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1. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
2. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days" by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
3. "U is for Underflow" by Sue Grafton (Putnam Adult)
4. "I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown
5. "Under the
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Desert sheep is not amused.
Sorry for the extended absence — it ended up being a day longer than planned. The Wife and I headed out to California, to Joshua Tree National Park and Anza-Borrego State Park. Above is an Anza-Borregan state sheep, silently
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Obama asked to pardon legendary boxer
WASHINGTON -- Two lawmakers are appealing to President Barack Obama to pardon renowned black boxer Jack Johnson, imprisoned a century ago because of his romantic link to a white woman.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Rep. Peter King of New York, both
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PBS Signs on For Nielsen Ratings
For
the first time in nearly 40 years of broadcasting, PBS has signed
on as a weekly Nielsen subscriber, a move that will allow the
public television service to provide clients with a more accurate
look into its audience deliveries.
PBS is not ponying
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Drudge Watch: Strange Bedfellows Edition
Wynton Marsalis: What can jazz teach us about Hurricane Katrina?
David Hajdu: Why the best jazz was made by a great human being.
Leon Wieseltier: Ken Burns massacres the history of jazz.
Neil Leonard: Charlie Parker and the unhinged lives of jazz
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Jonathan Takiff: They really Blu it this time: A new format comes into its own
THE GIZMO: A Blu, Blu-ray Christmas. For many, the 2009 holiday season will be remembered as the "Blu-est" of them all. 'Tis the season when millions of high-definition-TV owners finally bought a Blu-ray disc player and software to pump up the
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SHOW & TELL
Banjo and fiddle player Tony Ellis will perform Saturday evening in the Music Room at the rear of JR Hooks Cafe, 115 Watt St., Circleville.
The event represents the first in the new Americana Concert Series, promising a musical variety -- including
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Networks passing out gifts this week
John Madden, left, celebrates with wide receiver Drew Buie after the Oakland Raiders won the AFL Western Division Championship in 1969. It was Madden’s first year as coach of the Raiders.
Christmas falling on a Friday makes for an unusual sports
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Glacier Park brimming with stories - Sat, 26 Dec 2009 PST
In this Aug. 5., 1934, photo, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are inducted into the Blackfeet tribe near Two-Medicine Chalet, Glacier National Park. After the president had been installed as “Lone Chief,” Eleanor Roosevelt
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BOOKS
3. "I, Alex Cross," by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99). Tracking the murderer of a relative, Alex Cross discovers a wild Washington scene with explosive secrets.
4. "Under the Dome," by Stephen King (Scribner, $35). When a Maine town is trapped
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Winter Wolf Watching in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley
Explore Montana’s remote winter ecosystem through the eyes of one of its most enigmatic creatures.
[Editor's Note: This post is sponsored by our friends at the State of Montana.]
Wolf mating season is nigh in Yellowstone National Park. As the Druid
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Technology Credit Union names new CEO
San Jose-based Technology Credit Union said Kamm replaces Ken Burns, who left in May of 2009, in the top spot.
Mical Atz Brenzel, chairman of the credit union’s board of directors, touted Kamm’s banking and management experience.
She joined Silicon
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Spike Lee-Directed Video For Michael Jackson's This Is It Released
Lee's video is a Ken Burns-like series of slow pans across a photo album of Jackson's life, taking in home movies, childhood ephemera, stolen moments from the Thriller era, and the adoration of fans. It's a loving tribute which also addresses ('Stop
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ReelDirector Updates with Soundtrack Import for iPhone Video Editing
Yes, it’s a relatively minor update, but after I installed it I realized we hadn’t really mentioned ReelDirector for iPhone [$7.99 - iTunes link] on the front page yet, in its own right, and that’s a shame because any app that can even approach video
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Looking back on a year of travel favorites
Turn out the lights, the decade's over.
Let's face it, 2009 was a tough year — a lousy economy, job stress, debt. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.
You just wanted to ... escape. Me, too. Hawaii. Japan. Oregon. Germany. Washington (state and D.C.), France, and a slew
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A midsummer night's screens
There's a lot more to enjoying the annual DVD summer binge
than raiding the new release shelves.
