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- Red State/Blue State (The Hub)
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think.
- Birthday Boy - George W. Bush - Capitol Hill Blue
For at least the third time in public, in six days, George W. Bush mentioned his birthday. (there have been others, but I am not invited to 7 figure fund raisers) The first time, Boy George was being asked about gas prices, and managed to "rap" from ...
- Poetry: a way with words (phillyburbs.com)
CB students regularly outperform other Bucks County high school students in the annual High School Poet of the Year competition.
- How the Supreme Court Misread My Research: Empirics and the Death ... - New York Times Blogs
Cass Sunstein and I have an Op-Ed in today’s Washington Post , discussing the mis-reading of available empirical evidence in recent death penalty jurisprudence. Some background: A recent Supreme Court ruling ( Baze v. Rees ) reaffirmed the ...
- Author: Jennifer Harker, Special - Midland Mirror
Author: Jennifer Harker, SpecialMidland Mirror, Canada - 51 minutes ago“We were doing poetry and we read lots of Dr. Seuss with its rhymes.” Taking paper patterns and painting around them students went to work with enthusiasm ...
- Library rebuilding (Stuttgart Daily Leader)
BOOKS: After sustaining tornado damage, a book mobile and new office planned
- Joliet library hosting events - Billings Gazette
• June 19-July 31: Summer Reading Olympics for students of all ages. Crafts and story time 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays. Reading Olympics opening ceremonies 1 p.m. Thursday. • July 19: A chat and chew featuring "Beans, Franks & Cowboy Poets," with ...
- Papers of acclaimed poet Anne Spencer moved from Lynchburg to UVA - WSLS
Box by box, pieces of history are rolled out of Anne Spencer’s home in Lynchburg. The renowned Harlem Reanaissance poet died in 1975, leaving behind pictures, personal notes and of course, poetry. Now they will head to UVA. “It’s a good thing ...
- Girls strike back at pop culture's beauty ideal - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Olivia Nofzinger, 11, has a friend who likes to ride horses and a friend who likes to protest. She has lots of friends who draw and one who hopes to become a fashion designer. So Olivia, a fifth-grader at St. Anthony Park Elementary School in ...
- A lone Tibetan voice - Peninsula On-line
A lone Tibetan voicePeninsula On-line, Qatar - 23 minutes agoWoeser published her first poetry collection in 1999, which explored Tibetan identity and dealt with sensitive issues indirectly, using lyricism and ...
- 上有天堂下有蘇杭by Ralph Lake - 世界日報
上有天堂下有蘇杭by Ralph Lake世界日報, New York - 3 minutes agoI am not hopelessly romantic and I am able to shake off my love of the past and enjoy things as they actually are. In Suzhou I visited a silk factory where ...
- CD review: "Wild & Free," The Radiators (Norwalk Advocate)
Trying to the synthesize the 30 years of New Orleans road dogs The Radiators into a two-disc set is nearly impossible. The group has a catalog of more than 1,000 songs, has allowed its concerts to be taped from the beginning and hasn't played the same show twice.
- Soprano heads to Europe to develop her talents - Brantford Expositor
Soprano heads to Europe to develop her talentsBrantford Expositor, Canada - 4 hours agoFor five weeks, she'll be immersed in intense study of the "poetry and performance of German lied" -- romantic art songs by composers including Franz ...
- Books in brief // Biography - Baltimore Sun
A feminist author and Elizabethan scholar, Germaine Greer believes that Anne Hathaway has gotten short shrift from William Shakespeare 's biographers. So in Shakespeare's Wife , she carefully, though tediously, combs through public documents as well ...
- Kerouac manuscript goes on... and on... at Texas exhibit (The Wichita Eagle)
The first words read, "I first met Neal after my father died." Later -- 119 feet, 8 inches later -- it reads, "eaten by dogs." The yellowing manuscript has no chapter or paragraph breaks. The sentences are single-spaced. And so the helter-skelter typewritten words pour forth, one after another, on the original typewritten manuscript of Jack Kerouac's generation-changing novel, "On the Road." ...
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