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- 'Brighter Than Creation's Dark' by Drive-by Truckers - Hartford Courant
Although it looked at the time like a tough break for the Drive-By Truckers, the departure last year of singer and guitarist Jason Isbell may have been best for both sides. Isbell, who had written and sung some of the best songs on the three albums ...
- Georgia teen makes national poetry recitation final - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Georgia teen makes national poetry recitation finalAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 3 hours agoBy BO EMERSON Georgia's young poetry reciting champion has advanced to the final rounds in the national Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. ...Westlake sophomore to take stage in national poetry contest Atlanta Journal Constitutionall 2 news articles
- Cleveland Arts Prize announces 2008 winners - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Every year, the Cleveland Arts Prize highlights artists and leaders in the local culture whose work the judges believe brings pride to Northeast Ohio. Eleven people, including a young classical music composer and a bookseller with more than 50 years ...
- A ghost funeral in Chandni Chowk (Hindustan Times)
In 19th century when hundreds of minor principalities had divided India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal, was reduced to preside over a dwindling Mughal empire in Delhi. The last ruler of the Timurid Dynasty, he was the son of Akbar Shah II by his Hindu wife Lalbai.
- SFU's Blaser wins $50,000 poetry prize - Vancouver Sun
TORONTO - Robin Blaser, the 83-year-old B.C. poet and professor emeritus from Simon Fraser University, was named the Canadian winner of the $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prize last night at a gala event in Toronto. The international prize went to New York's ...
- Remember when: Pope's Visit to U.S. rekindles fond memory (Vero Press Journal)
With all the excitement and publicity concerning Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, it brought back the memory of a very special day in my life.
- Composer Goes From Bombs, Darkness to Blooms, Hope - RedOrbit
Composer Goes From Bombs, Darkness to Blooms, HopeRedOrbit, TX - 18 hours agoAdams and Peter Sellars, his longtime collaborator, used Ramanujan's translation along with other ancient Tamil and Kannada poetry as the basis for their ...
- Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson face big 5-0 - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Besides being three of the most famous (infamous?) musicians of their generation, Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson have something else in common: They're all turning 50 this year. Prince's birthday is today. Madonna and Jackson get to blow out ...
- Club's name is its goal for 110 years - Detroit Free Press
I still remember the rainy days and winter nights I used to spend as a teen, cuddled up with a book. Some of those characters became my friends, my advisers, my confidantes. If I could live that again with my daughter, I thought, we'd always have ...
- Not every sad moment requires a psychiatrist (Akron Beacon Journal)
If a child develops a bit of a runny nose, but seems otherwise healthy, it doesn't make a lot of sense to make a visit to the doctor, much less rush to the emergency room. If, however, the child develops a cough, then a fever, an appointment with the doctor would be prudent. Even absent additional symptoms, if the runny nose requires the consumption of box after box of tissues over several ...
- Many U.S. Dems support presidential 'dream team' (CTV.ca)
Many Democrats want to see a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket this fall. The idea is gaining ground again, now that Obama's close to locking up the nomination. The latest polls say about 60 per cent support it.
- Of Minimalism, Avant-Garde and Beethoven’s Sonatas - New York Times
Of Minimalism, Avant-Garde and Beethoven’s SonatasNew York Times, United States - 5 minutes agoIn “Transport” (2006) — a fragment from a full-evening work, “Testimony of Witnesses” — Ruth Lomon weaves poetry by Holocaust victims and survivors into a ...
- Trailblazers, but Selling a Romantic Kind of Love (New York Times)
As fiercely as the rock counterculture rejected its parents? tastes in music, all three women in Sheila Weller's ?Girls Like Us" are revealed as heavily indebted to traditional pop and its quasi-religious faith in romantic love.
- Miami melodies - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Miami melodiesThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 1 hour ago"My parents were skilled in the art of décima," she says, referring to a tradition of improvisational singing based on a medieval form of Spanish poetry. ...
- Bulletin Board, June 12 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board, June 12Norwich Bulletin, CT - 47 minutes agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY, 10 am to noon, July 5, East Lyme High School, EAST LYME. All area poets are invited to attend. Bring a work in progress or your ...
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