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CHARLES DICKENS


The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas

Commentary: The winter solstice has been a day of celebration in agrarian societies throughout human history. The favored dรฉcor for ancient winter solstices? Evergreen plants.

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The Christmas questions you've been searching for

How does Santa visit everyone, and is there mince in mince pies: your Christmas questions answered.

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Book review: Novelist recasts a classic in Appalachia

When I heard that Barbara Kingsolverโ€™s new novel, โ€œDemon Copperheadโ€ is a retelling of Charles Dickensโ€™ classic novel โ€œDavid Copperfield,โ€ I did not know if I would like it. I

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Stage Door gets in the holiday spirit with 'A Christmas Carol'

Stage Doorโ€™s production of Charles Dickensโ€™ โ€œA Christmas Carolโ€ returns to the stage, with its final performances this weekend.

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Classic Theatre's 'A Christmas Carol' aims for accessibility

Actor and disability rights advocate Kurt Wilkinson stars in a one-man performance of "A Christmas Carol" at the Maverick Carter House.

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Classic Theatre of San Antonio debuts one-man play version of A Christmas Carol this week

Actors Ray Seams and Kurt Wilkinson will play author Charles Dickens on alternating nights.

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Book excerpt: "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver

The bestselling novelist is back with her take on Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield" โ€“ a story equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, about an irrepressible boy nobody wants.

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New this week: 'Spirited,' Pokรฉmon, 'Nope' and 'Slumberland'

This weekโ€™s new entertainment releases include an album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse, a documentary about how Mickey Mouse became beloved by children and adults and a cash machine for Disneyโ€™s growing entertainment empire, and Chris Hemsworth puts himself and his body to the test in National Geographicโ€™s โ€œLimitless.โ€.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver book review

Barbara Kingsolver's "Demon Copperhead," an Oprah pick and instant bestseller, reimagines Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield."

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Barbara Kingsolver's 'Demon Copperhead' is new Oprah pick

Oprah Winfreyโ€™s newest book club choice is Barbara Kingsolverโ€™s โ€œDemon Copperhead,โ€ a modern retelling of Charles Dickensโ€™ โ€œDavid Copperfield."

Rules sought for 'gooning,' taking troubled kids to care

There's a little-known practice in the U_S_ known as โ€œgooning.โ€.

Britain goes big with state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II

The funeral was invested with all the pomp, circumstance and showmanship that the monarchy, military and state could put on display.

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Newly published Charles Dickens letters reveal he was โ€˜a bit of a divaโ€™

Eleven previously unpublished letters will go on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London, offering an insight into the British author's life.

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On rare days, the market rises 5% โ€” or even 10%, Wells Fargo finds. How to make sure you're there for it

A new Wells Fargo analysis looked at the best 20 days for the S&P 500 between August 1992 and July 2022. Almost half of them occurred amid a bear market.

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Commentary: Youngkin wants to cut a user fee, not gas tax

People doffed their hats in respect when passing Victorian author Charles Dickens on London sidewalks. Such is what many politicians covet in embracing populist notions as repealing, even temporarily, gasoline

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How Charles Dickens Made the Novel New

A new biography argues that the year 1851 marked an artistic renewal for the author.

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'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' actor Sally Ann Howes dies at 91

Sally Ann Howes, who played as a child actor before she later starred in the 1968 film โ€œChitty Chitty Bang Bangโ€ with Dick Van Dyke, has died.

Stage Door brings 'A Christmas Carol' to local audiences

Thereโ€™s no more classic story for the Christmas season than Charles Dickensโ€™ โ€œA Christmas Carol.โ€ And Stage Door Productions is bringing that well-loved seasonal tale to local audiences now through

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London honors Muppets creator Jim Henson with blue plaque

London has honored American Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, with a blue plaque outside his former home in the British capital.

How one Black family is making inroads in the largely White world of historic home renovation

Frantz and Jamie Arty didnโ€™t know what kind of history they would uncover when they started restoring an early 19th-century mansion on Long Island.

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Virus shuts many UK theaters but online the show goes on

(Aaron Chown/PA via AP)LONDON โ€“ When Andrew Lincoln steps onstage at Londonโ€™s Old Vic Theatre as Ebenezer Scrooge in โ€œA Christmas Carol,โ€ he looks out on an empty auditorium. The Old Vic is among theaters trying to keep the flame alive. That includes London, where theaters had just begun to reopen after a four-week national lockdown ended Dec. 2. The Old Vic has mounted an โ€œIn Cameraโ€ season of plays performed on its stage and broadcast online. Playwright Jack Thorneโ€™s adaptation has been a hit at the Old Vic for the past three Christmases.

