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- Remember when: Horse-drawn fire engine quite a sight (Vero Press Journal)
I can remember seeing a fire engine being pulled by a team of horses on the way to a fire! I was a toddler and on our porch when I heard the clatter of hooves and the clang clang of the engine.
- Walcott broadsides Naipaul - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerWalcott broadsides NaipaulJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 18 hours agoThe Nobel laureate for literature followed an onstage interview with Kwame Dawes with poetry from his upcoming collection, White Egrets, but a lot of the ...
- Katy Guest: A Week in Books (Independent)
As May ticks over into June, three things are predictable in the literary calendar. There will be apocalyptic downpours at the Hay Festival. Someone will say that the Orange Prize isn't fair on men. Then someone will say no, it probably isn't, but never mind, because it encourages people to read.
- Channeling Tupac: Miami actor-playwright portrays human side of slain ... - Miami Herald
Miami actor Meshaun Lebrone Arnold has written and is starring in The Hate U Gave: The Tupac Shakur Story , which is premiering at Miami Dade College South Campus' Ground Up & Rising Theater. n the surface, slain rapper Tupac Shakur and the deeply ...
- Mary Whitehouse is the real monster (Times Online)
One of the least pressing problems of the 21st century is that we don’t have a postmodern Mary Whitehouse. Ann Widdecombe was almost it, but the peroxide hair ruined it. Edwina Currie showed early promise, but then kissed and told and told and told.
- Falling Into A Musical Wonderland - Washington Post
David Del Tredici's groundbreaking 1976 work "Final Alice" will be performed at the Kennedy Center tonight through Saturday. (By Paula Court) It was the most outrageous thing the music establishment could have imagined. Here was Sir Georg Solti ...
- Russian police told to improve their image - Daily Telegraph
Worried by the widespread disdain for the force shown by ordinary Russians, Rashid Nurgaliyev, the interior minister, has ordered his errant officers to enrol themselves in a "programme of moral purification". The new initiative came as posters ...
- A source of inspiration and relief: calligraphy - Today's Zaman
Today's ZamanA source of inspiration and relief: calligraphyToday's Zaman, Turkey - 3 hours agoThe taliq script is used for poetry and is the script most used to write Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The sixth major style is diwani, a script developed by ...
- How Russia's baby-boosting policies are hurting the population. - 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 ...
- May 7, 2008 (Picayune-Times)
Some 33 years ago, Alice Cottingham and her family moved to Arkansas from Colorado. There was nothing exceptional about the move – except that Cottingham had left behind a Bible.
- Former Essex Junction student returns bearing gifts - Burlington Free Press
ESSEX JUNCTION -- Mary-Ann Parizo remembers Kellie Cairns as a "very vivacious" fifth-grader who was also a "very sad little girl." Parizo, 73, of Essex Junction taught reading in village schools for 30 years, retiring in 1990. She met Cairns while ...
- Jazz Legend Joe Beck, Columbia Blowfish (Free Times)
The Phoenix Tongue Open Mic Poetry series ends its run at H2O tonight, though like its namesake mythical bird, we have a feeling the wildly popular poetry night will rise again. Readings begin at 8 p.m.; call 463-8297 for more information.
- Carla Bruni: Sailors, heroin and silky caresses - Guardian Blogs
The hardest part about listening to Carla Bruni's new album is somehow erasing from your memory that woman in the demure, dove-grey Dior coat, flat shoes and little black hat who had us all swooning back in March. You know, the one who dropped such a ...
- DX-Clusive: AZ Talks Nas-Inspired Mixtape - HipHopDX
HipHopDXDX-Clusive: AZ Talks Nas-Inspired MixtapeHipHopDX, CA - 6 hours agoThat’s just me, [my career] overall, if you listen to my poetry you gonna get something out of it.” With song titles such as “Knowledge, Freedom,” “12 ...
- New in Paperback: A travel writer's spell-binding tale - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Colin Thubron spent eight months on foot and aboard bus, train, hired car and donkey cart to follow in the Shadow of the Silk Road (Harper Perennial, 344 pp., $15.95). His 7,000 miles, moving east to west, took him through some of the most remote ...
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