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Robber pulls 3-foot samurai sword on New Bedford convenience store clerk
New Bedford :: MA :: USA | 5 months ago
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Two men one wielding a 3-foot samurai sword and the other a kitchen knife stole cash, cigarettes and rolling papers from a Coggeshall Street convenience store early Saturday, police said. At about 2 a.m., the first suspect entered Petro Mart gas
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The Crime of Hanging Ajmal Kasab
Kasab was hanged in a hurry to propitiate the Shiv Sena just as two girls were arrested for a Facebook post criticizing the Mumbai shut-down at Thackeray's death to propitiate the Shiv Sena. (I have shown Indian governments are proxies for
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12 Gift-Worthy Art Books Available at Parnassus
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 months ago
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Building Stories , by Chris Ware For everyone who thought that Chris Ware would always be best-known as the creator of Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth , I present to you this giant box of 9176642822comic strips, a game board, magazines,
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Holiday gift guide: Humor books
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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A Definitive Encyclopedia of Existing Information (Little, Brown; 244 pages; $29.99). Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See, by Francoise Mouly (Abrams; 128 pages; $24.95). America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren'
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Holiday gift guide: Comics / graphic novels
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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Heartbreak and flashes of hope illuminate even the tiniest of panels. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, edited by Alvin Buenaventura (Abrams; 224 pages; $40)...A Comic Drama, by Alison Bechdel ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ; 290 pages; $22).
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Spain Rodriguez: Zap Comix artist dies
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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From his role as one of the original Zap Comix artists with Robert Crumb to his work as a founder of the Mission District murals movement in San Francisco, Rodriguez influenced generations of cartoonists and illustrators with a gritty in-your-face
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Two Costa nominations isn't the full picture for comics
Grandville :: MI :: USA | 6 months ago
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Ode to Joyce Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot's Dotter of Her Father's Eyes...Photograph: Jonathan Cape The announcement on Tuesday evening that this years Costa shortlists contain not one but two graphic novels was greeted in the press with the sort
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Paris, Ont. home harkens back to Loyalist days
Tbilisi :: Georgia | 6 months ago
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EST Last updated Thursday, Nov. 22 2012, 12:05 PM EST The Maus family were United Empire Loyalists who moved to Upper Canada from Pennsylvania in the late 1700s. In 1850, John Maus hired a Scottish architect and spent three years building the stone
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Lacoste family cedes control of crocodile clothing
Zurich :: Switzerland | 7 months ago
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Lacoste is to pass into Swiss hands after its chairman, the last member of the founding family to hold shares in the green crocodile brand of clothing , agreed on Wednesday to sell them to the Maus Frere textile group. Sophie Lacoste Dournel, who was
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Seeds: Children's book author Jan Breet talks about 'Mossy'
Boston :: MA :: USA | 7 months ago
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For bestselling author Jan Brett, inspiration swam under her feet on a summer's day. "I was dangling my feet over the water of a pond and saw something that looked like the shape of a turtle, covered with water weeds," Brett recalled in a recent
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