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Cheap Taco Plate, Pasadena
- katkoupai Mar 31, 2007 06:19 AM
Where can I get a good, cheap taco plate (rice, beans, a few chips, tacos) in Pasadena? I am thinking about a "to-go" place with outdoor benches-- nothing fancy. By cheap, I mean up to $7, after tax.
I am thinking about:
El Burrito Express
Tortas Mexico
King Taco (again)
Los Tacos
El Toreo
El Metate
The mom and pop shop that Wild Swede likes on Summit and Hammond
The various Pasadena taco trucks-- are they around on the weekend?
I just want a no frills place, that's cheap, with good food (grab a seat, eat there, leave, without full-service). There's a freestanding hole-in-the-wall on Colorado and Rosemead Bl. (?) that I've been meaning to check out. Is that El Burrito Express?
What about that liquor store next to Pie N Burger? I noticed they sell tacos, etc. Is tbeir food any good? Thanks. Any thoughts on the above places would be appreciated.
That's the place, good stuff as i recall, near the Cost Plus? 1 block west of Rosemead, north side of street.
re: Burger Boy
Thanks, Burger Boy. That might be lunch today. :)
re: katkoupai
After tutoring last night, I was hungry. So I thought about this post and as I was just a few blocks away, I decided to stop at "that place right by Cost Plus on Colorado". Okay, first, it is called "El Super Burrito". I arrived around 7:45. There were two people sitting eating their food at the cute mosaic-tiled tables. One other person was standing at the window placing their order. I read over the offerings and read the review that was taped in the "pick-up window". The reviewer mentioned some items but specifically stated that the tamale was good. Sold! I ordered the #19 - Tamal and Soft Taco since I also wanted to try my standard, the Al Pastor. The dish cost $6.79 and came with rice, beans a couple of chips, red & green salsa (I asked for the hottest and then asked for the other) and jalapeno (did not get one jalapeno, but got lots of marinated carrots) and a medium tamarindo. They called my number and I picked it up. I sat at a table and while I ate I watched the people in the karate gym across the street. I took a bite of the Al Pastor and found it left A LOT to be desired. It was extremely dry and greasy at the same time. Not much flavor, either. Even with salt and salsa added. This was left almost untouched on the plate. The tamal was large and covered with a red sauce and cheese. I took a bite of the tamal and was not expecting anything. Wow! It was actually really good in a basic-kinda weird tamale way. The sauce that it was covered with is their enchilada sauce. But, it has a nice kick to it that you do not normally find in enchilada sauce. Also, I am not a fan of tamales that do not have salt in their masa. This masa definitely had salt added and was somewhat flavorful, and had bits of corn kernels in it. The inside was shredded beef which was moist and tender. I have to say - this was the best part of the meal. Now, I wondered if this really was as good as I thought, or if my hunger and/or the fact that I had burned the hell out of my tongue on the soup I made on Sunday (why don't I ever learn??) had something to do with it. So, I ordered another tamal to go and will eat it today for lunch. I asked for extra of the sauce and was obliged. $2.25.
The rice was bland and oily, but that was quickly remedied with the addition of the red salsa - it became really good and I ate every last bit of it. The beans were your basic canned variety which were not good and got really nasty-looking when it got cold. These stayed on the plate as well.
All in all, the tamal, I would go back for.
Prices have gone up ~$1.00
3631 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA
"Save Time ~ Phone Ahead" (626) 792-4482
re: WildSwede
Thanks for checking it out, WildSwede. I'm bummed to hear about the canned refried beans at El Super Burrito. I'm looking for a place where everything from the salsa, to the beans, to the drinks, are made with fresh/real ingredients. The tamale does sound good, though. I have a long way to go to get through this list, so this helps. :)
re: katkoupai
My favorite taqueria (MFT from now on) makes all their ingredients. Sometimes they have drinks (more so recently) but I think I have only seen Fruit Punch and maybe lemonade(?). I always get the Mexican bottled drinks from the market in front. They do not have refried beans but whole pinto beans which are delicious! Maybe this is where I will go for lunch today and save the tamal for dinner, hmmm.
re: WildSwede
MFT means that's where you will be going from now on?
I will check this place out the next time I have the time and opportunity. :)
re: katkoupai
No, sorry. MFT (my favorite taqueria) = the place on Hammond and Summit. I get tired of writing it out!! ;-)
re: WildSwede
Got it! Thanks! :-)
re: katkoupai
Also, while I was eating, I noticed that across the street and on the other side of the street from the Karate studio, that there was a Carniceria that advertised pupusas on their outside wall. It was called Elizabeth's (or something like that). I am going to try the pupusas there one day (and check out their other offerings). So far, though, the best pupusas I have had can be found at La Caravana on north Lake (just before Washington) in Pasadena.
re: WildSwede
This is good to know. I almost went to La Caravana a few weeks ago, but I decided against it, due to parking issues. I think they may have parking in the back, but I couldn't find street parking at the time. :)
re: WildSwede
Sorry, the Carniceria is on the other side of the PARKING LOT from the Karate Studio, not the other side of the street! I have only ever parked on the street when going to La Caravana, so I am unable to speak to whether or not they have parking in back.
re: WildSwede
Okay, thanks for the info. :) Both places sound worth checking out. I haven't had a pupusa in a long time. :)
re: WildSwede
If you are looking for REAL authentic mexican food, that is a fast food place even better than some restaurants you need to try Pepe's. There is one in Alhambra and Temple City. The beans are the best and almost all the things on the menu are authentic.
re: mrspineapple
Thank you. I have tried Pepe's in Alhambra. It's pretty good.
I have looked at a few reviews more on past threads, and here are a few other places that I would like to check out (but haven't yet).
La Estrella-- either one
Puebla Tacos (three locations in Pas)
Green St. Taqueria
My top three places to check out would be:
Los Tacos
Puebla Tacos
El Burrito Express
Any place that makes fresh chips, salsa, and hopefully agua fresca would be great. I might just have to check each place out, one by one.
re: katkoupai
LA ESTRELLA on altadena and foothill rocks. but don't expect rice and beans. this place is pretty authentic.
get the fish tacos, camarones, and ceviche. all good. all reasonably priced washed down with excellent horchata or hibiscus tea.
re: revets2
I will take your advice, revets, and try La Estrella for the shrimp tacos. Is the horchata made from powder mix or fresh? Thank you for your suggestion. :)
re: katkoupai
the shrimp tacos are very good, but i was not recommending them. the camarones served in a styrofoam cup with gazpacho like soup/sauce. that's the one you want to order. have fun. don't know if the horchata is powder or fresh. they dispense it from a drink machine. hope that helps.
re: katkoupai
The La Estrella on Orange Grove & Garfield - the restaurant one, the one further from the street.. ( there are 2 at same location believe it or not!) - is in my opinion the best of many items in all of pasadena: best carne asada soft taco, best tamale's, best salsa (green or red sauce), and best horchata's in all of Pasadena!
I'm open to refuters, but you better have tried these first, because I live next to 15 authentic mexican places on Orange Grove (or what I like to call 'Little Tijuana') and this place blows them all away.
Remember, NOT the la estrella closer to the street, but the one in the back of the plaza at 330 E Orange Grove.
Highly recommended!
