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Is Nato Green The Funniest Union Organizer In America (Or Cuba)?
Forward Nato Green is a Jewish union organizer from San Francisco — currently living in Cuba — who also happens to be one of the Bay Area's most successful stand-up comics. He's toured with Hari Kondalobu, Janine Brito and CNN's W. Kamau Bell. He's been … |
Comedian Barry Crimmins dies at age 64 – EW.com
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Comedian Barry Crimmins dies at age 64
EW.com Comedian Barry Crimmins has died at the age of 64. In the late '70s, Crimmins founded Boston's Ding Ho Comedy Club, which helped launch the careers of many stand-ups, including Steven Wright, Denis Leary, and Dana Gould. Crimmins also played an … Comedian Barry Crimmins Dies at 64 Judd Apatow on Twitter: "Barry Crimmins was a compassionate, hilarious man who touched so many lives. He gave so … |
The Frame® | Audio: Revisiting Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ in the wake … – 89.3 KPCC
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The Frame® | Audio: Revisiting Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' in the wake …
89.3 KPCC A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts and entertainment produced by Southern California Public Radio. Host John Horn leads the conversation, accompanied by the nation's most plugged-in cultural journalists. Podcast · RSS · Become a … |
Musical satire puts hot-button societal issues in the spotlight – Houston Chronicle
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Musical satire puts hot-button societal issues in the spotlight
Houston Chronicle … but really picks up speed after World War II. Front and center are the songs of Tom Lehrer, the seemingly mild-mannered satirist whose droll, piano-based ditties scandalized '60s audiences – listen to the crowd's hysterical laughter on his 1965 … |
The week ahead in LA theater, Feb. 25-March 4: ‘Allegiance,’ ‘Jackie Unveiled’ and more – Los Angeles Times
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The week ahead in LA theater, Feb. 25-March 4: 'Allegiance,' 'Jackie Unveiled' and more
Los Angeles Times I'm Lenny Bruce In this meticulously researched solo biography tracing the life and prosecution of the groundbreaking early 1960s comic provocateur, actor Ronnie Marmo and director Joe Mantegna offer subsequent generations not only a sense of who Bruce … |
If Newsweek Dies, So Does a Vivid Chapter in American Journalism – Daily Beast
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If Newsweek Dies, So Does a Vivid Chapter in American Journalism
Daily Beast We at Newsweek were more the Lenny Bruce-Mort Sahl skeptics.” Edward Kosner, in 1963 a young veteran of the then-liberal-leaning New York Post owned by Dorothy Schiff, came to Newsweek that year as a junior writer—two years after the Washington Post's … |
Reading Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ in the Wake of the Florida School Shooting – KQED
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Reading Ginsberg's 'Howl' in the Wake of the Florida School Shooting
KQED … “Howl” had chalked a win for free speech when a California Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the violent, sexually-charged poem in a highly-publicized obscenity trial. “It was a groundbreaking case that led the way for other kinds of … |
Call Me by Your New Name: Horse Trade Folds Into FRIGID – Chelsea Now
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Call Me by Your New Name: Horse Trade Folds Into FRIGID
Chelsea Now In “Lenny Bruce is Not Afraid,” the last two “normal” people in the world have an especially uncomfortable first date as they negotiate the streets of zombie-filled NYC. | Photo by Benjamin Davis. BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A brush with the law. A bounty on … |
5 American philosophers on the meaning of life – Big Think
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5 American philosophers on the meaning of life
Big Think Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Taylor, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Merton, Yogi Berra, Allen Ginsberg, Harry Wolfson, Thoreau, Casey Stengel, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Picasso, Moses, Einstein, Hugh Hefner, Socrates, Henry Ford, Lenny Bruce, Baba Ram Dass, Gandhi … |
Kosher Salt – City Journal
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Kosher Salt
City Journal Dauber affectionately embraces them all, with particular attention to such influences as Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), whose self-described approach was an amalgam of “the jargon of the hipster, the argot of the underworld, and Yiddish … |