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- Vacations for the soul - Cecil Whig
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways _ and the redemptive power ...
- Jak de Priester’s inspirations - The South African
Jak de Priester’s inspirationsThe South African, UK - 11 hours agoTo write music you need to travel, it is the only way you can experience life and put it in songs, poetry and books. You’ve performed at the Royal Albert ...
- Austria v Croatia preview - Glasgow Sunday Mail
Austria v Croatia previewGlasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 2 hours agoThe Croatia manager and former international defender has a law degree, speaks fluent English, German and Italian, writes poetry and is also the singer and ...
- Out and About: Aug. 20 - 30 - Hanson Town Crier
Out and About: Aug. 20 - 30Hanson Town Crier, MA - 5 hours agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- POEM: Soar High You Eagle In The Sky - Jihad Unspun
POEM: Soar High You Eagle In The SkyJihad Unspun, Canada - 9 hours agoBy Abu Ramez Al-Sharess | Jihad Unspun From the degradation and oppression deep inside the Palestinian refuges camps in Lebanon comes poetry that is used to ...
- Enrichment (Daily Herald)
Long Grove Art School instructions are in oil paint, acrylics, watercolor, and drawing. A two-hour workshop/class for adults in oil on Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. Also four weekly classes forming with a maximum of six students. In addition, there's private instruction and open studio time.
- Hip Hop History: Local artists discuss the culture of hip hop (Pacific Daily News)
Ask Jovan Tamayo to define hip hop and the answer is the same as it's always been: Hip hop is a culture, he says. It's a state of mind.
- Local author’s work on shortlist for national award - Omenica Express
Local author’s work on shortlist for national awardOmenica Express, Canada - 59 minutes agoThe other nominees in the poetry category are Stuart Ross (I Cut My Finger,) Colin Browne (The Shovel,) Nadine Mclinnes (Two Hemispheres,) Donato Mancini ...
- Nelly Upchurch stayed true to family, faith - Fayetteville Observer
Debbie Gorman has countless memories of her mother, Nellie Upchurch, but one stands out. In 2002, they were in Washington, D.C., attending a Christian coalition convention and, during some free time, went for a sight-seeing stroll. “We knew that it ...
- Symposium: Obscene Hostage Trades - FrontPage magazine.com
Symposium: Obscene Hostage TradesFrontPage magazine.com, CA - 5 hours agoWe are - or at least most of us are - incapable of thinking about human remains, a fortiori of those whom we love, respect or cherish - in these brutal ...
- What's Happening (Oroville Mercury-Register)
Dinners * First United Methodist Church will host a barbecued rib fundraiser dinner from 5-7 p.m. June 7 at 45 Acacia Ave.
- British Council hosts Abuja Nunyi - Nigerian Tribune
Nigerian TribuneBritish Council hosts Abuja NunyiNigerian Tribune, Nigeria - 10 hours agoThe project involved writers across Africa exchanging writing ideas and specific creative writing assignments with UK based mentors over a period of nine ...
- A native's guide to San Jose (CNN.com)
A century ago, what's now Silicon Valley, California, was called the Valley of Heart's Delight because of the region's mineral-rich soil and temperate climate (San Jose gets 300 days of sunshine a year). By the time I left for college in 1997, however, most of the cherry orchards had been gobbled up by office complexes. San Jose was in the hopeful early stages of the Internet boom, and although ...
- Celebrating independence and heritage - Sterling Journal-Advocate
STERLING — Singing cowboys, a blacksmith, an auctioneer, demonstrations of butter churning and crafts, donkey rides, snow cones, fundraising, costume contests and lots of food — these were just some of the offerings at the 2008 Logan County ...
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