Throughout her long career as an author of children's books, Ruth Sawyer also gained wide recognition as a collector of folktales, a professional storyteller, and a lecturer and writer about the art o...
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My first experience of theater was a childhood visit to the circus, and I’ve adored its enchantment and danger ever since. New Age-y, animal-free Cirque Du Soleil leaves me with mixed feeling...
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How bad does a musical have to be for it to become a whopping success? My question is provoked by the deliberately drecky Broadway version of the 1980 disco movie, Xanadu, which has been greeted by...
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Two skateboarders who were videotaped in a scuffle with a police officer in downtown Hot Springs have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges.Neither was sentenced to jail time.Skylar R. Nalls, 1...
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London (dpa) - Works by British graffiti artist Banksy sold for
well above their estimates at auction in London, yielding a total of
546,000 pounds (1.09 million dollars), a...
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Break out the leg warmers! The new breed of Xanadu fans—fANADUs, as they’re calling themselves online—want you to “do the ’du!”
Xanadu on Broadway, a campy inter...
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For sale by owner: small North Dakota town. Contact: Toots. More than a half century after Edythe "Toots" Hagglund and her husband, Eddie, decided to build a town on a treeless piece of prairie at ...
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For sale by owner: small North Dakota town. Call: Toots. More than half a century after Edythe "Toots" Hagglund and her husband, Eddie, decided to build a town on a treeless piece of prairie at the...
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Guatemala City (dpa) - South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun and
Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer have arrived in Guatemala for
some final lobbying ahead of Wednesday's e...
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Guatemala City (dpa) - South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun and
Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer arrived in Guatemala for some
final lobbying ahead of Wednesday's electi...
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Commuters roller-skated, drove and biked to work, or simply stayed home. The biggest strike in 12 years crippled France's public transport system Thursday and handed President Nicolas Sarkozy the b...
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Ruth Sawyer
A Whiff of Weimar in the Night: Lesbian Aerialists Are My Cup of Tea
