3 Lompoc men to stand trial in murder for hire plot May 8, 2008
With the intended victim's cooperation, Loza and two other men allegedly decided to turn the tables on Francisco Taran Lopez, who, by his own admission, had hired Loza to kill Victor Hugo Garcia Jimenez. Advertisement. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Three to stand trial in murder-for-hire plot gone wrong May 8, 2008
With the intended victim's cooperation, Loza and two other men allegedly decided to turn the tables on Francisco Taran Lopez, who, by his own admission, had hired Loza to kill Victor Hugo Garcia Jimenez. According to testimony from Lopez and Detective Chris Corbett during a two-day preliminary hearing in Santa Maria, Lopez was encouraged to come along to the mountains above Santa Barbara County with Loza and the others to witness the killing of Jimenez. (Santa Maria Times)
On yer vlo: Claire Armitstead takes a tour May 3, 2008
" Through this structure he can show a land "in which mule trains coincided with railway trains, and where witches and explorers were still gainfully employed when Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris".Robb first began his research to alleviate the boredom of cycling for days on end, on holidays with his wife. He started by printing out 19th-century texts, such as John Murray's 1854 A Handbook for Travellers in France, and the earliest Larousse encyclopedia, which gave detailed local... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
£10,000 reward for The Discovery of France May 2, 2008
Robb, who has written literary biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud, turned to the wider cultural history of France for The Discovery of France, considering the formation of French national identity between the Revolution and the first world war. "I'm thrilled by the award because it refers to an aspect of the book that has more to do with the writing than with brute research," said Robb, commenting on his prize. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Aime Cesaire, leading poet, politician of the Caribbean Apr 18, 2008
Royal called Mr. Cesaire "an eminent symbol of a mixed-race France" and urged that he be buried in the Pantheon, where French heroes from Victor Hugo to Marie and Pierre Curie are interred. Mr. Cesaire was affiliated with the French Communist Party but became disillusioned and founded the Martinique Progressive Party in 1958. (Boston Globe)
The Mirror of History Apr 14, 2008
Where the French highlight Auguste Comte and Victor Hugo, the British give pride of place to John Stuart Mill and Charles Dickens, while Germans speak of the age of Hegel and Goethe. The multinational canon that dominates survey courses at universities like Columbia and the University of Chicago is actually a peculiarly American phenomenon. (Slate)
Jimmy Carter Is Clueless About Hamas Apr 14, 2008
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Religion in the News Apr 11, 2008
Victor Hugo wrote "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to draw attention to its sorry state. . (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Sounds of organ music Apr 4, 2008
Highlighting the newly refurbished and historical church organ, this concert, according to Dr. Logan, "will be an exploration that will draw music from many different countries and eras, with an expressive range from a whisper to a shout. Bland it will not be. I suppose that when in everyday life we imagine something, we often do so using words. Music can carry a listener beyond imagining in words to exploring deep emotions that are wordless. "Writer Victor Hugo said, 'Music expresses that which... (Niles Star, MI)
Pass The Cognac Mar 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Last Update: 06:50 AM EDT. REAL LIFE IMPEDES REEL LIFE. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Public Radio Mar 22, 2008
Text in Italian by Francesco Maria Piave, after the French play Hernani by Victor Hugo; Conductor: Roberto Abbado. 6 p.m. The Plant Detective Lemon Balm. (Montana Standard, MT)
Byron's picture-postcard castle gets a makeover Mar 20, 2008
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alfonso Lamartine, Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas have also celebrated the castle and its beauty. The idyllic setting also inspired the 19th-century painters of the "Small Swiss Masters" school, whose small format landscape engravings were produced in series like modern postcards. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
World Sanitation Goals Slip; Nature Can Help Mar 17, 2008
