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- NORM: Health put little damper on Carlin - Las Vegas Review Journal
Comedian Dennis Blair opened for George Carlin more than 3,000 times, including Carlin's finale four weeks ago today at The Orleans. About three years ago, Blair witnessed a scary moment. Carlin "couldn't catch his breath on stage." It was around ...
- Program Targets Young Entrepreneurs (R News)
Students today, entrepreneurs tomorrow – it's all part of the goal of a program at the University of Rochester. The Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) teaches middle and high school students how to set up and run their own business.
- Indian community leader to attend Urdu conference - Peninsula
doha • A prominent Indian community leader and businessman, Hassan A Chougule, is to represent Qatar in the World Urdu Conference to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. The World Urdu Conference is being organized by the Maulana Azad ...
- More Honors For Temple’s Holy Trinity - KWTX
More Honors For Temple’s Holy TrinityKWTX, TX - 18 hours agoShe was state champion in prose in 2007. Mr. Daheim, also an active member of the Forensics Team, won 100 awards in drama, speech, and debate in his ...
- Marcia Meier: At Least She's Writing... (HuffingtonPost)
Emily Gould landed on the cover of The New York Times Magazine over the weekend and created a firestorm of criticism and vitriol. Here's the good news: At least she's writing.
- Sheldon Firth, shared his love of outdoors (San Jose Mercury News)
Sheldon William Firth, an avid outdoorsman and mountaineer who shared his love of the trail by leading monthly hikes for more than two decades, died May 3 at Kaiser-Santa Clara hospital at the age of 75.
- Reading by the sea ... - Portsmouth Herald News
Reading by the sea ...Portsmouth Herald News, NH - 3 hours agoUsing stories, poetry and haiku, poet Michael Czarnecki shares experiences from his hitchhiking days beginning in 1971, when he traveled across the country ...
- From The Stacks A column about the Tyrone-Snyder Public Library - Tyrone Daily Herald
From The Stacks A column about the Tyrone-Snyder Public LibraryTyrone Daily Herald, USA - 3 hours agoFrom July 21 through July 25, the library will be hosting Express Yourself, a weeklong daily program introducing children ages 8-12 to the fine arts held in ...
- Bullwhip maestro helped Indiana get cracking for latest - Denver Post
Bullwhip maestro helped Indiana get cracking for latestDenver Post, CO - 2 hours agoHe often delivers his theories of whip science with professional poetry: "I want to slow the motion of the whip so the camera can catch the action and the ...
- 'Bird' takes flight - Washington Blade
'Bird' takes flightWashington Blade, DC - 14 minutes ago... be known as a culture that feared death/ and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity,” rings true, but comes off more like prose than poetry. ...
- Webster's kindergarteners show off their writing talent - Hudson Reporter
Webster's kindergarteners show off their writing talentHudson Reporter, NJ - 27 minutes agoMs. Banta's class of 20 kindergartens read or recited poems from a classroom book of poetry the kids put together, as part of an end of the year project. ...
- Charity event after young poet's death will help others - Hudson Reporter
Charity event after young poet's death will help othersHudson Reporter, NJ - 34 minutes ago"It was all the poetry that he had been writing." Amazed by the profound depth of their son's writing, which they were not very familiar with at the time, ...
- Brecht Without Marx: A review of “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” - The Indypendent
Brecht Without Marx: A review of “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”The Indypendent, NY - 1 hour agoBrecht was a great communist poet and playwright. If this production has diluted his communism, the great poetry and drama are still there.
- David Biespiel's poetry column addresses variations in Philip Whalen's 'Zenshinji' (The Oregonian)
L ast month I was visiting a cousin who showed off his framed broadside of the poem "Zenshinji" by his late friend, poet Philip Whalen. Whalen was born in 1923 in Oregon and grew up in The Dalles (he and my cousin attended Reed College during the Gary Snyder and Lew Welch era of the late 1940s).
- This is not the truth - California Aggie
I have a tendency to hyper-imagine crazy scenarios and possibilities after seeing something that qualifies as even remotely strange. Perhaps this is where my storytelling ability comes from - I don't know. In any event, I decided I would share the ...
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