La Estrella Restaurant
330 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91104
re: chuckienorton
Hey Chuckie, I think the one that is further from the street does not offer their fish tacos or their ceviche (or any fish items iirc) which are what I feel their strongest offerings (although I do really like their al pastor in both taco and burrito form). And their red salsa... I would swim in it if it would not burn my eyeballs!! Have never had their tamales, tho. Which do you recommend? I agree on the horchata! YUM!
re: katkoupai
Tried Tacos Puebla on Villa a couple of weeks ago, had the carne asada, al pastor, and tripas. If I were rating taco places 1 through 10 (1 being a 35cent taco stand in Baldwin Park that is overpriced and 10 being the heavenly Tacos de Huicho in Bakersfield), I'd give them a 2. Asada was bland, pastor had an off taste, the tripas seemed slimy and underdone. All were wrapped in corn tortillas that had the consistency of moist dough.
I tried the following at Los Tacos in Pasadena (on Fair Oaks near California), with a friend today:
Carne asada tacos
Lengua tacos
Carne asada was pretty good. Lengua was good. Beans and rice were okay. I don't usually eat mole, but my friend said that it was decent and sweet. Salsa-- only okay-- didn't seem homemade. Aquas-- not fresh juice, but decent. Total was about $10 a person or $20 total. Pretty good, although my friend noted that better Mexican food can be had elsewhere for a cheaper price. :) Still looking...
Grade: B/B+
re: katkoupai
Yeah, not a big fan of Los Tacos. Probably my least favorite out of all the places in the area. La Estrella - try their fish tacos or fish ceviche. Those are the best. If you go to the location on Orange Grove/Marengo (?) you will note that they reopened the old location in the small strip mall on the east side of Marengo (they closed this when they built the new location building on the west side of Marengo (right across the street). We went in to the old/new location and quickly realized that they have select items (more menu items at the old location) at each location. Seafood is only available at the new location - go there. People have been saying that the LE on Fair Oaks and Villa has gone downhill, but I do not go there anymore since I found the Hammond/Summit place, so I cannot speak to that.
At the Hammond/Summit place the tacos are $1/each and you can get rice and beans (not sure how much that is) and their burritos (which include both R&B) are $4. Definitely homemade salsas (green and red) - I have watched Isaura make them in the past. MMMM-mmmmm good!! ;-)
re: WildSwede
Thanks. I need to try this place that you are talking about. I first thought Los Tacos was good, and then a few hours later, I changed my mind. It was okay, but it left something to be desired.
re: katkoupai
El Taquito Mexicano #2 (467 N Fair Oaks Ave) have excellent $1 carne asada tacos. It's a small hole-in-the-wall sit down joint.
re: Oishii Eats
Hey, thanks. :) Actually, a few hours after the meal at Los Tacos, I was unsure what I thought of it. (Maybe it wasn't as good as I thought it was.) There has to be better Mexican food in Pas. I haven't heard of El Taquito Mexicano, but thank you-- I will check it out. :)
I like the Tortas Mexico on Fair Oaks just N. of Union. They have good carne asada tacos (you can get them plain or with cojita cheese -- and I think the cheese makes them really tasty), a delicious-and-spicy red salsa, and good beans. While I've never gotten the taco plate, they definitely have them and they would be within your price range.
re: ozzygee
Thank you. :)
re: ozzygee
Lupita's I like. Have not been there in a couple of years, but remember really liking what I have eaten there.
Since Pasadena does not have a Cactus (Hollywood), just go to King Taco. So many raves here about Tonny's. It good, but not cheap - it is no longer open 24/7. But that's ok, it just attracted drunks after 1am. El Burrito Express is horrible, the carne asada was a grayish color w/ the flavor of drain water. La Estrella is never very clean, even the new one! Ok, if your drunk.
This goes for Puebla as well. There are a few taco places on Lake, just N of Orange Grove, but have not tried them yet.
re: alkyd9
I have to be honest, the more places that I try, the more I think King Taco is the place for me. I know people disagree, but so far, it is my favorite. What have I tried so far? Tonny's, Rick's, Los Tacos, various chains, and I'm still trying. :)
re: katkoupai
I haven't found any place in LA that beats a San Diego Taco shop. King Taco was subpar at best.
re: katkoupai
King Taco is good. But the Pasadena location, good as it is, is not even close to the great KTs you'll find in other parts of L.A., like East L.A.
Great tacos in L.A. is a long debated topic which I'd love to get into, but we're talking about just Pasadena here.
My thoughts:
Burrito Express: decent burritos, nothing exceptional but tasty. I get a JVC veggie style there on the rare occasions I go.
El Gran Burrito: finally tried it after so many years. Tacos and burritos. Disappointed. WildSwede's review was on (except I didn't try the tamales. so I don't know about that).
La Estrella: good fish tacos (deep fried fish), decent carne asada and cabeza. But really only thing to get is the fish tacos (big ones).
Puebla: been to Orange Grove location a few times late at night, after being out drinking. OK. Pretty hot salsa roja. Nothing special, but better than most. A good friend swears by the one on Villa and Allen, but I haven't tried it.
Los Tacos: so so, avoid.
El Toreo: Pasadena institution, survived old townization, prices have gone up. Mediocre, but satisfying. Not what you're looking for from your description.
Green Street taqueria: so so. I refuse to eat there.
Rosarita?? I think. Next to the In-N-Out on Foothill: I used to eat here all the time, and I loved it. For some reason I've not been in years. I think it's because it looked way too dirty the last time I was in there so I walked out(and I eat at the illegal taco carts in East L.A. - worth it for a great Al Pastor). Still plan on returning one day to check it out again.
WildSwede's place: Gotta try it. Every time he writes about it it sounds better and better, but they were already closed when I went. I also want to try El Metate; everybody I know who has eaten there thinks it's great.
Taco trucks: usually open at night. Three on Fair Oaks - two south of Del Mar, and one at Walnut (my usual). Pretty good. In neighboring Eagle Rock there's Rambo and Leo's. Both good tasty not too fatty meat, but I prefer Leo's.
Also the neighborhood of East Orange Grove/Los Robles-Fair Oaks has a number of taco establishments that you might like.
re: katkoupai
Sure, just tell us what you think of any of these places if you try them.
Personally I'm especially interested in the Puebla on Villa and Allen, which looks like a nice place to have a plate of tacos in the day, and El Metate.
I'm going to try WildSwede's place next and then I'll give Rosarito another go soon.
I generally tend to do my taco eating in the evenings, so if I'm around Pasadena I usually eat from the trucks, El Chavo and recently El Gallito.
re: mcmal
Great summary, mcmal! I went to "my place" yesterday after work and she gave me a business card for their catering taco cart business. It says "Exquicitos Tacos. Para Fiestas. Catering for all occasions. Mexican Food Specialists: Asada, Carnitas, Al Pastor, Pollo, Tripitas, Buche. Fernando (909) 873-0703 or cell (626) 278-6327". Unfortunately, they were out of Al Pastor (this happens sometimes on Wednesdays (and makes me cry) as he makes the Al Pastor on Thursdays), so I "settled" for Carne Asada with some of the AP marinade on top! I mentioned to them that they should offer aguas but did not seem too enthused about it. Maybe if people mention they would like aguas with their meal...
They close by 8 M-Sat and by 2 on Sundays.