OSLO - "The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers," French 19th century author Victor Hugo wrote in Les Miserables. "The sewer is the conscience of the city ... A sewer is a cynic. It tells everything.". (Planet Ark, United States)
Paris restaurant where Napoleon ate loses a Michelin star Mar 4, 2008
Past guests include Napoleon and his wife Josephine, as well as writers Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Colette and Andre Malraux, according to its website. The Michelin guide for France, in French and English, will be released Thursday. (USA Today -- Travel)
Grand Vefour restaurant in Paris loses third Michelin star Mar 4, 2008
The Web site proudly lists past guests, including Napoleon and his wife Josephine, as well as writers Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Colette and Andre Malraux. The Michelin guide for France, to be published in French and English on Thursday, puts special emphasis on young chefs, with 510 listings for restaurants where you can eat for a reasonable price: 28 or less (US$42. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Hidden pastJersey's unique status and history under the spotlight Mar 1, 2008
The writer Victor Hugo - author of Les Miserables and a one-time Jersey resident - described the Channel Islands as "pieces of France dropped in the sea and picked up by England". History bears him out. (BBC News -- Europe)
Christ and Crime: Transformation Feb 27, 2008
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come," said Dozier, quoting the French author Victor Hugo. It has been said that it would take a miracle to get crime back under control. (Florida Times-Union)
'HSM2' will have Fox premiere Feb 22, 2008
Les Miserables : This new production will draw its design inspiration from the art of author Victor Hugo. Sept. 19-28. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A love affair with the face Feb 18, 2008
The exhibition is made up of 80 works, portraits and self-portraits, stretching through time from 1852 (an exquisitely beautiful and exceedingly rare portrait - a salt paper print - of Victor Hugo by his son, Charles Hugo) to quite recent works (from the 1980s and 1990s) by fashion photographers such as Sarah Moon, Francesco Scavullo, Nigel Scott and photo-artists such as Sheila Metzner and Lori Newdick. What lies between those dates is nothing less than a compressed but telling history of... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Critics' picks - visual arts Jan 20, 2008
The exhibit, sparked by a similarly titled book by Donald Friedman, includes work by Victor Hugo, Maurice Sendak, Annie Dillard, Tennessee Williams, and Gunter Grass. At Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, through Jan. 27. (Boston Globe)
Gallery exhibits a different chapter in writers' lives Jan 10, 2008
The show dishes up a wild array of them, from the accomplished painter Victor Hugo, who has a tiny, brooding, Turneresque landscape here, to contemporary graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. Scores of paintings, drawings, and prints hang salon style, clamoring for attention on the gallery's walls, in no clear order. (Boston Globe)
* Who's killing Mexico's singers? Dec 31, 2007
He was in the company of a driver and two music industry executives, Javier Rivera and Victor Hugo Sanchez. They drove off in a sedan, the police said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Follow the Reader 2007: The rest of the world, from Bali to Scottish Highlands Dec 31, 2007
Located on a quiet street close to Place Victor Hugo, in the 16th arrondissement, this elegant bistro offers delicious, traditional but light French cuisine at a very reasonable price by Parisian standards. A three-course fixed-priced dinner was 26 euros (about $38 US), including tax (19. (San Francisco Chronicle)
To live with books, perchance to read them Dec 27, 2007
Another book offered a narrator who sought to rewrite novels by Victor Hugo and other French literary giants. "It's a way for me to reflect on what is a masterpiece, but in a humorous way," says Bayard. (Globe and Mail)
Just for whom do we write? Dec 23, 2007
I would make certain assumptions, e.g., that it would not be really necessary to distinguish Victor Hugo the writer from Victor Borge the entertainer. Simple clarity, to repeat, cannot be the only goal of a writer. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Gavel to Gavel: Man pleads guilty to San Marcos manslaughter Dec 21, 2007
Michael Ray Estrada, 27, pleaded guilty in October to voluntary manslaughter in connection with the Jan. 7 death of Victor Hugo Arreola-Pablo, 32, at a Fallbrook apartment complex. A prosecutor had said Arreola-Pablo had had numerous run-ins with Estrada before the fatal shooting. (North County Times)
