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- Former Essex Junction student returns bearing gifts (The Burlington Free Press)
A former Thomas Fleming School student plans to return to the Essex school with 1,000 books in honor of a long-time teacher.
- 'She's as good as it gets' - Roanoke Times
In her 20 years as a Roanoke Times writer Donna Alvis-Banks has never feared writing a corny story or flatfooting at an office party or even calling into question her high school principal-turned-Christiansburg-mayor when she caught town officials ...
- Man looks to take learning-through-music nationwide (USA Today)
The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion for making school fun.
- The Hakawati, by Rabih Alameddine (Independent)
Despite Naguib Mahfouz's Nobel Prize, there has been much discussion as to whether the novel is an appropriate form of Arab expression. While love and adventure abound in Middle Eastern storytelling and poetry, few portrayals of hothouse family life exist. The tour de force of Rabih Alameddine's novel The Hakawati ("storyteller" in Arabic) is that it moves effortlessly between the classic ...
- Cowboy Reunion starts Tuesday (Abilene Reporter-News)
Have you and your family grown accustomed to a laid-back Fourth of July? Does the idea of the neighborhood picnic have you experiencing deja-vu all over again?
- Sunflower musicians play Mozart arias tonight - Topeka Capitol-Journal
Opera without singing will be part of tonight's final chamber ensemble concert at the Sunflower Music Festival. The penultimate performance of the 22nd annual chamber music festival includes a woodwind octet playing various arias from Wolfgang ...
- DEL MAR: Fair chefs take a stab at an old favorite - North County Times
DEL MAR: Fair chefs take a stab at an old favoriteNorth County Times, CA - 1 hour ago(Photo by John Koster - For The North County TImes) DEL MAR ---- Spam, and not the e-mail kind, has inspired songs, poetry contests and even a hit musical ...
- What the public wants - Haaretz.com
The disengagement from Gush Katif is seared into the evacuated settlers' collective memory as a deportation, and as such - as blatantly immoral. Many of the evacuees still feel they had been attacked, like the Altalena's passengers. That their ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (Lexington Herald-Leader)
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't say that you're the greatest?'" The latter conclusion would be more logical. But it hasn't always been shared by the masses. ...
- Entertainment Calendar - Carroll County Online
Baldwin's Station: David Grier, today, $15; Gary Ferguson, Emory Lester and Gail Wade, April 10, $15; 6:30 p.m. seating and dining for each show; 7618 Main St., Sykesville; 410-795-1041. Belisimo's: Chasmo and Cassandra with special guest Chad ...
- Threat of losing children fuelled Cowichan Valley murder, court told - Nanaimo Daily News
Threat of losing children fuelled Cowichan Valley murder, court toldNanaimo Daily News, Canada - 25 minutes agoThe wife was also bent on meeting with other young people to do things like discuss poetry. The wife, European by extraction like her husband, ...
- Nakba Commemoration - 15 May, 2008 - Infopal
Nakba Commemoration - 15 May, 2008Infopal, Italy - 2 hours agoPoetry recital and film screening in Caracas, Venezuela: from 6 pm Venezuelan poets give homage to the Palestinian struggle, at 8 pm screening of the ...
- University of Arkansas Press Publishes Anthology of Arab American ... - University of Arkansas Daily Headlines
University of Arkansas Press Publishes Anthology of Arab American ...University of Arkansas Daily Headlines, AR - 30 minutes agoCharara has written a lengthy introduction about the state of Arab American poetry in the country today and short biographies of all the poets. ...
- On Poetry: Non-Hallmark words for father (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
It's tempting to feel obligated to think Hallmark thoughts on Mother's Day and Father's Day, both of them seemingly designed to sell greeting cards. But lives seldom fit greeting cards.
- Scuba accident victim's coma now considered irreversible (Cyber Diver News Network)
GINNIE SPRINGS, Florida (1 July 2008) — The coma that enveloped Shannon Leigh Lewis, one of Austin's most honored spoken-word poets, turned irreversible Monday. She had entered the coma after a June 14 cave diving accident near Ginnie Springs, Florida.
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