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The Big Star Quintet and Grammy-winner Don Was among new shows announced for GPAC
The music of Big Star and the Grateful Dead will be celebrated in the coming months at the Germantown Performing Arts Center.
A Bold New History Highlights Latin America’s Humanist Ideals
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...
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UNHCR rushes emergency supplies to quake-hit central Myanmar
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...
Why Grand Ole Opry Performers Dropped Hillbilly Caricatures in Favor of Cowboy Couture
The new book '100 Years of Grand Ole Opry' looks at the history of the country music institution, including its rhinestone fashion.
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The Great Gatsby turns 100: NY students reflect on the enduring legacy of a literary classic
It’s been 100 years since The Great Gatsby was first published, and its legacy is still deeply woven into the fabric of New York City and Long Island. From its inspiration on the Gold Coast to its ...
‘The Great Gatsby’ Is 100, and as Fresh as Ever
A century after “The Great Gatsby” was first published, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s slender novel about a mysterious, lovelorn ...
"The Great Gatsby" turns 100: Initially a sales flop, now regarded as the "great American novel"
When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the ...