OF ALL the honoured traditions that come with summer - the
sunburn, the over-eating, the renewed vows to exercise - it is the
ritual of the holiday DVD pig-
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TT: The two best fan letters I've ever gotten
What an incredible job you did, Terry. Pops is not only the best biography of a jazz musician ever, but you really reclaimed Louis from that sad, brown, PBS-y place that Ken Burns & Co. sat him down in that took all the life out of him and used him as
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PBS CEO Paula Kerger Speaks on New Media's Role in Reviving the Classic Arts
2010-01-06 01:58:57 -
LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/05/10 -- As part of LA Arts Month, Paula A. Kerger, President and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) : , will deliver the address "Encore! Encore! Using Media to Revive
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Miles Still Runs the Voodoo Down
“I am a man of my times, but the times don’t know it yet.” --Erik Todd Dellums as "Bayard Rustin" (Boycott)
Mark Anthony Neal
is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black
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Yosemite Attendance Up Despite Recession
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Park officials say more visitors flocked to Yosemite National Park last year than have in more than a decade.
The National Park Service says 3,866,970 tourists visited the park in 2009, the highest level since 199
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Ken Burns to update baseball film
think we’re thrilled to be able to report that we are on the backside of the story," he added.
WALPOLE, N.H. -- Distinguished filmmaker Ken Burns is taking one of his classic pieces out of the vault to update the series for 2010.
Burns, the Walpole
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Sandy LaMantia of Shure Inc. looks for music – and humor – in media
Sandy LaMantia, 62, is CEO of Shure Inc., a Niles-based manufacturer of microphones and headphones. One of many musicians at Shure, he played electronic keyboard at the holiday party last month. How he stays in tune:
National Geographic offers variety "
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Joel Whitney Book Pick
Joel Whitney is a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics. In 2003, he was awarded a Discovery/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation for his poetry.
One of my favorite nonfiction books from 2009 was Mark Dowie's
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Governator's oil-for-parks extortion demand
This summer's vacation was what I thought would be a farewell tour of California state parks. The plan was simple: drive up the coast, stop in as many state parks as I can find, photograph them, blog them, remember them for posterity once
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PBS at TCA: Sir Patrick Stewart on Shakespeare, Hollywood Hierarchies, “Star Trek” and the Psychological Impact of Reality Television - Ed Martin - MediaBizBloggers
After being immersed for several days in the ongoing drama of NBC's Conan O'Brien crisis and the excitement surrounding Simon Cowell's impending departure from Fox's American Idol, yesterday's controversy free PBS sessions were a welcome relief here at
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Free for all: New Niffenegger and skating with Disney
Jan. 21 at the Sandy store, 10600 S. 230 West. Both clinics start at 7 p.m.
Jan. 21 » Synergy Dance Company, the premier group from Utah Valley University, performs "Recaptured" featuring choreography by Amy Markgraf-Jacobson and Angie
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A documentary in the works for Balloon Boy's dad
What Heene was trying to do with the balloon, Barber says, was solve the world's traffic problems by creating a cheap, lighter-than-air vehicle that would allow people to float over congested freeways.
Although the idea may sound far-fetched to some,
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Filmmaker: Movie about balloon dad could clear him
What Heene was trying to do with the balloon, Barber says, was solve the world's traffic problems by creating a cheap, lighter-than-air vehicle that would allow people to float over congested freeways.
Although the idea may sound far-fetched to some,
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Filmmaker says documentary on Balloon Boy's dad could clear him; authorities don't think so
Barber has known Heene for more than 10 years and says he has dozens of hours of film of the backyard inventor pursuing one science project after another. He compiled much of that footage, the filmmaker says, in an effort to help Heene land a TV
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America Rising: Who Made This Viral Video? Someone in the Grassroots or the GOP?
Everything that they are talking about in that propaganda clip can be attributed directly to the republicans!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness and it is killing America buy the day!
History can obviously be rewritten or made up from whole
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Breaking: Titus Andronicus
Who: A New Jersey-bred quartet who’ve gone from playing Brooklyn warehouse parties to opening up for acts like Vampire Weekend. After releasing their debut in 2008 — an album that earned them no shortage of Bruce Springsteen and Bright Eyes comparisons
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Theater listings for week beginning Jan. 21
“THE SOUNDS OF MOTOWN”: “The Sounds of Motown” will be presented at The Paris Cabaret, 49 Monk St., Stoughton, which is the home of The Starline Room Dinner Theatre with The Starliners, your singing waitstaff. The dinner show features the songs of The
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Late Night War as seen by 'Ken Burns,' via Jimmy Kimmel
10:48 AM Fri | Jimmy Kimmel envisions how Ken Burns would tell the story of the great late night TV wars.
