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- Kansas City is hopping this weekend - Kansas City Star
• Jamie Kennedy , 7:30 p.m. Thursday ($15), 7:30 and 9:45 Friday and Saturday ($17), 7 p.m. Sunday ($15). Majestic Theatres & Improv Comedy Club at Zona Rosa. 816-587-4500, www.improvkc.com • Scottish Highland Games at the E.H. Young Riverfront ...
- Coldplay takes creative risks and ponders heavy topics on ambitious ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Does heaven even have a waiting room? If so, the Muzak up there probably sounds like the first track on Coldplay 's hotly anticipated fourth album. "Life in Technicolor" is a trance-flavored instrumental (well, mostly -- not counting those "whoa-oh ...
- "Honus and Me" Rating: ** (Denver Post)
For more than a century, nothing but nothing has brought out the shameless sentiment in writers like baseball. Most have missed.
- FREAK Shots: Outs de Temp - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsFREAK Shots: Outs de TempNew York Times Blogs, NY - 49 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- BBC website signals greater interactivity - Guardian Unlimited
The BBC is developing an extensive personalisation and recommendation system on bbc.co.uk this year as part of a wider plan to improve interactivity and engagement on the website. In the annual bbc.co.uk programme policy statement published today ...
- Hookah bar slated to open in August in Northampton - The Republican - MassLive.com
Hookah bar slated to open in August in NorthamptonThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 3 hours agoCalled shisha, the tobacco comes in a variety of flavors including coffee, strawberry, watermelon and kiwi, according to information from the American Lung ...
- Gordon Parks counted poetry among talents (Lawrence Journal-World)
Editor’s note: In her Ad Astra Poetry Project, Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low highlights historic and contemporary poets who resided in Kansas for a substantial part of their lives. Eventually, she will collect the biweekly broadsides into a book, to be published by the Center for Kansas Studies at Washburn University, in cooperation with Thomas Fox Averill.
- SFU's Blaser wins $50,000 poetry prize - Vancouver Sun
TORONTO - Robin Blaser, the 83-year-old B.C. poet and professor emeritus from Simon Fraser University, was named the Canadian winner of the $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prize last night at a gala event in Toronto. The international prize went to New York's ...
- Griffin rewards elder statesmen (Toronto Star)
It was a night for honouring octogenarian legends at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards. Jointly, John Ashbery and Robin Blaser have spent more than a century publishing poetry.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, voice of the gulag - Daily Telegraph
In his lecture of acceptance of the Nobel prize for Literature in 1970, Solzhenitsyn quoted a Russian proverb: "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." Those words succinctly encapsulated his literary creed. In a country where autocratic ...
- Community briefs 6/19 - Daily News Tribune
Community briefs 6/19Daily News Tribune, MA - 3 hours ago... her poetry and the voices of Dickinson and her circle. Sponsored by the Friends of the Waltham Public Library, the event is free but seating is limited. ...
- Jenny Lewis Offers Her Acid Tongue This Fall - Stereogum
StereogumJenny Lewis Offers Her Acid Tongue This FallStereogum, NY - 3 hours ago(By the way, here's a lesson I learned this weekend -- if you're moving, play Feed The Animals on a loop; chances are your movers will love you. ...
- WHITE-WALKER: Real men read poetry - Lockport Union-Sun
Just because one has written professionally for over 40 years, people get the silly notion that I know something about writing. Imagine, as if 40 plus years is near enough time to perfect one’s craft. What do they think; it’s all about instant ...
- Scarlett Johansson, Maya Angelou, Kelsey Grammer - International Herald Tribune
The television producer Norman Lear and the author Maya Angelou will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity. They are to accept their honors, each with an accompanying $100,000 ...
- A tragedy is unfolding, but not at Westminster - Telegraph.co.uk
A tragedy is unfolding, but not at WestminsterTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoNever a fan of pulp fiction, he has been reading The Brothers, a study of Robert Kennedy's anguish, and the First World War poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and ...
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