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- Thousand Oaks Acorn - The World's Greatest Moms (The Thousand Oaks Acorn)
Why my mom is great: My mom, Shiphrah Maller, spends her life caring for others. A 1942 UCLA graduate transplanted to New York City after marriage. A school teacher in a low income area, she was referred to as the "Trip Teacher"- she was the only teacher to take children on field trips.
- Outdoors events, 6/8 - Lincoln Journal Star
Shooting event, Big Bore Gong (Black Powder), sunrise-?, Lincoln Izaak Walton League, half-mile south of 134th Street and Nebraska 2. Contact: Ray Rowen, 477-6449 or fdhdj@earthlink.co. Rock Creek Trail Days, Rock Creek Station State Historical Park ...
- What do teachers do during the summer? - Portsmouth Herald
Carolyn Berenson of Exeter is a teacher. As such, she knows that she's somewhat "the other" to her sixth-grade special education students at Stratham's Cooperative Middle School — a quasi-human that likely has no life outside school. But, though it ...
- Fear and Loafing - Ventura County Reporter
Ventura County ReporterFear and LoafingVentura County Reporter, CA - 4 hours agoJesus for President is the perfect antidote to the poisonous prose Christians like Anne Coulter have been spitting out for too many years. ...
- Glimpses of a society revealed in black and white - Taiwan Journal
Glimpses of a society revealed in black and whiteTaiwan Journal, Taiwan - 1 hour agoThe boy's name is a laurel to Han Chinese heritage as it stems from gifted literati Tang Bo-hu (1470-1523), who excelled in poetry and painting during the ...
- In Praise of Political Insults - Wall Street Journal
The great American political insult is older than the nation itself. Ben Franklin, writing in 1771 before the States were even United, lamented "Libeling and Personal Abuse, which is of late Years become so disgraceful to our Country." Not even ...
- Patti Smith & Kevin Shields: The Coral Sea (Pitchfork)
The new album from Patti Smith (that's good!) is two discs long (that's bad), and it's a collaboration with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields (that's good!!) built around live performances of her 1996 book-length poem (that's ba...actually it turns out to be pretty good). read more
- Listings: 7 Days & 7 Nights (Gay City News)
Zimbabwe's Story Dance Theater Workshop presents "Chimurenga," a 60-minute multimedia solo choreographed and performed by Nora Chipaumire that is her post-revolution memoir of growing up during Zimbabwe's second war of liberation. Music by Thomas Mapfumo and Alex Potts.
- Pages 1 2 3 4 - Salon
Dalby unpacks an intriguing series of snippets from historical or archaeological evidence to support the view that the epics have a historical basis but were built up over the years from a wide variety of materials and also have specific roots in the ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan (Las Cruces Sun-News)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- CONCERTS, THEATER AND MORE - Wichita Eagle
TUE. Jane Hawkins and Amy Hoffman , faculty recital, 7:30 p.m. Tue., Sebits Auditorium, Riney Fine Arts Center, Friends University. Free. Information, 316-295-5537. WED. WSU Concert Band and Symphonic Winds Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Wed., Miller Concert ...
- Active Adult Programs - Simi Valley Acorn
Active Adult ProgramsSimi Valley Acorn, CA - 16 hours ago•Marty Albert will lead a class on the art of humor and poetry from 2 to 3:30 pm Wednesday, May 28. The fee is $5 for drop in or four classes for $15. ...
- Lesbians unhappy with Gay women - Ya Libnan
Lesbos, Greece - Three islanders from Lesbos - home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women - have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name. One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the ...
- Americans' fear of feeling sad may be threat to great art - Omaha World-Herald (subscription)
Americans' fear of feeling sad may be threat to great artOmaha World-Herald (subscription), NE - 36 minutes agoIt's a place where poetry is a Hallmark card and where music is, well, Muzak. "I fear we're creating a country where no one would aspire to write a novel ...
- The 1 thing - Boston Globe
Stephen Greenblatt and Charles Mee's "Cardenio" makes room for star turns by several American Repertory Theatre regulars, but it's Thomas Derrah who scores the richest laughs as the cook at a wedding feast in Umbria. Pretentious food talk is, by now ...
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