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Deschanel and Reichs

On the Page or on the Screen,
Kathy Reichs Knows All About Bones

Saturday, June 1st, 2013
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Before Kathy Reichs published her first mystery, Deja Dead, in 1997, most people had no idea what a forensic anthropologist did, let alone that one

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Zero

ABC’s Zero Hour: A Conspiracy
Can Only Lead to Someone’s Downfall

Saturday, February 16th, 2013
by on Playing Around

An ancient ticking clock leads us into a mystery that began in 1938 Germany. “Twelve is a magic number. Twelve is divine. Twelve is both

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Maxwell_Jackie

Jackie Maxwell Talks About Directing
Arena Stage’s Good People

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
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Jackie Maxwell, artistic director of Canada’s Shaw Festival, was sitting in the Toronto Airport waiting to board a flight for Ireland to visit her mother.

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Hiking

Oh, Canada! A Week in Alberta

Friday, August 17th, 2012
by on Living Around

Day 1 The Frolik family had its annual Park Getaway trip together and this year we (by “we” I mean myself, my parents, my brother

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Girl

G.W. Bailey’s Closer Confession:
“The Sunshine Kids Changed My Life”

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
by on Living Around

“Wasn’t that gorgeous?” G.W. Bailey took time out from filming the first season of Major Crimes, TNT’s followup to The Closer, to talk about a

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trav opening

Travesties of 2012—Vaudeville Shenanigans

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
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“Welcome to the strangest comic relief available without prescription” begins our Host, Trav S.D. in full Captain Spaulding* regalia- pith helmet, painted mustache and all.

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Front Pages

Newseum: Celebrating Freedom of the Press

Sunday, April 8th, 2012
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If we had to choose what freedoms set America apart from other nations around the globe, freedom of the press would be at the top

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Cathedral Fence 3

Washington National Cathedral—
The Nation’s House of Prayer

Thursday, April 5th, 2012
by on Living Around

On August 23, 2011, at 1:51 p.m., an earthquake that measured 5.8 on the Richter Magnitude Scale was felt all along the East Coast into

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