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On The Chopping Block: List Of Academically At-Risk Schools Out
PIX11.com / @jamesfordtvA new list of academically troubled New York City schools is out, and while parents and students citywide are wondering what their school's fate is, the new list is hitting one neighborhood particularly hard. The building that houses Wadleigh High School...Tags: High Schools, Education, Abraham Lincoln, New York City, Samuel Gompers
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Church Says 'No' To Halloween Themed Wedding
wpix.comA couple looking to tie the knot in a Halloween-themed wedding at a Westchester County church are out of luck. Lisa Panensky and Jim Nieves - who now have plans to marry at home - reportedly signed a contract 13 months ago to get married on Halloween...Tags: The Munsters (tv program), Contracts, Holidays, Religious Festivals, Weddings
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Newfound Poe manuscript to be displayed in Richmond
A handwritten draft of one of Edgar Allan Poe's earliest poems and a letter to author Washington Irving are among a handful of items that will be part of an exhibit opening April 26 at a Richmond, Va., museum devoted to the writer. "This is the kind of...
Tags: Gertrude Stein, Museums, Edgar Allan Poe, Fiction, Arts and Culture
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Book review: 'The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens'
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by Jenny Hartley Oxford University Press: 458 pp., $34.95 This is the bicentennial year of Charles Dickens' birth. We need no reminder of his eminence as novelist, but there are celebrations of his other...
Tags: Hans Christian Andersen, John Forster, Genres, Book, Wilkie Collins
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Check It Out: Celebrating 200 years of Dickens
Earlier this month, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens was celebrated in an event held at his burial site in London's Westminster Abbey. In attendance were many writers, academics, and other enthusiasts of the man considered to be...Tags: London (England), Christianity, Charles, Prince of Wales, Robert Douglas, Libraries
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2 shot in apparent assault-rifle attack in Cypress Park
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Reggie Wayne talks Pagano, future with Colts
Fox59.comTags: Reggie Wayne, Football, Chuck Pagano, Super Bowl
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The Bracebridge Dinner in Yosemite
Daily DishThe Bracebridge Dinner at Yosemite National Park is set for Dec. 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 25. Dinner-only tickets are $425 per person.... -
New history tea debuts at Ellicott City's Tea on the Tiber
If you’re a history buff but don’t fancy walking up and down Ellicott City’s hills, take note of the new literary (and stationary) tour at Tea on the Tiber.
Now you can have a seat and a sweet in the charming teahouse while listening to...Tags: H.L. Mencken, Ellicott City, Davy Crockett
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Suburban theater for the week of Oct. 14-20
"The Woman in Black": Fox Valley Repertory marks the ghostly season with Stephen Mallatratt's sturdy chiller (which is being turned into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe). An actor is hired by attorney Arthur Kipps to help him exorcise the memory of an...Tags: Daniel Radcliffe, Arts and Culture, Oak Brook, Religion and Belief, Cults and Sects
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Check It Out: Tales get haunting at the Newport library
The unsuspecting public may not realize that the library is home to many restless spirits. Ghostly apparitions and foul aberrations are held at bay within the binding of many well-rumored tomes of lore. Resting on the shelf beside many normal, everyday...Tags: Libraries, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Folklore and Mythology, Fiction, Michael Cox
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Last bites
We know what Ichabod Crane's last meal was, the last things he ate before, you know, his head was taken, ripped from his body by a ghost on a demon steed. Presumably; the body was never found. Before this, Washington Irving bestows a bounty at the feet of...Tags: Sandwiches, Stephanie Izard, Restaurants, New Year's Day, Entertainment Events
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