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- Lost Dog collars Michelle de Kretser $40,000 prize for fiction - The Australian
MELBOURNE author Michelle de Kretser has won the $40,000 Christina Stead Prize for fiction, the biggest of the NSW Premier's literary prizes announced in Sydney last night. Her complex novel The Lost Dog also won Book of the Year, earning her a ...
- Mandela's 90th b'day celebrated (HT via Yahoo! India News)
Anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday was celebrated at Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, on Friday. The event, which concluded the school's Africa Week celebrations, began with a speech by Principal Jyoti Bose welcoming all the dignitaries, including Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma; South African High Commissioner to India ...
- Princeton tots get a 'Teddy Bear Picnic' - Princeton Packet
Princeton tots get a 'Teddy Bear Picnic'Princeton Packet, NJ - 10 hours agoThey then listened attentively as Ms. Groves read books and poetry about teddy bears. One book’s title, “The Boy Who Thought He was a Teddy Bear,” drew a ...
- FYI, July 2, 2009 (The Columbian)
Clubs TODAY SPEAKERS WITH SPIRIT TOASTMASTERS, 7 to 8 p.m., in Room 6236 in the Community Life Building, King...
- Klaus M. Grueber, at 67; brought poetic imagery to opera, theater - Boston Globe
QUIMPER, France - Klaus Michael Grueber, a German opera and theater director renowned for lyric elegance, has died in western France, officials said yesterday. He was 67. Mr. Grueber died Sunday on the Brittany island resort of Belle-Ile-en-Mer ...
- Tales of fathers sail on in `The Boat' (The Charlotte Observer)
Father's Day is a Sunday. Nam Le has time to go out and buy his dad a card or a gift, but he really needn't bother. "The Boat," his debut book, serves as both. Several of the seven masterful short stories here deal with that old generational bugaboo, the tension between fathers and their sons - and yes, daughters. Le, 29, knows this does not make him unique. Literature abounds with such stories, ...
- Revive the Broadway Market - Buffalo News
Broadway Market plans forum to rebut claims that it may close Broadway Market managers seek funding from city It's time to 'reimagine' the struggling Broadway Market — or else The deplorable lack of leadership that has allowed the old Broadway ...
- Family of woman who died after being Tasered suing police - Miami Herald
The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental health crisis is suing the City of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old Emily Delafield ...
- Torture victims find strength - Arizona Daily Star
Torture victims find strengthArizona Daily Star, AZ - 20 minutes agoChildren's colorful art is displayed everywhere — and so is their writing. In 2006 the group published a collection of poetry, "Writing out of the Darkness: ...
- What's on guide - Manchester Evening News
Touchstones: Still Crazy After All These Years – until 25 May; Made in the 70s, Gone But Not Forgotten – until 7 September; Step Into the 70s – until 29 September; Street – 24 May-7 September. Telephone 924492 or visit www.rochdale.gov.uk for ...
- Celebrate a starry summer night with food, fun, wishes at JCCH on July ... - Honolulu Advertiser
Celebrate the summer season at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i's (JCCH) Starry Summer Night: Tanabata Matsuri in Hawai'i, a Japanese star-themed festival featuring delectable delights, entertainment and wish-making traditions on Thursday ...
- Project opens doors for teachers - Aiken Standard (subscription)
Project opens doors for teachersAiken Standard (subscription), SC - 7 hours agoPoppy is also intrigued, however, with using poetry in her chemistry classes. Technically, writing is about giving facts but, in the form of poetry, ...
- The young library: Haiku and gentle fun - Sacramento Bee
The young library: Haiku and gentle funSacramento Bee, USA - 1 hour agoresponds young Koo in haiku, the Japanese poetry form of three lines and 17 syllables. It launches Muth's wordplay. But Muth's story is much more. ...
- The Poetry of Diplomacy 2 - Monday Mag
The Poetry of Diplomacy 2Monday Mag, Canada - 47 minutes agoIn the rather staid world of intergovernmental relations, Amirthanayagam seems an unlikely candidate to beat the drum of American patriotism in Canada, ...
- Hagerstown City Park an inspirational site for art (The Herald-Mail)
HAGERSTOWN - Julie Cantrel said the birds, the squirrels and other forms of nature at Hagerstowns City Park give her ideas for her art. Its like a daily source of inspiration, she said. Cantrel worked some of those wonders into bird collages she was selling Sunday at a family art day sponsored by the nonprofit Contemporary School of the Arts & Gallery in Hagerstown.
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