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- Critic's Choice for the week of February 9-15, 2005 (East Bay Express)
Hard to believe it's been almost five years since Jill Scott launched a soul revival that both validated and transcended the term "neo-soul." Her 2000 debut Who Is Jill Scott?
- Summer diversions in the Twin Tiers - Star-Gazette
Bocce, or lawn bowling, became popular in the United States with the arrival of Italian immigrants. Get a taste of the game in Corning, in film and the real thing, this month. The documentary, "Watch the Pallino," will be shown June 21 at the Palace ...
- Alexie Gilmore To Have an Affair with Robin Williams - Cinematical
Alexie Gilmore To Have an Affair with Robin WilliamsCinematical, CA - Jul 16, 2008The best part: While the title sounds like super-sappy fare (besides the Goldthwaite participation), it's actually the story of a high school poetry teacher ...
- Collection by 'world's worst poet' William McGonagall sells for £6600 - Glasgow Daily Record
Collection by 'world's worst poet' William McGonagall sells for £6600Glasgow Daily Record, UK - May 17, 2008Dubbed the world's worst poet, his work is still prized more than 100 years after his death. Some of the 35 original broadsheet poems were signed and were ...
- Words sell - Lowell Sun
LOWELL -- Poetry in a pot. Poetry on towels. Poetry sandwiches. Words are selling like hotcakes at Onto Um, a house of creativity that's sprouted up in an unlikely place: the long-boarded-up Marston Building. Across from a workers' union and next to ...
- Something new brewing Downtown (5/08) - Commercial Dispatch
This afternoon I was in the same room with Bret Farve, Eudora Welty, Willie Morrison, Sela Ward, Jim Henson, Faith Hill, William Faulkner, Bo Diddley and a host of other Mississippians. Not only was I in good company, but I had a delicious iced ...
- In Memoriam: Thomas M. Disch - PopMatters
Los Angeles TimesIn Memoriam: Thomas M. DischPopMatters, IL - 1 hour agoIn his 1998 book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of (a companion piece to his 1996 excoriation of modern poetry (The Castle of Indolence), Disch created a ...Thomas M. Disch | 1940-2008 Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide Columbus Dispatchall 12 news articles
- Obama links McCain to unpopular Bush economic policies in campaign preview (Times & Transcript)
After challenging John McCain on foreign policy, Democrat Barack Obama fired off a new broadside Sunday as he linked the likely Republican nominee with President George W. Bush's unpopular economic policies as he tested general election strategies.
- Sat,28 Jun 2008 (Hindustan Times)
After the response to the screening of Everlasting Light , the documentary on Amitabh Bachchan, at MAMI last week, Jaya Bachchan is encouraged to find a wider platform to screen the film as well as work on a follow-up project.
- Springsteen wakes up Sunrise - Palm Beach Post
Style WeeklySpringsteen wakes up SunrisePalm Beach Post, United States - 1 hour ago(Nothing in a Springsteen concert quite approaches the level of quiet, despite the pensive poetry of much of his lyrics and music. ...Family of woman who died after being Tasered suing police MiamiHerald.comall 444 news articles
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin - Los Angeles Times
The Dead All Have the Same SkinLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoHe published poetry and numerous articles, many of these springing from, and reflecting, his pedigree as Pataphysician. He performed and recorded original ...
- Poet laureate of American hymns dies at 89 (West Salem Coulee News)
ST. LOUIS — It wasn’t until the Rev. Jaroslav Vajda was nearly 50 that he began to pursue the craft that would leave his name etched in history. Or at least the hymnal.
- Meet the Girls of Future Super Star 5 - Waleg.com
Meet the Girls of Future Super Star 5Waleg.com, Tunisia - 3 hours agoAsma is 18 years old and loves poetry. She also likes to paint and dance Flaminco! Her favorite singers are Um Kulthoum, Abdel Halim, Assala and Wael Kfouri ...
- Obituary: Christopher Hawtree (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: Italian-born writer with autobiographical bent
- Cubicle politics, life of JM Hopkins, Julius Caesar's rise - Houston Chronicle
Cubicle politics, life of JM Hopkins, Julius Caesar's riseHouston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour ago... like the rest of his poetry, it would take decades to be fully appreciated; as a poet, Hopkins was almost half a century ahead of his time. ...
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