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- Entertainment Highlights: June 26-July 2 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
THURSDAY, JUNE 26 TOM WAITS 8 p.m. at the Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard. $70-$102.50. 314-534-1111 or www.metrotix.com.
- Agri-business luncheon set for July 10 (The Hanford Sentinel)
HANFORD -- Tickets are still on sale for the 22nd annual Agrii-business Luncheon at noon on Thursday, July 10 at the Wine Garden in the Kings Fairgrounds. The annual event marks the official kickoff for the 2008 Kings Fair, which runs through Sunday, July 13.
- 'The One-Strand River' by Richard Kenney - Hartford Courant
Language poets play with sounds. At their best, it's as if the music of a batch of well-chosen words so perfectly echoes their meaning, it makes you suspect there's sense to the universe. At their worst, language poets chortle gibberish. Richard ...
- Sunday's agenda, July 6 (Miami Herald)
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- Outfront and center: Bad poetry returns! (The Charlotte Observer)
When the Observer's Doug Robarchek retired in 2005, the humor columnist known as the Outfront Guy single-handedly caused a citywide shortage of cheesy jokes that make you laugh in spite of yourself. For readers who've been jonesing for an Outfront fix ever since, great news: A new book, “The Best of the World's Worst Poetry: 20 Very Odd Years of OutFrontery,” ($14, Main Street Rag). Most of ...
- Getting His Goat: Fun at the Mid-State Fair (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)
The biggest little fair in the state — the California Mid-State Fair — kicked off its 2008 “Country Days, Rockin’ Nights” run Wednesday at the Paso Robles Event Center, 2198 Riverside Ave.
- In Middlebury, Garza mystery solved - BurlingtonFreePress.com
In Middlebury, Garza mystery solvedBurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - 1 hour agoOn campus, Garza is being remembered as an energetic and friendly young man with passions for politics and poetry, debate and literature, hockey and music, ...
- Reconsiderations: The Fiction of George Orwell - New York Sun
Reconsiderations: The Fiction of George OrwellNew York Sun, United States - 45 minutes agoDriven by a masochistic desire to steep himself in poverty and the life of "the masses," he quits his job at an ad agency to dedicate himself to poetry, ...
- Ex-Supreme Court Justice O'Connor at Elko's Cowboy Poetry (KESQ Palm Springs)
ELKO, Nev. (AP) - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the 25th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko next January.
- Bard of the Backboard (North Lake Tahoe Bonanza)
Tom Meschery, who has lived in Truckee for more than 30 years, was inducted in 2003 to the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. He also is one of five Golden State Warriors basketball players to have his jersey number retired.
- Bolton residents graduate from Lawrence Academy - Bolton Common
Bolton residents graduate from Lawrence AcademyBolton Common, MA - 6 hours agoA finalist in his junior year poetry recitation competition, Chris also appeared on stage in the one-act Black Comedy, the musical Strike Up the Band, and, ...
- MOURNING A LEADER - Bowling Green Daily News
MOURNING A LEADERBowling Green Daily News, United States - 36 minutes agoIt’s that putting his family above the myriad accomplishments that endeared Minton, 86, to many people, according to Bard, who spent numerous hours talking ...
- Science and the irony of 'Us' - Gulf News
Literature and music are replete with references to them. D.H. Lawrence was visited by one and, feeling honoured and overcome by this visitation, ended up penning a famous poem that surviving generations like us had to analyse and scrutinise closely ...
- New Canadian War Museum - Canadian Architect
New Canadian War MuseumCanadian Architect, Canada - 3 hours agoThe design concept of regeneration was inspired by stories of Canadian veterans, war poetry, and images found in photographs and paintings in the Canadian ...
- Dalai Lama Taps Faith, Tugs Ponytails, Fights for Tibet: Review - Bloomberg
Dalai Lama Taps Faith, Tugs Ponytails, Fights for Tibet: ReviewBloomberg - 34 minutes agoAt one point in the book, Dalai Lama tells a group of American students that it's difficult for him to talk about peace while his people are dying; ...
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