I like El Metate - but usually only get the fish tacos ($1.99). But he did make a burrito for me (carne asada, grilled onions, etc.) and when I said it was delicious, he put it on the menu (El Metate Burrito). ;-)
re: WildSwede
Awh, today is Thursday and I missed the freshly made Al Pastor. I'm absolutely going tomorrow (I hope they aren't closed for Good Friday).
re: sel
Thank you sel for the low-down and your reassurance on the taco trucks around Pasadena. I'll try the one recommended in earlier posts. (at the Shell station on Walnut/Fair Oaks). After reading posts here that one seems to interest me, esp. for al pastor. I am craving it, last night being Good Friday and all, I'm sure not one place was open. Yeah, a well lit, sparkling white truck is fine. report to follow.
re: WildSwede
OK, WildSwede. I've now gone two times to your favorite taco place on Summit and Hammond and I've got to tell you, I love it. The Al Pastor can't be beat - in Pasadena at least. I also had Asada and Carnitas, which were very good too. But that Al Pastor, the first bite of this perfectly seasoned, moist and tender meat was fantastic, and so was the last one. I don't know if they charbroil it on a spit before they cut it up or use an electric spit, but either way it sure tastes like it was exposed to fire at some point. Truly a great taco.
Today they had a little stand set up in front of the store and lots of people were buying Tripas, which I'll be trying on my next visit.
Thanks for the really great suggestion.
re: mcmal
YAY!!! I am so glad you liked it, mcmal! The best thing, to me, is the Al Pastor burrito - the last few bites of it: chewy tortilla, squirt of lime, spicy red salsa, some rice and beans and the al pastor juice that has been working its way down there the whole time you have been eating it... heaven on a plate, if you ask me!!
You can ask them if you can taste the tripe. They like to give me new things to try. They are very proud of what they do and the quality of their products. I am glad that business is doing well. Thank you for your review!!
Hey, I will be going today at lunch. If anyone wants to meet me there, I will be there around 12:15-ish.
re: WildSwede
K, went today and have a couple of updates. Summit & Hammond place: they are no longer open on Sundays, but are open til 9 M-F; til 2 on Sat. Also, they just moved (their home) from Altadena to Rialto, so if anyone needs a taqueria caterer in that area... although he will travel. Al Pastor still rocks!! ;-)
re: WildSwede
I finally found the place on Summit & Hammond a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, the day that I went, there was a party of regulars just hanging out in front of the shop. I felt a bit awkward (almost as if I was intruding upon a family bbq), so I decided to eat at Rosarito #2. I will have to try to stop by the Summit/Hammond place another time, when it's less crowded. :)
re: katkoupai
Sorry to hear that. I have never felt uncomfortable there. I just wait and talk to the other patrons while I am waiting. Sometimes it is very crowded (evenings) and other times (lunch - I go after 1) it is not.
re: WildSwede
I will give it another try at another time. :)
re: katkoupai
Unfortunately, the place at Summit & Hammond is now gone. <BOO!>. Too far for them to come since they moved to Rialto. Maybe they will open something out there?? However, we can still get their delicious goodness in catering form. They bring their grill and will cook up whatever you want, wherever you want. Fernando of Isaura: (909) 873-0703 or (626) 278-6327 (cell)
re: WildSwede
I'm so bummed. That was my go to place to pick up meat for parites and tailgates. Fernando was the best...and so was the el pastor. Any other recs for catering?
re: mc michael
I stopped by Green Street today again. Everytime I go, it seems to be closed. I usually stop by on weekends. Anyway, this time they were open, but they only take cash. I walked over to El Metate instead-- they take cash and cards.
re: katkoupai
Green Street closes around 5 and is not open on Sundays. And only does cash.
re: mc michael
Thanks, mc michael. I will keep this in mind, and hopefully next time, I will actually try the food there. :)
re: mc michael
Why the knock? It's not that I think it's inedible, it's just that there are a half a dozen other places within a few miles radius that are much better. I suppose it's good if you work in the neighborhood and are looking for a quick bite for lunch (there's a reason it's only open to 5). And not having alcohol isn't a problem; I don't expect alcohol at most taquerias I go to.
re: mcmal
Mcmal, I tried a place called Rosarito #2 on Lake and Orange Grove today. It was very good. I checked the website and it's related to the place you mention above next to In N Out.
I got a taquito plate, with rice, beans, guac and sour cream, plus a medium jamaica (made from scratch), for $6.28. The salsa bar was very fresh, and the food was very good. Large portions = lunch and dinner in one (at least two meals). The beans had a nice flavor, the taquitos were good, the rice was good, and best of all, the guac was real. I loved the pico de gallo with the chips.
Also, this place was very clean, with plenty of parking in the back. I recommend it, and I liked the flavor of the food better than what I had at El Metate. El Metate has a better selection of agua frescas, though. I thought Rosarito #2 had better beans, and I liked their salsa more too.
Rosarito #2 Mexican Fast Food
720 N. Lake Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91104
(626) 296-2634
Hours: 9AM-10PM Monday-Saturday (Sundays, they close at 9PM)
re: katkoupai
Like I said, I used to go to Rosarito on Foothill and I always liked it until the day I stopped going. I do intend on returning one day. I'll keep #2 in mind as well. But honestly, in Pasadena I've been sticking to WildSwede's place on Summit, and to the taco trucks at night.
re: Al Bondigas
re: katkoupai
I finally checked out El Metate, on Mentor between Colorado and Union. The first thing I noticed is they make their own aqua frescas. I had a small watermelon aqua fresca, plus a refill. It was very good, and I believe it was made with real fruit, sugar and water. It didn't taste like the kind made from syrup, concentrate, powder, etc.
I also got a taco plate, with rice, beans and salad. The total was around $7-$8 ($5 for the taco plate, $2 for the drink, plus tax). My order took a long time to come out-- someone forgot to put my order in. Anyway, when it finally came out, the plate was huge. The beans looked really good, and everything looked fresh.
The shredded beef taco was okay-- I thought it needed more flavor. The carne asada was a bit fatty, but it was tasty. I liked the beans. The salsa was okay. I thought the green salsa was better than the spicy red salsa. The lettuce and garnish were very fresh. The rice was okay.
The food was good, but not great. I cannot rave about it, but I can say that I was very, very, very happy to find a place that makes fresh aqua frescas close to home. I have been looking for aqua frescas for a while now, and I didn't realize El Metate had the real thing. They also had homemade-looking horchata. I would definitely recommend this place for the aguas. The prices are also reasonable. I also liked the space itself. They have plenty of indoor seating, and it is clean and spacious. I would go back.
re: katkoupai
Well, after reading the raves went to Summit/Hammond place, wonderful, thanks so much for suggesting this place. We got a carnitas and an al pastor taco, plus a side of beans which were also great.
Btw, I think the Puebla Tacos at the top of Los Robles in Hens Teeth Square is cleaner and has better food than the other 2 locations, even the sitdown family style place on Villa doesn't compare and has been hit or miss for me. And I like their champurrado (sp?).
re: katkoupai
At El Metate I stick with their fish tacos. They are grilled whitefish with shredded cabbage and tomatoes on top. Add squeeze of lime, salt and some of their delicious salsas and you have a great meal. $1.99/each and 2 usually fill me up. I also like their tortilla soup. Their regular tacos are not that great.