9:51 AM Fri | Many economists expected unemployment to peak sometime in the fourth quarter - and it looks like that will be the case.
LA Observed
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The Late Night War, A Ken Burns Documentary on Jay Leno vs. Conan O’Brien
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Film showings to benefit Sportsmen's Alliance
Tickets are on sale for the annual banquet held by the Pierce County Sportsmen’s Council. The event, at which the council names its sportsman for the year, will be held April 3.
The banquet will be at the Puyallup Eagles, 205 Fifth St., Puyallup.
The
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Letters to the Editor
I have to go back to James Warner's letter to the editor from Jan. 10 ("Useless public works projects aren't jump-starting the economy," page A8).
In the letter, Warner quotes his father's example, working for the Civilian Conservation Corps during the
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On TV this week, Jan. 25-29
SERIES PREMIERE The Inbetweeners, 9 p.m., BBC America The best part about British comedies is that they're all very short. This one is only six episodes. Surely you'll have your fill of four school chums by then, wot?
SEASON PREMIERE Damages, 10 p.m.,
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Our view: Harbor islands park another great idea
From the collaboration of the National Park Service — America's best idea, according to the recent Ken Burns documentary series — and the Essex National Heritage Commission comes another exciting concept: a new park that incorporates the islands of
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Book offers look at famed preservationist
Published online 1/27/2010 11:26 PM
By Sheila Lisman - Community columnist
A new biography by Donald Worster, "A Passion for nature: the Life of John Muir," was recently added to the collection at the Hutchinson Public Library. If you
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Flashback: Brooklyn Kids Back In The Day
Young Jamie Swan jumping off a short stone wall at Ft. Greene. June 26, 1886. (That doesn't look very short!)
After seeing this photo of babies enjoying some playtime on a fire escape in 1953, we got to wondering about what other kinds of crazy things
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Turmoil, money woes threaten Negro Leagues Museum
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, a unique window into a vital chapter of American history that the late Buck O'Neil helped open 20 years ago, could be in trouble.
Attendance and revenues are down, and a decision by new management
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AP: Recession hits Negro Leagues Museum
Seven months from now, we will have seen the sagacity of the work of Cashman and Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, Cubs GM Jim Hendry and the Mets’ Jeff Wilpon. Clubs that feel they must spend to win the winter back pages and ticket-package wars have usually
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Reds agree one-year deal with (Orlando) Cabrera
No, it’s not a look into the Damaso Garcia vote...it’s the Mattingly-Brett angle.
Got into a discussion the other day about this award. There was some pretty strenuous arguing over whether the winner should’ve been Don Mattingly (who actually won it in
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Revising the Record in the Civil War
Though it has the movie Glory and an exquisite memorial on Boston Common, the Massachusetts 54th regiment does not have Civil War history on its side.
Glory, the 1989 movie starring Denzel Washington, and The Civil War, the Ken Burns series first aired
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Theater listings for week beginning Feb. 4
“THE SOUNDS OF MOTOWN”: “The Sounds of Motown” will be presented at The Paris Cabaret, 49 Monk St., Stoughton, which is the home of The Starline Room Dinner Theatre with The Starliners, your singing waitstaff. The dinner show features the songs of The
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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Reading "New Orleans Stlye and the Writing of American Jazz History"
New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn
As I mentioned earlier, the year 2010 will see me delving deeply into the still-emerging field of jazz academia. As a part of that process, Im going to be
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PBS to air documentary on Lake Placid, Olympics
LAKE PLACID — As 2010 Olympic fever heats up in Vancouver, officials in Lake Placid will be lighting their own torch next week to commemorate the two winter games that put the village on the map.
Meanwhile, a locally produced film is set to rekindle
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Chicago News Cooperative: A High-Tech Alternative for Hollywood Hopefuls
James Warren is a columnist for the Chicago News Cooperative.
This article is part of our expanded Chicago coverage.
