Alvin Ailey, Entertainment Events, Politics
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Summer Night Life Special
It's Memorial Day weekend, and the hot season of Southern California night life is here. Get off on the good foot with our Summer Night Life Guide: a great drink poolside, a movie in the grass, a ridonculous day-party, a midnight bike ride. It's the start...Tags: Tacos, Eggs Benedict, Patton Oswalt, Strangers on a Train (movie), Seal (music artist)
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Not past our dancing days yet: Sean Graney's fun and inventive "Romeo Juliet"
I've heard the perennially excellent question "What light through yonder window breaks?" on countless occasions. I have never heard it spoken by Juliet and never while sucking on an orange. Me, not her. But Juliet is a girl with questions who always...
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Students enjoy hands-on Renaissance lessons
History recently came to life for seventh-graders at University School in Davie as they learned about and portrayed more than 30 historical figures from the Renaissance era. During the five-week Renaissance Assessments project, the classes delved into...
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Howard County Briefs
Skills park to open Grand opening of the Rockburn Skills Park, targeted to mountain bikers and trail runners, at Rockburn Branch Park takes place at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 2. Features within the park include a pump track, flow trail, descending trail,...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Rentals, Music, Artists, Patapsco
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