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"Lake Placid is like no other place in America – it has world-class athletic facilities, is home of the U.S. Olympics "Miracle on Ice" where the U.S. Ice Hockey team beat the Soviet Union and is surrounded by the beautiful and majestic Adirondack Park. The Youth Olympics will be an outstanding economic development opportunity for the North Country and will enhance tourism and growth of our small businesses," said Gillibrand.
Lake Placid , home to the US Olympic Training Center, has hosted the Olympic Games twice, in 1932 and 1980. Over the past twelve years, New York State has invested nearly $120 million, and the federal government over $12 million, to upgrade the infrastructure at and around the venue sites. The village is a beautiful and welcoming place and continues to host world-class competitions. The Youth Winter Olympics would bring approximately 1000 athletes and 600 officials to the region, and would be a major shot in the arm to the local economy.
Olympic Committee President Jacque Rogge has envisioned the Youth Olympics as a showcase for Olympic values and the benefits of sport for a healthy lifestyle, with youth today facing an epidemic of childhood obesity that is already surging the number of cases of diabetes and threatens to push heart disease and cancer rates in the future. At the same time, young people are tempted by the easy path that performance enhancing drugs have paved for so many famous athletes. President Rogge's vision for the Youth Games provides an alternative example to both of these pressing issues.
With the deadline for the USOC to submit a bid for the 2012 Youth Winter Games quickly approaching, Schumer and Gillibrand today wrote to Chairman Ueberroth, urging him to choose Lake Placid as the United State 's official candidate and submit an official bid on their behalf.


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Liberty Lake's IT-Lifeline has announced it's become the first company to offer a cloud-based disaster recovery option over Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is Amazon's rentable online cloud service that gives companies computing capacity on an as-needed basis.
IT-Lifeline will license software from CommVault that is designed for quick and reliable data restoration. CommVault's chief recovery product is the Simpana suite of services.
A company press release noted that cloud-based disaster recovery offers customers the ability to pay for disaster recovery capacity only when required, instead of having a fixed ongoing cost for a service that may be used occasionally or even not at all.
The new IT-Lifeline service is called BlackCloud Edge. It will be targeted toward midsized businesses, said company spokesman Brandon Tanner.
Pricing is based on data capacity. BlackCloud Edge is priced at approximately 75 cents per gigabyte per month.
A company release included a quote from Terry Wise, director of business development for Amazon Web Services:
"Amazon Web Services is pleased to see the innovative approach from IT-Lifeline with itsr disaster recovery solution. With the secure, on-demand, pay as you go services of AWS, BlackCloud Edge customers are able to scale up infrastructure on an as-needed basis providing them the agility to optimize their resources during a disaster recovery scenario."


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Shakespeare in Gloucester Festival
Dates to be confirmed
*** Latest event details are yet to be confirmed ***
The longest running festival of Shakespeare in New South Wales, the 16th Annual Shakespeare in Gloucester Festival.
Newcastle's acclaimed Stooged Theatre makes a welcome return to the Shakespeare in Gloucester Festival with their performances of The Merchant of Venice. Also don't miss the hilarious performances of Canned Hamlet by local Arts Council ensemble GACCI Players, the renown Bell Shakespeare Workshops and the popular Elizabethan Faire that transforms Billabong Park into a bustling medieval village green.
For more information: www.shakespeareingloucester.com.au


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The Video Guy
Started more than nine years ago at The Olympian, The Video Guy column is a weekly look at films from a "regular guy's" perspective. I have no formal training as a critic, other than I've seen a lot of movies and have a lot of opinions, but I'll do my best to give you an idea of what's out there and whether it's worth your time.
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The Raid 2: The best action movie ever?
Two years ago, when reviewing "The Raid," I wrote that it was "a balls-to-the-wall ballet of brutal violence, bombarding the screen with a barrage of blood, bullets and beatdowns." If that sounds like hyperbole, trust me, it wasn't. And with THE RAID 2 (R, 3 1/2 stars), the ante has been upped in a MAJOR […] [Read More]
Quick take: White House Down
C-Tates, national hero in a field other than stepping up? Wanda as the Commander in Chief? Those are perhaps the smallest leaps of faith to be taken in WHITE HOUSE DOWN (PG-13, 2 1/2 stars), the second President-in-peril film to be released in 2013. In a stunning turn of events, the B-level "Olympus Has Fallen," […] [Read More]
Current action movies borrow from the past
The 1980s were a great time for action movies – they shamelessly provided over-the-top thrills in ridiculous situations and created a whole galaxy of stars known more for fisticuffs than acting. Sylvester Stallone was one of the most formidable heroes, and with BULLET TO THE HEAD (R, 3 stars), he returns to the kind of […] [Read More]
The Expendables 2: Boom goes the dynamite
THE EXPENDABLES 2 (R, 3 stars) is the rare sequel that improves upon the (admittedly low) bar set by the original, a more fully realized piece of '80s throwback schlock that would make Golan-Globus proud. Of course, I'm somewhat biased, but the biggest improvement from the first film is the absolutely fantastic performance from Jean-Claude […] [Read More]
What's in a name?
When Jean-Claude Van Damme comes out with a new movie, it's a holiday at Video Guy HQ. Needless to say, I was eagerly anticipating the arrival of JCVD's latest, 6 BULLETS (R, 2 1/2 stars), a perfectly fine bit of B-level action that could have used more … JCVD. But after watching it, I'm still […] [Read More]
Safe: Statham's simple formula for mayhem
Going to see a Jason Statham movie is like enjoying a nice bowl of soup – sure, it's not as revelatory as experiencing a lush dinner from a five-star restaurant, but at the end, you still feel warm and satiated. After the D.O.A. box office from SAFE (R, 3 1/2 stars) I went in thinking […] [Read More]
The Raid – Redemption: Punch, kick, repeat
THE RAID: REDEMPTION (R, 3 1/2 stars) is a balls-to-the-wall ballet of brutal violence, bombarding the screen with a barrage of blood, bullets and beatdowns that leave you breathlessly awaiting the next battle royal. This Indonesian film was a cult hit in film festivals across the globe for a good reason – it's a crowd-pleaser […] [Read More]
Quick take: Get the Gringo
For a guy that's in severe need of career rehab, Mel Gibson certainly is taking a curious route on his road to redemption. First up was "The Beaver," a strange, yet oddly compelling film, that found Gibson playing an unhinged man who communicated through a puppet. Now, there's GET THE GRINGO (R, 3 stars), an […] [Read More]
Flawed thrillers may be worth exploring
Despite its convoluted set-up, MAN ON A LEDGE (PG-13, 1 1/2 stars) winds up being as forgettable as its generic title, an action thriller that provides 90 minutes of entertainment but doesn't leave any sort of impact once you've pushed "stop." Part of this problem, for me at least, rests in the casting. Sam Worthington […] [Read More]
The Grey: Call of the wild
Liam Neeson's late-career transformation from mannered Irishman to unrepentant badass is fascinating given that 50-something, Oscar-nominated actors rarely shift gears in such a pronounced fashion. Neeson's conversion to tough guy is also unique given that he doesn't possess the traditional jacked-up figure of our action stars, instead using his sheer bulk to convey he is […] [Read More]
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Pitchfork to Launch Magazine-Style App 'Pitchfork Weekly'
Online music publication Pitchfork will launch its first mobile app in November, the company revealed exclusively to Mashable. Dubbed Pitchfork Weekly, the magazine-style app will be available on iOS at launch before coming to Android in the future. The move into the mobile space is not surprising, given Pitchfork's recent attempts to create a more "immersive" experience for readers with their ongoing "Cover Story" series and their "Advance" album streaming platform.


