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- Tempted by the illusion of greatness (Asbury Park Press)
In a previous life, I remember wondering out loud about Mark McGwire's assault on one of our cultural treasures, baseball's single-season home-run record. Something didn't feel right to me. I wasn't alone, either. But the skeptical voices of 1998 were drowned out by an unrestrained celebration that was enthusiastically endorsed by Major League Baseball.
- Neighborhoods: Word on the street - Cambridge Chronicle
Neighborhoods: Word on the streetCambridge Chronicle, MA - 1 hour agoNew England Poetry Club is hosting the Golden Rose Reading with Carolyn Forche Sunday, June 29, at 4 pm on the east lawn of the Longfellow House at 105 ...
- Poetry in the park - West Online
Films like To Die For, Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester might have put director Gus Van Sant’s name on the Hollywood map but it’s early grunge films, like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, and more recent Cannes favourites like ...
- Related Coverage (Gazette.Net)
Justin Davis died on June 25, 2006, at 19 in a faraway land in a war that many don’t want to think about and that she fears is forgotten. On Memorial Day, she hopes his death in Afghanistan is remembered.
- Literary Prize Adds Epilogue to College Career - Washington Post
The elation of winning one of the nation's largest literary prizes for undergraduate students perhaps can be summed up best by the winner, Emma Sovich, 22, who described the moment in a breathless post-award interview. "It was amazing. I was sitting ...
- Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London - Independent
Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, LondonIndependent, UK - 4 hours ago... suavity and ease are at odds with the dreary clowning. Next season, one hopes, the Open Air will get back to basics – they are poetry, poetry, and poetry.
- Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming - Slashdot
Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere BoomingSlashdot - 2 hours agoI'd like the shouting part. by Yetihehe (971185) I will write poetry, I'm really bad at this :D "Ode to extinctions: O thy, which is extinct, ...
- Students Gather for Palestinian Cultural Day - CU Columbia Spectator
Students Gather for Palestinian Cultural DayCU Columbia Spectator, NY - 3 hours ago... of Palestine Cultural Day included free traditional food and live performances of music, dance, and poetry—as well as free lessons in Dabke dance. ...
- Rhyme and punishment: Vandals who trashed Robert Frost's home learn ... - Grand Forks Herald
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Arts and Review - Nigerian Tribune
Nigerian TribuneArts and ReviewNigerian Tribune, Nigeria - 58 minutes agoProfessor Oyewale Tomori wondered why some Nigerians don’t use their power of imagination while others use it wrongly before reading a poem in Yoruba ...
- What's Happening - Tahoe Daily Tribune
Writing club having party for its annual publication The Lake Tahoe Writing Club will hold a publication release party and wine reception for its annual publication, "Edge," from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Valhalla Grand Hall. "Edge" is a ...
- Turkmen president orders removal of his autocratic predecessor's golden statue (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Turkmenistan's leader has ordered the removal of a giant golden statue of his late predecessor from downtown Ashgabat, the Turkmen capital, a state-run daily said Saturday.
- Join our Olympic poetry contest (Radio Netherlands)
Are you a budding poet and a keen traveller? Then join the special Olympic competition, launched by Radio Netherlands Worldwide and Henan People's Radio in China.
- Weekend Calendar (The Herald-Mail)
Coffeehouse, open mic night for teens; Caledonia State Park; Swing for Missions; Dance festival; Auto racing; Anniversary concert; Music by the Lake; Eclectic music; Allison-Antrim Museum open house; Christian music; Municipal Band
- Looking back - Sun-Journal
• Notice has been received at police headquarters from the Pinkerton detective agency at Philadelphia in which $100 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of one Francis M. Bloom who is wanted for embezzlement. Bloom is 48 years of ...
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