Baboon Lagoon, Sadie and the Minnesota nod
It's State Fair time. I think you should all go. I'm staying home.

A concession to faith
Hillsborough County schools create a day off on next year's calendar to address the concerns of Jewish staff and students about using personal days and missing assignments during the High Holy Days.

Keeping up with Jones
Bob Devin Jones, directing a play by African-American, like himself, initially was uncomfortable with a black on black perspective. Now he finds that From the Mississippi Delta offers what he artistically seeks: a sharing of ethnicity.

Dialogue on race by Florida writers gets New York venue
Parallel Lives, a dialogue on race produced by the Florida Humanities Council, has traveled to dozens of cities in Florida and elsewhere since its first public performance in St. Petersburg two years ago. But now the program is gearing up for its biggest trip yet, this time all the way to the United Nations.

The surreal whirl that is Sundance
The parties, the poseurs, the iconoclasts, the poultry -- the Sundance Film Festival has come of age as a festival where miracles dance cheek-to-cheek with absurdity.

Getting real with Kathy Griffin
The comic's new show, Kathy's So-Called Reality, begins tonight on MTV, and those TV reality shows may never seem the same.

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