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- AP Top News at 10:41 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is ...
- Religion is poetry (Salon.com)
The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
- Insurers given help to hike car rates - Buffalo News
State lawmakers hastily passed legislation that would restore auto insurers’ ability to raise or lower rates, by an average of up to 5 percent, without seeking prior permission from regulators. The bill, which has not been signed by the governor ...
- Exhibition by Mitra Tabrizian in London: This is that Place (Payvand Iran News)
In June 2008, Tate Britain will open the first major exhibition in the UK of the work of the Iranian-British photographer and film director, Mitra Tabrizian. Born in Tehran, Tabrizian's primary concerns are contemporary issues and debates and her interests range from post-feminism and post-colonial theories and the effects of late capitalism in Britain, to the shifting realities of life in ...
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, July 24th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Thursday, July 24thOpEdNews, PA - 27 minutes agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- MY FAIR LADY Heading To ... - Broadway World
The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry.
- Fantasy novel turns dreams into reality (Leader-Telegram)
Inspiration struck Cayla Kluver while helming the joystick of a Nintendo 64. "I was playing a video game, and I got sick of the video game's plot," Cayla said. "So I decided to write my own."
- EATING CONTEST (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
'Gurgitators' race Some call it gross. Some call it down-right ridiculous.
- Everyone has something to say - Austin Herald
Everyone has something to sayAustin Herald, MN - 1 hour agoI think my interest in poetry surfaced in sixth-grade in Miss Frost’s class when she asked that we illustrate a poem that included lines from the poet. ...
- 'Colours in the Dark' still inspires - Guelph Mercury
Guelph Mercury'Colours in the Dark' still inspiresGuelph Mercury, Canada - 4 hours agoTold through dialogue, poetry, playground chants and song, it is by turns, playful and deeply moving. It traces the stories of the continent after the last ...
- Gestures of freedom - Financial Times
“Illustrious and unknown: this was what Degas aspired to be, and what Cy Twombly has become.” That’s how curator Kirk Varnedoe introduced Twombly to an ambivalent American audience at his retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in ...
- Big secrets - Age
Smooth operator ... Chris Noth has made a career out of playing alpha males. Chris Noth is not a morning man. he missed his first round-table at the press junket today. Yesterday was worse: according to one anxious publicist, he sat through a series ...
- St Alban’s in the full flower of life - This is Hampshire
IT grew up with Southampton's Flower Estate and now the 75th anniversary bells are ringing out loud and clear from St Alban's Church. Back in 1933 the church was built to serve a new parish with giant housing estates north and south of Burgess Road ...
- Pitchfork: Overlooked Records 2008 (Pitchfork)
While we recuperate from our festival weekend, we present our annual look at some of the more underappreciated records from the first half of the year. read more
- Wordsinhere: Take five (and six - Expatica Netherlands
Expatica NetherlandsWordsinhere: Take five (and sixExpatica Netherlands, Netherlands - 19 minutes agoEditor Natasha Gunn rekindles a love of poetry and prose at the launch of wordsinhere's fifth volume of the international literary journal Versal, ...
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