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This ever-luminescent chronograph features an impressive design with its non-reflective case.
Warranty: Because you are purchasing your Luminox watch from an authorized Luminox retailer, you will be entitled to the Luminox warranty: Two Years against defects in material or workmanship. Ten Years on the Luminox Illumination system tritium tubes .The full Luminox warranty paperwork will be included in your product packaging.


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4118 Commerce
Dallas, TX 75226
Category: Art Galleries
Region: Downtown & Deep Ellum
Saturday night marks the opening reception of the curiously titled Lunchmeat (less than) Catfood at Cohn Drennan Contemporary (1107 Dragon St.), with Denton artists Ayrton Chapman, Bailey Chapman, Jennifer Leigh Jones and Alex Revier. The success of their Dallas. PUNK! exhibition earlier this year has proven Cohn Drennan one of the more daring galleries on Dragon, so this collection is the perfect fit. It will be the debut of Ayrton Chapman's large-scale installation, "Meattropolis," a small city made of food, which was partially funded by Kickstarter and a DMA grant. Ayrton's sister Bailey's own installation will also be part of the landscape. UNT MFA grad Jennifer Jones and recent BFA grad Alex Revier will present paintings that capture their own sense of the surreal. Opening reception is 6 to 8, and the show runs through August 3. Call 214-708-8051 or visit cohndrennancontemporary.com.
Tuesdays-Saturdays. Starts: June 29. Continues through Aug. 3, 2013


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Why I Write
An essay on motivation.
An essay on motivation.
"I think you are asking me, in the most tactful way possible, about my own aggression and malice. What can I do but plead guilty? I don't know whether journalists are more aggressive and malicious than people in other professions. We are certainly not a 'helping profession.' If we help anyone, it is ourselves, to what our subjects don't realize they are letting us take. I am hardly the first writer to have noticed the not-niceness of journalists. Tocqueville wrote about the despicableness of American journalists in Democracy in America. In Henry James's satiric novel The Reverberator, a wonderful rascally journalist named George M. Flack appears. I am only one of many contributors to this critique. I am also not the only journalist contributor. Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, for instance, have written on the subject. Of course, being aware of your rascality doesn't excuse it."
On literary mashups, double entendres, and questionable choices.
"Maybe you've heard of M__y Dick? I would bet you haven't read it, and I bet I'd win that bet because I'd be leaving nothing up to chance. Here's why: nobody has read M__y Dick. Scratch that. Nobody but me has read M__y Dick, because there's only one copy in existence and it's right here in my apartment, right here on this very desk I am writing to you from. That was the whole point. M__y Dick was just for me, for my own self-improvement. Of course, that didn't stop them from talking about it, which was fine at first, and then it was not."
On George Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review:
Early in the fifties another young generation of American expatriates in Paris became twenty-six years old, but they were not Sad Young Men, nor were they Lost; they were the witty, irreverent sons of a conquering nation.
Four dispatches from the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday:
In most places in the world, June 16 is just another day on the calendar, but here in Dublin, the day that James Joyce earmarked for Ulysses is celebrated with a fervor not seen here since the days of the druids when, if you really wanted to party, you needed a couple skeins of wine and a grove full of virgins.
A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.
On the power of youth literature.
"If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find "reality" a bit of a disappointment."
In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of 'pilgrims' painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.
Browsing the stacks with The Washington Post's Michael Dirda.
An interview with Maurice Sendak.
On hypochondria.
I can't ask anything. Once in a while if I'm forced into it I will conduct an interview, but it's usually pro forma, just to establish my credentials as somebody who's allowed to hang around for a while. It doesn't matter to me what people say to me in the interview because I don't trust it.
On a biography of David Foster Wallace.
A clue-filled children's book, a golden hare, and Britain's greatest treasure hunt.
Retro, apocalypticism, and our "culture of disaster."
How the fatwa changed his life.
INTERVIEWER: You once said the novel is dead. VIDAL: That was a joke.
An interview with the novelist.
His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.
On collecting books.
I have lived in books, for books, by and with books; in recent years, I have been fortunate enough to be able to live from books. And it was through books that I first realised there were other worlds beyond my own; first imagined what it might be like to be another person; first encountered that deeply intimate bond made when a writer's voice gets inside a reader's head.
Growing up with Charlie Brown.
How Google's utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world's books failed and the Harvard-led team that's picking up the pieces.
Uncovered letters reveal ties between the literary magazine and the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom.
"I didn't realize who my father was. So it didn't make a whole lot of difference. I wasn't there believing that I was receiving genius from on high. My father was my father."
A profile of Maurice Sendak.
On "Poor Hartley," the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The author of Truly Tasteless Jokes unmasks herself.
A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.
On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.
A profile of Robert Caro, who's been working on a biography on Lyndon Johnson for nearly 40 years.
Teaching Emily Dickinson at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida.
A literary exploration of Obama's voice.
This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words on the page with considerable misgivings . . . indeed, what follows can be considered an interview conducted with himself, by himself.
Jimmy McNulty, Mike Daisey, and the problems with skirting the system to get to the greater truth.
Fact-checking David Sedaris.
A profile of thriller writer Harlan Coben and what it takes to succeed as a novelist even when the literary establishment doesn't acknowledge your existence.
An analysis of Dr. Seuss' literature.
A pilgrimage to J.D. Salinger's New Hampshire home:
The silence surrounding this place is not just any silence. It is the work of a lifetime. It is the work of renunciation and determination and expensive litigation. It is a silence of self-exile, cunning, and contemplation. In its own powerful, invisible way, the silence is in itself an eloquent work of art. It is the Great Wall of Silence J.D. Salinger has built around himself.
On New Yorker writer George W. S. Trow's descent into madness.
A history of erasure as literature.
An essay on audio books.
Exploring the relationship between authors and their parents.
It mattered to her that she could have, or might have, been a writer, and perhaps it mattered to me more than I fully understood. She watched my books appear with considerable interest, and wrote me an oddly formal letter about the style of each one, but she was, I knew, also uneasy about my novels. She found them too slow and sad and oddly personal. She was careful not to say too much about this, except once when she felt that I had described her and things which had happened to her too obviously and too openly. That time she said that she might indeed soon write her own book. She made a book sound like a weapon.
A profile of Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, 'author' of last fall's short-lived spy novel hit Assassins of Secrets, which was pieced together using more than a dozen sources.
On Alison Winter's Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, and issues of memory in the 20th century.
Underlying the compelling feeling that we are our memories is a further common-sense assumption that our entire lives are accurately retained somewhere in the brain 'bank' as laid-down memories of our experience, and that we retrieve our lives and selves from an ever expanding stockpile of recollections. Or we can't, and then that feeling that it's on the tip of our tongue, or there but just out of range, still encourages us to think that everything we have known or done is in us somewhere, if only our digging equipment were sharper.
On literary tourism:
Dickens World, in other words, sounded less like a viable business than it did a mockumentary, or a George Saunders short story, or the thought experiment of a radical Marxist seeking to expose the terminal bankruptcy at the heart of consumerism. And yet it was real.