Bringing technology to MASD Dec 17, 2007
They are the parents of five children: Kyla Rose, 8, Hannah Grace, 5, twins Victor Hugo III and Cora Faith, 2, and Christian Stanley, 1. Brenda is a stay-at-home mom. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
JIM DODSON: The First Snow of the Season Dec 9, 2007
"Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man," said Victor Hugo. This, I decided, was probably what was actually bugging Mike about the coming winter, not my extravagant use of electricity. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Post a comment Nov 29, 2007
France is always the country where Zola, Victor Hugo were born. Where is their heritage. (International Herald Tribune)
Church row evolves over fossil boy Nov 20, 2007
Podcast: How technology blurs the lines between home and office. Navigation - link to other main sections from here. (Yahoo News -- Anthropology and Archaeology)
Tables turn in ‘bizarre' murder plot Nov 10, 2007
Lopez began the chain of events when he asked Jose Juan Iniges Loza, 28, of Lompoc to kill Victor Hugo Garcia, 22, also of Lompoc. Lopez apparently believed Garcia was romantically interested in his girlfriend, Griselda Garcia of Lompoc. (Santa Maria Times)
As Tabasco floodwaters recede, a spirit of recovery - and humor Nov 6, 2007
Victor Hugo Arias, who came as a volunteer with Mexico Verde, says that most people have shown enormous resolve. "They are so positive," he says, "even funny.". (Christian Science Monitor)
A hero in Castro's gulag Nov 4, 2007
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights, has written that the conditions of Biscet's incarceration are like something out of Victor Hugo: "windowless and suffocating, with wretched sanitary conditions. The stench seeping from the pit in the ground that serves as a toilet is intensified by being compressed into an unventilated cell only as wide as a broom closet. . . . Biscet reportedly suffers from osteoarthritis, ulcers, and hypertension. His teeth, those that haven't... (Boston Globe)
We've got a ticket to read Oct 28, 2007
Ingrid Mongin holds a detective novel with 'ennuis' in the title, and Lavinia de Naro Papa is reading Victor Hugo ... Lavinia De Naro Papa 34, translator, 11th arrondissement Notre-Dame De Paris Victor Hugo. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Composer Amilcare Ponchielli Oct 21, 2007
I Lituani (The Lithuanians) with the Ricordi commission, and above all, with (Gioconda), considered his masterpiece on a text drawn from French writer Victor Hugo. La Gioconda is a melodramatic opera of passion, love, and murder. (Suite101.com)
A novel idea Oct 4, 2007
They are also good vocabulary builders, especially for students who may struggle with Victor Hugo, for example, in printed form. Comments are limited to 200 words or less. (Bedford Bulletin, VA)
Review Armstrong's final Tour Oct 3, 2007
22 Different Tour teammates (Frankie Andreu, Pascal Derame, Tyler Hamilton, George Hincapie, Kevin Livingston, Peter Meinert-Nelson, Christian Vandevelde, Jonathan Vaughters, Viatcheslav Ekimov, Benoit Joachim, Steffen Kjaergaard, Cedric Vasseur, Roberto Heras, Victor Hugo Pena, Jose Luis Rubiera, Floyd Landis, Pavel Padrnos, Manuel Beltran, Jose Azevedo, Benjamin Noval Gonzalez, Paolo Savoldelli and Yaroslav Popovych). 54 Winners of the Tour de France, since it first was staged in 1903. (USA Today -- Sports)
Civil War Talk Stokes Bolivian Fears Oct 1, 2007
"Either they adapt to Santa Cruz, or they return to their own territory," Union member Victor Hugo Vhistrox told The Associated Press. Some fear the pistol-wavers' dreams will come true if common ground isn't found. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Chipper and Braves take it to final week Sep 26, 2007
Methinks Victor Hugo is alive and well remember how he so effectively removed us from the action when the fates of the hunchback and la Esmeralda were assured and now the reaction of Braves fans dj vu all over again. But, until it s over, it ain t. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
CHS student singing her way to the top Sep 26, 2007
"On the piano, my hands can take over and express the mood of my thoughts. I really relate to a Victor Hugo quote, 'Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.'". Katelyn said she can express herself through her music and that there are times that when she plays the piano that it makes her feel that she has confided in a friend. (Columbus Colorado County Citizen, TX)
Gustave Flaubert Sep 22, 2007
