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- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - Sun-Journal
NEW YORK - My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle ...
- Verse of the Turtle - Washington Post
Verse of the TurtleWashington Post, United States - 5 hours ago"I thought I might take it upon myself to prevent all bad poetry from being published during my reign," she says, speaking by phone from her home north of ...
- Comedy preview: May 10-16 - Guardian Unlimited
Mention comedy and charity in the same sentence, and most people think of worthy, overblown events like Comic Relief. Yet, away from the self-aggrandising glare of the television cameras, countless comedians toil away in relative obscurity raising ...
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, June 26th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who said, "Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up." Some observations on the news... A bipartisan group of over 200 former cabinet ...
- Howard County Datebook - Baltimore Sun
Howard County DatebookBaltimore Sun, United States - 17 minutes agoPoetry workshop // The Colum bia Art Center, 6100 Foreland Garth, Columbia, and Little Patuxent Review will present the next in their Salon Series, ...
- Music and the arts - Daily Gleaner
Music and the artsDaily Gleaner, Canada - 39 minutes agoWhether it's music, dance, painting or poetry, it all requires an element of participation by the student and student involvement is essential to learning. ...
- NYC SPELLING BEE (The Villager)
The New York City Spelling Bee—a new, adults-only spelling bee offering erudite fun to all—is a glamorous offshoot of the Williamsburg Spelling Bee, which has scintillated Brooklyn since 2004. Co-hosts bobbyblue and Jennifer Dziura have now brought the logophilia to the great isle of Manhattan, where the Bee occurs the third Saturday of each month. bobbyblue, a musician who eschews capital ...
- Playwright and poet James Reaney dies - Vancouver Sun
Playwright and poet James Reaney diesVancouver Sun, Canada - 13 hours agoCelebrated Canadian playwright and poet James Reaney, best known for his drama trilogy about the notorious feuding family, the Black Donnellys, ...
- THE LISTENER Weakening Signals - Washington Post
THE LISTENER Weakening SignalsWashington Post, United States - 40 minutes agoOr he might interrupt a Mahler symphony mid-spin, deciding instead to recite poetry or blend news bulletins with reports from his "Roman Empire ...
- Archives » Correspondent's Picks (RSS) - Newsweek Blog
Not a Brooklyn native, but certainly a Brooklyn admirer, Zach Kussin has enjoyed his time exploring the DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, and Williamsburg neighborhoods. Having spent time living, learning and working in Manhattan, he was glad to discover the ...
- There Reigns Love - Variety
A Stratford Shakespeare Festival presentation of a play in two acts devised by Simon Callow from the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Langham. With: Simon Callow. Ever since an afternoon in 1979 when he performed all 154 of ...
- In Memoriam: Tom Disch, science-fiction master and poet - Popwatch
The extraordinary science-fiction writer, poet, and essayist Thomas M. Disch has died, reportedly by suicide, on the 4th of July. He was 68. You may know his best-known work, the novella The Brave Little Toaster (pictured), which was adapted to film ...
- Coffee house needs participants - Owen Sound Sun Times
Coffee house needs participantsOwen Sound Sun Times, Canada - 11 hours agoThe idea came from a "slam" poetry event in November 2007, when "a Toronto slam team came to the library as part of the Words Aloud Festival," said Danyluk. ...
- July 2008 Selection: Free Burning by Bayo Ojikutu - Gapers Block
July 2008 Selection: Free Burning by Bayo OjikutuGapers Block, IL - 1 hour agoLibrary Journal said, "Ojikutu's harsh and often violent depiction of the street life, where everyone has developed his or her own hustle to get by, ...
- A crackling act - Business Standard
Business StandardA crackling actBusiness Standard, India - 3 hours agoOver the years, Bajaj been a man of many roles — on TV, film and stage; directing, acting, script-writing; doing translation and poetry recitation — but we ...
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