September 2, 2010
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    Shakespeare on Screen

    Posted by Jonathan Kiefer at 6:00AM

    Sep 02, 2010

    Try all the Shakespeare offerings at the Pacific Film Archive over the next two months and then check your findings against whatever the younger you once scrawled in the margins of those now yellowing Signet Classics.

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    The Writers' Block : Tinkers

    Posted by Paul Harding at 6:00AM

    Sep 01, 2010

    Paul Harding reads a passage from Tinkers, this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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    Theater Review : Dreamgirls

    Posted by Erika Milvy at 6:00AM

    Aug 31, 2010

    Now it can be sung! Dreamgirls tells the story of the egos behind those afros (and beehives).

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