He reluctantly studied law in Paris, where his friendship with Victor Hugo, Maxime du Camp, and the poet Louise Colet, his lover for some eight years, stimulated his considerable apparent talent for writing. When barely past his student days he was afflicted by an obscure form of nervous disease, something like epilepsy. (Suite101.com)
Best Europe cruises Sep 18, 2007
On any given day in Amsterdam's harbor you might find long, slender boats sporting names like Amadagio, Mozart, Monet, the River Navigator, the Victor Hugo, the River Royal or the Avalon Poetry neatly floating a few gently competitive feet from one another. They're often "rafted together" making it necessary to walk through other ships to embark. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Dr Greer on the warpath Sep 2, 2007
She wants him to be bardic like Whitman or Victor Hugo, a national poet who declaims the song of his self-consciousness and confers his own identity on his countrymen. Unless he is a virile egomaniac, how can she justify emasculating him. (Guardian Unlimited)
LESLIE CRISS: Thanks to Oprah, women get additional younger years Sep 2, 2007
Victor Hugo said, "Fifty is the youth of old age.". I can't vouch for the truth-telling capacity of Mr. Hugo. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Paris For Food Lovers Sep 2, 2007
Many famous Parisians have lived and worked here, including Cardinal Richelieu and Victor Hugo. You can walk around the square, look at art and antique galleries, shop at the book and record shops or stop at a restaurant or caf to listen to musicians playing in the park. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
A Mexican senator's two lives Aug 29, 2007
Reporte Indigo said that Arce Islas is the brother of another New Left leader, Victor Hugo Cirigo Vazquez, the president of Mexico City's Legislative Assembly. The report also said that military intelligence officers believe the senator has a sister in the EPR: Blanca Estela Cirigo Vazquez, alias Twinky Wonder. (Los Angeles Times)
E. Ramirez Alonso, 90; actor and innovative producer of telenovelas Aug 8, 2007
"If you see Balzac, Victor Hugo, they wrote by chapters, they [dealt] with the same problems: love, hate, jealousy, intrigue, passion, crime. The problems are the same. What's going to be changing is the world.". Alonso was born Feb. 28, 1917, in the central state of Aguascalientes. (Los Angeles Times)
Landmark exhibit traces photography’s evolution in American culture Jul 27, 2007
Rodin, seen in silhouette, is facing a bronze of The Thinker with the newly carved white marble Monument to Victor Hugo in the background. The contrast between dark and light and the towering image of the Hugo sculpture suggests a god-like figure hovering over the artist. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Entr'acte Jul 21, 2007
mile Zola "accused" the French Army in the Dreyfus affair, Voltaire and Victor Hugo were forced into exile. And in the 20th century, many more writers, from Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Vaclav Havel to Carlos Fuentes and Wole Soyinka, assumed the risks of speaking out, in writing and in person. (International Herald Tribune)
Letters: Corvallis residents are generous, kind Jul 20, 2007
A partial list: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Emerson, Thoreau, Darwin, Edison, Albert Schweitzer, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Ford, Mark Twain, Voltaire, Newton, Einstein, Milton, Rousseau, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Victor Hugo, Tolstoy, Benjamin Franklin, Shelley and Kafka. What about Hitler. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
HAYWIRE Hogwarts Jul 11, 2007
(I confess, I don't know what was cut; this muggle gave up on the novels once they grew longer than the collected works of Victor Hugo. British director David Yates does a fine job, even if he does seem a bit too fond of souped-up spinning-newspaper shots to provide exposition. (National Post)
Comment is free: Agns Poirier Jul 10, 2007
Our supreme leader has actually more in common with another Napoleon - le Petit, as Victor Hugo called him. This Napoleonic miniature was Napoleon the third, the great man's nephew, the dandy dictator and liberal emperor who ruled from 1852 to 1870. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
The Secret History of Paris Jul 9, 2007
Some of the most famous writing is cited by poets and writers such as Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, Fran;ois Villon, the marquis de Sade, Chateaubriand, Emile Zola, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Verne and Colette. The Dadaists, Impressionists, Communists and Surrealists are all included in the important movements that shaped the city. (Suite101.com)
