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- WRAPUP 1-Olympics-Athletics-Stunning Bolt doubles up on records (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News)
Usain Bolt produced another barely believable performance of dominant sprinting to break Michael Johnson's untouchable world record on Wednesday and add 200 metres gold to the 100 he won in record time four days ago.
- Still sprightly, M.F. Husain celebrates 93rd birthday (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS)) When he was in college, he was Fida. And friends swooned over him.
- The sixth annual Altered Barbie art show - San Francisco Gate
Barbie is the ultimate cougar. She's single, frolics with younger men and, at 49 years old, doesn't look a day over 17. That is, until she's altered. "She's sexy. But the concept of altering Barbie, of turning her into a piece of art, brings it into ...
- Author Spotlight: Lawrence Berger of Henrietta - Democrat and Chronicle
Lawrence (Larry) R. Berger : I live in Henrietta and work for the University of Rochester Medical Center's Strong Ties program. Most recent work : Dragon's Dance, Vol. 1 (self-produced, $10), a spoken-word CD of me reading my poetry. Backlist ...
- Bristol summer gallery opens doors to artists, art lovers - Addison County Independent
Addison County IndependentBristol summer gallery opens doors to artists, art loversAddison County Independent, VT - 2 hours agoAn artist in many mediums, the Bristol native also holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in poetry, and her work “Merging: Ink and Word” is available at the ...
- "Acedia and Me": fighting soul-stifling malaise with great care - Seattle Times
"Acedia and Me": fighting soul-stifling malaise with great careSeattle Times, United States - 3 hours agoShe describes her own differentiation between depression and acedia, and tells of various shields she's picked up against the latter: meditation, writing, ...
- Longtime S.B. Poet Cynthia Anderson Moves On - Santa Barbara Independent
After 26 years in Santa Barbara, poet and editor Cynthia Anderson and her new husband and artistic collaborator Bill Dahl (they tied the knot August 4) are following their dream to a new home and inspiration in the high desert near Joshua Tree ...
- Prague: Then and Now - OhmyNews International
Prague: Then and NowOhmyNews International, South Korea - 24 minutes agoCzech theater productions, poetry and cinema flourished until the Soviet tanks rolled in. Afterward, a new dirty-sounding word became part of the official ...
- Simi Valley Days off to a fun start - Ventura County Star
Simi Valley Days off to a fun startVentura County Star, CA - 1 hour agoAt top, Michelle Seneca, left, 12, and friend Tatianna Rawlings, 13, enjoy the Gee Whiz ride. At left, Lois Huerth, front right, and her husband, Ron, ...
- Hobo Ball - Blueridgenow.com
In 1898, at age 20, Charlie (Carl) Sandburg set out on the road, rail and river for the West. For four months, he traveled as a hobo, sneaking rides in empty railroad cars and working odd jobs for money and food. The Friends of Carl Sandburg at ...
- ebrary Signs 14 New Publishing Partners - PR Inside
www.ebrary.com - ebrary(R) (www.ebrary.com), a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that it is greatly enhancing its growing selection of more than 170,000 titles with e-books and other authoritative materials from ...
- 'Cyrano de Bergerac' a masterpiece on par with Shakespeare - Columbus Dispatch
If any classic play offers an artful fusion of romance, comedy, poetry and tragedy comparable to Shakespeare's best, it's Cyrano de Bergerac. Actors' Theatre's ravishing 27th-season finale, which opened last night in Schiller Park, easily ranks as ...
- Movie Review—Death Note - Firefox News
Movie Review—Death NoteFirefox News, AZ - 8 hours agoBy Peter Gutiérrez Over the past fifteen years, Peter's work in horror and other genres, in the form of short fiction, poetry, criticism, and comics, ...
- Touting the joys of poetry (Miami Herald)
THE POETRY LIFE: Ten Stories. Baron Wormser. CavanKerry. 196 pages. $18. ''Poetry,'' Auden famously observed in his elegy for Yeats, ''makes nothing happen.'' What isn't often remembered are the words immediately following that trenchant comment: ''it survives. . . . '' It survives even in a digitized age, offering what Frost called a ``momentary stay against confusion.''
- Race In America - The Bulletin
Most Americans are familiar with the era following the Civil War known as Reconstruction. History teachers mention that during this time the "Black Codes" were enacted, the Ku Klux Klan was formed and rampantly terrorized blacks, and America broke ...
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