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- Concert brings Madiba birthday to Africa (Pretoria News)
A truly African concert will bring Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebrations home to the continent on August 23 at the Johannesburg Stadium.
- Armantrout's Poetry "Reflects the World" - Harvard Crimson
With the waning day peaking through the windows that look out onto Prescott Street, Rae Armantrout, one of the world’s most famous living postmodern poets, seated herself at a mahogany table and began to read to a couple dozen audience members ...
- Magical stagecraft in Under Milk Wood at PS/21 - Columbia Independent Online
Magical stagecraft in Under Milk Wood at PS/21Columbia Independent Online, NY - 21 minutes agoThe poetry of the language is the heart and soul of the piece, to be sure, but the movements of the actors and the sparse settings enhance the poetry of the ...
- Club Penguin gets it right (Denver Post)
The newspaper industry is constantly bewailing its need for a new economic model, as the Internet upends the old one. Maybe it could take a page from the Club Penguin Times.
- Mentally ill woman's death jail a tale of missed opportunities - Philadelphia Inquirer
Sandy Morgan didn't have a receipt when she walked out of the Boothwyn Wal-Mart with more than $500 worth of dolls, toys and girls' clothes. In her mind, she didn't need one. She owned Wal-Mart, she told a manager who tried to stop her. Sandy knew ...
- Giller Prize long list unveiled (CBC)
New novels from Austin Clarke, David Adams Richards and Rawi Hage are in the running for one of Canada's top literary awards, organizers of the $50,000 Giller Prize revealed Monday.
- Religion briefs - Aiken Standard (subscription)
Religion briefsAiken Standard (subscription), SC - 3 minutes agoUU troubadour and minister Ric Masten has posthumously released his final book of poetry, "Going Out Dancing;" our UU hymn "Let It Be a Dance We Do" is ...
- In the Loop: Space News Examiner on Minnesota Public Radio - San Francisco Examiner
I had something really cool happen last week--a chance to appear on the rockin' Minnesota Public Radio show "In the Loop". (And I don't even have the Sarah Palin twang--but I do great covered dishes and I know how to talk Minnesotan, you bet. ) Host ...
- Michael Dobson and Nicola J Watson's top 10 books about Elizabeth I - guardian.co.uk
Michael Dobson and Nicola J Watson's top 10 books about Elizabeth Iguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 22, 2008Sir Walter Scott's classic pretty much invented 19th century mock-Tudor, and it's still a sumptuous read long after the vogue for heavy solid black oak ...
- Williams College to Award Annual Bicentennial Medals - iBerkshires.com
Williams College to Award Annual Bicentennial MedalsiBerkshires.com, MA - 2 hours agoDickinson R. Debevoise, senior judge for the US District Court of New Jersey · Mayda A. Del Valle, slam poetry writer and performer · Michael J. Govan, ...
- Tropic Thunder - Digital Spy
Tropic ThunderDigital Spy, UK - 1 hour agoGranted, this is hardly refined Shakespearean dialogue, but when delivered by a seething Tom Cruise it's pure poetry. As for his antics during the end ...
- Sounds of Ramadan - The National
Sounds of RamadanThe National, United Arab Emirates - 2 hours agoWithout prompting, Shakour launches into poetry. “If faith is lost … and the human accepts a world without faith, then he makes annihilation its twin,” he ...
- Get involved in improving a young person’s life - Pisgah Mountain News
Get involved in improving a young person’s lifePisgah Mountain News, NC - 3 hours agoA panel of judges has selected the finalists for the second annual Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Intergenerational Poetry, Essay and Photography Contest, ...
- Voters had a chance to ask questions directly - BBC Americas
The idea of the town hall meeting reaches far back into the American folk memory - to a time when a community solved its problems by gathering all its people together for an open debate. It is an inspiring idea - ordinary folks gathered in a common ...
- Hitchhiking Across China - Wall Street Journal
It was an insane idea, almost guaranteed to fail. In the summer of 1981, Vikram Seth decided he would hitchhike across China, Tibet and Nepal, ending his journey in his native country, India. Hitchhike in China? Mr. Seth, then a visiting student at ...
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