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- Mahmoud Darwish: "We sow hope" - Socialist Worker Online
Mahmoud Darwish: "We sow hope"Socialist Worker Online, IL - 4 hours agoMAHMOUD DARWISH--a Palestinian poet who could consistently sell out football stadiums for his poetry recitals--passed away on August 9, 2008, in a hospital ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, August 15th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Carl Jung who said, "The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid." Some observations on the news... I know people suffering with dementia whose memory works better than does ...
- Modest UMass prof major force in Iraq peace deal (Boston Herald)
Professor, peacemaker, penman, publican - Padraig O'Malley is many things to many people. But today, the 64-year-old UMass-Boston professor is set to cement his...
- Rodney Atkins touched by young fan's memory - Cleveland Plain Dealer
When: 7 p.m. Sunday. Headliner: Brooks & Dunn. Also appearing: Heidi Newfield. Where: Blossom Music Center, 1145 W. Steels Corners Road, Cuyahoga Falls. Tickets: $27.50 to $50, plus fees, available at the box office, online at www.ticketmaster.com or ...
- Must Not Waste Kucinich' Courage - OpEdNews
Must Not Waste Kucinich' CourageOpEdNews, PA - 3 hours ago... and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, ...
- Iran's expatriate poets speak out, in English and Farsi - Daily Star - Lebanon
Iran's expatriate poets speak out, in English and FarsiDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 40 minutes agoNot surprisingly perhaps, Talebi says the 1979 Iranian Revolution is an integral part of today's expat Iranian poetry. "The poets in 'Belonging' left their ...
- CD review: "Wild & Free," The Radiators (Norwalk Advocate)
Trying to the synthesize the 30 years of New Orleans road dogs The Radiators into a two-disc set is nearly impossible. The group has a catalog of more than 1,000 songs, has allowed its concerts to be taped from the beginning and hasn't played the same show twice.
- 2b or not 2b: David Crystal on why texting is good for language (Guardian Unlimited)
Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling
- You don’t mess with the racism (Online Journal)
I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song , the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But damn you, Scuba Steve!
- Witty playwright known to live hard (Miami Herald)
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays like Butley, Otherwise Engaged and Quartermaine's Terms about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself, died Wednesday in London. He was 71.
- Newsprint + pen poetry VISUAL ART ENTRY, CHILD’S POEM earn special praise (Tacoma News Tribune)
Poetry is everywhere.
- "Open Mic Nite" - MyWestTexas.com
"Open Mic Nite"MyWestTexas.com, TX - 2 hours agoWhile some poetry reading occurred, the evening was dominated by a performance from Ron Eckert, a local singer-songwriter who mixes Western and hillbilly ...
- Poetry festival returns to Hill-Stead (The New Britain Herald)
FARMINGTON — There was an atypical silence last summer at the Hill-Stead Museum.
- The Unforeseen - Boston Globe
As frustrating as it is welcome, Laura Dunn's "The Unforeseen" is an appeal to our emotions on a subject that needs the coldest, hardest facts. The subject is land development - specifically, what 30 years of profit-bent private sector building has ...
- Fat Man's lives on - Augusta Chronicle
He's the thin man behind Fat Man's. Although he has acted in a few of his son's short films, Brad Usry's most notable role may be that of the son of the Fat Man. Along with his sister Jan Stuntz, they reign over a realm that is nearly gone. One icon ...
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