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- Mama extends a trendy welcome to tough Paris - The Independent
'The new tourism of the 21st century will be urban tourism, the discovery, or the re-discovery of great cities' The Mama Shelter used to be a multi-story car-park. Its ceilings and floors are covered with graffiti. It stands beside a disused railway ...
- Bringing up Mommy: Saying prayer for my saving grace (Centre Daily Times)
This week 20 years ago, people were praying and meditating for me as I gave birth to my first child, a tow-haired boy with thick brows, long eyelashes and wide hands like his grandfather's.Â
- The wonder of Woodstock (Independent)
Literary festivals are seldom held in grand surroundings. They're more likely to take place in candy-striped tents with flapping openings and duckboards flung across muddy fields. Or to be held in town halls, down-at-heel theatres, municipal offices and city garden squares. They rarely afford punters much spectacle of natural or man-made beauty. Book festival fans, as a breed, are inured to ...
- Notable: Train wrecks - St. Petersburg Times
Three new books take behind-the-scenes looks at celebrities whose lives have not exactly been charmed. Cobain Unseen (Little, Brown and Co.) by Charles Cross gathers an unnerving collection of artifacts, photos, journal entries and an audio CD of ...
- Drag queen Daniel Radcliffe - Monsters and Critics
Daniel Radcliffe wants to play a drag queen in his next movie. The 'Harry Potter' star confessed he would love to land the unusual role because it would allow him to dress as a woman and wear make-up. He said: "I think part of me would love to play a ...
- Healthy Perspectives: Heartsongs (Stamford Advocate)
I'm transfixed by the television images as CNN intercuts between the Dow Jones industrial average dropping and a bunch of talking heads babbling about how to get the economy back on track.
- Instructor remembered for art, books and life (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Recently retired University of Iowa instructor and poet Glen Epstein is being remembered for his interests and skill in calligraphy, art and books.
- The party's over, the memories remain - Abilene Reporter-News
The party's over, the memories remainAbilene Reporter-News, TX - 39 minutes agoThe West Texas Poetry Fest at the Abilene Public Library's main branch Monday opened the West Texas Book & Music Festival. This "open mic" program, ...
- Khlebnikov Velimir - Russia-InfoCenter
Russia-InfoCenterKhlebnikov VelimirRussia-InfoCenter, Russia - 6 hours agoSilver Age poet and prose writer, an outstanding figure of Russian avant-garde art, one of the initiators of Russian futurism; a reformer of poetic language ...
- Those wild and crazy ‘SNL' gals! - Kansas City Star
It's good to be Tina Fey. The bespectacled comedian is not only driving "Saturday Night Live" ratings with her dead-on Sarah Palin impersonations but she just won two Emmys (Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress) for "30 Rock" and ...
- First Minister's Questions: Assembly needs adrenaline - WalesOnline
First Minister's Questions: Assembly needs adrenalineWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 3 hours ago... recovering from a black eye resulting from a fall in a Croatian shower – asked about Mr Morgan’s plans for the Welsh economy a breath of poetry crept ...
- Harvest Mood - School Library Journal
Harvest MoodSchool Library Journal - 3 hours agoIn poetry, folktales, and fiction, children are encouraged to think creatively and imaginatively about what they are seeing and learning. ...
- Professor's poems honor 'The Big Easy' - Henderson State University Oracle
Professor's poems honor 'The Big Easy'Henderson State University Oracle, AR - 19 minutes ago... as a professor of English, publishing scores of academic essays in various professional journals and reading and publishing his poetry in many venues. ...
- AS Maulucci: Poetry, art have symbiotic relationship - Norwich Bulletin
AS Maulucci: Poetry, art have symbiotic relationshipNorwich Bulletin, CT - 9 minutes agoBy AS Maulucci Recently, I conducted a poetry workshop in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on the theme of poetry and art. I believe the processes of writing ...
- Calendar (Skokie Review)
Based upon space availability, The Review prints calendar announcements and items for columns, including campus news, newsmakers and others for local organizations and individuals. The deadline is 10 days before the desired publication date, however there is no guarantee for publication. Send releases and items of local interest to: Skokie Review or Lincolnwood Review, 130 S. Prospect Ave., ...
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