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- 'ROAD' WORK IS UNDER 'WAY - New York Post
Plenty of activity afoot this season on off-Broadway - and there's no doubt about its most eagerly anticipated production: "Road Show," the first new musical by Stephen Sondheim since his 1994 "Passion." The show, co-written by John Weidman, is about ...
- Noted Palestinian poet Darwish dead at 67 (Moldova.org)
Poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was best known for his works about life in Palestinian territories, has died in Houston at the age of 67, officials say.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Darwish's death Saturday was a blow to the occupied Palestinian territories and would be followed by a three-day mourning period, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.Words cannot describe the depth ...
- Used words for sale at independent book stores (Tacoma News Tribune)
In a culture that values newness and efficiency, used book stores are the quintessential embodiment of “old school.” The South Sound’s independent used book stores attract bibliophiles, avid collectors and people who simply refuse to fork over $14.95 for a 200-page paperback.
- Should Chess Be an Olympic Sport? - Time
Chess players compete during the semifinals of the World Blitz Chess Championship in the Israeli city of Rishon Letzion. Curling is also on the official Olympic roster, and that really piques Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the World Chess ...
- Author: Pallava Bagla, Subhadra Menon - NDTV.com
NDTV.comAuthor: Pallava Bagla, Subhadra MenonNDTV.com, India - 11 hours ago... in songs and poetry, and romanticized by lovers down the ages, the earth's closest neighbour is still an enigma in material terms. Can it sustain life? ...
- Annual Report to shareholders - Sydney Morning Herald
Annual Report to shareholdersSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 8 minutes agoAlmanacs, travel books, chivalric romances, poetry, music, scientifi c discoveries and more were widely distributed. The use of Latin as the language of ...
- Love, Actually (The Keystone)
Poet Mayda de Valle recites her poetry to students up close and personal. Is love dead? I speak of that warm Mandy Moore A Walk to Remember kind of love.
- Scholar studies vast collection of bin Laden audiotapes - Boston Globe
DAVIS, Calif. - Heaped haphazardly into twin cardboard boxes, the hundreds of audiocassette tapes looked more like a Baby Boomer's teenage detritus than a historical link to Osama bin Laden. Flagg Miller knew their value. The tapes were the ...
- Revisit times that inspired Key's 'Star-Spangled Banner' - Louisville Courier-Journal
Revisit times that inspired Key's 'Star-Spangled Banner'Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - 33 minutes agoBut even if he didn't really see "the rockets' red glare" or "the bombs bursting in air," what he felt, Bailey says, and what came out in his poetry was ...
- SWM Seeks A Real Page Turner - Electric City
SWM Seeks A Real Page TurnerElectric City, PA - 1 hour agoAs well, those who look to Charles Bukowski's hungover Monday bar room poetry for inspiration might encounter trouble finding a pertinent message in William ...
- Prize-winning poet Hayden Carruth dies (WTNH-TV New Haven)
Munnsville, N.Y. (AP, Oct. 1, 2008 11:40 AM) -- Prize-winning poet Hayden Carruth is being remembered as someone who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world.
- Don't look back - San Diego CityBEAT
Don't look backSan Diego CityBEAT, CA - 13 minutes agoIt is a combination of poetry, prose, short stories, diary—all thrown into one thing. It was a lot of fun to write. And difficult to record. ...
- Darwish funeral expected to draw thousands - Ha'aretz
Wall Street JournalDarwish funeral expected to draw thousandsHa'aretz, Israel - 9 hours agoPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, senior PA officials, diplomats, and leading Muslim and Christian clergy will take part. The coffin will then lie in ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishall 556 news articles
- No City for Smart Men (Washington Post)
Washington is a mean little world peopled by third-level bureaucrats, randy federal marshals, over-intellectualized Ivy Leaguers with drinking problems, adulterous pediatricians, process servers, shadowy CIA types, sleazy divorce lawyers, and gym workers selling secrets to the Russians. The whole...
- British couple lose Narnia domain name to author's estate - Out-Law.com
British couple lose Narnia domain name to author's estateOut-Law.com, UK - 5 hours agoSaville-Smith, who also writes poetry under the name Gillian Ferguson, said that she and her husband had found the whole experience "dispiriting" and that ...
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