We don't normally re-post an entire news story. This one's an exception. It's a touchy subject, and deserves to be more fully discussed. It also happens to affect a town where several GN staffers have lived and have family. Check out how the US military is using COIN lessons from overseas to help law enforcement in Salinas, CA SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck...
Dear Mr. Inman: My daughter is reading John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as I did at her age in high school. I vividly remember seeing on TV in the late 1960s or early ’70s a production of it that followed the novel to the letter, including all the profanity the book contained. I [...]
SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words "Salad Bowl" or "Salis" -- gang shorthand for a city now defined most of all by ferocious...
Colin Firth joined by Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall and Derek Jacobi in biopic about reluctant wartime monarch George VI A roll call of British acting talent has been added to the cast list of The King's Speech, a drama about George VI's struggles to overcome his stammer. Already on board were Colin Firth as the reluctant monarch, who was pushed on to the throne after the 1936...
Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons.
SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words "Salad...
The BBC recently looked at how reading classic literature can help those in prison from reoffending. From the piece... Mr North says literature also helped addicts and other sick people. He said: "Literature is an incredibly broad thing and heals all of us all the time. "We're interested in how you deliver it in a highly charged way to get a result." Mary Stephenson, formerly writer...
Today's fresh instalment of Music Weekly features a band who we've developed rather a liking for over the last few months: Mumford and Sons. The London-based four-piece join Rosie Swash in the studio to talk about their place in the so-called "new folk" scene, their love of John Steinbeck and how it feels to miss the top 10 by one place. Singles Club makes a welcome return after last week's...
John Steinbeck's Journal of a Novel is a book I've kept on every desk I've written at for the past 10 years. I've rarely opened it when I'm not working on a book, and never when I'm writing well. But on those days when the engine room of a first draft feels claustrophobic or static, when the words have turned brittle and the whole endeavour seems either pointless or ridiculous, that's when I'll reach...
John Steinbeck took a trip around the country in 1959, and wrote it up in Travels with Charley | In Search Of America , 1960. I put up a quote last night. Here he describes meeting a family of French Canadian temporary workers (really!) in Maine “In due course these people told me quite a bit [...]
Happy Thursday, TreeHuggers. Everyone knows that America spends a ton of money on health care. But it turns out we spend a lot of fossil fuels on it, too. In fact, a recent study found that a full 8 percent of our carbon emissions come from health-care-related sources. Hospitals are the biggest culprits, followed by the pharmaceutical industry. Also on our radar this week: California's water woes....
John Steinbeck: “I’ve seen many migrant crop-picking people about the country: Hindus, Filipinos, Mexicans, Okies away from their states. Here in Maine a great many were French Canadians who came over the border for the harvest season. It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans [...]
The Keegan Theatre's "Of Mice and Men" might better be dubbed "Of Danny Gavigan and Danny Gavigan." Now running at the Church Street Theater, the production of John Steinbeck's play features Gavigan in the pivotal role of Lennie, a simple-minded migrant worker. Over the course of the show's two-plus...
Photo by Caveman 92223 via Flickr Tomorrow is the 83rd Anniversary of the numbered highway system that gave birth to Route 66, among others. In honor of that, the long-debated ending point of the famed auto-passage will find itself at the Santa Monica Pier in a 9 a.m. ceremony with a parade 66 vintage cars and motorbikes (it begins at Santa Monica and Lincoln) and the unveiling of a replica of the...
Google and book authors and publishers have until 11:59 EST tonight to submit a revised settlement to their legal dispute over digital book rights. It's likely they'll file their comments very close to the deadline. The revisions will be submitted to a federal court conducting a fairness review of the deal. And the move will mark the latest step in a near four-year battle that has raised new questions...
Complete Info About John Steinbeck | John Steinbeck Mini Profile John Steinbeck was the third of four children and the only son born to John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. His father was County Treasurer and his mother, a former schoolteacher. John graduated from Salinas High School in 1919 and attended classes at Stanford University, leaving in 1925 without a degree. He was variously employed
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