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- medici.tv Launches Major Summer Webcast Series: A Chat with Director Hervé Boissière (Playbill Arts)
Medici.tv - the new home on the web for free classical music webcasts - kicks off its summer season June 20 with a live concert from the Aspen Musical Festival headlined by Joshua Bell and Jeffrey Kahane.
- Midtown Global Market hosting Global Bike Day - Downtown Journal
Midtown Global Market hosting Global Bike DayDowntown Journal, MN - 2 hours ago“Baiku” poetry contest deadline is 4 pm Sunday. Forms will be provided to write down the poems and a drawing will be held for a bicycle.
- Simon Gray has lung cancer but won't stop smoking - Times Online
The Last Cigarette, Simon Gray's memoir about giving up smoking - or, rather, musing about one day quitting since by page 243 his ashtray still overfloweth - ends with an arresting postscript. “I have a tumour in my lung... absolutely certainly ...
- How to make accounting software cool (CNN Money)
It was too weird to be true. In late 2006, a series of videos appeared on YouTube about a Willow Springs, Ill., resident named Kyle Bone who'd created a successful product called "the anti-shirt" - a shirt that exposed the area of one's torso that a normal tee shirt would cover and revealed the area that would otherwise be exposed. In short, said Bone, it cured the age-old problem of "farmer's ...
- Local magazine notches 4 years - Durango Herald
Local magazine notches 4 yearsDurango Herald, CO - 44 minutes ago"All of the writers and editors are nationally known, and they work for free," Uschuk said. "We now receive about 1000 poetry submissions per issue, ...
- Wachner Debuts with Washington Chorus - Washington Post
What was originally scheduled as a guest appearance proved to be an inauguration. Julian Wachner's program with the Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center on Sunday afternoon was his first concert as the group's music director-designate. As I noted ...
- Mark Morris dancers will perform a celebrated work at the Paramount (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The acclaimed Mark Morris Dance Group returns to Seattle to perform one of Morris' most celebrated works, "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato," this weekend at the Paramount Theatre.
- Edison teen learns lesson in standing up for herself (Miami Herald)
Never had Jeislee Alvarez imagined something so cold and humiliating as jail. There she was, all of 18 with her whole life ahead of her except for the grimy cell holding her back. Poet, pacificist and now jail bird No. 08-18621. Despite her tough-girl shell, the 5-foot-4 Miami Edison Senior High student feared using the toilet with other inmates and guards watching. Disgusted by the smell of the ...
- Introducing the 2008 Madison National Poetry Slam team - Isthmus Daily Page
Introducing the 2008 Madison National Poetry Slam teamIsthmus Daily Page, WI - 1 hour agoThe new Madison Slam Team has a message for the 80 plus teams coming to town to compete in the 2008 National Poetry Slam this August: consider yourselves on ...
- Playing for Keeps - San Francisco Gate
The Bay Area is packed with brainiacs; there are the obvious ones - Steve Jobs, Jerry Yang, the Google guys. But what about the lesser-known, yet enormously talented ones? Daniel Naroditsky ranks first in the world in chess for boys ages 12 and under ...
- Winehouse lyrics used in Cambridge uni exam - West Online
Cambridge University students have been asked to compare the lyrics of Amy Winehouse with the poetry of Sir Walter Ralegh in a final year exam paper. Those taking the Practical Criticism paper were given a sheet containing the singer's words to her ...
- Historian and history maker - Guardian Unlimited
When a friend dies, a part of you dies too. When Bronislaw Geremek was killed in a car accident on Sunday, a part of Europe was lost as well. I remember him once turning to me in a corridor of the Polish parliament, which he had helped to make again ...
- Faith Healer by Brian Friel Succeeds at the Unicorn. (Kansas City InfoZine)
By Jeannine Chatterton-Papineau - Fine acting and production values keep the intricate, somber story lively and intriguing.
- 2007 first-time novelists - Rocky Mountain News
Authors background: Charney, 27, is founding director of the first consulting group on art crime prevention. He has masters degrees in art history from the Courtauld Institute in London and Cambridge University and is pursuing a doctorate degree in ...
- Kay Ryan named U.S. poet laureate (UPI)
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
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