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- In Bruges (Seattle Weekly)
Black, fluffy, and gloriously unilateral, Colin Farrell's eyebrows aren't the prettiest features of In Bruges . That honor falls to the Belgian city itself, known for its scenic medieval turrets, bourgeois tedium, and unfavorable comparisons with Amsterdam.
- Robert Redford, Slammin' - NPR News
Robert Redford on Capitol Hill in April. Source: Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images Going green is all the rage now. Interior designers, car companies... Even McDonald's is doing the green thing. I have family members working for Greenpeace now. Green, my ...
- Ryan Adams, the Book - Gawker
The musician/experimental blogger is already publishing a book of poetry, and today's Page Six says he's "signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books." Is it the same poetry book they're referring to—or a separate one? (Our e-mail to Adams ...
- Live alone and like it (Poughkeepsie Journal)
"The chances are that at some time in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence," wrote Vogue scribe Marjorie Hillis in the 1936 book "Live Alone and Like It."
- That Which "Bugs" a Bush Nazi - Boston IMC
Could it be something I wrote? Bob Packer's Gonna "Fix Your Face"!....if you mess with this Gad damn article! He's gonna make your mother wish she never had you! 7/1 Was Hitler the King of the South? Hitler has a pill for what ails you! Hitlerites ...
- Ohio teacher accused of burning crosses on to students - Canton Repository
MOUNT VERNON A public school teacher accused of burning crosses on students' arms also had "healing sessions" during the school day, one of his accusers' attorneys said. Mount Vernon City School District said Tuesday it hired an independent ...
- Q&A with Valerie Rebellato - Greenville News
Q&A with Valerie RebellatoGreenville News, SC - 8 hours agoI taught myself poetry and painting. Maybe modeling. But in my heart I knew it was the cooking." A: Pasta. "But it's one of the things we're supposed to ...
- Iqbal the enchanter - Saudi Gazette
GHAZAL singing, the most popular and versatile poetic-musical art form in the Indian subcontinent, has traveled to the different parts of the world with Indian diaspora. Last week, Khalid Iqbal, an Indian ghazal singer, presented a unique and ...
- The Big Question: Why is Stalin still popular in Russia, despite ... - Independent
The Big Question: Why is Stalin still popular in Russia, despite ...Independent, UK - 6 hours agoEvery Russian schoolchild can recite at least a few verses of his poetry, and as the popular Russian saying goes: "Pushkin is our everything."
- In China quake, apotheosis of 'Grandpa Wen' - International Herald Tribune
Despite Wen's well-tended image as an apolitical pragmatist, cynics note that he did not earn his lofty post by playing nice. "It takes a considerable amount of political skill and cunning to become premier of China," said Fred Teiwes, a professor of ...
- For parents, the cruelest month (Cape Cod Times)
End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty.
- Hay's prose inspires Earth Day readers - Cape Codder
Hay's prose inspires Earth Day readersCape Codder, MA - 1 hour agoHay married Kristi Putnam on Valentine’s Day 1942 and published his first book of poetry, “A Private History,” in 1943. Many natural history books followed: ...
- The Last Fish Tale - Financial Times
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Our Disappearing Fisheries By Mark Kurlansky Jonathan Cape £16.99, 268 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 On the coast of northern Massachusetts there is a promontory called Gloucester, first settled ...
- From Verse to Controversy -- And Fleeting Fame - Wall Street Journal
William Cullen Bryant: Author of America By Gilbert H. Muller (State University of New York Press, 410 pages, $30) When poet and newspaperman William Cullen Bryant died in June 1878, the mayor of New York ordered the city's flags lowered to half mast ...
- Modern day Samurais - Sofia Echo
Modern day SamuraisSofia Echo, Bulgaria - 13 minutes agoThey looked like a cross between the grim reaper and an American footballer. They engaged in tactics taken straight from Star Wars. ...
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