In early 1942, when he first read Executive Order 9066, which allowed the federal government to round up the Japanese living on the West Coast and force them into inland camps, Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr thundered, “Now, that’s wrong! Some of these Japanese are citizens of the United States.” Coloradans, already fearful of the Japanese [...]
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Mar
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Feb
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is delaying its reopening from this summer to the fall.
Museum Director Brent Glass said the museum has received inquiries from visitors making travel plans, and wanted to provide them with a more realistic time frame for the reopening. An exact date has not been set.
The museum [...]
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Feb
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Some reviews originate at other newspapers that do not award star ratings.
Here are selected minireviews of films in theaters, listed alphabetically.
“27 Dresses”
Romantic comedy **1/2* PG-13. Katherine Heigl stars as not-so-plain Jane, the dependable friend that every bride leans on when that special day comes along. Jane is the ultimate bridesmaid, helping with the planning, the [...]
21
Feb
Now
showing
Some reviews originate at other newspapers that do not award star ratings.
Here are selected minireviews of films in theaters, listed alphabetically.
“27 Dresses”
Romantic comedy **1/2* PG-13. Katherine Heigl stars as not-so-plain Jane, the dependable friend that every bride leans on when that special day comes along. Jane is the ultimate bridesmaid, helping with the planning, the [...]
17
Feb
In early 1942, when he first read Executive Order 9066, which allowed the federal government to round up the Japanese living on the West Coast and force them into inland camps, Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr thundered, “Now, that’s wrong! Some of these Japanese are citizens of the United States.” Coloradans, already fearful of the Japanese [...]
17
Feb
In addition to Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldier’s Home, here are other updates on museum openings this year in Washington, D.C.:
Newseum
This $450 million, state-of-the art museum about the news industry opens April 11 at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., just around the corner from the National Gallery of Art (www.newseum.org; 1-888-639-7386). It will feature 14 exhibition [...]
10
Feb
NONFICTION
In-laws can be problematic under the best of circumstances, but when they’re fighting on one side of a civil war and you’re president of the other side, gut-wrenching turmoil is inevitable.
So it was with Abraham Lincoln, who was lucky in that he had no blood relatives itching to do battle with his wife Mary’s [...]
3
Feb
Van Halen. If you thought you’d never see the day when David Lee Roth took the stage again with Eddie Van Halen, below, then head down to the Pepsi Center tonight when the two reunite for a Van Halen tour. Ky-Mani Marley opens. 8 p.m. $49.50-$149.50. Ticketmaster.com or 303-830-8497
Search for Tomorrow. “Music From [...]
3
Feb
NONFICTION
The book: %26quot;A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation%26quot; by David W. Blight (307 pages, Harcourt, $25), focuses on two slave narratives.
The author: David W. Blight is a professor of American history at Yale University and director of the university’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the [...]
2
Feb
OCRACOKE, N.C. — It was just a few miles off the No. 1 beach in America that the pirate Blackbeard sailed his Adventure into battle against Lt. Robert Maynard’s British Navy sloop Ranger in 1718.
It ended with Blackbeard — an Englishman whose name was Edward Teach, or maybe Thatch, or maybe Drummond — shot, hacked [...]
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