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- He stood up to Wilt - Hampton Roads Daily Press
Even though Butch van Breda Kolff was an original, this basketball savant never marched to the beat of his own drummer. No, man. Just one drum? Boring, brother, boring. ''VBK'' boogied through life to the sweet, sweet sounds of a full orchestra. Some ...
- Chinese school of rock? Somebody tell Jack Black - Toronto Sun
Chinese school of rock? Somebody tell Jack BlackToronto Sun, Canada - 9 minutes agoChinese black metal takes those basics and adds bits of history and poetry to make the music belong to the people. In every country, metal has been bent and ...
- Contemporary Ceramic Art from Sweden on View at The Design Museum ... - Art Daily
Art DailyContemporary Ceramic Art from Sweden on View at The Design Museum ...Art Daily - 3 hours agoIt wants to be sculpture, poetry, happening, installations, communication, revolution. And there is basically nothing that can restrain these urges. ...
- Religion notes - River Forest Leaves
Religion notesRiver Forest Leaves, IL - 30 minutes agoThe New Jersey Rainbow Poets are sponsoring a religious poetry contest with a $1000 grand prize. There are 50 prizes in all totaling almost $5000. ...
- Frat housemother at SMU loves serving Pi - QuickDFW.com
The bass of a neighbor's stereo thumped against the thin walls of Lila McCurtain's apartment. Deep voices shouted profanities outside her window. A car alarm went off. CHERYL DIAZ MEYER/DMN Lila McCurtain, 76, is one of only four fraternity moms left ...
- 48 poets will be selected for Million's Poet contest (Khaleej Times)
ABU DHABI — From thousands of applicants, 48 poets will be selected for the final competition of the Million's Poet.
- Remembering legendary poet Habba Khatoon - Khaleej Times
Remembering legendary poet Habba KhatoonKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 4 hours ago... age could not recover from the rebuff she received at the very threshold of her marital life. Her despondency flowed out in the form of poetry. ...
- Thomas Dolby - PopMatters
PopMattersThomas DolbyPopMatters, IL - 24 minutes agoHer chord sequences, poetry, unusual guitar tunings, and lush piano ballads are absolutely original, brave, and transcendent. Probably her zenith was this ...
- Book Of A Lifetime: The Adoption Papers, Jackie Kay - Independent
Book Of A Lifetime: The Adoption Papers, Jackie KayIndependent, UK - 24 minutes agoShe spoke Scottish vernacular, Standard English, lyrical poetry. She spoke not only to people like me, young Black British writers who'd been adopted or ...
- King, Mitchell, Simon: A musical journey (International Herald Tribune)
In "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation," Sheila Weller weaves the biographies of the singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, and reveals the three as heavily indebted to traditional pop and its quasi-religious faith in romantic love.
- Funky hybrid Monkey (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
And other Spoleto sights... By Perry Tannenbaum.On Memorial Day, the last day that Freedom Schooner Amistad was moored in Charleston, I strolled onto the Maritime Center boardwalk just after 4pm, camera at the ready. So less than an hour remained before tours of the historic replica were scheduled to end -- and our next Spoleto Festival USA jazz concert was scheduled to begin. There was no sign ...
- Centuries-old Shakespeare volume recovered - Independent Online
London - It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of pounds after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C. and asked to have it ...
- Protection: it's not open and shut - The Age
Protection: it's not open and shutThe Age, Australia - 1 hour agoOf publishers and imports, prizes, premiers and prime ministers — not to mention human rights and a bath full of poems. Jason Steger on what's going on in ...
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- Gulzar's new anthology of poems steeped in nostalgia (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) 'Pancham, you remember those monsoon days, when in the valley below the mountains, rail tracks made their way emerging out of the mist..' Poet, lyricist and filmmaker Gulzar's ode to musician R.D. Burman, popularly called Pancham, in his new collection of poems whips up myriad emotions with its vivid imagery and simple word play.
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