Sixty-nine years after publication, Fortune revisits "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" – a story it commissioned but did not run.
On the life of Ray Bradbury.
A history.
The explosion of publishing created a much more democratic and permanent network of public communication than had ever existed before. The mass proliferation of newspapers and magazines, and a new-found fascination with the boundaries of the private and the public, combined to produce the first age of sexual celebrity.
On Patti Smith.
It was easy for lazy journalists to caricature her as a stringbean who looked like Keith Richards, emitted Dylanish word salads, and dropped names—a high-concept tribute act of some sort, very wet behind the ears. But then her first album, Horses, came out in November 1975, and silenced most of the scoffers.
Didion's genius is that she understands what it is to be a girl on the cusp of womanhood, in that fragile, fleeting, emotional time that she explored in a way no one else ever has. Didion is, depending on the reader's point of view, either an extraordinarily introspective or an extraordinarily narcissistic writer. As such, she is very much like her readers themselves.
Inside the Shel Silverstein archive.
One of the things you learn is that "polymath" doesn't even begin to describe Silverstein. His creativity extended in so many directions that his archivists must be versed not just in turn-of-the-century world children's literature, but Waylon Jennings's deep cuts; not just in reel-to-reel tape preservation, but how to keep an old restaurant napkin scribbled with lyrics from falling apart.
James Wood on Saul Bellow:
One realizes, with a shock, that Bellow has taught one how to see and how to hear, has opened the senses. Until this moment one had not really thought of the looseness of a lightbulb filament, one had not heard the saliva bubbling in the harmonica, one had not seen well enough the nose pitted with black pores, and the demolition ball's slow, heavy selection of its victims. A dozen good writers–Updike, DeLillo, others–can render you the window of a fish shop, and do it very well; but it is Bellow's genius to see the lobsters "crowded to the glass" and their "feelers bent" by that glass–to see the riot of life in the dead peace of things.
When Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison were roommates.
He and I had our differences. I am not inclined to be sentimental about those Arcadian or Utopian days. He didn't approve of my way of running the place. I had complained also that his dog relieved himself in my herb garden. I asked, "Can't you arrange to have him do his shitting elsewhere?"
The demise of America's favorite mega-bookstore and the factors beyond the e-book boom that fueled the book retail meltdown.
We have a rich literature. But sometimes it's a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We're all one beat away from becoming elevator music.
A history of Grove Press and its publisher Barney Rosset.
Thomas Pynchon walks down a New York City street in the middle of the morning. He has a light gait. He floats along. He looks canny and whimsical, like he'd be fun to talk to; but, of course, he's not talking. It's a drizzling day, and the writer doesn't have an umbrella. He's carrying his own shopping bag, a canvas tote like one of those giveaways from public radio. He makes a quick stop in a health-food store, buys some health foods. He leaves the store, but just outside, as if something had just occurred to him, he turns around slowly and walks to the window. Then, he peers in, frankly observing the person who may be observing him. It's raining harder now. He hurries home. For the past half-dozen years, Thomas Pynchon, the most famous literary recluse of our time, has been living openly in a city of 8 million people and going unnoticed, like the rest of us.
Pete Dexter, profiled.
"I'm sick and tired of the story," says Dexter, though he knows it is a signature moment of his trajectory from newsman to writing some of the most original and important novels in American literature, including the National Book Award–winning Paris Trout (1988), a riveting tale of an unrepentant racist who brutally murders a 14-year-old black girl in a small Georgia town in the late 1940s. Settling deep into a dark-green leather chair near a patio window that offers a commanding view of ferries chugging across the cold blue waters, Dexter begins: "It was not a good column. I was trying to write something I didn't feel." Dexter is referring to the column that almost got him killed.
How Timothy Patrick Barrus, a white writer of gay erotica, reinvented himself a (wildly successful) Native American memoirist.
An interview with the author.
"We live in a frightened time and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions. That is one of the great damaging aspects of what has happened in the last 20 years. Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' I am a writer. I write books."
A profile of the writer.
On Gabo and his complicated role in the country of his birth, Colombia.
In 1972, James Wolcott arrived in New York armed with a letter of recommendation from Norman Mailer. He hoped to land a job at The Village Voice. Excerpted from his memoir, Lucking Out.
How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell. I had no idea how fortunate I was at the time, eaten up as I was by my own present-tense concerns and taking for granted the lively decay, the intense dissonance, that seemed like normality.
On the tangled early careers of Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Mary Karr and Jeffrey Eugenides.
Jonathan Safran Foer It's been an awfully long time since we last spoke. Four years? And it's been a long time since the reading world last got new material from you. About seven years? What's been going on? Jeffrey Eugenides I've been writing a book.
A visit with the novelist Jim Harrison.
On plagiarism.
On the master palindromist, Barry Duncan.
21,000 words on the watchers and watched.
HEMINGWAY: You go to the races? PLIMPTON: Yes, occasionally. HEMINGWAY: Then you read the Racing Form . . . . There you have the true art of fiction.
"Hi," she said on the telephone, a week after the announcement. "This is Toni, your Nobelette. Are you ready for Stockholm?" Well, since she asked, why not? I left town for Greek light, German sausage, Russian soul, French sauce, Spanish bull, Zen jokes, the Heart of Darkness and the Blood of the Lamb. Toni Morrison's butter cakes and baby ghosts, her blade of blackbirds and her graveyard loves, her Not Doctor Street and No Mercy Hospital and all those maple syrup men "with the long-distance eyes" are a whole lot more transfiguring. Where else but Stockholm, even if she does seem to have been promiscuous with her invitations. I mean, she asked Bill Clinton, too, whose inaugural she had attended, and with whom she was intimate at a White House dinner party in March. (He told Toni's agent, Amanda "Binky" Urban, that he really wanted to go but... they wouldn't let him.) Salman Rushdie might also have gone except that the Swedish Academy declined officially to endorse him in his martyrdom, after which gutlessness three of the obligatory eighteen academicians resigned in protest, and can't be replaced, because you must die in your Stockholm saddle.
On Friday Night Lights as book, film, and TV show.
Sylvia Plath's YA novel reaches middle age.
The story of Asa Earl Carter, aka Forrest Carter, the best-selling author of The Education of Little Tree, an autobiographical novel about "communion with nature and love of one's fellow man." He was also a Klansman, penning the famous George Wallace line, "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!"
The behind-the-scenes publishing saga of Joseph Heller's 1961 novel.
An essay on poetry and madness.
People still think of poets as an odd bunch, as you'll know if you've been introduced as one at a wedding. Some poets spotlight this conception by saying otherworldly things, playing up afflictions and dramas, and otherwise hinting that they might be visionaries. In the past few centuries, of course, the standard picture of psychopathology has changed a great deal. But as it's often invoked, the idea of the mad poet preserves, in fossil form, a stubbornly outdated and incomplete image of madness. Modern psychiatry and neuroscience have supplanted this image almost everywhere else.