The Chicago report features coverage of public affairs, culture, lifestyle and sports in the region and is produced by the Chicago News
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Talking all that jazz
Come the 1980s and a backlash against the fusion era was – literally – in full swing. While the noted saxophonist Branford Marsalis worked with pop acts and pushed the boundaries, his brother -Wynton led a revival of pure jazz and a purge against those
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Ostrow: Spirituals journey led to PBS
Ken Burns gave us 19 hours on jazz. Martin Scorsese oversaw 14 hours on the blues. There have been umpteen films about the history of gospel music, R&B and its crossover to pop, and numerous recent documentaries about rap and hip-hop.
But until now
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Paul Carpenter -- Robber barons rape resources
They named a state park ... for Pinchot, the foremost enemy of parks in American history.
Paul Carpenter
T hree seemingly diverse developments painfully illustrate what has happened when unscrupulous politicians cater to powerful special interests
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Bit by bit, we learn some more about 'Say Hey' kid
In his 1979 movie, "Manhattan," Woody Allen made a list of the things that make life worth living. At the top sat Groucho Marx. But just behind Groucho — and before the second movement of Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony, Louis Armstrong's recording of
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Kim Kardashian Becoming a Documentary Filmmaker?
Is there more to Kim Kardashian than meets the eye? We're about to find out. The model who's one of the stars of E! channel's 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' has always been famous for... being famous.
Now she's stepping behind the camera (a bit) as
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High court turns back on ideals of founders
Once upon a time the Supreme Court of the United States held opinions in line with our founding fathers, but today's five right wingers have twisted constitutional opinion from the Supreme Court in order to found by law the U.S. Corporate States of
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A go-nowhere existence
To stave off senescence, as well as the effects of old age, one should exercise one's brain in order to maintain its youthful suppleness and precocity. It is crucial to expose the brain to novel circumstances. This is why people in Washington are
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Lunch: James Cameron's Oscar Campaign Comes to Michael's
It was Hollywood on the Hudson at Michael's today as Peggy Siegal hosted one of her legendary lunches right smack in the middle of the dining room for James Cameron. As Ellen Burstyn, Julie Taymor, and Ken Burns celebrated with the Avatar auteur, we
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Gotta see it: 'Phyllis and Harold' builds buzz and mystery
Ken Burns calls it "a masterpiece."
Mike Nichols calls it "shocking," "riveting" and "completely original."
What has sparked these award-winning filmmakers to utter such effusive praise? Surprisingly, it's an indie documentary called Phyllis and Harold.
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James Cameron taken aback by 'Sex' promo
"AVATAR" director James Cameron was the toast of Michael's at a lunch in his honor hosted by American Film Institute founding director George Stevens, Jr. But Cameron's eyes almost popped out of his head "3D-style," a witness said, when Dr. Ruth
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Alfred “Slick” Surratt, a founder of Negro Leagues Museum, dies at age 87
COMMENTARY Alfred “Slick” Surratt, a founder of Negro Leagues Museum, dies at age 87 By STEVE PENN The Kansas City Star Alfred “Slick” Surratt More News A major link to baseball’s Negro Leagues and the Kansas City Monarchs has passed away. Alfred “Slick”
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PBS films chronicles African-American patriots
It is remarkable because of the contradiction at the heart of this American experience: Blacks have defended this nation with great heroism and sacrifice even as the nation exploited their patriotism and denied them the most fundamental rights.
The
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Cardinal George to speak at Brigham Young University
Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb 22, 2010 / 06:10 pm (CNA).- On Tuesday, Cardinal Francis George, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, will give a talk on religious freedom at Brigham Young University (BYU), an institution run by the
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TV Today
In this image released by ABC, actors, from left, Rico Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara and Ed O'Neill are shown in a scene from, "Modern Family." The program was nominated, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, for a Golden Globe for best television series musical or
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National parks ‘09 visitation up by 10 million
WASHINGTON - Ten million more people visited national parks last year than in 2008, but the numbers fell short of the all-time record for park visitation from 1987.
More than 285 million people visited national parks and other units of the National
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National parks '09 visitation up but misses record
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten million more people visited national parks last year than in 2008, but the numbers fell short of the all-time record for park visitation from 1987.
