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Extension 720 Audio Archives, February 2005
Staff reporterWe continue our celebration of the The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare series with this program highlighting the best of Shakespeare's comedies. Nick Rudall, founding director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago, and Cindy Gold, professor of...Tags: National Football League, Dan Hampton, Entertainment, Psychiatry, Sports
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Extension 720 Audio Archives, January 2007
Staff reporterMilt leads and overview of Victorian literature--including discussion of Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin and more--with Lawrence Poston, professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Micael...Tags: Columbia University, Loyola University Chicago, Charles Dickens, Arts and Culture, Psychiatry
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Michael Jackson Dies
(WGN-AM) - The Los Angeles Times and ABC News are reporting that Michael Jackson has died.
Jackson was rushed to a hospital Thursday afternoon by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics.
Capt. Steve Ruda said paramedics responded to a call at Jackson's...Tags: Michael Jackson, Sexual Assault, Los Angeles Fire Department, AEG, The O2
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Live music for your Memorial Day weekend
Pop & HissThe Pop & Hiss run-down of the weekend's top shows has returned. Included this week is the Lightning In a Bottle Festival, the JazzReggae Festival and Silver Lake's Jubilee.... -
A 10-year nightmare over rape conviction is over
Brian Banks logged onto Facebook last year, and a new friend request startled him. It was the woman who, nearly a decade ago, accused him of rape when they were both students at Long Beach Poly High School. Banks had served five years in prison for...
Tags: College Sports, Trials, Judges, Prosecution, Sex Crimes
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Artists from a war-torn land showing in Laguna
When Green Cube Gallery owner Sejla Holland reached out to Bosnian artist Harun Mehmedinovic for "Bosnian Born," he remarked that he hadn't seen such an exhibit done before. And when Mehmedinovic, 29, looked over the exhibiting artists lineup, curious if...
Tags: Arts, Netherlands, Amy Winehouse, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Facebook message led to football player's rape exoneration
L.A. NOWBrian Banks logged onto Facebook last year, and a new friend request startled him. It was the woman who, nearly a decade ago, accused him of rape when they were both students at Long Beach Poly High School. Banks had...... -
UCLA team develops math relationship that explains leaf veins
By comparing leaves from around the world, UCLA botanists have developed a mathematical formula that explains how the major veins in leaves grow. The finding helps explain why flowering plants took over from cycads and conifers as the planet's dominant...
Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Paleontology, Genes and Chromosomes, Science, Science and Technology
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Community: Civitan Club hosts a Black & White Affair
A lovely lunch, silent auction, fashion show and lots of socializing kept members of the Foothill Civitan Club, their friends and families entertained during the 30th annual spring event titled “A Black & White Affair” on May 12 at the...
Tags: Arthritis, College Sports, Clubs and Associations, Real Estate, Entertainment
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UCLA series' new leader picks big names, restores plays to mix
While they adjust to a new name for the long-running performance series anchored at UCLA’s Royce Hall, audiences may be reassured by the selection of major names that Kristy Edmunds, the new director who tweaked the title, has included in her...
Tags: Emmylou Harris, Trisha Brown, Entertainment, Miranda July, Robert Rauschenberg
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A totally Californian poet laureate
Wearing jeans, green sneakers, a hipster straw bowler and a Buddhist symbol around his neck, the new poet laureate of California opened his weekly poetry workshop at UC Riverside with stretching and breathing exercises.
"Let's detox our cluttered...Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, University of Iowa, Executive Branch, Music
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PSA test for prostate cancer should be dropped, task force says
The PSA test should be abandoned as a prostate cancer screening tool, a government advisory panel has concluded after determining that the side effects from needless biopsies and treatments hurt many more men than are potentially helped by early detection...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Prostate Cancer, Science and Technology, Heart Attack, Medical Procedures and Tests
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