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NEW YORK — Coming off a season in which it finished first in viewers and made gains in all key demographics, CBS unveiled a fall schedule that has just four new shows but does take some risks …
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By JOE FLINT, and, YVONNE VILLARREAL, Los Angeles Times
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5/25/12
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LOS ANGELES — NBC evidently believes laughter is the best medicine: The struggling network will have a strong dose of comedy on four nights in its fall lineup plus the Season 3 return of …
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By SCOTT COLLINS, Los Angeles Times
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5/25/12
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NEW YORK (AP) — ABC will introduce new shows about a fading country music star, a trapped submarine, alien neighbors and a creepy New York apartment building this fall.
The third-place …
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5/25/12
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A waterfall tumbles in the mountains. A flamboyán tree blazes brilliant red. A stone-lined street leads through Santo Domingo’s historic “old city.”
Wilkes-Barre artist Henry …
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By By MARY THERESE BIEBEL
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5/20/12
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CHICAGO — Five years ago the influential comedy website Funny or Die took a few baby steps and uploaded its first video, a rough, hastily assembled sketch that starred, appropriately enough, a …
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By CHRISTOPHER BORRELLI, Chicago Tribune
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5/20/12
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LOS ANGELES — Mention that Norah Jones has a new record and most likely an aural picture emerges. Maybe it’s a hazard of success or having such a recognizable, lightly sanded voice, but …
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By CHRIS BARTON, Los Angeles Times
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5/20/12
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — OK, you walked in the ocean and got sand in your picnic snacks. Now what?
There’s more than beach to see on the North Carolina coast. Check out these one-of-a-kind …
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By JOHN BORDSEN, McClatchy Newspapers
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5/13/12
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LOS ANGELES — There are many reasons to watch NBC’s marvelously funny “Parks and Recreation,” but at this point I only need one: Ron Swanson.
Swanson is played by Nick …
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By MARY MCNAMARA, Los Angeles Times
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5/13/12
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What: “Lucifer Rising,” book 3 in the “Gothic Memoirs” series
Author: Rebekah Armusik
Publisher: Lady Noir
It’s no secret the supernatural has grabbed hold …
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By SARA POKORNY
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5/13/12
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Deadlocked. Charlaine Harris. Ace, $27.95
2. The Wind Through the Keyhole. Stephen King. Scribner, $27.
3. The Innocent. David Baldacci. Grand Central, $27.99
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5/13/12
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Readers new to British author Hilary Mantel’s work through her 2009 novel “Wolf Hall” were introduced to a writer who can turn the oldest of stories into a spellbinding tale. What …
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By Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times
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5/13/12
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NEW YORK — The claws and teeth of wild things are a near-nightly affair at bedtime for Gregg Svingen’s 2-year-old, Tessa. She raises a tiny index finger and issues a clear and forceful …
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By By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press
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5/13/12
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If you think your mother or sister, your conservative co-worker or longtime, clean-living friend would never read this book, think again.
“Fifty Shades of Grey,” the originally …
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By By SARA POKORNY
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5/6/12
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In the early ’70s, Willie Nelson paid tribute to his partner-in-crime and drummer since 1966 Paul English with the now infamous song “Me and Paul.” But it might be high time for …
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By JOSEPH HUDAK, For The Times Leader
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5/6/12
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NEW YORK — They’re young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight — and those are just the MEN who have devoured oh-so-naughty “Fifty Shades of Grey,” an …
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By By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press
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5/6/12
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NEW ORLEANS — When Hurricane Katrina scattered New Orleans residents and its musicians across the country, many wondered if the best days of New Orleans music had drowned with the city. But if …
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By STACEY PLAISANCE, Associated Press
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4/29/12
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“A Wedding in Haiti” (Algonquin Books), by Julia Alvarez: Wedding invitations are meant to be joyous proclamations, but Julia Alvarez received one in 2009 that she had hoped would never …
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By JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press
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4/29/12
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Most authors are lucky to have one hot book to talk up in public these days. And then there’s Carol Wallace. Her most recent novel is “Leaving Van Gogh,” which Publishers Weekly …
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By By Jill Vejnoska, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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4/29/12
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Innocent. David Baldacci. Grand Central, $27.99
2. The Witness. Nora Roberts. Putnam, $27.95
3. Calico Joe. John Grisham. Doubleday, $24.95
4. Unnatural Acts. …
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4/29/12
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The superheroes who populate “The Avengers” might be a bunch of world-saving do-gooders willing to put their differences aside to defend the planet.
But that doesn’t mean the …
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By By AMY LONGSDORF, For The Times Leader
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4/29/12
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