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- Saturday's Best Bets (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
If you're amazed by huge vegetables, you'll want to check out the 23rd annual Giant Pumpkin Party and Children's Parade in Grahamsville on Saturday. The free event begins with a parade at 9 a.m. and continues with a pumpkin festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Pakistani poet who advocated better ties with India is dead - Thaindian.com
Islamabad, Aug 26 (IANS) Pakistani Ahmed Faraz, considered one of the greatest Urdu poets and an ardent advocate of better ties with India, died here at age 77. Faraz, who died Monday night, is survived by his wife and three sons. He had taken ill ...
- BVU celebrates peace - Storm Lake Pilot Tribune
BVU celebrates peaceStorm Lake Pilot Tribune, IA - 7 hours agoThere were some concerns of African American students sitting under a tree where caucasions sat. The following day some nooses were hung from the tree. ...
- Winners Announced for Fifth Annual Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse (PRWeb)
Jerusalem resident Reena Ribalow is the winner of the fifth annual Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse sponsored by Tom Howard Books. This contest awards $5,250 in prizes for the best original poems in traditional verse forms, including a top prize of $2,000. Ribalow's poem, an ode to Jerusalem's heartbreaking marriage of beauty and violence, was judged the best of hundreds of ...
- 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' at Theatricum Botanicum - Los Angeles Times
Fame, addiction, fatality: "Long Day's Journey Into Night," now on view at the Theatricum Botanicum , posits the American family as crime scene, echoing back to the Greeks but as modern as Britney's latest rehab lapse. A half-century since its ...
- In defense of prejudice - Arab American News
In defense of prejudiceArab American News, MI - 1 hour agoThey (humans, not sea-cows) are pleasant, blond and suntanned, given to yachting, white wine and Sufi poetry; or so it seemed to me after a fly-through ...
- Britain from Above; Spooks: Code 9 - Times Online
Britain from Above; Spooks: Code 9Times Online, UK - 1 hour agoIf only it had its poetry. Marr's sister programme on BBC Two about the transformation of London after the Blitz was less spectacular but more intelligent. ...
- Elementary, My Dears column: The best of times for teachers - San Mateo County Times
Elementary, My Dears column: The best of times for teachersSan Mateo County Times, CA - 3 hours agoScholars have deconstructed Poe's poetry for well over a century, and none have had such an insightful, poignant perspective. ...
- A few things to Go & Do this week - Portsmouth Herald
Wednesday is Reptile Night at Great Bay It's another family night at the Great Bay Discovery Center on Aug. 6 — and this time it is Reptile Night. Wildlife Encounters of Rochester will be bringing live reptiles to the Hugh Gregg Center for a 6:30 p ...
- Ex-reporter offers help for the grieving - Collinsville Herald
Ex-reporter offers help for the grievingCollinsville Herald, IL - Aug 10, 2008With stories from grieving parents and photos accompanied by poetry, the book is especially meant to help those who have lost a loved one, Hodapp said. ...
- Family, friends say their goodbyes to Tia Poklemba - Naples Daily News
Family, friends say their goodbyes to Tia PoklembaNaples Daily News, FL - 13 hours agoHe is described as a Hispanic male, in his mid-20s to mid-30s, about 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches, with medium-black hair. ...
- Matthiessen, Robinson among book award finalists (USA Today)
Talk about second chances: Peter Matthiessen, 81, received a National Book Award nomination Wednesday for Shadow Country, an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s.
- Review: The Middleman 1.09 The Obsolescent Cryogenic Meltdown - Firefox News
Review: The Middleman 1.09 The Obsolescent Cryogenic MeltdownFirefox News, AZ - 2 hours agoShe edits the online magazine Afterburn SF, which publishes speculative short stories, and is the editor for the print poetry magazine Illumen. ...
- The Sky Crawlers - Screendaily
Dir: Mamoru Oshii. Japan. 2008. 122mins. Mamoru Oshii's most meditative feature-length animation to date tells the story of a group of genetically modified eternally-young fighter aces in a world where war has become a company-sponsored reality game ...
- The Friendly City – wine, women and calm - Thought Leader
The Friendly City – wine, women and calmThought Leader, South Africa - 5 minutes agoIt’s poetry and, that my friend, I shall awake at 3am for on any day. But that’s just me. Maybe I’m just soft; not acquainted with the humble brutality of ...
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