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- 'Ghost Town' filled with feel-good comedy - MLive.com
Courtesy Photo Group of ghosts: Ricky Gervais, left, portrays a dentist who, after a near-death experience, can see ghosts in "Ghost Town. " Ricky Gervais provides a spoonful of bitter to help "Ghost Town" go down. Without the gifted comic actor ...
- Nightlife: Party like it's OKTOBER - Minneapolis Star Tribune
A waitress carries 12 litre-size glasses of beer in a beer tent during the Gillamoos folk festival in the southern German town of Abensberg on September 8, 2008. The world famous Oktoberfest beer festival will take place from September 20 to October ...
- Growing up in a killing culture (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
During the first eight months of 2008, gang gunplay in the Seattle area killed at least a half-dozen young men, injured scores more and left police scrambling to find new ways of addressing a problem that is decades old.
- The joy of comfort - San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego Union TribuneThe joy of comfortSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 53 minutes agoFor poetry that comforts, Billy Collins has no peers among contemporaries. He personalizes the notion of an angel without a trace of pretentiousness and ...
- Victor McCay - Everything Alabama
Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope Florence Forest Park Fultondale Gadsden Gardendale ...
- Bolt strikes another record (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
In a sprint for the ages, the Jamaican who calls himself "Lightning" flashed by the competition, matching his thrilling performance in the 100 meters.
- Toronto writer's The Outlander wins First Novel Award (CBC Toronto)
A debut novel about a 19-year-old widow fleeing her ruthless brothers-in-law through the Rockies in the winter of 1903 has won the $7,500 First Novel Award.
- Why John Updike is a virtual shadow of his old self - Guardian Blogs
In his latest novel, The Widows of Eastwick, which will be published in October, John Updike puts these words into the mouth of one of his characters: "...print doesn't mean to people what it used to, it may be. A considerable number get what news ...
- Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies at 75 - Seattle Post Intelligencer
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria's most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country's communist regime, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75. Pavlov died Sunday after a ...
- Sylvain Trudel's 'Mercury Under My Tongue' (International Herald Tribune)
Sylvain Trudel's acid novel "Mercury Under My Tongue," tartly translated from the French by Sheila Fischman, is a tale told by a 16-year-old named Frédéric Langlois who is dying of bone cancer in a Montreal hospital.
- We've got our wires crossed: The bizarre stories of people whose brains have rewired themselves (Daily Mail)
Imagine waking up with a foreign accent. Or discovering you can taste the 'flavour' of any word spoken to you. These strange things have happened to ordinary people: here they tell their extraordinary stories.
- Post-holiday reading list - guardian.co.uk
Post-holiday reading listguardian.co.uk, UK - 59 minutes agoHere's the complete list, with Pullman's notes: How simple some great poetry can seem - as simple as water, and as necessary. Bishop is incomparable: "Awful ...
- Lovers of literature in for a treat (The Burlington Free Press)
Burlington Book Festival features Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner | Audio Slideshow
- Clark Gable walked off set of Gone With the Wind for racism - Oneindia
Clark Gable walked off set of Gone With the Wind for racismOneindia, India - 2 hours agoThe biography 'Victor Fleming', based on the life of the director of the beloved Hollywood epic, describes how the movie almost lost its Rhett Butler. ...
- In transit - The Times
In transitThe Times, South Africa - 3 minutes agoThe UK’s Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008 has been won by John Lucas, a former poetry editor, for 92 Acharnon Street, a portrait of Greece. ...
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