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- Local students earn Horatio Alger scholarships - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
Carl Smith has overcome obstacles. The 2008 Tioga High School graduate isn't wealthy and doesn't even have a car. He takes the city of Alexandria bus wherever he goes. Carl works and worked a job to 1 or 2 a.m. most of his senior year in high school ...
- 15th Anniversary: The Brian Eno Evolution - Wired News
When Brian Eno landed on our May 1995 cover, he proclaimed: "Gossip is philosophy." Since then, his name has appeared in 16 issues, and today the "prototypical Renaissance 2.0 artist" is as busy as ever. He coproduced Coldplay's album Viva la Vida ...
- No Parking Anytime: Cottages house writers' aspirations - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Summer has brought a little melancholy to Todd Faulkner, because when it goes, so will he -- leaving the tiny, wooden, century-old cottage nestled in the bright flowers of the Belltown P-patch. When he moves out, the bittersweet memoir of record ...
- Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guests (AP via Yahoo! News)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- One killed in Ropar poll violence - Tribune
One person was killed and at least a dozen were injured during the civic elections in the peripheral towns of Chandigarh falling in Punjab. Only 60 per cent voting was reported from these areas. While elections in Ropar were the most violent where an ...
- Nice Office Mad Men returns for a second season. - Slate
Mad Men (AMC, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) is not just about marketing, it's also a triumph of it. You can set the matter of the show's near-excellence—its patient pacing and self-possessed performances, its yards of assertive style—on the Saarinen ...
- Signal Mountain: Students and teachers at Thrasher posting podcasts - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Signal Mountain: Students and teachers at Thrasher posting podcastsChattanooga Times Free Press, TN - 23 hours agoSeveral years ago, students of third-grade teacher Jeff Paulson started recording their poetry to post on the class Web site. “It’s more fun to write if you ...
- Chippella Lewis would be ideal fit for school board - Press & Sun-Bulletin
Chippella Lewis would be ideal fit for school boardPress & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 9 hours agoTo Contribute to the resolutions that address the education issues When Chippella isn't occupied being a community activist she writes and recit4s poetry. ...
- OF MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS - New York Times
OF MEN AND THEIR MOTHERSNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoShe struggles to take care of her teenage son, Tommy, and his girlfriend, September, who has decided to drop out of high school to write poetry — and has ...
- Fairies come to life - Wirral Globe
Fairies come to lifeWirral Globe, UK - 16 minutes agoCharlotte, who lives in Wallasey, has also written and illustrated her own book Tales from Fairyland' a mixture of her poetry and photographs.
- Stolen Bard Folio Is Retrieved After Brought to D.C. Library - Washington Post
Resize LONDON -- A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued $30 million has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated. Police in Durham, northeast England ...
- 'An incredible presence in American literature' - Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Saturday will mark the fourth time the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters has honored author Ellen Douglas. This time, it's a crowning touch - Lifetime Achievement for the writer who spent her lifetime in her home state, mining its people and ...
- Prom king: French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard will take centre stage ... - The Independent
Aimard will open the Proms with a programme including a new work by the 99-year-old Elliott Carter © Guy Vivien Daniel Barenboim may resonate beyond the confines of the concert hall, Lang Lang may make more noise, but for sheer ubiquity, no musician ...
- BREATHLESS AND TIMELESS (New York Press)
Behind the 1960s Godard legend is the fact of the films themselves: the most beautifully rigorous movies ever made. Form and feeling were never better matched.
- lyrical living - Wire
lyrical livingWire, NH - 2 hours agoWhile in his 20s, he concentrated on writing short stories, while poetry lingered in the background. He lived in Houston for 30 years before moving to the ...
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