His friends remembered when Richard became famous. It was the year the hippies came to San Francisco. Richard had published one novel, A Confederate General from Big Sur, but it had sold miserably 743 copies and his publisher, Grove Press, had dropped its option on Trout Fishing in America. Donald Allen was the West Coast representative of Grove and the editor of the Evergreen Review, which had introduced the Beat Generation. Allen had a small nonprofit press called the Four Seasons Foundation, and he decided to publish the book himself. Allen sold 29,000 copies of the book before Delacorte bought it. Eventually, 2 million copies were sold. It was the kind of book that captured the spirit and sound of a generation. Soon there was a commune and an underground newspaper and even a school named after Trout Fishing in America. His short stories and poems appeared regularly in Rolling Stone, often beneath a photograph of him in his broad-brimmed hat. His face became a hippie icon. "For three or four years, he was like George Harrison walking down Haight Street," remembered Don Carpenter, a novelist and scriptwriter and a longtime friend of Richard's. His image infuriated what Richard called the East Coast literary mafia.
Three interviews with John Gardner, author of Grendel and The Art of Fiction, conducted over the last decade of his life.
A profile of Hollywood agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar.
On the oeuvre of Glenn Beck:
"The undisputed high point of Beck's tenure in Baltimore was an elaborate prank built around a nonexistent theme park. The idea was to run a promotional campaign for the fictional grand opening of the world's first air-conditioned underground amusement park, called Magicland. According to Beck and Gray, it was being completed just outside Baltimore. During the build-up, the two created an intricate and convincing radio world of theme-park jingles and promotions, which were rolled out in a slow buildup to the nonexistent park's grand opening… On the day Magicland was supposed to throw open its air-conditioned doors, Beck and Gray took calls from enraged listeners who tried to find the park and failed. Among the disappointed and enraged was a woman who had canceled a no-refund cruise to attend the event." — from Alexander Zaitchik's Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
When she died in 1952, author Margaret Wise Brown left the rights to Goodnight Moon to a nine-year-old neighbor named Albert Clarke. The book became a classic. Clarke, living entirely off the royalties, became a deadbeat.
"I'm not familiar with books on style. My role in the revival of Strunk's book was a fluke—just something I took on because I was not doing anything else at the time. It cost me a year out of my life, so little did I know about grammar."
An essay on gynobibliophobia and the critical reception of women writers.
"For example, I remember reading Hemingway and loving his work so much—but then at some point, realizing that my then-current life (or parts of it) would not be representable via his prose style. Living in Amarillo, Texas, working as a groundsman at an apartment complex, with strippers for pals around the complex, goofball drunks recently laid off from the nuclear plant accosting me at night when I played in our comical country band, a certain quality of West Texas lunatic-speak I was hearing, full of way off-base dreams and aspirations—I just couldn't hear that American in Hem-speak. And that kind of moment is gold for a young writer: the door starts to open, just a crack."
An interview on craft:
Writing The Subs in three nights was really a fantastic athletic feat as well as mental, you shoulda seen me after I was done...I was pale as a sheet and had lost fifteen pounds and looked strange in the mirror.
On the unlikely friendship between Nelson Algren and the young writer during the final years of Algren's life.
It was June of 1980 when Nelson called me breathlessly from the highway.
On the strange ethics of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy:
What matters instead is the division of the world into good and evil, a division that begins with splitting sex into positive and negative experiences, then ripples out from that in fascinating ways.
In the past the only people who wrote autobiographies or memoirs were very important, those who had a crucial role in the history of their own country—Napoleon, Goethe—or were witness to major events or people who had singular, adventurous lives. Otherwise, it is ridiculous to write your autobiography.
Time is speeding up. And to what end? Maybe we were told that two thousand years ago.
On the shortcomings of both reality and fiction.
The author attends a Tolstoy conference as a grad student. She wears flip-flops, sweatpants and a flannel shirt, and tries to determine if Tolstoy was murdered.
She is an unknown struggling writer. Her boyfriend is Jonathan Franzen.
Text from the books and Foster Wallace's corresponding annotations:
Along with all the Wittgenstein, Husserl and Borges, he read John Bradshaw, Willard Beecher, Neil Fiore, Andrew Weil, M. Scott Peck and Alice Miller. Carefully.
On David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, and his legacy.
Why utopias are best understood as fiction games, and how they quickly become dystopias when realized.
On Don DeLillo's Underworld.
The oracular works of Philip K. Dick.
On writing what you loathe. Leslie McFarlane, ghostwriter of the early Hardy Boys novels, was so ashamed of the work he couldn't even bring himself to name the books in his diary. "June 9, 1933: Tried to get at the juvenile again today but the ghastly job appalls me."
On the Cairo knifing of 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and its aftermath.
On Mark Twain's recently released memoir.
On the language of hobos and the dictionaries it spawned.
J.D. Salinger on the beaches on D-Day, marching through concentration camps, and in liberated Paris.
A 2000 speech on the impossibility of all forms of exile, particularly literary.
A profile of the director, written from the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.
The fever-dream life and death of Chinese poet Gu Cheng.
"Fiction writers are good people, usually. There's a lot of pretenders, but I haven't met a lot of sons of bitches."
In 1926, at the age of 12, Barbara Follett published a critically acclaimed novel. Fourteen years later, she disappeared.
A profile of the late artist and author Norris Church Mailer, who stayed with her husband Norman despite his notorious philandering.
On America's two literary fiction cultures and why one will endure.
The team of assistants that made Gandhi.
Jay-Z on his new book Decoded, his parents' record collection, and the real reason rappers have a tendency to grab their junk on stage.
On the BBC radio addresses of E.M. Forster: "For one thing, he won't call what he is doing literary criticism, or even reviewing. His are 'recommendations' only. Each episode ends with Forster diligently reading out the titles of the books he has dealt with, along with their exact price in pounds and shillings."
James Frey is starting a publishing company, paying young writers (very poorly) to reverse engineer a Twilight-esque hit.
Booker winner Howard Jacobson on the bumper crop of hooker memoirs and what they say about our understanding of paid sex.
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In January 1966–the same month In Cold Blood was first published–Truman Capote sat down with George Plimpton to discuss the new art form he liked to call "creative journalism."
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Gold Country Artists Gallery is showcasing a special group of artists along with the June featured artists Mike Ryan, Annette Schachner and Isabella Ryder. The new talent is by student artists from the Fine Arts School in the Pines in Pollock Pines.
The gallery has invited some very talented young artists ranging in age from 9 to 19 to participate in a very special exhibition to encourage art programs in the local schools. The gallery members hope to offer this opportunity to other local schools when schools are back in session.
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District 1 City Council candidates gather for their first debate
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More than 100 people filled the community room of the La Jolla Village Square mall to hear candidates in the Dist. 1 City Council race pitch their platforms and field questions on everything from ballot initiatives and infrastructure funding to bicycle safety.
The debate, sponsored by the La Jolla Village Community Council, grew toasty from the heat of those assembled in the at-capacity room, many of whom stood or sat on the floor. At times, the discussion became equally heated as the candidates traded barbs on their performance and positions.
During his opening statement, progressive Democrat and pro-seal attorney Bryan Pease took a shot at incumbent Councilwoman and fellow Democrat Sherri Lightner for her reluctance to participate in debates with her rivals.
"This is the first and only debate, from my understanding, that all four candidates will be at," Pease said.
During a question about library funding, Republican businessman and former city pension board president Ray Ellis also took aim at Lightner. An audience member asked whether the candidates would support reinstating a library ordinance endorsed by former mayor Dick Murphy in 2000. It would have used 4 percent from the city's general fund for libraries, though the idea was nixed after the city's pension underfunding scandal came to light.
