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- Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley High (Berkeley Daily Planet)
Tucked inside every diploma of the Berkeley High School graduating class of 2008 is a voter registration card, something principal Jim Slemp didn’t forget to point out amidst all the exhortation, advice and pranks at the Greek Theater on Friday.
- Snoop Dogg plays to his image (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Snoop Dogg plays to his image as the huggable gangsta.
- Freakish Web missing person mystery inspires play - Newsday
That's the premise behind "User 927," a new production in Philadelphia that blends fact and fiction in the tale of a disappearance from a small Midwestern town. "It's the world's first play based on a search log," director Michael Alltop said. The ...
- Write to Editor - Times of India
LONDON: He was dubbed as the "world's worst poet", but now Scottish Bard William McGonagall has had the last laugh, for his odes have raked in more money than the very famous Harry Potter books at an auction. A total of 35 of McGonagall's works ...
- Pacific Market Center Hosts Gift & Home Accessories Show (The Gourmet Retailer)
Pacific Market Center will host the Summer Gift & Home Accessories Show, the Pacific Northwest's premier seven-day market event, August 13-19, 2008.
- Russell Banks: Class warrior in a club tie (Independent)
Spend some time with the American novelist Russell Banks, and the phrase "lived memory" will likely come up. Sitting in a back booth of the Princeton Club in New York City, a throwback to the time when men drank only with men and university ties were worn with pride, the tall, barrel-chested, white-bearded author of Affliction and 10 other novels drops the phrase several times. He is talking ...
- Marine uses poetry as release from pain of war - WJRT
After fighting in Vietnam and losing many of his buddies in combat, he has learned to release his anger and sadness through poetry. "That's why I write my poetry. It's the healing process, to rid myself of the ghosts that I have from that time in my ...
- Gov addresses Asian/Pacific American forum (New York Daily News)
Gov. Paterson delivered the keynote speech at the celebration of Asian/Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month, hosted by Councilman John Liu (D-Flushing). The event was held May 30 at Queens Library, Flushing Branch, Main St.
- You Don’t Mess With the Racism - Al Bawaba
I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song, the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But damn you Scuba Steve! If you’re going ...
- Endpaper: why Bloomsday rocks - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukEndpaper: why Bloomsday rocksTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 8 minutes agoHere's Peter Buck, temporarily released from axe duty for REM, clamouring over a fuzz of warm distortion: "Be not sad because all men/Prefer a lying clamour ...
- Camp Ayandeh Lesson: Cumberbund comes from the word "kamarband" - Payvand
PayvandCamp Ayandeh Lesson: Cumberbund comes from the word "kamarband"Payvand, Iran - 3 hours agoThe clubs included music and movement, poetry and literature, public health/law, theater/improv, photography and film-making. Once the clubs were over, ...
- Greenspan Rewrites Aristophanes for World Premiere, Old Comedy , in NYC (Playbill)
Classic Stage Company presents the Target Margin Theater world-premiere production of Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs by David Greenspan, based on — as the title would suggest — Aristophanes' 405 B.C. play Frogs, May 7-31 at CSC's East Village home.
- Canvases of swirling colours - New Straits Times
Canvases of swirling coloursNew Straits Times, Malaysia - 11 hours agoThe abstract expressionist fishes of Siri Sekilas were inspired by nature, Malay poetry and going out with fishermen at night during a trip to southern ...
- Sci-fi author, poet Thomas Disch dies (Pioneer Press)
Thomas M. Disch, who has been called one of the most important science fiction writers of his generation, died Saturday in New York.
- Public Libraries Make Friends On Facebook, MySpace (Hartford Courant)
Technology is giving new meaning to "friends of the library."
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