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• Travel postcard: 48 hours in San Francisco
Jack Kerouac and the Beat poets called the cafes and bars of this neighborhood home and many of their favorite haunts still exist. For lunch, crowd into Mario's Bohemian Cigar Bar overlooking Washington Square Park for their famous meatball sandwich ...
• Leonardo DiCaprio: Half a boy and half a man
Throughout the rest of the 1990s, DiCaprio specialized in playing troubled young people, from tortured poets (Jim Carroll in “The Basketball Diaries,” Arthur Rimbaud in “Total Eclipse”) to juvenile delinquents (“Marvin’s Room,” where he ...
• Kenny Chesney dominates CMA nominations
Poets & Pirates,” and Jackson’s “Good Time” were nominated for album of the year along with Strait’s “Troubadour” and Brooks & Dunn’s “Cowboy Town.” Other CMA nominees included Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts, who were on hand to ...
• Koons' zany sculptures go on display at Versailles
The show, which opened Wednesday and runs through Dec. 14, is yet another sign that France's bastions of traditional culture are loosening up. The Louvre has hosted contemporary artists and even welcomed slam poets to perform in its echoing galleries
• Democracy Plaza: Schedule of events - Democracy Plaza- msnbc.com
Hip-poets readings — Location: Bank of America Stage. 1:00 p.m. — Screening: Weston Woods short film — Location: Kids Stage - Scholastic Democracy For Kids Pavilion