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- Weintraub: Gritty Iraq drama gives HBO a worthy successor to 'Wire' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Cynical, violent, unsentimental, gloriously literate and brilliantly executed, “Generation Kill” is the best HBO series since “The Wire.” David Simon and Ed Burns, the primary players behind that late, great urban drama, have adapted ...
- In the Swiss footsteps of Byron - Belfast Telegraph
Byron's expedition to the Swiss mountains is explored in new works to be performed at the City of London Festival. The first is tomorrow. The poet's journey also inspired John Walsh to follow his trail to the Jungfrau In 1816 George Gordon, Lord ...
- Argos' Carter poetry in motion - Toronto Sun
Argos' Carter poetry in motionToronto Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoNot to mention he has got a second name that means "Righteous", he's a former Arkansas state bowling champ and when people say he's poetry in motion -- they ...
- Alicia Keys (Evening Standard)
Alicia Keys generously gave London its second audience with the New York Grammy hoover in just over four months, despite being one of the busiest women in pop.
- Greatest Generation meets young generation (Cape Cod Times)
HARWICH — Tales of strafing runs through anti-aircraft fire, laughter about "shacking up" and memories of watching people blown to bits came rushing back for 92 veterans of World War II last night.
- Cleveland Institute of Art expansion designed by Winy Maas in jeopardy ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Blending humor, simplicity and bridgelike engineering, the Cleveland Institute of Art expansion envisioned by Dutch architect Winy Maas hunches up in the middle like a giant inchworm or caterpillar. The Cleveland Institute of Art has hit the ...
- Songwriter gains new fan - Commercial News
That unbelievably upbeat, infectious, fun song, by John Denver, was a No. 1 hit in 1975. It was on the radio constantly, and I can’t tell you how much I hated it. I didn’t like John Denver, either. He was way too earnest, too happy and too folksy ...
- Nelson authors make awards finals - Nelson Mail
Nelson authors make awards finalsNelson Mail, New Zealand - Jun 9, 2008In a joint statement Tuesday, the three 2008 awards judges - arts critic and journalist Lynn Freeman, publisher David Elworthy and fiction writer Tim ...
- Regarding the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize - Union
From my twentiess on, the magazine Poetry Chicago seemed the main center for American poetry. Of course, I also lobbied for the importance and value of West Coast poets and their work, but Poetry magazine was a kind of gold standard, going back to ...
- first look - Tehelka
first lookTehelka, India - 2 hours agoSome of her poetry as well as this first novel have caused shock ripples in Tamil Nadu. Many men have attacked her and other women poets for writing about ...
- Letters: Blair's fluffy thinking - The Independent
Sir: Far from making the case that we need to learn to live with "a diverse religious ecology", Tony Blair, in his article (14 June) plugging his Faith Foundation, merely succeeds in reminding us of the intellectual poverty of his signature "focus ...
- Al-Qaida prison escapee warns of more attacks on international forces ... - PR Inside
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Internet audiotape purported to be from an al-Qaida commander who escaped from a U.S. prison warns that this winter will be «hell» for international forces in Afghanistan. The message from Abu Yahia al-Libi, who escaped from ...
- Basque writer Kirmen Uribe receives Pen Club award in New York - EiTB
EiTBBasque writer Kirmen Uribe receives Pen Club award in New YorkEiTB, Spain - 1 hour agoThe translation of the book was made by Elizabeth Macklin and was among the finalists in the category of poetry, an acknowledgement which culminates a year ...
- Thicker Than Water From two generations of the Packer family, four ... - San Francisco Chronicle
Thicker Than Water From two generations of the Packer family, four ...San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 36 minutes agoAt 11, his included: "Julius Caesar," Kenneth Clark's "Civilization," poetry by Robert Frost, "Catcher in the Rye" and a book on the Civil War. ...
- New poetry book by Midwest City author available (The Norman Transcript)
Transcript StaffA new book of poetry, "Shots On" by Midwest City author Carol Hamilton, has been released b...
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