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- On the Front Lines of the Global Food Crisis - Slate
ULYANOVSK, Russia—On a humid Sunday afternoon in late June, about 100 couples clutching newborn babies filed into the Lenin Memorial overlooking the wide banks of the Volga River. This mammoth concrete slab of Soviet constructivism was erected in ...
- Dermot McMorrow: 13 Black Cats in the Shape of a Magpie - Chortle
ChortleDermot McMorrow: 13 Black Cats in the Shape of a MagpieChortle, UK - Aug 8, 2008It’s always difficult to review a stand-up when, save for the lighting tech and one of the comic’s friends, the critic is the only member of the audience. ...
- PCVB Seeks More Health Care Conferences, Sporting Events - The Bulletin
"America's life sciences meetings destination" may become the newest Philadelphia marketing slogan, according to officials from the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau. They unveiled their business strategy on Tuesday, aimed at drawing more ...
- Kilcher games keep homesteading skills alive, fund museum - Homer News
Kilcher games keep homesteading skills alive, fund museumHomer News, AK - 1 hour agoEntertainment music, poetry, storytelling is a big part of the day, with Atz Kilcher helping organize entertainers eager to be part of the fun. ...
- Great Reward moves forward - The Statesman Online
Great Reward moves forwardThe Statesman Online, Ghana - 5 hours agoSome activities that added colour to the event were poetry recital, drama, choreographic and cultural display as well as a short sketch on “The Good ...
- Jackson, Wyoming - Friday, July 18, 2008 - Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
Jackson, Wyoming - Friday, July 18, 2008Jackson Hole Star-Tribune, WY - 13 minutes agoActivities range from stick horse rodeo and melodrama to cowboy music and poetry. Cowboy Gathering memberships available with prices beginning at $25. ...
- Is Malouf playing politics? - The Age
Is Malouf playing politics?The Age, Australia - 19 minutes agoThe following June he published Typewriter Music, his first poetry collection for 25 years, and in October last year we got The Complete Stories, ...
- Dierkes: Blog = secret, public, confession competition - TheJambar.com (subscription)
Dierkes: Blog = secret, public, confession competitionTheJambar.com (subscription), OH - 6 hours agoA disproportionately large number will use some odd combination of bad poetry, pictures of cats and conspiracy theories to spice up what is otherwise a ...
- Dove chosen for lifetime award (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Rita Dove, a former U.S. and Virginia poet laureate and a professor of poetry at the University of Virginia, has been chosen to receive the Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Poets of the laboratories - The Age
Poets of the laboratoriesThe Age, Australia - 7 hours agoAlso included is a smattering of poetry. "Science should inspire great poetry, but scientists have published disappointingly few poems," laments Dawkins. ...
- Empathy Bowl '08: Palin vs. Obama - Washington Post
Empathy Bowl '08: Palin vs. ObamaWashington Post, United States - 14 hours agoShe presented her paper on that topic to the American Political Science Association in August, just days before Palin's selection, so there's nothing ...
- Santa Fe's yearly folk art sale lets patrons splurge in a socially - El Paso Times
Santa Fe's yearly folk art sale lets patrons splurge in a sociallyEl Paso Times, TX - 6 hours agoWe listened to a group of Japanese women performing Shigin, poetry chanting. Intonation and inflection heighten the meaning of the words -- and, ...
- Unforgotten hurts - Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday
Among the films featured for the 2008 run of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF), Alabaster Moon and The Siege represented the efforts of local film makers that each captured dramatically different images of our island. Alabaster Moon was ...
- Organic plot to rule centre stage - Tonight South Africa
The DOT Conspiracy is a collection of people, from all over South Africa. Almost all of us are graduates of UCT and live in Cape Town. We are involved in theatre in all capacities, as writers, actors and directors. The company is fluid, it works on a ...
- CD reviews: The Hold Steady, Nas, John Mellencamp, Billy Joel (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
When bands like Hinder, Buckcherry or 3 Doors Down are heralded by pop culture pundits as being saviors of rock, returning the genre to prominence after a dominant run of pop starlets and hip-hop acts, you can’t help but wonder if the pundits ever venture outside the Top 40. Case in point: Brooklyn-based The Hold Steady might be one of the best American rock bands hardly anyone knows. The ...
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