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- Remembering RaĂşl Salinas (San Antonio Current)
I don’t know when I first met Raúl Salinas. I don’t even know if it was through his writings or in person. I guess I’ve known him for about as long as I’ve known Chicano Literature, which means since the early ’70s.
- Previewing the Hay Festival (Guardian Unlimited)
Sarfraz Manzoor and Claire Armitstead are joined by the Guardian's Michael White, Ian Sample and Julia Eccleshare to pick out the best bits of the Guardian Hay Festival
- Japan's 'perfect' lover celebrates 1000th birthday - Reuters India
Japan's 'perfect' lover celebrates 1000th birthdayReuters India, India - Mar 17, 2008Japanese men dream of being like the prince whose looks, intelligence, exquisite taste and talent for everything from music and dance to poetry have led ...
- Bollywood star's tour saved by Bolton firm - Asian Image
Bollywood star's tour saved by Bolton firmAsian Image, UK - Mar 6, 2008It is a form of singing, popular in Bollywood films and consists of love poetry, sung softly in Urdu, with backing musicians, playing such instruments as ...
- Youth Speaks encourages teen poets - San Francisco Chronicle
Youth Speaks encourages teen poetsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoThis month, the San Francisco Public Library is putting on poetry programs and contests, and the 826 Valencia writing collective, with the Stanford Jazz ...
- Duke Graduates Honored At Commencement Ceremony - NBC 17.com
Duke Graduates Honored At Commencement CeremonyNBC 17.com, NC - 31 minutes agoHer short fiction and poetry began to be published during the mid-1980s, and her first novel, “The Bean Trees,” was published in 1987. ...
- Sensual, sparkling music fills Kleinhans (The Buffalo News)
This weekend's concert by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is pure enjoyment. It focuses on Vienna in the early 20th century, before the world wars. The music is gilded, sensual, sparkling. Think of Gustav Klimt's famous painting “The Kiss,” with its gold leaf. That's what this concert is like.
- Bush: No Gene Kelly (The Nation via Yahoo! News)
The Nation -- When New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd wrote recently that George Bush has "turned into Gene Kelly," she set off a firestorm of protest from fans of the late dancer, director and choreographer.
- Princeton considers world travel for incoming students - CNN International
CNN InternationalPrinceton considers world travel for incoming studentsCNN International - 10 hours ago"When you're reading a text of poetry, it helps when you understand the cultural assumptions there," Bermann said. The program is possibly the first of its ...
- Live - New Zealand v England (BBC News)
Andrew Strauss falls for 43 as England stumble to 159-4 in reply to New Zealand's 470.
- Israel's Nazi-porn problem - Salon
Taking their name from the Nazi prison camps in which they were set, Stalags were Israeli pornographic paperbacks featuring Nazi themes. How do you make a movie about a disreputable and totally defunct literary genre? That question never quite gets ...
- Matters of death and life (The News & Observer)
Mother starts Wake Forest support group to help other suicide survivors cope.
- Ellen beats Oprah as top TV host (The Herald)
LOS ANGELES. — American talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has topped rival Oprah Winfrey in a popularity poll of television hosts — while veteran Larry King was labelled the least sexy.
- Robert Fisk: Offended by Shakespeare? Let's ban him (Independent)
When I first read of the nine 14-year-old students at the Jewish Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School in east London who refused to sit a Shakespeare test because they believed the Bard was anti-Semitic, I could well understand their feelings. Their protest against Shylock in The Merchant of Venice – reported in this newspaper last week – seemed well grounded.
- Love Bites: An Interview With Toby Barlow - Mother Jones
Mother JonesLove Bites: An Interview With Toby BarlowMother Jones, CA - 6 minutes agoA pared-down language that resembles poetry and resembles good rock lyrics and a lot of forms of language. But it was just fun to play with. ...
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