A few years back, Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel, “ Their Eyes Were Watching God ,” was made into a soggy TV movie produced by Oprah Winfrey. The edges of its flamboyant language were sanded down — Suzan-Lori Parks, currently of the controversially Broadway-ized “Porgy and Bess,” was one of the writers — as the picture turned Hurston’s folklore style into a glossy magazine’s take on bodice-ripping fantasias. Read full article > >

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At Center Stage, a novel ‘Gleam’ to Janie’s journey

City officials put off the cleanup of the park on Friday morning shortly before it began, averting a feared showdown between the police and the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.

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City Room: Cleanup of Zuccotti Park Is Postponed

The Parks Department is enlisting middle schoolers to help document city-dwelling salamanders, amphibians that are valuable indicators of the condition of forests.

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Salamander Study Enlists New York City Seventh Graders

With a budget gap of more than $15 billion remaining, California’s Parks Department may face even further cuts and close more parks.

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California Cuts Mean 70 Parks Will Be Closed

On March 26, the couple were married at the Josephine Butler Parks Center in the District.

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Weddings: Aimee Cooper and Brian Fisher

On March 26, the couple were married at the Josephine Butler Parks Center in the District.

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Weddings: Aimee Cooper and Brian Fisher

Charlie Sheen may have endorsed Rob Lowe to replace him on Two and a Half Men, but it appears it won’t be happening: Lowe is under multi-year contract with NBC after joining the cast of Parks and Recreation this year. Another named bandied about as a…

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Rob Lowe Won’t Be Sheen’s Replacement

Scotland coach Andy Robinson drops four players, including Dan Parks, for Sunday’s Six Nations match against Ireland.

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Parks dropped from Scotland team

Space archaeologist Alice Gorman posted a fascinating article about the foods inspired by Sputnik, the Russian satellite widely credited with accelerating the space race. There were Sputnik hamburgers, Sputnik cocktails, and Sputnik finger foods. Making and eating them were a way to Americanize the accomplishment, Forman argues, making the Russian challenge seem less scary and foreign. This genre-bending post is part of GOOD Magazine’s Nicola Twilley’s new experiment in food journalism, which you can read all about . The caption from this newspaper photograph reads: “Not to be outdone – Harriet Phydros samples a Sputnikburger which an Atlanta café rushed onto the menu. It’s garnished with Russian dressing and caviar, topped by satellite olive and cocktail hotdog”. The hot dog is a reference to Laika the dog, who went into orbit in Sputnik 2 later in 1957. Despite Laika’s sad demise, the visual word play is appealing; but the “not to be outdone” requires further unpacking. Does this imply that Harriet’s imminent consumption of the Sputnikburger will somehow restore the balance of power? Or that eating it is a small conquest of space in its own right? In any case, this potential weapon of mass destruction has become a commodity rather than a beacon of communist ideology. According to Lisa Parks, ‘mainstream American culture commodified and domesticated Sputnik, positioning it within the discourse of American nationalism rather then leaving it to circle the earth on its own accord” (Parks 1995:16). Read the full story at Space Age Archaeology .

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The Food Sputnik Inspired

Dan Parks turns in an unerring kicking display as Scotland hold their nerve to get the better of South Africa at a rain-soaked Murrayfield.

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Scotland 21-17 South Africa