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- Breach House Gang presents reading series Tuesday - Miramichi Leader
Breach House Gang presents reading series TuesdayMiramichi Leader, Canada - 1 hour agoShe began writing poetry in 1997 and was published in the Canadian Poetry Association's third anthology, "Life, Love, Death and a Side Order of Poetry" in ...
- Holocaust Remembrance concert builds musical bridges over time - Seattle Times
A Holocaust Remembrance concert presented by Music of Remembrance at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle; $36 (206-365-7770 or www.musicofremembrance.org ). The concert is preceded by a meet-the ...
- Bay schools are buzzing with celebrations - Herald South Africa
BIRTHDAY fever is high, with several local schools celebrating Nelson Mandela‘s 90th birthday today. The Diaz Primary School in Algoa Park has invited residents of the Bethelsdorp, Zwide, Laubscher Park and Kabega Park old age homes, aged between ...
- 'The Willow Tree' offers cautions about what we see - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Iranian director Majid Majidi's sad, soulful film is his second to explore blindness and sight on multiple levels. His heartbreaking 1999 film, "The Color of Paradise," focused on the desperately lonely but strangely happy existence of a blind 8-year ...
- Is "Grand Theft Auto IV" the best in the series? - Cleveland Plain Dealer
AP The Grand Theft Auto video game series returns to the mean streets of Liberty City in "GTA IV." Does "Grand Theft Auto IV" live up to the hype? Is it as good as "San Andreas" or "Vice City"? Plain Dealer gaming expert Damon Sims answers with a ...
- Draw near, good people - New Statesman
guardian.co.ukDraw near, good peopleNew Statesman, UK - 9 hours agoHis next passage, "And we stage it very simply", is in prose and we are relieved, but soon the poetry leaks from the stage into the wings and beyond. ...Afterlife: The rhyme of a slow, spirit-sapping death Telegraph.co.ukall 9 news articles
- People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term 'Lesbian' - NWI.com
ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos _ home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women _ have ...
- How Scott Got Hot (Washington Post)
In an interview three years ago, when he was waging daily warfare against the White House press corps, Scott McClellan told me: "The media's trying to get under our skin and get us off-message."
- Chris Abani Wins Beyond Margins Award (UC Riverside)
UC Riverside professor is honored for his novel about a West African boy soldier.
- The Keats, Lung and TB Story teaches children about local history ... - London SE1
The Keats, Lung and TB Story teaches children about local history ...London SE1, UK - 13 hours agoRather than become a surgeon he turned to poetry, but contracted TB and died when just 26 years old. The cast learned that a vaccine to prevent TB, ...
- Tom Meschery, Bard of the Backboards - Sierra Sun
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series about Tom Meschery. Read next week’s Sierra Sun for the second installment. Wrapped in a handshake, the powerful clutch of Tom Meschery’s large right paw jibes with the NBA All-Star’s ...
- Distilling and Brewing Industry - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
They never got a chance to live their dream. They never even got a chance to eat in a restaurant. Or use the public toilet. Or drink at the same water fountain as a white man. Now here they are -- all these former Negro League baseball players ...
- First Proof and Atlas - The Daily Star
The Daily StarFirst Proof and AtlasThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 58 minutes agoPenguin India's third book of new writing from India showcases some impressive young fictional talent, namely Kishore Valicha, whose short story, ...
- southern arizona authors : Fun reads will entertain young and old (Arizona Daily Star)
They were young, newly wed and they loved to travel, so Boston-based Bob and Lisa Riel put their jobs aside and set out to see the world. After a couple of years back home, they found they were itching to go again. They moved to Arizona, where Lisa's family lived, then they took off for Southeast Asia.
- The Enduring Power Of An Old Form - Washington Post
John Adams likes to refer to traditional forms. "A Flowering Tree," for instance, his 2006 opera-oratorio, was his riff on Mozart 's "Magic Flute." Then there's "El Niño," the sprawling choral work that the Choral Arts Society is performing tomorrow ...
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