Bordeaux Port Named to UNESCO List Jul 8, 2007
Victor Hugo, the famed 19th century French poet and novelist, once said: Take Versailles, add Antwerp, and you have Bordeaux. In addition to the port and wine, the city also has a bustling arts community with a number of cultural sites and museums, including Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Musee d Aquitaine and Museum of Decorative Arts. (Suite101.com)
An inspector calls Jul 7, 2007
Victor Hugo declared "Guerre aux demolisseurs!" (War on the vandals) - and wrote in 1825: "There are two things about a historic building: its use and its beauty. Its use is a matter for its owner, but its beauty belongs to everybody. So an owner goes beyond his rights in knocking it down." This was a less politicised - though still militant - version of the revolution's declaration of public ownership. Hugo gave further, fictional impetus to his campaign with the novel Notre-Dame de Paris... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Timbuktu's ancient libraries Jul 3, 2007
"Every minute, every second, part of a manuscript is being lost," said Mahmud Muhammad Dadab, a scholar who compares their value to the works of Victor Hugo and William Shakespeare. With South African money, a 3. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Jackie Collins takes a Connecticut detour Jun 28, 2007
Collins has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle, "Hollywood s own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine and "the Victor Hugo of our time" by Simon Doonan in the New York Observer. With over 400 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 countries, and with 23 New York Times bestsellers to her credit, Collins is one of the world s top-selling novelists. (Westerly Sun, RI)
WWJD? Back immigrants Jun 25, 2007
What do Victor Hugo and John Steinbeck say. Let's use literature to further consider whether doing the legal thing is always the right thing. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Post your Comments Self-defense claims common in murder, assault cases Jun 18, 2007
In a different Vista courtroom just one day after Santillan's hearing, Estrada's self-defense argument also came up short as he was ordered to stand trial in connection with the Jan. 7, 2007, shooting death of Victor Hugo Arreola-Pablo, 32, at a Fallbrook apartment complex. Estrada's attorney argued the 26-year-old killed the baseball-bat wielding Arreola-Pablo in self-defense after the men exchanged words, but a prosecutor contended that it was not a justified killing because Arreola-Pablo was... (North County Times)
He loves me not Jun 16, 2007
"Love, life and death - all of that is the most mundane material for artists. It amuses me because people often say, doesn't it bother you to show your private life? I say, well if you ruled out private life, you would have to eliminate all poetry. Victor Hugo, Baudelaire and Verlaine use their emotional life as subject matter. What I'm putting on show is a dumping. All dumping letters are the same, they're unpleasant. This one is neither better or worse than all the rest. It's an aid to a... (Guardian Unlimited)
Today in History June 13 Jun 14, 2007
Victor Hugo, French writer (1802-1885). 2007 The Associated Press. (MSNBC -- Race)
Click for Full Story Jun 13, 2007
Thought for Today: "Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." -- Victor Hugo, French writer (1802-1885). (Source: Associated Press). (KWTX.com, TX)
Navarrete: Pilger Interview May 3, 2007
He will arrive at a school or a water project where local people are gathered and under his arm will be half a dozen books Orwell, Chomsky, Dickens, Victor Hugo. Hell proceed to quote from them and relate them to the condition of his audience. (Zmag.org)
Slocumb Galleries presents student scholarships Apr 26, 2007
"I wasn't expecting it at all because my teachers told me there were over 200 participants submitting their work," said foundation award and juror's choice winner Alisa Walker, who won $100 for "Wire Form - Cockatoo." "I mean, how can you complain?"Walker's work included the poetry of Victor Hugo, her favorite poet, as well as a picture of her grandmother and pressed flowers. "It's something that's very personal," Walker said. (East Tennessean, TN)
Why France is Viewing the World with Froideur Apr 21, 2007
"France is to be admired in that she is destined to die, but to die like the gods by transfiguration. France will become Europe," wrote Victor Hugo, the 19th-century idealist. No one talks like that any more in Paris. (Ocnus.net)
