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- Standout performances best part of Theatre Q's Wilde production of "Gross Indecency" (Contra Costa Times)
While flamboyant Oscar Wilde led a life filled with drama, "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" is an enormously difficult subject to make into a dramatic play.
- How Islam Came to Germany - Spiegel Online
Spiegel OnlineHow Islam Came to GermanySpiegel Online, Germany - 24 minutes agowho ruled over this part of Europe for nearly 800 years until the final stage of the reconquista -- the Christian reconquest of Spain and Portugal -- in the ...
- Sounds from the Sands - Egypt Today
At 27, Nagham Masry’s lead guitarist, Ousso, is already a well traveled musician. Ousso has composed for, toured or shared the studio with nearly every headlining pop star today, including Sherine Wagdy, Nancy Agram, Ruby and Aly Haggar and ...
- Saint Vinnie - PopMatters
PopMattersSaint VinniePopMatters, IL - 2 hours agoThe closer a book comes to the corner, the more likely it is to be a play, a biography, or a poetry anthology. On top at the far right they put the books ...
- A Memorial Day Worth Remembering - CBS News
Profiles of U.S. soldiers who've died in Iraq, a look at the war's toll and pictures of mourning. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, the day we have set aside to honor by remembering all the Americans who have died fighting for the thing we like the most ...
- George Carlin, counterculture comedians' dean, dies at 71 - Cleveland Plain Dealer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71. Carlin, who had a ...
- Rescuing the founder (Eastern Shore News)
Though cameras were still something of a novelty a century ago, the Eastern Shore is blessed with many photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for visitors and residents alike enjoyed capturing the world around them on film.
- Laurie Notaro (Washington City Paper)
Certain things are never easy to accept: forgiveness, death, the fact that your cat broke your nose. That last bit actually happened to author Laurie Notaro , but at least she lived to write about it.
- Help schools at the Forum 35 book fair - Baton Rouge Advocate
You can get a good book to read and help improve local schools at the same time. Forum 35 was founded in 1993 when the Baton Rouge Area Foundation allocated seed money to form a nonprofit organization for young men and women of our community. The ...
- Highwood man aims for shot at 10th District seat - Chicago Tribune
Highwood man aims for shot at 10th District seatChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours agoHe also wrote a collection of poetry called, "Somewhere between Bratislava and DC." A group called "Gun Owners for Allan Stevo" set up a Web site in May ...
- Great Debate Books raising funds for education (KHQA Quincy)
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 3:36 p.m. QUINCY, ILL. -- Great Debate Books and the Community Foundation of the Quincy Area will be working together to raise funds to support the Education portion of the Foundation.
- Getting a read on writers' conference (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
At 47, Steve Delia has come to learn certain things about his life. He'll probably never be rich. He'll probably never be famous.
- Community Calendar - July 1, 2008 - Osakis Review
Community Calendar - July 1, 2008Osakis Review, MN - 1 hour agoOsakis Poetry Club meets at 7 pm at Osakis Visitor Center. Couple’s Social Golf event 4:30 pm at Osakis Country Club with potluck to follow. Open to anyone. ...
- Why Zimbabwe Will Not Resist - The Zimbabwean
Why Zimbabwe Will Not ResistThe Zimbabwean, Africa - 46 minutes agoYes the poetry of politics articulates the problem as inflation, the rise of the parallel market, the loss of democratic practices, human rights abuses. ...
- Fairfax Woman Named Nation's Poet Laureate (KRXI-TV Reno)
FAIRFAX, Calif. -- Kay Ryan, a 62-year-old Fairfax resident, was appointed today by the Library of Congress as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
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