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- Deaths elsewhere - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Erik Darling, 74, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group the Weavers, died of lymphoma Sunday in Chapel Hill, N.C. Darling was perhaps best known for his hit "Walk Right ...
- Open minds, free spirits - Tonight
Open minds, free spiritsTonight, South Africa - 55 minutes agoHe calls himself a poetic philosopher and lets us in on the Tshwane poetry scene. What do you think is the role of a poetic philosopher like yourself? ...
- Poetry, concert set for Sunday in Norman - NewsOK.com (subscription)
Poetry, concert set for Sunday in NormanNewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 6 hours agoAdmission to the poetry reading and the concert is free. Those attending the concert are welcome to bring blankets or lawn chairs and refreshments. ...
- Dancing in the spotlight on opening night - China Daily
Dancing in the spotlight on opening nightChina Daily, China - 34 minutes agoShen, who spent his time reading ancient poetry and Taoist writings when he first arrived in New York 13 years ago, is back in his home country with a ...
- 3/4 of attendees walk out of Uwe Boll’s cinematic treatment of Postal - CrunchGear
3/4 of attendees walk out of Uwe Boll’s cinematic treatment of PostalCrunchGear, NY - 55 minutes agoThat’s pretty much true about any endeavor, be it cinematic, music, prose, poetry. But I don’t see what the fact that some percentage of the population ...
- Could you pass the 11-plus? Exam papers first used in the 1950s puts ... - Daily Mail
Their very name still deeply divides opinion. For some, the Eleven-Plus exams, which determined whether a child would go to a grammar school or the academically inferior secondary modern, set the educational benchmark. For others, they were hated ...
- A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy world - The Olympian
A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy worldThe Olympian, WA - 1 hour agoI unfolded the scrap of paper with its 16 words, and wondered how this sparse verse, which I'd carried around since college, applied to my life. ...
- Luz Garcia; 100 (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines -- Luz Maniaul Garcia, a retired professor of English at the Far Eastern University, died Thursday night at the age of 100.
- Rapper David Banner Talks Jesse Jackson - allhiphop.com
Days after the Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized for making negative comments about Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, rapper David Banner is weighing in on the controversy. Banner, who drew headlines during the Imus scandal for his scathing ...
- Travel: Days Out (Independent)
Abbott Hall Art Gallery in Kendal is celebrating a major coup: the opportunity to host the first major exhibition of Ben Nicholson's work in the UK for more than 14 years.
- Islands tunes weave colorful storytelling (The Charlotte Observer)
On its second album, “Arm's Way,” indie-rock sextet Islands splatters its beautifully bombastic, orchestral arrangements with vivid, sometimes gory and gruesome images – not to mention the CD cover, which features a fantasy scene inside an exploding rib cage. Yet all those elements tie together for a unique disc, where a sinister traveling carnival meets arena rock. “I feel an album is really a ...
- A National Dog Adoption Event so Exciting that Even "Socks", the Former Presidential Cat Can't Miss it! (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
National Dog Day 2008 is coming to the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons Island, Maryland on August 23, 2008 from 10am to 5pm. This event will also include The Great American Dog Show, the Animal Miracle Film Festival and The FURocious Concert from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. This is a free concert to benefit animals in domestic violence situations.
- Bostonist Book Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Bostonist)
Murakami's latest hit bookshelves on Tuesday. Bostonist correspondent Evan Fleischer gives us the "rundown." A series of real-time anecdotes focusing in on his time as a writer and runner in Hawaii, New York, Japan, and Cambridge over the past twenty-five-odd years, Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running delivers a strong performance. Things happen along the way, ...
- Freedom from Ickiness with David Berman - Utne Reader Online
Freedom from Ickiness with David BermanUtne Reader Online - 2 hours agoHis lyrics are poetry in a cracked, catchy, alt-country frame. And yet the songs seem a little more straightforward this time around, less cryptic and more ...
- 1. THE MUPPETS TAKE WASHINGTON - Washington Post
1. THE MUPPETS TAKE WASHINGTONWashington Post, United States - 10 hours agoThis year's lineup includes Youth Poetry on Millennium Stage, Hip-Hop Theater Shorts at Studio Theater (one short is titled "Crouching B-Boy, ...
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