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- Critic's choice - Can’t Read, Can’t Write (Channel 4) - Daily Telegraph
Last week’s opening programme proved hugely affecting as campaigning teacher Phil Beadle took on a class of illiterate adults and in the space of a few short sessions reversed the effects of decades of educational neglect and rock-bottom self ...
- Thabo Mbeki's downfall (Independent Online)
President Thabo Mbeki is far from the epithets the country's leader once enjoyed as the crown prince who became the philosopher king and was hailed as Mr Delivery.
- Celebrating a heritage of the arts - St. George Daily Spectrum
Celebrating a heritage of the artsSt. George Daily Spectrum, UT - 7 hours agoFor example if you're looking for something to do on Oct. 3 you can take in a piano recital, a poetry and fiction reading, a "Dancing at Lughnasa" ...
- Shirley Patterson - Lake Country Sun
Shirley PattersonLake Country Sun, TX - 47 minutes agoShe was a member of the American Sewing Guild and the Red River Quilt Guild. She was an author of magazine articles and poetry and a newspaper columnist. ...
- Tuesday | Urban Theater Festival - Miami Herald
The Urban Theatre & Entertainment Festival kicks off Tuesday with an awards dinner hosted by singer-actress Melba Moore and actress JoMarie Payton. The four-day festival includes theatrical performances, workshops, dance competition and poetry ...
- What's hot, what's not - Post-Star
I'm usually not a huge fan of tattoos. What could I possibly want etched permanently into my body that I won't grow blase about and regret some years down the road? A lover's name? That'll pretty much guarantee a break-up. One of those bad-ass tribal ...
- Uneven beat - Deccan Herald
This is a smartly produced bilingual edition, enabling readers to readily compare the translation with the original, though the blowups of the author on both the front and back covers could have been avoided. Better known as a film-maker and lyricist ...
- If it’s banned, read it out loud - McAlester News-Capital & Democrat
As part of the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week, the McAlester Public Library will host two “Open Mic Night” events and a movie screening. The first will be for teens and young adults grade six and older. It will be from ...
- Yeh hai Hinglishtan meri jaan! (Hindustan Times)
Slang, said the American poet Carl Sandburg, is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. The British writer GK Chesterton agreed. He said, "All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry." Thomas Hardy was not convinced.
- Is a fetus a person? Anti-abortion groups split - Rocky Mountain News Blogs
Some people who oppose abortion rights aren't on board with Colorado's proposed "Personhood" amendment, which define a fertilized egg as a person. David Montero reports: While those who predictably support abortion rights line up against the measure ...
- Lincoln's Home Away From The White House - NPR News
The atrium of the Lincoln Cottage visitor education center features a mural of the 16th president. Weekend Edition Sunday , August 31, 2008 · For nearly a quarter of his presidency, Abraham Lincoln lived not in the White House, but rather three ...
- Steely Dan to do it again at WFC - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Steely Dan to do it again at WFCSanta Rosa Press Democrat, CA - 8 hours agoThey write "cryptic poetry that Dylan might have conjured had he pored over (author William S.) Burroughs instead of (Woody) Guthrie," says Slate's Fred ...
- Smith: 'Kids say the darndest things' - Vail Daily News
Smith: 'Kids say the darndest things'Vail Daily News, CO - 10 minutes agoNow, let’s settle in and deconstruct that bit of dark, dark Southern poetry. “I’m going to rip your arm off ...” Not “I’m going to twist your arm” or “I’m ...
- Autumn Equinox Poetry Festival - San Francisco Chronicle
Autumn Equinox Poetry FestivalSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago6 pm Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, the Embarcadero at Market St., SF (415) 835-1020. Read from their works. 4:30 pm The Poetry Center, Humanities Bldg. ...
- Art shock troops mock Russian establishment - MSN UK News
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before entering the secret headquarters of his underground art collective on the outskirts of Moscow. "This is to prevent the cops from ...
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