Ellis cited Mayor Sanders' managed competition mandate as a tool to save taxpayer dollars that could be used to fund libraries and other city services. He criticized Lightner and some of her council colleagues for not taking full advantage of managed competition, in which city workers bid against the private sector for jobs.
"Ms. Lightner was on the city council for over two years before they even did one (project)," Ellis said. "Thank goodness (Republic Councilwoman) Lorie Zapf joined the team and started to move that forward."
Ellis noted that San Diego's in-house fleet maintenance crew was required to bid for their jobs through managed competition last fall, resulting in a projected $4.4 million in taxpayer savings.
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Lightner said she did "nothing to hold up managed comp."
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Hockey As Official MCPS Sport Still Long Way Off — A player on the Richard Montgomery High School club ice hockey team has started a petition for MCPS to make it an official sport. MCPS officials and club team coaches said that's highly unlikely because of limited ice time at area rinks, the high cost of MCPS offering the sport to all 25 high schools and the school system's lack of control over ice hockey facilities. [The Gazette]
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[FAN SUPPORT] 140724 CONGKr's Gift Support for Triangle's Kim Jaejoong
The Fangifts were delivered before the end of Kim Jaejoong's Triangle Drama.
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[FAN SUPPORT] 140717 Starleng & LovingJJ Food Support to Triangle's Kim Jaejoong
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[TRANS] 140705 Kim Jaejoong Peru Fan Club's Snack Support for Triangle
We are headed to New MBC Building located in Sangam to serve actor Kim Jaejoong.
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[FAN SUPPORT] 140715 JYJ_PH's Congratulatory Cake for the Most Gorgeous Dracula – KIM JUNSU
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Imagine everything you normally eat for Christmas dinner — turkey, sausages, potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, pudding (!)…everything. Now imagine all of it coated in batter and deep-fried until crispy on the outside
As Christmas nears, Hollywood Undead's Johnny 3 Tears tells us that he would be just fine if Santa left the books at home and gave him something else in his stocking this year. The vocalist tells us that as a youngster growing up, his parents definitely contributed to his education with reading material over Christmas, but he often missed out on the really cool gifts that some of his friends were getting.
Everyone knows jolly ol' Saint Nick as the loveable, bearded fat man who climbs down the chimney to deliver gifts to the children of the world. Well, what if Santa was actually a monstrous, murderous head that emerged from the anus of a devil-eyed reindeer?
This is my top five countdown of the greatest country Christmas songs of all time. Coming in at #5 is Ricochet. In 1996, debuts their single, "What Do I Know", it went top 5. Earning the band the honor of the 'highest charting debut single of the year.' Their follow up song, 'Daddy's Money', went to #1, and stayed there for two weeks. It is their distinctive and tight harmonies that makes them instantly recognizable. That year Ricochet gave us an awesome Christmas remake 'Let It Snow'. The song shows off the groups remarkable vocal talent.
Everyone knows Christmas Day is all about tearing open presents, spending time with loved ones, gorging on lots of good food and celebrating the holiday spirit in general. Even though most of us have got the holiday thing down by now, some folks out there might not be aware of some of the unusual and history-making events marking Christmas Day and Christmas Eve in the past.
It's easy to send Thank You cards for awesome Xmas gifts but what is appropriate when a show of gratitude is in order but the gift sucked jingle balls?
Santa Claus is getting a jump on his rounds this year, thanks to Michael Sciaraffo.
Yep, photo bombs are bad, but dogs, well, they take it to a whole new level! And to think, I got my husband a bull mastiff for Christmas...
Al Alverson didn't get the iPad mini that he had ordered through FedEx. However, the blame for the non-delivery rested squarely on UPS.
Last year the 56,000 light Christmas display which adorned Jan Stewart's Fountain Valley, California home went viral, with a YouTube video of the lights in action garnering close to 500,000 views.


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Bar owner recovers Santo memorabilia
Who knows why somebody with the Chicago Cubs decided to chuck a bunch of Ron Santo memorabilia in a dumpster on Monday? What's important is that it was recovered and will be returned to the proper hands . And by that, we mean the hands of Jeff Santo, son of the late Cubs great. Let's rehash a bit. First, the Cubs tossed several banners and a giant card signed by fans shortly...
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One man's trash is another man's treasure, right? Just ask the owner of the Chicago bar Murphy's Bleachers. Beth Murphy was out walking her dog Monday when she happened upon a Wrigley Field dumpster. And what she found outside the Friendly Confines...the saddest "treasure" for any Chicago Cubs fan. Amid the trash...team signs and posters, a Ron Santo...
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As Vicki Santo was standing in front of thousands in Cooperstown Sunday, her late husband Ron was being honored at the place he called home for close to five decades.Sure, I'm not a Chicago Cubs fan, but I've gotta say...I was quite impressed when I saw that the team paid tribute to the newly minted Hall of Famer as best they could. By mimicking his famous 1969 heel click as...
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The late Ron Santo, star third baseman for the Chicago Cubs and later a broadcaster for the team, has been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. His widow, Vicki, gave a heartwarming speech and ended it with: ''This is not a sad day. This is a great day. I'm certain that Ronnie is celebrating right now.'' Santo died of bladder cancer in...
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Cubs fans have long suffered and deserve a little shot in the arm. That shot should be Ron Santo's induction into the baseball Hall of Fame according to Engineering Sports: The only ding against Santo is only playing 15 years and being out of baseball following his age 34 season mostly related to diabetes which tragically cut his life as well. Just playing with the illness...
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The Web is flowing with Hall of Fame posts. Ron Santo was just elected by the veteran's committee, which is a great thing. But that body also left out a couple of deserving candidates. Bill over at The Platoon Advantage bounced off of a Rob Neyer piece and asked who the next Ron Santo should be. The great Bob Netherton of On the Outside Corner made an excellent case for Ken Boyer...
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This is a good day for Ron Santo and the Chicago Cubs. It's a good day, too, for Santo's family. And by family, I mean all his relatives, Cubs fans, Chicagoans and anyone who ever knew him, met him, saw him or heard him. That's how you felt with Santo. The day has finally come: Ron Santo has made it into the Hall of Fame. He deserved it. But the thing is, he deserved...
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Ron Santo headed to Hall of Fame
The Chicago Cubs great, who passed away in December 2010, has gained entrance to the Hall of Fame courtesy of receiving 15 of 16 possible votes (12 are needed) from the Hall's Golden Era Committee.
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I used to sell expensive face creams in [...] so I've tried all the best creams and this one is still my favorite.
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Land - Whitefield, ME
This 6.6 acre lot is part of a four lot subdivision, running Northerly from Rt. 218 to the East Branch of the Sheepscot River, and it includes 315' of Sheepscot River frontage.
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November 28, 2014
Stay up-to-date with KAKE News:
The head of the federal government's public health agency is out, according to an e-mail sent Friday night to federal employees.
Dr. Julie Gerberding has resigned as director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will be replaced as of Jan. 20 by a deputy who will serve as interim director.
The news was disclosed in an e-mail sent Friday night to employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which the CDC is part of.
A CDC spokesman said Gerberding was traveling in Africa and unavailable for comment.
The CDC investigates disease outbreaks, researches the cause and prevalence of health problems, and promotes illness prevention efforts. Gerberding was appointed head of the CDC in July 2002.
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