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- Books Unbound: Artfully Altering Books - Westport News
Over time, books wear out. The pages begin to fade and yellow, and the information enclosed in the text becomes out of date. The book becomes useless. Useless, that is, except when it comes to creating art. This summer, the Westport Public Library is ...
- Is YouTube truly the future? - Sydney Morning Herald
Is YouTube truly the future?Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 3 hours agoSo now we are entering a new kind of digital literacy, where everyone is a publisher and whole populations have the chance to contribute as well as consume. ...
- Today in History, Aug. 4, 2008 - Waterbury Republican American
Today in History, Aug. 4, 2008Waterbury Republican American, CT - 10 minutes agoThought for Today: “Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- José Garcia Villa’s poetry now part of Penguin Classics - Global Nation
PLAYING WITH SHADOW and spark, the book’s cover exemplifies the multifarious nature of its author, the poet José Garcia Villa. Tipped one way, the cover shows a young Villa’s profile; tipped another way, the words “dove,” “eagle” and ...
- 'No Safe College': Mother Shares Freshman College Experiences With ... - Forbes
CAMARILLO, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Peer pressure. Choices. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex. These are but a few of the dilemmas facing college freshmen today, and they provide the riveting fodder for "No Safe College" (published by AuthorHouse - http ...
- Meet a living relic of bohemian New Orleans (The Standard-Times)
Every morning in Slidell, La., a Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots.
- Parallel Lives - Weekly Standard
Born a little over 150 years apart, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) both had the experience, on the threshold of adulthood--he was 20, she 22--of fleeing the culture they'd grown up in and entering another. For both, it ...
- Eager fans brim with anticipation - Montreal Gazette
With just 15 minutes to showtime, some of Leonard Cohen's most devoted fans streamed toward Place des Arts last night, eager to welcome one of Montreal's biggest legends back to the stage after a 15-year absence. "I think he's an icon everywhere ...
- Ode-ly enough: Kapil 'poet' Sibal reveals soft side - IBN LIve
All the major actors in the political tragedy of J-K continue to play their part. New Delhi: A poetic ode to the trust vote is among 100 poems that have been compiled in the first book of poetry by Congressman Kapil Sibal. The Science And Technology ...
- 'The Border Kingdom' by D. Nurkse - Los Angeles Times
'The Border Kingdom' by D. NurkseLos Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours agoIN HIS ninth book of poetry, "The Border Kingdom" (Alfred A. Knopf: 98 pp., $26), D. Nurkse begins with a whisper: "Jericho," a short poem that promises, ...
- Fringe Must-Sees - Washington Post Blog
"Dorks on the Loose: It I Awkward" is just one possible winner at this year's Fringe Festival. (Delusions of Spandex) The Capital Fringe Festival kicked off yesterday, and I celebrated by hitting up "Dorks on the Loose: It I Awkward." I chose the ...
- It's all dimples and dazzle in the city of light - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldIt's all dimples and dazzle in the city of lightSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoX-Files cyber fans are all poetry-prone mutants with a penchant for slurping body fat, right? Ladies, keep one eye open in the cinema. ...
- Ty: 'Hip-hop has no culture' (Independent)
"I hate the word alternative," says Ty. "I hate the word off-key, I hate the word jazzy and I hate the word laid-back. I'm not a laid-back person." That's for certain. A frown adds a touch of finality to his mini-rant. Ty has never been a fan of anything that suggests his unconventional existence in British hip-hop should paint him with the "alt" prefix. "I'm probably more disobedient with ...
- Shakespeare gets groovy in Kingsmen's comedy "WALL•E" - Moorpark Acorn
Shakespeare gets groovy in Kingsmen's comedy "WALL•E"Moorpark Acorn, USA - Jul 3, 2008There's some clever business of Touchstone mocking Orlando's syrupy love poetry and "Ganymede" teaching Orlando how to pitch woo to a lady. ...
- Nam Le's long, literary journey - San Francisco Gate
In the opening story of "The Boat," a remarkable first collection by 29-year-old Nam Le, the main character shares a number of characteristics with the author. Both are writers named Nam, Vietnamese by birth and Australian by upbringing. Both have ...
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