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...emphasizing the literary and artistic nature of the book - there's an accompanying art exhibition in Los Angeles' Hammer Museum - has been promoting it more like an intriguing new rendition of Beowulf than a sacred text. (Perhaps shortsightedly, they did not market the book to Christian bookstores; neither big Bible publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson nor the American Bible Society had heard of the volume when contacted.) There's a little synergy at work too: Crumb mostly uses the well-regarded translation by UC Berkeley Professor Robert Alter, another Norton author...
Another Halloween staple, this “multi-story, totally free dance party” has “$1500 worth of club lighting” and four DJs. If you don’t mind huge crowds of sweaty partygoers, we hear this is the big event of the weekend...
...Movember will be expanding into five more countries this year, giving the group growers in 10 countries, including the U.S. That gives it a big advantage over its smaller but scrappier rival, Mustaches for Kids, which began in Los Angeles in 1998 and now has about 1,000 members across the country...
...home congressional district, New York's 23rd, may cover 14,000 sq. mi. of what's known as the North Country, but in many ways, it's one big small town. With a population of just over 650,000 - most of whom are white and working- or middle-class - the key issues in the rural district that sprawls across the northeast part of the state are typically things like the future of the local Army base, falling milk prices and whether anyone can ever lure enough jobs back to the area to replace those that were lost when the region...
Like Visages, most FARC deserters are impoverished young men and women with long rap sheets and few marketable skills. Once transferred to Bogotá and other big cities, they temporarily settle in government-run halfway houses where they can earn high school degrees and take part in job-training programs. But given the FARC's nasty reputation for kidnapping and murder, few Colombians are willing to hire demobilized guerrillas. And there's always the danger that revenge-seeking rebels will track down the fugitives. But now that he has extracted himself from the war, Visages claims it's all good...