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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in New York City for nature lovers
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has a wild side and it has nothing to do with its honking yellow taxis, towering skyscrapers and celebrity-studded nightclub crowds. It's about soaring bald eagles, quiet tidal salt marshes and sweet berry brambles...Tags: Frederick Law Olmsted, Zoology, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hudson River, Statue of Liberty
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Thursday's TV Highlights: Esther Williams tribute on TCM
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 9 - 15, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Save Me Betty White guest stars as God in...
Tags: Pat Sajak, Tyler Perry, Man of Steel (movie), Elisabeth Moss, Stacy London
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National History Day contest: Where history is hip
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Not many 14-year-olds know where Hurtletoot, Northern Ireland, is. "It's a path and two farms," says Nicole Crumpler, a rising high school freshman from Coppell, Texas, near Fort Worth. "Just a little place," said her twin sister, Erin. "It's...Tags: Culture, NPR, Students, Arts and Culture, Immigration
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Immigration overhaul may lead to demographic shift in America
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The country may be on the verge of its next demographic metamorphosis. The explosive growth of Hispanics that upended the country's black and white racial dynamics may be flipped again as leaders in Washington have begun a debate on the most...Tags: U.S. Congress, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Migration, Interior Policy, Politics
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Tourists find a forest of options for climbing family trees
Credit the Internet and baby boomers. For Americans of European lineage, the urge to learn the stories of our ancestors on the other side of the pond continues to fuel a strong interest in ancestral travel. Genealogy ranks among the top search...
Tags: Conservation, Trips and Vacations, Museums, New Year's Day, Germany
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Nuns on the Bus stop in Apopka today to press for immigration reform
“Nuns on the Bus” -- a group of Catholic Sisters on a 15-state bus tour -- are bringing their campaign for immigration reform to the Hope Community Center, 1016 N Park Ave., Apopka, at 4 p.m. today, June 3. On Sunday, June 2, the bus stopped...
Tags: U.S. Congress, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Apopka
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Five questions for Toby Bozzuto
Toby Bozzuto seemed headed for a career in the music industry. The son of Thomas S. Bozzuto, a founding partner of developer The Bozzuto Group, Toby Bozzuto interned for Blues Traveler in college, working in the band's management office in Carnegie...
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La Dolce Vita Holds Cannes in Thrall
VarietyAt the Cannes Film Festival, money is never far from the picture, from the buyers and sellers trading films on the market floor to the decadent yachts jockeying for position in the old port and the "Gatsby"-esque revels (a few thinly disguised as...Tags: Movies, Lower East Side, Film Festivals, Arts and Culture, Ethan Coen
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Predictions reach high pitch for Cannes awards
Unlike the Grammys or the Oscars, the Cannes Film Festival awards keep things simple and the numbers low. At the 66th closing ceremony tonight, main competition jury president Steven Spielberg and his illustrious colleagues (Nicole Kidman, Christoph...
Tags: Celebrities, Movies, Christoph Waltz, Entertainment Events, Film Festivals
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James Gray brings a film to Cannes five years after divided reaction
CANNES, France — For the better part of two decades, director James Gray has been making textured dramas about people, often immigrants and their children, who experience all manner of frustration and struggle. It prepared him well for the...Tags: Movies, Gwyneth Paltrow, The Weinstein Company, Lower East Side, Film Festivals
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Cannes Film Review: 'The Immigrant'
VarietyCementing himself as the great classicist of his generation, James Gray turns back the clock to 1921 in "The Immigrant," a romantic tale that cuts to the very soul of the American experience. This rich, beautifully rendered film boasts an arrestingly...Tags: Movies, The Weinstein Company, Lower East Side, Guillaume Canet, Migration
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Honoring our nation's diversity and immigration laws
As long as The Associated Press and various other media outlets are redefining how we can speak about people "living in or entering America illegally or without legal permission" ("illegal immigrants" now is verboten), we should finish the job: Stop...
Tags: Mexico, Migration, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Politics
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