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If you haven't been inside a library lately, here's news: Things have changed. More than ever, librarians have gone high-tech in their jobs as gatherers and distributors of information, and they're very much involved in the communities they serve.
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When Nathalie Dupree needed a big favor, she turned to Facebook. And that social media link brings the "Julia Child of the South" to Sacramento next week for two special appearances, celebrating the book "Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking."
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Sacramento's vivid poetry scene make it clear that people of all ages still want to connect in face-to-face settings to share a sense of community, exchange ideas and express themselves through creative use of language. Sacramento's vivid poetry scene offers that chance.
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For decades, Willa Cather has been a peculiar enigma in 20th-century American literature: beloved by ordinary readers for vivid evocations of frontier life in novels like "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia," but walled off from personal scrutiny by some of the tightest archival restrictions this side of J.D. Salinger.

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When asked how the 27-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has managed to stay together through many tours and other challenges, founding member George Hinchliffe likened it to how the Rolling Stones have kept it together so many years.

Your dog has escaped from your backyard. You need to borrow a ladder. You're worried about a suspicious character who keeps showing up on your cul-de-sac.

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Eugene Jarecki won the 2012 Sundance Film Festival documentary Grand Jury Prize and then kept going.

Depending on your generational vantage point, Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel "On the Road" was the defining literary event of its generation or, as Truman Capote famously observed, "just typing."

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"Kind of Like a Sound," a bouquet of trumpetlike flowers, greets you on the first wall of Robert Ortbal's exciting show at Jay Jay. It's quirky yet beautiful, an elegant comedian made of unexpected materials.

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