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2 months ago | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
PROSPECT – Though his birthday was last week and his national holiday fell on inauguration Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. received a beautiful curtain call Saturday at the fifth annual…SUBSCRIPTION REQUIREDLOG INREGISTER to access your 5 FREE ARTICLES a week.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
“Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Connecticut: Magic Moments & Unforgettable Disc Jockeys” by Tony Renzoni, History Press, 176 pages, $24.99If you were raised in Waterbury and are of a certain, shall…SUBSCRIPTION REQUIREDLOG INREGISTER to access your 5 FREE ARTICLES a week.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
With such an enticing title, this book by Atlantic Monthly contributor James Parker would seem to promise an antidote to the malaise of “being alive” in 2025. Though “Get Me…SUBSCRIPTION REQUIREDLOG INREGISTER to access your 5 FREE ARTICLES a week.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
fairfield.edu | Alan Bisbort
Achieving in HealthcareOhana is a Hawaiian word for family, but to Kekoa Taparra ’12, MD, PhD, MPH, a native Hawaiian from a small mountain town on Oahu, the word means more than family in the traditional sense. “In Hawaiian culture, ’ohana speaks to the interconnectedness of all people, like the ’oha [corm] of the taro plant,” he explained.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
On this date in 1901, the first Nobel Prize ceremony was held, on the 5-year anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. 5 Nobel nuggets:1) The youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize: Malala Yousafzai, age 17 received the Peace prize in 2014. 2) The oldest person to receive a Nobel: John B. Goodenough, age 97, Prize in Chemistry, 2019. 3) Only person to receive more than one unshared Nobel: Linus Pauling, Peace Prize (1962) and Chemistry (1954).
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
Perusing this volume of supercharged concert photography by Mike Frankel makes you wonder how he has been overshadowed all these years by other (ahem) overexposed rock ‘n roll shutterbugs. Is it partly due to the photographer’s art of putting others front and center while he/she shrinks from the spotlight? Or is it because, as Frankel recounts in this wonder-filled book, that he himself walked away from rock photography the first time a security guard demanded to see a press pass? Who knows.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
When Larry Rifkin took his 4-year-old daughter, Leora, to a Prospect video rental store one morning in 1991, he had no inkling that she’d have a hand in changing America’s kiddie culture. But that is exactly what happened. While Rifkin browsed the upper shelves for something ‘grown-up’ to watch, he noticed that Leora had become transfixed by a video package on a nearby lower shelf – eye level for her.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
When Larry Rifkin took his 4-year-old daughter, Leora, to a Prospect video rental store one morning in 1991, he had no inkling that she’d have a hand in changing America’s kiddie culture. But that is exactly what happened. While Rifkin browsed the upper shelves for something ‘grown-up’ to watch, he noticed that Leora had become transfixed by a video package on a nearby lower shelf – eye level for her.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
On this date in 1922, Howard Carter became the first person to enter Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in 3,000 years. 5 more stunning archaeological finds: 1) Moai statues: More than 1,000 monoliths dating to the year 400 found on Easter Island. 2) Rosetta Stone: A granite slab dating to 189 BC inscribed with hieroglyphs, Egyptian and ancient Greek script, allowing the hieroglyphs to be read.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
rep-am.com | Alan Bisbort
“Shemp!” by Burt Kearns (Applause Theater & Cinema Books, 264 pages, $32.95)Shemp Howard, like Zeppo Marx, was the fourth wheel in one of the most successful and beloved comedy teams of the 20th century. Zeppo may have felt slighted, but Shemp never did, simply because he had a successful parallel career to the Three Stooges, two of whom were his younger brothers, Moe and Curly.
