Goodnight Irene's Brew Pub in Wildwood is a destination for the craft beer enthusiast or anyone looking to broaden their horizons and try something new, general manager Richie Rallo says. The pub ...
“Good Night, Irene” by Luis Alberto Urrea; Little, Brown (416 pages, $29) In the musical “Hamilton,” George Washington croons to aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton, “History has its eyes on you.” But do ...
When he was a young boy growing up in San Diego, author Luis Alberto Urrea opened the Pandora’s box that eventually led to his new novel, “Good Night, Irene.” Urrea’s mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlin ...
The echoes of taps from yesterday’s celebration of Veterans Day have barely faded away. Not that we needed another reminder of veterans’ sacrifices but the time seemed to tell me that today is a good ...
The owners of Manayunk bar and restaurant the Rook are planning to expand to the Jersey Shore this year, taking over the former space of Goodnight Irene's in Wildwood. In an Instagram post Monday, the ...
Cost: $7 general admission; $30 meet and greet with author and copy of the book. Information and tickets: spokesman.com/northwest-passages/ For too long we’ve had ...
Phyllis Irene McLaughlin de Urrea, of Staten Island, died in her sleep at 74, in 1990. Soon after, her son, Luis Alberto Urrea, who lives in Naperville, teaches at the University of Illinois Chicago ...
What is the psychic cost of heroism? In the approaches taken by mid-20th century writers like Ernest Hemingway, battlefields were proving grounds where a soldier might discover what it is to be a man.
“This here song,” the late Huddie (“Lead Belly”) Ledbetter used to explain, “was made about a man an’ a girl was walkin’ along one Sunday evenin’. Jus’ befo’ this girl an’ man got to de house, she ...
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Luis Alberto Urrea about his new novel, "Good Night, Irene." It's based on his own mother's experiences working for the Red Cross in Europe during World War II. Luis ...
It seems like every local bar nowadays is desperately trying to keep up with the “craft beer” trend, and while it’s nice to see some variety in the taps, it also seems that most of these places don’t ...
In the musical "Hamilton," George Washington croons to aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton, "History has its eyes on you." But do the Founding Father's words apply to kitchen staff, grunts in trenches and ...
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