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- Kansas City is hopping this weekend (The Kansas City Star)
There’s jazz, blues, rhythm and ribs at 18th and Vine, Scottish Highland Games, dragon boats roaring down Brush Creek, fabric acrobatics, and a fashion show in the Crossroads Art District are among the highlights of the many things to do this weekend in Kansas City.
- Queen Victoria had an affair with Indian courtier: Film - Rediff
Contrary to her sombre public image, in private Britain's Queen Victoria was a passionate, romantic and a feisty politician who even had an affair with an young and handsome Indian servant, according to a new film. Apart from the Indian courtier ...
- Underground Report: K'naan and J. Rawls & Middle Child - HipHopDX
Underground Report: K'naan and J. Rawls & Middle ChildHipHopDX, CA - 1 hour agoIf rap is a form of modern-day poetry and rappers are the servants of the craft then K’naan is crowned King. Pounding irreplaceable beats on the drum ...
- First Night: Grace Jones, Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall fivestar (Independent)
"Pleased to meet you, your meat is sweet to me... you're my life support,you’re my life sport," booms Grace Jones’s 10ft-tall face from a white screen. Her face melts and stretches like the liquid metal cyborg from Terminator 2, as thumping tribal bass backs her android poetry.
- Ecuador: Interest in Literature Continues - Global Voices Online
Global Voices OnlineEcuador: Interest in Literature ContinuesGlobal Voices Online, MA - 1 hour agoThis poet knows “that life is serious” and that poetry can be an instrument more laudable for achieving, without any rigorous language, poetry. ...
- Review: Exiles, by Ron Hansen (The Tennessean)
Hansen's unusual work of fiction astutely blends two real-life narratives: the story of a reluctant poet and the aftermath of a shipwreck in the Thames River estuary in 1875.
- Ted Hughes - guardian.co.uk
Ted Hughesguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago... runaway success (Birthday Letters was said to be the fastest-selling book of poetry ever, though this probably had a lot to do with the Plath myth). ...Sylvia Plath guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- This Edna was quite a dame: The Millay Sisters cabaret at Ancram Opera ... - Independent News Online
'BOHEMIAN SEX GODDESS,' that's one way to describe Edna St. Vincent Millay, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She was also a celebrity who eclipsed the lives of her two sisters. The public flocked to her readings as if they were ...
- INDIRECTLY SPEAKING / Playing 'culture card' to win points - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
It's not hard to find exhortations to "teach culture" as a component of language teaching curricula these days. Pronouncements such as, "Culture and language are inseparable," and, "You cannot fully understand the language without understanding the ...
- Robert Frost Vandals Get Taken to School (ABC News)
Partiers who trashed Robert Frost's home learn poetry as punishment.
- Behind the curtain of history - Daily Telegraph
It's strangely disturbing to be reading a novel about the African freedom fighters of the 1960s and 1970s, set partly in Angola, Zaire and the former Belgian Congo, while the news headlines are dominated by the bloody events taking place in Zimbabwe ...
- Legendary sportswriter Campbell puts down his pen - Waco Tribune-Herald
When Dave Campbell walked away from the Tribune-Herald 15 years ago, retiring after an incredible 40-year run as sports editor, he planned to relax, tend to his garden and maybe take a few more road trips with his wife. That “retirement” lasted ...
- Local students graduate from Lawrence Academy (Sentinel & Enterprise)
GROTON -- Lawrence Academy celebrated its 215th commencement exercises on May 30, graduating four area students in its Class of 2008.
- War e-mails offer immediacy, but sacrifice eloquence - Tampabay.com
Tampabay.comWar e-mails offer immediacy, but sacrifice eloquenceTampabay.com, FL - 51 minutes ago"There is a misperception that every war letter is a piece of poetry," Carroll said. "In the Civil War, they wrote quick, hasty letters almost like e-mail ...
- Arty facts (Otago Daily Times)
A look at what's happening in the world of art. The Forrester Gallery in Oamaru has been busy with several exhibitions and installations over the past month.
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