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In Hard Times, Treating Women's Private Decisions With Empathy

Recent economic downturns have moved the punditry moving right past the soft word "recession" to openly invoking a word with stronger connotations--"depression." Most of us living have no experience with the kind of hard times...

Connecting with the Great Depression?

Political leaders, economic analysts and journalists are comparing the current financial meltdown to the Great Depression. "Worst Crisis Since the '30s, With No End Yet in Sight" was a recent baleful headline from The Wall...

Pilar Corrias: a new gallery for a new era

She sells to Miuccia Prada, is related to the Fondas and has famous artists help her sons with their homework… Few gallery owners are better connected than Pilar Corrias. As she opens her new space in London, she tells Jo...

Ten Ten

Today is the birthday … of Peter Coyote, the actor. He’s 67. Coyote does a lot of voice-over and narration. He’s the one that sounds a lot like Henry Fonda. He’s appeared in more than 100 films and television shows (including...

Going legit: Why movie stars need live theater

BY CHRIS JONES Chicago Tribune NEW YORK -- Flushed and sweaty from his exertions, Daniel Radcliffe walked to the front of a Broadway stage and drank in the applause like an "American Idol" act on his first big gig. He grinned...

Book recalls 1939's flames ‘Wrath'

By DIXIE REID - In August 1939, "The Grapes of Wrath" was the most popular book in America, and quickly becoming the most beleaguered. The Kansas City library banned it, the San Francisco library relegated it to "closed...

Singer Songwriter Meiko

MySpace recording artist Meiko was recently featured as one of USA Today's up and coming singing acts and since then, the doors of opportunity has opened wide for her. The Los Angeles Times Calendar section has featured her on...

Book recalls 1939's flames ‘Wrath'

By DIXIE REID - In August 1939, "The Grapes of Wrath" was the most popular book in America, and quickly becoming the most beleaguered. Then the Kern County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors voted to remove it from Bakersfield's...

A candidate you could believe in

Pat Paulsen knew where he stood. “I am neither left wing nor right wing,” said the deadpan comic and “Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” editorialist during his quixotic run for the presidency in 1968. “I am middle-of-the-bird.”...

Eagle Eye

By BRETT MICHEL | October 2, 2008 1.0 Stars “I’m not gonna let us go down in history as the assholes who let this happen,” snaps Special Agent Tom Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton) in director D.J. Caruso’s latest. What, the...

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