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Ruling party ousted in Panama elections
May 5, 2014On Sunday, voters in Panama upset the predictions of pollsters by electing dissident Vice President Juan Carlos Varela, of the Panameñista Party, as their new president.
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“Porgy and Bess”: Gershwin – You is my man now!
May 5, 2014Inspired by a newspaper clipping about a true-life crime, this perennial classic takes place in Charleston's fictionalized Catfish Row .
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U.S. says Cuba still a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”
May 5, 2014Beginning in 1982 the list has included Cuba as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism." Others this year are Iran, Sudan, and Syria.
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Noir genre fiction from L.A.
May 5, 2014Think "Stonewall," and you conjure up images of gay and trans bar patrons in Greenwich Village who finally had seen enough of police brutality and, and fought back in June 1969.
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Gov. Jerry Brown and the new, but weak, minimum wage law
May 5, 2014Most Californians are well aware that the state minimum wage is going up to $10.00/hour. But when and how?
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