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- Bringing the past alive, strings attached - Age
T O LIVE in Venice, agrees Paolo Cognolato, is to live in a museum. Whereas, in the heyday of the Venetian republic, 300,000 people were crammed into the city's alleyways, only 50,000 people act as live-in curators and hosts, servicing 100,000 ...
- McCain's Small Victory - Slate
Debate #1 : Before I get spun, I'd say: small, Pyrrhic victory for McCain. McCain wanted to make Obama seem naive and inexperienced. He did about 40% of that. Obama wanted to make McCain seem dangerously ambitious, bellicose and hotheaded. He did 0 ...
- Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 books about civil war - guardian.co.uk
Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 books about civil warguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoWinner of the 2004 Whitbread poetry prize for his collection Corpus, Michael Symmons Roberts has published four highly acclaimed volumes of poetry to date. ...Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 verse novels guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Many religious retreats open to guests - The Kingston Whig-Standard
Many religious retreats open to guestsThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - 7 hours agoThe woman washing dishes described herself as a Sufi Christian. That afternoon, there would be a discussion of the mystical, reverent 13th-century poetry of ...
- Artists accuse Sandinistas of vendetta against revered poet - guardian.co.uk
Artists accuse Sandinistas of vendetta against revered poetguardian.co.uk, UK - 19 hours agoMore than 60 Latin American writers and cultural luminaries, including many who used to champion the Sandinistas, denounced the move as illegal and another ...
- Bay State Potty Among Top 10 - Boston Channel.com
Bay State Potty Among Top 10Boston Channel.com, USA - Aug 27, 2008It has been a setting, over the years, for music videos, business and political negotiations and even wedding photos, hotel officials said. ...
- Russian site may be Jewish capital - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
MOSCOW — A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving little trace of its culture. Dmitry Vasilyev, a ...
- Review: Dostana (rediff.com)
While Dostana's music is nice and peppy for most part, it's nothing extraordinary. It's certainly not the best from Dharma Productions.
- New Collected Poems - nextbook
New Collected Poemsnextbook, NY - 45 minutes agoReturning to poetry in the 1960s after a 25-year silence, Oppen continued, in his distinctively contemplative voice, to communicate an ongoing amazement ...
- Anthrax case stirs doubts about security - Seattle Times
WASHINGTON — Revelations about anthrax scientist Bruce Ivins' mental instability have exposed what congressional leaders and security experts called startling gaps in how the federal government safeguards its most dangerous biological materials. An ...
- Opinion: 'gg Game Auteur, no re' - Gamasutra
Opinion: 'gg Game Auteur, no re'Gamasutra, CA - 57 minutes agoThe latter line of thinking dates back to the Romantic era of art and poetry, during which the creative soul rejected “mere” depiction in favor ...
- Yesterday's Tomorrow - WA today
Yesterday's TomorrowWA today, Australia - Sep 15, 2008However, his publisher did him no favour by including one of his own "erotic" poems here. Mercifully, it occupies only four pages. ...
- Let's talk food at book fair (Honolulu Advertiser)
Contributors to the new compilation "We Go Eat: A Mixed Plate From Hawai'i's Food Culture" (Hawai'i Council for the Humanities) will take part in the book fair at Barnes & Noble Ala Moana tomorrow.
- A fictional first lady bares her soul in a racy novel (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Curtis Sittenfeld knew she was being provocative. Invoking "the love that dare not speak its name" in a 2004 article for Salon.com, she burst out of her liberal Democrat's closet and declared: "I love Laura Bush. In fact, there is no public figure I admire more."
- Real 'Mad Men' read Meditations in an Emergency (and real fans enter ... - San Francisco Examiner
Critics, fans and web junkies are going nuts about the season premiere of "Madmen" and how broody marketing genius Don Draper ( Jon Hamm ) is influenced by an encounter with a stranger reading Frank O'Hara's "Meditations in an Emergency" in a bar ...
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