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...from himself seems a bit lacking in silliness for a kids book. Essayist David Sedaris' "Pretty Ugly," drawn by Ian Falconer, about a monster girl who makes a horribly cute face and gets stuck that way, hits a more child-like tone. Other contributors include Spiegelman himself, Jules Feiffer, Barbara McClintock and Kim Deitch on the secret life of cats...
...She’s going home to California. I think it’s difficult for her to be leaving,” says Barbara Haber, a curator at the Schlesinger Library who has known Child for the last three decades. “She’s leaving the scene of her life with [late husband] Paul. But she’s making it very clear to people, ‘Don’t feel sorry for me. I’m going back to California and I knew I always would...
Former Cambridge mayor Barbara Ackermann echoed Graham’s sentiments...
...prices of two-bedroom bungalows. And because California banned affirmative action in 1996, U.C. Berkeley is becoming less diverse, with the number of "underrepresented minorities" on the decline. The probusiness mayor got 60% of the vote in the last election. And an assemblywoman is planning to run against Barbara Lee--the member of Congress for Berkeley and Oakland who cast the lone vote against war--with a campaign titled "It's O.K. to Love America." For now, Berkeley's woes have inspired the town of Santa Cruz, another former hippie haven down the California coast, to quietly shelve...
...called the Ivy Film Festival. The brainchild of David Peck, a junior at Brown, the festival has already achieved great esteem due to the participation of such celebrity panelists and guest speakers as writer/director James Toback ’66 (Black & White, Bugsy and Harvard Man), producer Barbara Boyle (Bottle Rocket, Phenomenon and Instinct), actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and the possibility of other notable personalities yet to be named. In addition to judging the submissions, these guest panelists will hold question and answer sessions with the participants, an invaluable opportunity...