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- Ronnie Drew: Lead singer of the Dubliners - The Independent
With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the Dubliners, whose charismatic stage presence and ...
- Obama Draws Thousands At Victory Column - The Bulletin
Berlin - More than 200,000 turned out in Berlin on Thursday to hear Sen. Barack Obama tell them he had come before them "not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen - a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world." In ...
- Enjoying the delights on our doorstep - Perthshire Advertiser
Enjoying the delights on our doorstepPerthshire Advertiser, UK - 14 hours agoAmong the many highlights will be a Woodland Art Trail featuring installations, sculptures, poetry, paintings and video work by ten artists at Fanny Lam ...
- First for sculpture and Blake Prize (The Australian)
DAVID Tucker's pregnant work has become the first sculpture to win the top $20,000 award in the Blake Prize for religious art.
- Obama Confirms Relationship with CPUSA Member - Family Security Matters
Family Security MattersObama Confirms Relationship with CPUSA MemberFamily Security Matters, NJ - 10 minutes agoThe report attempts to play down instances in which Obama soaks up Davis’s anti-American thoughts and pro-communist “poetry.” But if the relationship were ...
- Despair is Not the Answer - Times Union Blogs
Today is the birthday of Elie Wiesel. He survived the concentration camps during World War II and the deaths of all his family. His father died just before the end of the war while enslaved with Elie and Wiesel writes of this sad event in his book ...
- Black poet, journalist advised young Obama - Honolulu Advertiser
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He ...
- Linda Jo Scott: The story of a life-long friendship - Battle Creek Enquirer
Linda Jo Scott: The story of a life-long friendshipBattle Creek Enquirer, MI - 19 minutes agoThe last time I saw Agnes was at my mother's funeral, where we got to talking about our mutual love for poetry. She promised to send me some of her poems, ...
- After the deluge, poetry (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Poetry lends itself to all occasions, happy and sad, everyday and rare. It offers a multitude of forms -- the exquisite slenderness of a haiku, the sprawling pages of an epic, the rigor of a sonnet, the bouncing rhyme, the grace of free verse -- but every word is the result of a careful choice.
- Big weekend of cowboy culture (Maple Creek Times)
By Kaylie Blair The 19th annual Maple Creek Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Western Art and Cowboy Gear Show kicks off at 10 a.m. Sept. 19 and is set to run until 3 p.m. Sept. 21.
- News Brief (Ekklesia)
The North American Mennonite relief and development agency MCC is supporting summer 'peace camps' which bring young black people together to find out more about being creative peacemakers in their neighbourhood and as leaders.
- In praise of perversion - The Independent
We are all sick in our own way," Felix Quinn declares. Felix Quinn is the hero of my new novel, The Act of Love, and he, admittedly, has an axe to grind.
- The six forms of music - New Scientist
In his new book, The World in Six Songs , cognitive psychologist and former record producer Daniel Levitin argues that all music, from orchestral classics to thrash metal and tribal dance, can be grouped into just six categories: friendship, joy ...
- Memories (The Chelsea Standard)
Each of us has a story to tell.†When those stories flow from eight decades or more of life experiences and memories, they offer ageless insights into the world of the author.
- Three-day mourning for Palestinian poet - Gulf Daily News
Three-day mourning for Palestinian poetGulf Daily News, Bahrain - 1 hour agoLONDON: American singer-songwriter KATY PERRY claimed her first British number one single yesterday with her bi-curious record I Kissed a Girl. ...
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