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- Melbourne to be world 'City of Literature' (The Age)
The timing could hardly have been better had it appeared in the final chapters of a best-selling thriller. Three days before the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival, UNESCO has named Melbourne as its second City of Literature. Edinburgh became the first in 2004.
- Islamic outreach: CU's Muslim Student Association celebrates ... - Colorado Daily
Islamic outreach: CU's Muslim Student Association celebrates ...Colorado Daily, CO - 5 hours agoMansouri says the event will feature educational booths, food samples from around the world, henna artists, poetry readings and even calligraphers who will ...
- Trivia contest highlights city knowledge (Portage Daily Register)
Susan Gorsuch of Pardeeville spent the past week researching the history of Portage in anticipation of Thursday's Portage Trivia Contest. Unfortunately for Gorsuch, no one showed up to participate.
- Pregnant Sculptures, Whirling Dervishes and the First Ever Poet Take Out Australia's Top Award for Art and Faith (Art Daily)
Peter Daverington. SYDNEY.- The Blake Prize of A$20,000 has been awarded to artist David Tucker for a sculptural work that depicts a procession of pregnant women and symbols of Egyptian, Christian and Hindu traditions.
- Michelle Kennedy - WXII 12
Meteorologist Michelle Kennedy, a native of Syracuse, N.Y., joined the WXII 12 team in the summer of 2001. Michelle is not new to the Carolinas, before moving to the Triad she spent several years forecasting in other parts of North and South Carolina ...
- Granddaddy heaven (not for the queasy) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - When i was much younger, a feature writer asked me what kind of a funeral I would like for myself. I was game enough to answer a horrible question like that so I said I fancied a burial like those of ancient Filipinos— yes, wrapped in a mat!
- Police search for mystery dad and daughter - United Press International
Police search for mystery dad and daughterUnited Press International - 3 hours agoOn the Web site of Cafe Society, a Boston literary group, someone said that his reading of Scottish poetry "will send chills down your spine. ...
- ‘Moving tributes’ to the words of national bard (The Herald)
The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will be commemorated at transport hubs across the west of Scotland, while a carriage on Glasgow's Subway system will also be dedicated to the national bard.
- A man with talent out of this world - The News International
A man with talent out of this worldThe News International, Pakistan - 1 hour agoBy By Zabe Azkar Hussain Qamar Afzal Qamar, a poet, short story writer and educationist whose Urdu poetry collection titled ‘Sang Sitara’ appeared a few ...
- Beyond Time (Waconia Patriot)
Larry Christianson has paddled through Minnesota’s northland 47 times, 17 with his wife, Norma. He’s seen thousands of sunrises and sunsets; watched silently as the morning fog takes shape before being noticed, then witnessed its silent evaporation as the world begins to stir.
- Brian Wilson, Joan Baez, Lindsey Buckingham Chill on Mellow CDs - Bloomberg
Brian Wilson, Joan Baez, Lindsey Buckingham Chill on Mellow CDsBloomberg - 2 hours agoTheir 10th-grade poetry, written by long-time Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks, romantically paints LA as a ``star-spangled city. ...
- Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Aussie premiere - The Australian
Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Aussie premiereThe Australian, Australia - 6 hours agoDisgrace tells the story of a self-absorbed romantic poetry professor in Cape Town who visits his daughter following his resignation over an affair with a ...
- A jarring look at an earlier entertainment era in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times)
Two minstrel pairs, one of them black, drew enthusiastic local crowds and lavish praise in the press. Seventy years ago, on Aug. 20, 1938, The Times published an editorial mourning the death of Thomas K. Heath, one of vaudeville's biggest stars in what is now the largely vanished phenomenon of the minstrel show.
- Moore the merrier as stars honour Beckett - Irish Independent
Moore the merrier as stars honour BeckettIrish Independent, Ireland - 3 hours agoBy Grainne Cunningham ACTRESS Julianne Moore shares a moment with Gate Theatre Director Michael Colgan (left) during the poetry and prose readings at the ...
- Seven years later, survivors still search for normalcy in lives (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
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