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- Your weekly DVD guide: 'Futurama,' 'The Spiderwick Chronicles,' '10 ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
A planet-size alien with a billion probing tentacles takes over Earth in the second of four new full-length "Futurama" movies, entering orbit Tuesday. "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening hasn't given up on his second TV show, and that's a good thing ...
- Elizabeth Kostova's top 10 books for winter nights - guardian.co.uk
Elizabeth Kostova's top 10 books for winter nightsguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoAs always, Byatt wields beautiful prose, and the mix of prose and poetry gives the book a sensuality as mysterious as anything in the plot. ...
- Dr. Maya Angelou Celebrated 80th Birthday at Lincoln Theatre - Washington Informer
Dr. Maya Angelou Celebrated 80th Birthday at Lincoln TheatreWashington Informer, Washington DC - 1 hour agoTaking center stage was a student “poetry slam” event. “I am beyond proud of my students. They worked so hard to be able to share their poetry and music. ...
- On Poetry: Trees at their 'Loveliest' (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
The cherry trees are having their short burst of glory, which always makes me think of this poem.
- Afghan journalist appeals death sentence - Forbes
The prison uniform Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh wears is emblazoned with crudely painted black scales of justice, but the young journalist insists on the eve of his appeal that he has yet to see justice done. A court in January found the 24-year-old ...
- No place like dome: the Emperor Hadrian's connection with the Pantheon - Times Online
Times OnlineNo place like dome: the Emperor Hadrian's connection with the PantheonTimes Online, UK - 2 hours ago... sensitive and sophisticated of all Roman emperors, well versed in poetry and painting, and a virtuoso in his greatest love of all – architecture. ...
- Arts community feels snub as council picks Gloucester's new poet laureate (Boston Globe)
"The noise of debate makes music," Gloucester poet John Ronan once wrote in a tribute to his flinty hometown. But the noise of late has hardly been music to his ears.
- First novel shortlisted for top book award - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
First novel shortlisted for top book awardScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 1 hour agoAn early morning phone call from a friend alerted University creative writing tutor Mary McCallum that her first novel had been shortlisted for the Montana ...
- Beck Center's "Altar Boyz" picks up where "Jersey Boys" left off: Tony ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Satur´days, 3 p.m. Sundays. Where: 17801 Detroit Ave., Lakewood. Tickets: $17-$28. Call 216-521-2540 or simply click here . The Boys have left the building, but the Boyz are back in town. On the same weekend - last weekend - that the national tour ...
- Carl Haywood’s Innovative Take on Explorer David Thompson - Newwest.net
Canadian David Thompson is considered by some to be one of the shrewdest explorer-mapmakers to ever chart or trek a course. Following quickly on the heels of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Thompson is widely credited as being the first person to set ...
- Tributes paid to Kannada writer Shantarasa - Frontline
Tributes paid to Kannada writer ShantarasaFrontline, India - Apr 20, 2008... than 50 books including novels, poetry, dramas, autobiography, short stories and translations." Shantarasa, who translated ghazals from Urdu to Kannada, ...
- Capsule movie reviews (Calendarlive.com)
A young female caregiver with a wild side (Mena Suvari) and a kicked-to-the-streets jobless man (Stephen Rea) meet decidedly un-cute in director Stuart Gordon's "Stuck," a grisly black comedy of ill manners inspired by the head-spinning case of a Texas nurse's aide who hit a guy with her car and kept him lodged in her windshield in the garage until he died two days later.
- A genteel affair in 'city of poets and singers' - Irish Times
A genteel affair in 'city of poets and singers'Irish Times, Ireland - 1 hour agoHe recites the lines of A Thousand Kisses Deep , then tells us what a privilege it is to read poetry "in this city of poets and singers". ...
- VENUS WILLIAMS (USA) (WTA Tour)
SINGLES Winner: (36): 2007 - Memphis, Wimbledon, Seoul; 2005 - Istanbul, Wimbledon; 2004 - Charleston, Warsaw; 2003 - Antwerp; 2002 - Gold Coast, Paris [Indoors], Antwerp, Amelia Island, Stanford, San Diego, New Haven; 2001 - Miami, Hamburg, Wimbledon, San Diego, New Haven, US Open; 2000 - Wimbledon, Stanford, San Diego, New Haven, US Open, Olympics; 1999 - Oklahoma City, Miami, Hamburg, Rome, ...
- Former crewmen have fond memories of aircraft carrier scheduled for decommissioning (The Villages Daily Sun)
THE VILLAGES — Two local veterans reflected back to the days they spent aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), the oldest active ship in the United States Navy, which is set to be decommissioned after nearly 50 years of service.
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