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- Seventeen, so sweet - Boston Globe
You're damn right it's okay to call them the Big Three now. (AP Photo) After the Boston Celtics' 131-92 public evisceration of the soft and soulless Los Angeles Lakers tonight to clinch their 17th world championship, let the record show that Paul ...
- Mystery man insists he really is Clark Rockefeller (CNN.com)
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and is accused of kidnapping his young daughter says he spent "six glorious and wonderful days" with the girl while evading authorities, but he still isn't talking about his life before 1993.
- Elizabeth Edwards - Chicago Tribune
Give props to Gil Scott-Heron for the cutting-edge topicality of his best street poetry and jazz-inflected R&B over the last four decades, and the activist performer will accept the compliment graciously, albeit with reservations.
- Special events: Celebrate with food, fireworks, bands, baseball (The Toledo Blade)
The Red, White, KABOOM celebration, a two-day event featuring food, music, and...
- Batshaw Youth and Family Centers Receive Federal Support for Powwow - Newsblaze.com
PREVOST, QUEBEC - (Marketwire - June 20, 2008) - With Government of Canada support, youth in Prévost will celebrate National Aboriginal Day with a Powwow that, in part, recognizes the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The ...
- Daily calendar - San Antonio Express News
Da Vinci, dancing and all that jazz Eva’s Heroes poker party draws a full house of comfy clothes Celebs mingle, gamble with locals at charity event Isaac Hayes, 'Shaft' singer and disco presage, dies Auditions set for Mastersingers It's a sure bet ...
- Love, National Gallery, London (Independent)
Love seems a theme more suitable to a poetry anthology than an art exhibition, so it's fitting that the first item on show is Tracey Emin's embroidered, partly illegible love poem, sprinkled with appliqué roses: "Those Who Suffer Love (I'm OK Now)". Heartfelt, skew-whiff, hand-made to the point of being rubbishy, it's disarming and directly tackles the theme. Round the corner, things get a bit ...
- I don't promote alcoholism through my songs: Pankaj Udhas - Hindustan Times
I've always had an interest in ghazals . But film songs have given me immense popularity. I like playback singing, but my only condition is – quality. In more than 30 years, Mukesh ji sang less than 1000 songs but they're immensely popular to this ...
- Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (Deccan Herald)
Kisi Amir ki mehfil ka zikr kya hai Amir, Khuda ke ghar bhi na jayenge bin bulaye hue (I will not go uninvited even to the God, let alone to a rich man's party). That was the favourite couplet of Habib Miyan, the Bade Miyan of Jaipur.
- Great British Watercolors - Wall Street Journal
An English friend maintains that the British are not a visual people. "We like words," he says, "and gardens. That's why all those British conceptual artists who do things with trees and rocks are so popular. But what we're really good at is language ...
- He's 'soul of the country' - The Gazette (Montreal)
He's 'soul of the country'The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - Aug 9, 2008He's there because he lost his job and house in Johannesburg and is trying to start a new life. He wrote a volume of poetry two decades earlier and now, ...
- The 5-minute Interview: Roger Lloyd Pack, Actor (Independent)
Roger Lloyd Pack, 64, is perhaps best known for his roles as Colin 'Trigger' Ball in 'Only Fools and Horses' and Owen Newitt in 'The Vicar of Dibley'. He will be participating in this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival, which takes place from 4-13 July.
- Babylon Arts Council presents poetry event (Babylon Beacon)
On Sunday, September 21, from 2 to 4 p.m., the Babylon Village Arts Council will present poets Steven Schmidt and Philip Postiglione at the Babylon Public Library, 24 S. Carll Avenue, Babylon Village. This presentation will be free and open to the public. We will follow our scheduled readings with an open mike.
- Literary artists spread the word - BBC News
BBC NewsLiterary artists spread the wordBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoLike much spoken word, his performances combine poetry, theatre and live graphics. Other performers work with a musical accompaniment, but all artists ...
- Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral on Wednesday for Mahmud Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
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