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Brad Paisley keeps making hits and taking risks
In the decade since country singer Brad Paisley put out his debut album, the kid from Glen Dale, W.Va., has concocted a savvy musical amalgam of Roger Miller's songwriting wit, Buck Owens' hard-rocking twang, and Chet Atkins' guitar wizardry.
Teresa Hunter: Know your rights when the truth gets stretched
HUCKLEBERRY Finn coined the expression "stretcher" for someone with, shall we say, a selective approach to the truth.
Sure, Papi's big, but he's hardly in Huck's league
Pelham High's reading list for ninth-graders includes Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits not yet a classic.
a Tom Sawyera Saturday will help feed the hungry
A staged reading of a Mark Twain classic with live music Saturday will raise money and food for Harvesters Community Food Network.
Pine Nuts: Kings are a mighty ornery lot - it's the way they're raised
The question burning on my mind today is simply this - why do we Americans continue to retain the word "king" as a superlative? We remember Michael Jackson as "King of Pop." Lebron James is "King James." Elvis is simply "The King." Did we forget why we left England in the first place? Must we read the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of ...
Book Review: The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Most of us are familiar with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Compared to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Innocents Abroad is a great disappointment.
Brad Paisley breaks the pattern
In the decade since country singer Brad Paisley put out his debut album, the kid from Glen Dale, W.Va., has concocted a savvy musical amalgam of Roger Miller's songwriting wit, Buck Owens' hard-rocking twang and Chet Atkins' guitar wizardry.
Story Characters - Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn: Main character of the book. He is an illegitimate child who runs away from his adopted family to be free of society and civilization.
Foundry Art gets National Endowment grant
The Foundry Art Centre is one of 269 libraries, municipalities, and arts, culture, higher education, and science organizations to receive grants totaling $3.7 million to host Big Read events from September 2009 to June 2010.
Phoenix resident Sam Haldiman is taking the elements of a book club to the stage.
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Claire Boucher and William Gratz had their sights set on the southern reaches of the Mississippi River when they packed their chickens, a sewing machine and 20 pounds of potatoes into a houseboat they crafted from scratch.
Book Review: Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
Most of us are familiar with the account of Adam and Eve in the Bible. Most of us are familiar with the writings of Mark Twain, especially his classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The further adventures of Mark Twain
The further adventures of Mark Twain Book of Twainiana may not contain masterpieces, but it forms a reliable impression of Mark Twain as a writer and as a man Reviewed by Martin Levin Thursday, Jun.
Hartford Museums Should Work Together
So much is happening with Hartford museums, it was time to investigate. My plan was to visit as many of the city's museums as I could in a day, by bike.
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Arvada Center Presents Big River: the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 7/14-8/9
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities presents 'Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' running July 14 - August 9, 2009 in the Main Stage Theater.
I was at the public library the other day and eavesdropped on a conversation at the front desk between a woman librarian and a junior high school-aged boy.
Huck Finn Jubilee under way in Victorville
Tales of life on the river, jumping frogs and a small-town circus are under way in Victorville at the 33rd annual Huck Finn Jubilee this Father's Day weekend.
One-Man Show on Mark Twainat the Pierson Playhouse
In 1895, Mark Twain performed in Australia as part of his worldwide tour. From June 22 through 24, he returns to the United States in the form of Chris Wallace, who will present his one-man show, 'The Mark Twain You Don't Know,' at the Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon Rd.
'Mark Twain' to read from novel at Norwalk library
NORWALK A literary giant, in the form of his alter ego, will revisit the Norwalk Public Library, 1 Belden Ave,, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 20.
How many of these have you read?
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Middlemarch by George Eliot ...