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- A journey nears its conclusion - Conshohocken Recorder
A journey nears its conclusionConshohocken Recorder, PA - 4 hours agoEllis has a gift for poetry, he says, and a way with instruments - particularly the saxophone, clarinet, piano and guitar. He describes Ellis as well-liked, ...
- Skip to the heart beat and it's all the more rosy - Sydney Morning Herald
Skip to the heart beat and it's all the more rosySydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoPoetry has long agreed with Baruch, or Moses, or whoever really wrote Deuteronomy. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner is redeemed only when, unthinking, ...
- First he took Toronto (Toronto Sun)
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- BURIED TREASURE - Staten Island Advance
For the several weeks since Rock the Harbor appeared as a small but dangerous idea, we have periodically walked out to the South Meadow and gazed on the empty space, allowing our imaginations to run wild. What would it look like once the big stage ...
- The best club in the world? - Guardian Unlimited
It's two o'clock in the morning, and I've got a stupid beer advert in my head. Three default blokes are in a club full of beautiful people. As one of them approaches the bar, the DJ stops playing so he can place his order sans voice strain. A ...
- A mission to fight blindness - Times Union
ALBANY -- Saima Ammar, founder and chief executive officer of Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness, is working to help people like her get an education and employment. Ammar, 38, was 2 when meningitis robbed her of her eyesight. Now, her institute ...
- Literally Speaking - The Daily Planet
Literally SpeakingThe Daily Planet, CO - 4 hours agoOnly 65 kids in the whole system, k-12, and to kick off the program we did a family poetry night, playing with words across the generations.
- Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama - Huffington Post
Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack ObamaHuffington Post, NY - 1 hour agoThe Kincaid article that Blumenthal circulated sought to discredit Obama by linking him to an African-American poet and writer whom Obama knew while he was ...
- Idlewild Elementary defying the odds (The Charlotte Observer)
When Idlewild Elementary's Odyssey of the Mind team won a state championship, the coaches were as thrilled as the kids. Then they learned what it would cost to get to Maryland for the world finals -- a tab approaching $10,000 for the whole team. "I got such a pit in my stomach," says Tamela Fennell, mother of fourth-grader Charles Fennell. Odyssey of the Mind, or OM, is an elaborate contest of ...
- Dedicated to the ones he loves (The Star-Ledger)
Earlier this month, drummer Chip White's animated percussion lent a vital spark to tenor saxophonist Houston Person's afternoon performance at the Newark Museum.
- Poet, historian to chronicle Dublin (Contra Costa Times)
Dublin now not only has its own city historian, but a poet laureate as well. Georgean Vonheeder-Leopold is the new city historian and Ronnie Holland has been selected poet laureate.
- Godiva Festival: Get ready for carnival city! - CV5 Coventry Communities
Godiva Festival: Get ready for carnival city!CV5 Coventry Communities, UK - 4 hours ago"The festival also includes tents and artists specialising in reggae, dance, hip-hop, singersongwriters, jump and jive, world music, comedy and poetry. ...
- A Tribute To The Clash (South Shore News & Tribune)
Things To Do is a list of some interesting upcoming events. For a complete list of Tampa Bay area events, see this week's Friday Extra.
- Artists pay tribute to Hone Tuwhare (Scoop.co.nz)
Performance artists from around New Zealand will gather at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu to honour one of the country’s great literary voices.
- How Much Do Looks Matter? A Freakonomics Quorum - New York Times Blogs
We’ve written before about various “beauty premiums” : the advantages gained in the marketplace by people who are better looking, taller, or have better teeth than the average person. Empiricism and theory have their place, of course, but we ...
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