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		<title>El Taller Photo Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.mvmag.net/index.php/2013/05/22/el-taller-photo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merrimack Valley Magazine, in conjunction with El Taller bookstore-cafe in Lawrence, invites young area photographers to submit their original photographs  featuring a person, place or thing in the Merrimack Valley to portraits@mvmag.net. (1) Winner will have their photo featured as a full page in an upcoming issue of Merrimack Valley Magazine, and get to spend a day shooting with one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valleywood &#8211; Preserving the &#8220;Golden Age&#8221; of Cambodian Cinema</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Daigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 1975 until early 1979, Cambodia was under the control of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and its followers, the Khmer Rouge. The regime was responsible for widespread famine, torture, massacres and, ultimately, the deaths of nearly 2 million Cambodians in what’s known as the Cambodian Genocide. Not long before then, the Cambodian film industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 MVMA Voting CLOSED</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voting is now closed for the 2013 MVMA’s. Results will be published in the July/August 2013 issue featuring our annual Summer Fun &#38; Travel Guide. If you won tickets to the MVMA party this summer, you’ll be notified no later than June 1, 2013. Please browse the other sections of our website for hundreds of articles, writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time in the Sandbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merrimack Valley Sandbox Re-Energizes Entrepreneurship in Lowell and Lawrence. Brenna Nan Schneider has come to Lawrence to launch a customized clothing company that will create livable-wage manufacturing jobs and offer upward mobility for its employees. Francey Slater and Lydia Sisson, originally from New York and South Carolina, respectively, have found Lowell to be an ideal place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Advisory &#8211; New Bedford, Massachusetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie-Noelle Provost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rich History, Off-The-Boat Seafood and a Vibrant Cultural Community Have Made This Coastal City New England’s Newest Getaway Hot Spot. The best things in life are often unexpected. At first glance, the city of New Bedford, located on Massachusetts’ South Coast, looks a lot like any working class coastal city in New England. Red-brick mills line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Spotlight: El Taller</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Broyles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Place for Writers, Thinkers and Creators to Meet, Express Themselves and Enjoy a Good Meal. Creative youths and adults from around the Merrimack Valley have found a home at El Taller, a vibrant new bookstore-cafe in Lawrence. “We offer a place for writers, thinkers and creators to meet and express themselves,” says Mary Guerrero, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Kitchen &#8211; The Kitchen Unscripted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Plath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s all fun and games for chefs on TV — Mario Batali’s chubby ponytail and metro Crocs, Guy Fieri and Anne Burrell competing for most ridiculous hair, and Gordon Ramsay screaming bloody insults, knowing that the cameras are protecting him from a reciprocal punch in the nose! In real kitchens — the sharp, hot, greasy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Bitz: Henri Renaud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyson Aiello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Hampshire’s Runner: Henri Renaud Henri Renaud crossing the finish line at the 1909 Boston Marathon. It was April 19, 1909, when Nashua’s Henri Renaud won the 13th running of the Boston Marathon, the first and only resident of New Hampshire to win the race. Renaud was 19 years old and working at the Nashua Manufacturing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rum Recipes</title>
		<link>http://www.mvmag.net/index.php/2013/04/04/rum_recipes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You say you like the idea of using a locally-made craft rum to whip up some smart cocktails, but don’t know where to begin? Let us help. Begin with these: Rumonade (Courtesy Turkey Shore Distilleries) - 2 ounces Old Ipswich White Cap Rum - 4 mint leaves - Lemonade - Splash of tonic water - Splash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooked on History</title>
		<link>http://www.mvmag.net/index.php/2013/04/02/hooked-on-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne DeWitt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newburyport author Anne Easter Smith reflects on the wild popularity of period dramas such as “Downton Abbey,” “Lincoln” and “Les Misérables.” Music soars. Skirts swirl. Love blossoms and tempers flare. Battles rage among classes and genders. And all the while, we stare, transfixed. On page or screen, at home or in theaters, historical drama has us [...]]]></description>
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