Still, the 3.9 percent increase in 2009 visitation compared to 2008 was a triumph
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Travel updates: National park visits surged in 2009
Ten million more people visited the United States' national parks last year than in 2008, despite the economic downturn that has caused most travel to slump.
More than 285 million people visited national parks during 2009, up from about 275 million in 2
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National park attendance soars in '09
The U.S. Department of the Interior reports that 285 million Americans and foreign tourists visited the parks last year --10 million more than in 2008.
Among reasons cited by the National Park Service: the three weekends last year when entrance fees
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Travelers' Checks
Ten million more people visited national parks last year than in 2008, but the numbers fell short of the all-time record for park visitation from 1987.
More than 285 million people visited national parks and other units of the National Park Service
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National parks failed to break attendance record in 2009
President Obama and his family visited the Grand Canyon in August last year.
WASHINGTON (AP) Ten million more people visited national parks last year than in 2008, but the numbers fell short of the all-time record for park visitation from 1987.
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Enough Already. Nobody Cares.
A long time ago in America, there was a beautiful game called baseball. This was before 30 major-league teams were scattered in a blurry variety of divisions; before 162-game seasons and extended playoffs and fans who watched World Series games in
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Mac
You don't know about me without you have driven on a road by the name the Mark McGwire Highway in St. Louis; but that ain't no matter anymore, on account the Missouri state senate voted to rename it for Mr. Mark Twain this week. They had been talking
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Tom Hanks tells 'Time' about controversial WWII, JFK projects
This week's issue of Time magazine, on stands Friday, features Tom Hanks. It's just the third time in three years that a movie star has graced the cover (Kate Winslet last year, and George Clooney the year before).
In the story, Hanks talks about his
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Attendance at national parks up last year, but missed record
In this Aug. 16, 2009, photo, President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia and Sasha Obama, with Interpretive Park Ranger Scott Kraynak look out over Hopi Point as they tour the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park,
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UConn Defeats Syracuse, Ties Winning Streak
HARTFORD -
History is the story of our lives and it's often bound in the form of record books because people who love sports like numbers.
But to the UConn women, making history - even the kind that would inspire Ken Burns -- is nothing more than a
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Aperture's Makeover Delights Photogs
While Aperture's new features make it more attractive than ever to professional photographers, its main selling point appears to be its superior ability to automate a photographer's workflow. "For me, the most important thing about Aperture -- always
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The Foundation for the National Archives Announces Filmmaker Ken Burns as the Recipient of the 2010 Records of Achievement Award
Annual gala to be held in November 2010 in Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Foundation for the National Archives will present the seventh annual Records of Achievement Award to Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker
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Flipped-Out Phone
By KATHERINE BOEHRET Touch screens are now prevalent enough on mobile devices that I find myself touching the screens of every new gadget I see. My trusty index finger of a stylus is ready at all times to swipe, pinch, double tap and scroll since these
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Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg Re-Team In HBO's Fine 'The Pacific'
Another group of celebrities (and near-celebrities) apparently between gigs try on tasks that raise money for charity on the third season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" (NBC, 9 p.m.). When the biggest names on the women's team are Cyndi
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Vet thrilled by film roles
Of the estimated 16 million men and women who served in the U.S. military in World War II, one was a 17-year-old Marine named Sidney Phillips, who enlisted the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, fought in the Pacific and eventually came home and
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Last call for Smothers?
Their partnership has lasted longer than most marriages ... even theirs.
But when the Smothers Brothers bring their razor-edged comedy tinged with political overtones to The Grand, it could be one of their last shows, if you can believe recent comments
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A SOLDIER STORY
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have gone to war together before: On the 1998 film "Saving Private Ryan" and on HBO's 2001 World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers."
actors and for the writers and for all of us to put on the screen. But we felt we had
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Marine Depicted in 'The Pacific' Reacts
One thing "The Pacific" doesn't have that its predecessor "Band of Brothers" did was the faces of the actual soldiers framing each episode with their recollections. Many of those veterans are now dead. But some surviving Marines were consulted for "The
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A cocktail of whisky and tequila
Paddy Moloney, founder and frontman of the Chieftains, may be 71, but he knows a good mash-up when he hears one. That would be a blend of traditional Irish and Mexican music, as heard on the Chieftains and Ry Cooder’s new album, “San Patricios,” which
