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- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways _ and the redemptive power ...
- North Charleston gets artsy - Charleston Post & Courier
"Forever Tango," the touring version of the Broadway show, will open the 2008 North Charleston Arts Festival on Friday at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. Starting Friday, North Charleston will get a nice little culture boost when it ...
- Bird photographs explore relationships between man and nature - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Courtesy of MOCA Cleveland A tiny sparrow appears to spy on a woman in brightly colored cowboy boots in an image from a series by Jean Luc Mylayne. What: "Jean Luc Mylayne," large-scale color photographs by a noted contemporary artist from France ...
- Quartermaine's Terms: a potent blend of comedy and pain - Daily Telegraph
There is a scene in Simon Gray's fine play, first seen in 1981, in which the eponymous St John Quartermaine invites a succession of his colleagues at a Cambridge English language school to join him for a night at the theatre, only to be turned down ...
- July Calendar (Portland Tribune)
EVENTS • Division/Clinton Street Fair Come celebrate one of Portland’s most sustainable neighborhoods. Attractions include a parade, Lego exhibit, street dancing, food, music, a pizza-eating contest, a dough-throwing contest, and a jungle bouncer (we don’t know, either ...
- River in crisis: Shame of a nation (Daily Telegraph)
IT HAS been celebrated in film, poetry and song, but today the nation's most iconic Murray River is on the verge of collapse - and does anybody care?
- Pedophile's journey to FBI's list began in Houston in 1989 (Houston Chronicle)
When U.S. federal agents and Mexican cyberpolice recently captured an American pedophile on the FBI's most-wanted list, they snared a predator whose criminal deviance quietly began 19 years earlier in Houston.
- Classic Ann Landers - Creators Syndicate
Classic Ann LandersCreators Syndicate, CA - 52 minutes agoHe romances them with his poetry, and sometimes he sends roses. Recently, I caught him pulling feathers from my canary and sending them as sensitive gifts ...
- June Calendar Listings - Modesto Bee
June Calendar ListingsModesto Bee, CA - 4 hours agoSongs and stories by Rosalie Sorrels. Poetry by Wendy Brown-Barry, Mick Vernon and John Silveira. West Side Theatre, 1331 Main St., Newman. 862-4490.
- You Don’t Mess With the Racism - Al Bawaba
I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song, the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But damn you Scuba Steve! If you’re going ...
- Cameron Duodu Profile - guardian.co.uk
Cameron Duodu Profileguardian.co.uk, UK - 13 hours agoHe later edited the biggest-selling newspaper in Ghana, the Daily Graphic. Cameron has worked as freelance journalist for the Guardian, the Observer, ...
- Editor’s comments (Spooner Advocate)
Marnie Housel gets a little tired these days after going on a trail ride. Her endurance isn’t what it used to be when she was an accomplished athlete.
- BEST BETS (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
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- Day to remember for Orient fans - BBC Sport
The hype surrounding football these days makes heroes of players all too easily. But the Leyton Orient team of 1914/15 were exactly that. Clapton Orient, as they were then known, were the first Football League team to enlist en masse to serve King ...
- Bergmann aims to go where no poet has gone before - Wisconsin State Journal
For most poets, the release party for a new chapbook is seen as a time to reign as the belle of the ball. But for Madison poet F.J. Bergmann, the recent debut of her new chapbook "Constellation of the Dragonfly" gave her the chance to spread around ...
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