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Monkey See
12:29 pm
Wed August 22, 2012

IM, IM, IM Superman: Morning-After Texts Between Superman, Wonder Woman

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Originally published on Wed August 22, 2012 1:04 pm

Next week, in Justice League #12, The Man of Steel and the Amazing Amazon will ... get their respective super-powered grooves on, according to Entertainment Weekly.

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Dance
11:47 am
Wed August 22, 2012

Tango Festival Lures Thousands To Buenos Aires

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Originally published on Wed August 22, 2012 12:03 pm

Tango fans are flocking to the Buenos Aires Tango Festival & World Cup in Argentina. The tango is seen as a romantic and seductive dance, but you may not know that the dance may have gotten its start in brothels. Guest host Viviana Hurtado speaks with dance instructor Daniela Borgialli. She's participating in the dance competition.

First Reads
7:03 am
Wed August 22, 2012

Exclusive First Read: 'Telegraph Avenue'

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Michael Chabon lives in Berkeley with his wife, writer Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 1:46 pm

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Michael Chabon sets his sprawling new novel, Telegraph Avenue, in his adopted home of Berkeley, Calif., and its grittier southern neighbor, Oakland. With its multiracial, multigenerational cast of jazz musicians, former blaxploitation stars, midwives, gay teens and Black Panthers-turned-politicians, the book both celebrates and gently sends up the countercultural norms and complex racial politics of East Bay life.

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Book Reviews
7:03 am
Wed August 22, 2012

A Bartender's 'Tale' In Nostalgic Soft-Focus

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Ivan Doig is the author of The Whistling Season, Dancing at the Rascal Fair and The Eleventh Man.
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Originally published on Wed August 22, 2012 7:46 am

At the moment Rusty, the young protagonist of The Bartender's Tale, is rescued from his Aunt Marge's house in Phoenix, author Ivan Doig cranks into motion a dense valentine of a novel about a father and a small town at the start of the 1960s. Rusty's liberator is also his father, Tom Harry, the august bartender and proprietor of the Medicine Lodge bar in Gros Ventre, Mont. Tom is the archetypical flinty Western bartender, slinging beers and shots of wisdom cultivated from a less than perfect life.

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