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- Last night's TV - Guardian Unlimited
Having left us dangling on Thursday night with the revelation that presumed-innocent murder suspect Ben Coulter had once committed kitticide, the BBC withheld preview tapes of the final part of Criminal Justice (BBC1) . Whether Ben's Richard ...
- Palace sets stage for literature's Everywoman - Albany Times Union
Palace sets stage for literature's EverywomanAlbany Times Union, NY - 31 minutes ago"I've had 10000 people fill an arena and pay to hear an old black woman talk of love, of poetry, of laughter. I guess it means I belong to everybody. ...
- Judging kids is a mix of hope, heartbreak - Long Beach Press-Telegram
Judging kids is a mix of hope, heartbreakLong Beach Press-Telegram, CA - May 20, 2008Lee, who has two pre-teen sons of his own, has been a judge for 22 years - 10 years in adult court followed by 12 in Juvenile Court. ...
- Event honors kids' art skills - Herald News
FRANKFORT -- It can be a few lines of poetry scribbled on a restaurant placemat, or it could be a couple of eighth notes beaten casually on a drum set. It could even be a coffee mug made out of clay or a meticulously drawn self portrait in colored ...
- Inside the Beltway (Guardian Unlimited)
The British have long cast a bemused eye on America - the stateside adventures of Mrs Trollope and Dickens in the 19th century prefigured Alistair Cooke's genial Letter from America, which delighted millions on both sides of the Atlantic for more than half a century.
- Eclipse Unifies Community (The Lakeland Ledger)
In "The Moose," a poem much too long to print here, the late Elizabeth Bishop was able to show a community being created from a group of strangers on a bus who come in contact with a moose on the highway.They watch it together and become one.
- No reason in love (Bennington Banner)
French mathematician Blaise Pascal, not one to brood on emotional fuzziness, once observed that "the heart has reasons that reason cannot know." Of course, it might have taken a scientist to philosophize such an understatement into history.
- JUNETEENTH: Going back to Africa, 'just for today' (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Eyes wide with wonder, Jorian Jones, 8, watched two dozen Richmonders gracefully wave their arms and emphatically pound their feet to the mesmerizing beat of African drums.
- Lady Natasha Spender remembers Edith Sitwell - Daily Telegraph
One of Edith's museum-piece sagas was her description of the first performance of Façade in Italy, at the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Siena, when she was in her late thirties. She went into the city from the family home, the ...
- Why is America ambivalent about Whitman? - Chadron Record
Why is America ambivalent about Whitman?Chadron Record, NE - 19 minutes agoBy June Jordan, POETRY FOUNDATION SYNDICATE Friday, June 06, 2008 At home as a child, I learned the poetry of the Bible and the poetry of Paul Laurence ...
- Juneteenth celebrated locally - Daily Iberian
Juneteenth celebrated locallyDaily Iberian, LA - 4 hours agoBY MARY CATHARINE MARTIN THE DAILY IBERIAN It might be tempting to answer “The Emancipation Proclamation,” but it wasn’t until two years later, ...
- Egyptian Diva Oum Kalsoum Is Celebrated in Lively Paris Exhibit - Bloomberg
Egyptian Diva Oum Kalsoum Is Celebrated in Lively Paris ExhibitBloomberg - 6 hours ago``She sang traditional songs in Egyptian vernacular and poetry in classical Arabic. She connected to intellectuals and people in the street. ...
- Highly Qualified Teachers - Saipan Tribune
Highly Qualified TeachersSaipan Tribune, Micronesia - 5 hours agoVocation is derived from one’s sense of raison d’être, often expressed in the poetry of the soul and the metaphors of the spirit. ...
- Music preview: McMurtry makes every word count - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteMusic preview: McMurtry makes every word countPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 22 minutes ago"He excites me in a way that very few artists do, both on an emotional level, because I love music, and on an intellectual level, because I love poetry and ...
- Serenity prayer stirs up doubt: Who wrote it? (International Herald Tribune)
The prayer is about to endure a controversy over its authorship that is likely to be anything but serene.
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