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Rare Shakespeare Folio discovered in French town

PARIS – The accidental discovery in a small library in northern France of an original first folio of Shakespeare’s plays has sent a jolt of excitement around the world of Shakespeare scholar...

Witherspoon goes on a soul-baring ride in ‘Wild’

NEW YORK – Once she’d decided to take on her gritty new role in “Wild,” there were a few things Reese Witherspoon knew she DIDN’T want to hear from movie studio executives: “We wa...

Reading Harry Potter gives clues to brain activity

WASHINGTON – Reading about Harry Potter’s adventures learning to fly his broomstick activates some of the same regions in the brain we use to perceive real people’s actions and intentions. ...

‘Birdman’ leads Spirit Awards nominations

LOS ANGELES – “Birdman,” a dark comedy about show business, took flight Tuesday with a leading six nominations for the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards. Star Michael Keaton and...

Bartholomeus Spranger's wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met

NEW YORK – The court of Rudolf II, the Habsburg king and Holy Roman emperor for more than 35 years, was rich in intellectual and artistic exotica. Astronomers and astrologers flocked there, ...

Calling all members of the Legion of Ska

After two decades, brewery releases comic book

Sustained by brief blaze of glory

Jerry Lee Lewis has found the ideal biographer in Rick Bragg

Exclusive: Letter that inspired Kerouac found

LOS ANGELES – It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre – 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950...

Idaho artist's life illustrated the term 'self-taught'

WASHINGTON – When Gail Johnson, 68, and her 79-year-old sister, Georgia Allred, go shopping, the latter always pauses at the checkout counter and says, “Thank you, Uncle Jim.” That, Johnson ...

'Food Chains': Longoria documentary takes on farmworker cause

It’s been 10 years since the Morgan Spurlock documentary “Super Size Me” challenged people to think about what goes into a meal at McDonald’s. We’ve never looked at chicken nuggets quite the...

An oft-elusive yet gifty treat: coffee table books

NEW YORK – As self-purchases, coffee table books may seem like pricey indulgences, but as gifts they’re an easy way to please a connoisseur, hobbyist or wannabe. Usually image-dri...

Movies playing in Durango Nov. 21-Nov. 27

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Pride It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National...
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