Cheers! Or not: 'Scandalous' 1st Christmas card up for sale

The first commercially printed Christmas card is up for sale โ€” a merry Victorian-era scene that scandalized some who denounced it as humbug when it first appeared in 1843. โ€œA Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You,โ€ it reads. That didn't sit well at the time with the puritanical Temperance Society, which kicked up such a fuss it took three years before another Christmas card was produced. โ€œThey were quite distressed that in this โ€˜scandalousโ€™ picture they had children toasting with a glass of wine along with the adults. It's believed to have gone on sale in the same week in December 1843 that Charles Dickens' โ€œA Christmas Carolโ€ first was published.

Streaming one-man performance of A Christmas Carol to benefit the Classic Theatre of San Antonio

click image YouTube / Geffen PlayhouseJefferson Mays in the 2018 production of A Christmas Carol. Fans of Charles Dickens' classic holiday spook-fest have a chance to safely see a top-notch performance of the Christmas tale โ€” and to support San Antonio theater while they're at it.The Classic Theatre of San Antonio has partnered with TBD Pictures to present a recorded performance of, which was filmed at the United Palace theater in upper Manhattan. Tickets sales will support the Classic as well as other regional theaters nationwide whose coffers have been drained due to the pandemic.The one-man show features Jefferson Mays as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and, well, pretty much everyone else. He'll reprise roughly 50 roles he originally took on for the 2018 premiere of the play at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. In that production, live audiences were confronted with the presence of a coffin and a jump-scare as soon as the curtains parted.

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'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize

LONDON โ€“ Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for โ€œShuggie Bain,โ€ the story of a boyโ€™s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart, 44, won the prestigious 50,000 pound ($66,000) award for his first published novel, the product of a decade of work. Stuart dedicated the book to own mother, who died when he was 16. Though there have been many British winners of the Booker Prize, most of them English, Stuart is the first Scottish victor since James Kelman took the 1994 prize with โ€œHow Late it Was, How Lateโ€ โ€” a book Stuart has called an inspiration. Mantel won the Booker for both its predecessors, โ€œWolf Hallโ€ and โ€œBring up the Bodies,โ€ and had been widely tipped for the hat trick.

A one-man 'A Christmas Carol' fills theater need in pandemic

FILE - Jefferson Mays arrives at the "I Am the Night" FYC event in Los Angeles on May 9, 2019. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK โ€“ What does the theater community desperately need during a time of social distancing? Tickets purchased via the show's website will automatically benefit local community theaters based on the ZIP code the user enters. It was his introduction to the theater, and he and his family would read it every year. โ€œThey need help now.โ€Partner theaters include Actorsโ€™ Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Sankofa Collective, South Coast Repertory, Springfield Contemporary Theatre, Theatre Tallahassee, and Vermont Stage.

The Tale of Two Americas

Each of us, can make bad times betterIn his seminal fictional novel The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens opened with the following paragraph. However, this quote also appropriately describes where many Americans find themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. If Dickens were alive today, he would probably have a residence in New York City and some sort of a dual citizenship. Witnessing our approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, his latest novel might aptly be titled, The Tale of Two Americas. Fear represents a theme throughout much of this countrys storied past.

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2 cities handled this health crisis different. The results couldnโ€™t have been more opposite.

With all due respect to Charles Dickens, this is a tale of how two cities handled a health crisis via social distancing, with opposite results. Days later, hospitals in the area were filled with patients suffering or dying from the Spanish flu. On the other side of the ledger, things were way different in St. Louis. After detecting its first cases of the Spanish flu in the community, St. Louis closed buildings such as schools, churches, courtrooms and libraries. The Spanish flu was nothing to mess around with, since ultimately, an estimated 20 to 50 million people died after contracting the virus.

2 cities handled this health crisis different. The results couldnโ€™t have been more opposite.

With all due respect to Charles Dickens, this is a tale of how two cities handled a health crisis via social distancing, with opposite results. Days later, hospitals in the area were filled with patients suffering or dying from the Spanish flu. On the other side of the ledger, things were way different in St. Louis. After detecting its first cases of the Spanish flu in the community, St. Louis closed buildings such as schools, churches, courtrooms and libraries. The Spanish flu was nothing to mess around with, since ultimately, an estimated 20 to 50 million people died after contracting the virus.

Get in the Spirit with Woodlawn Theatre's Production of A Christmas Carol, the Musical

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