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- Paul McCartney Among Yale's Honorary Degree Recipients (Hartford Courant)
The band played "Hey Jude" as ex-Beatle Paul McCartney stepped on stage Monday to accept an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University. In a short tribute, Yale President Richard Levin evoked some of the songwriter's most memorable lines.
- Sideline Chatter (The Montana Standard)
SEATTLE — They don’t call him Kimbo Slice for nothing. The 6-foot-2, 240-pound mixed martial-arts mauler, it seems, is a 50-50 proposition. “He has an on-off switch,” promoter Gary Shaw told the Los Angeles Times. “If it’s off, he can baby-sit your kids, everything’s great.
- Eugene couple publishes book on perils of porn - Register-Guard
In their training and early careers, Eugene sex therapist Wendy Maltz and her husband, counselor Larry Maltz, accepted their profession’s then-conventional wisdom about pornography: While often crude and degrading to its subjects, it was a harmless ...
- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Religion as love story: Ward '08's thesis blends poetry, film (The Dartmouth)
Rebecca Treat Ward '08 doesn't think of herself as an artist. "See these hands?"she says, in her soft-spoken voice. "I may be a small woman, but these -- these are a teenage boy's hands. They're useful hands. They're not an artist's, they're an artisan's."
- Legendary director, Sydney Pollack dead at 73 - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa, has died. He was 73. Pollack died of cancer Monday ...
- First Night: Grace Jones, Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall ... - Independent
First Night: Grace Jones, Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall ...Independent, UK - 2 hours agoHer face melts and stretches like the liquid metal cyborg from Terminator 2, as thumping tribal bass backs her android poetry. It’s an apt opening for one ...
- Teens connect to a 'Southie' writer's memoir of family tragedy (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WORCESTER - It's been a life-changing year for the sophomores in Pascalia Mattioli's English language class at South High Community School.
- How to do the right thing - La Crosse Tribune
Years ago, the late, lovely Diane Mumm of Onalaska, Wis., shared words of wisdom with me. She said that when instructing her children she always told them to “just do the right thing.” Today, as I was browsing the shelves of my favorite local ...
- Toon Tuesday: The curious case of Elizabeth Case - Jim Hill Media.com
Jim Hill Media.comToon Tuesday: The curious case of Elizabeth CaseJim Hill Media.com, NH - 22 minutes agoThe wonderful stylized poster featured Elizabeth Case Zwicker giving poetry readings at a local Beatnik hangout. That's right, kids. Back in the 1950s, ...
- Angelou celebrating 80th birthday in Atlanta - Macon Telegraph
Maya Angelou may be 80, but she doesn't party like it. The author-poet-dancer-singer-activist will celebrate her birthday in Atlanta Sunday with a star-studded gala including a red carpet and a celebrity guest list. The soiree will benefit a YMCA ...
- AT FREDERICKSBURG ACADEMY ON SATURDAY, CATCH 'A CELEBRATION OF ... - The Free Lance-Star
The Free Lance-StarAT FREDERICKSBURG ACADEMY ON SATURDAY, CATCH 'A CELEBRATION OF ...The Free Lance-Star, VA - 2 hours ago... Music and Poetry," University of Mary Washington, Dodd Auditorium. Presented by MUSE, a five-member troupe of professional artists. 3:30-4:45 pm Free. ...
- REVIEW: 'Rings: Season of Love' - Montgomery Advertiser
REVIEW: 'Rings: Season of Love'Montgomery Advertiser, AL - 2 hours agoThe writing is spot-on in articulating the male-bonding friendship rituals of girl-watching, athletic competitiveness, food and movie preferences. ...
- Tribute: Mary Lois Shepp had a way with words - Kansas City Star
Love of words: When Mary Lois Shepp had a hysterectomy in 1987, she did what she always did in moments that needed uplifting: She wrote a limerick — this time, as a goodbye to her womb. “For every occasion, normal occasions and invented occasions ...
- In Memorial: “Another Pyrrhic Victory for White Supremacy” - Black Agenda Report
In Memorial: “Another Pyrrhic Victory for White Supremacy”Black Agenda Report, NJ - 15 hours ago"The deeply ubiquitous ideology of Euro-American supremacy trumps class interests." Do you really think that the God of Christianity as revealed in the ...
- Hear ‘Em While You Can – and a Fresh Eargasm Alert - Charleston City Paper
Hear ‘Em While You Can – and a Fresh Eargasm AlertCharleston City Paper, SC - 1 hour agoThe man could write a song, for sure: these masterly settings of Thomas Hardy’s poetry turned out to be quite an experience, expressing a huge range of ...
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