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- Bar listings: Sept. 4, 2008 (The Union)
Daju Bhai Nepalese Restaurant, Grass Valley - 272-6229
- Dance Theater to step up big (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Two of America's top modern dance companies come to Cincinnati for the first time, leading off Contemporary Dance Theater's 2008-09 season.
- Juneteenth to be celebrated Saturday (The Yuma Sun)
Juneteenth is a celebration of the ending of slavery in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was official Jan. 1, 1863, but the news did not reach Texas until June 1865.
- National HIV Testing Day held - Mid-Hudson News
Mid-Hudson NewsNational HIV Testing Day heldMid-Hudson News, NY - 3 hours ago... music, food, and poetry readings. Center HIV-AIDS Services Director Carolyn Saldana said AIDS is no longer an automatic death sentence. ...
- France's education chief to the French: Learn English! - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco ChronicleFrance's education chief to the French: Learn English!San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 3 hours agoto the tortured poetry of Japan's "Japlish" has become the lingua franca of the world's commerce and communications, and of just about every other field. ...
- Belt tightening means record library numbers - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Belt tightening means record library numbersThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 22 minutes ago... films, poetry readings, musical recordings, classes and cultural performances - and all of these are free and open to anyone who walks through the ...
- What is there to do at 93? Well, why not publish a book? - Recorder Community Newspapers
MORRISTOWN – For most people, just making it to the age of 93, is an accomplishment in itself. So what in the world is one to make of a retired attorney of that age who decided he wasn’t about to just putter around the house but instead plunge ...
- Songwriting gurus share their secrets (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
The ideas and inspiration for putting words into music takes many paths for many people. Many songwriters aim to land a hit through the way other people interpret their lyrics. Others meld their feelings with a melody for sheer self-fulfillment and hope what hits their heart taps a beat into others’. Songwriters here at home and across the nation shared their insights into the craft. Poetry ...
- Today's Herald - Calgary Herald
What fringe festivals lack in terms of production values, they make up for in other ways, such as words. Words which pour forth in torrents, streaming out of the mouths of fringe performers at a sometimes astonishing rate -- long, short, simple ...
- David Biespiel muses on two paths to creating a poem - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
David Biespiel muses on two paths to creating a poemThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Aug 9, 2008You write: "Hercules was fat and roan-dark as a cloud . . . " In Emily Warn's new sequence of poems, "Shadow Architect," she starts not just with language ...
- Ruth Kennedy Anderson, 100 - Bemidji Pioneer
Ruth Kennedy Anderson, 100Bemidji Pioneer, MN - 2 hours agoShe enjoyed writing poetry and had some published. She is survived by her son, Len (Darlene) Anderson of Nisswa, Minn.; daughters, Beverly (Jack) Altonen of ...
- Special to The Oregonian (The Oregonian)
P oet and teacher Paulann Petersen is, she says, "an Oregonian, through and through." Born and raised in Portland, she moved to Klamath Falls after graduating from Franklin High School. She received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University in 1986, and in 1991, she returned to Portland.
- Poem Prescription (Hopkinton Crier)
For 30 years Helene Royce Tolland (also known as Mrs. R. T.) has been a mover and a shaker...not in the traditional sense ... but rather as a second grade teacher who literally has succeeded in getting students to move, shake and feel, and whatever else needed to truly learn in her classroom.
- Sharp Teeth, By Toby Barlow - The Independent
A novel in verse – about werewolves. Hmm. It's a great elevator pitch, but would anyone actually want to read it? Well, they ought to. The verse is free verse of the loosest kind, often recognisable as verse only by the typography, but the ...
- 5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day - PR.com (press release)
5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage DayPR.com (press release), NY - 11 hours agoAlthough the creators of folk Spirituals are unknown, scholars suspect they were folk poets, Black preachers, and slave communities. ...
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