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- From 'Bee Man' to 'Wiener Sausage', Capital Fringe Fest Begins in DC (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The 2008 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC, runs July 10-27, when hundreds of creative and innovative performers, directors, designers and writers strut their stuff in numerous venues in the nation's capital.
- Eighteen and the world in their hands - Amsterdam News
Eighteen and the world in their handsAmsterdam News, NY - 6 hours agoAlso an award-winning writer, Brittany is a semifinalist of the 10th annual Urban World Poetry Slam. Sticking to their mission of changing America’s ...
- CCI charter school takes on big challenge (Rocky Mountain News)
Some of the families who've flocked to one of the last mostly black schools in Denver returned to Challenges, Choices & Images charter school Monday night for a town hall meeting that felt at times like a Sunday church service.
- Local author’s work on shortlist for national award - Omenica Express
Local author’s work on shortlist for national awardOmenica Express, Canada - 59 minutes agoThe other nominees in the poetry category are Stuart Ross (I Cut My Finger,) Colin Browne (The Shovel,) Nadine Mclinnes (Two Hemispheres,) Donato Mancini ...
- Just Causes (Foreign Affairs Magazine)
Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention . Gary J. Bass. Knopf, 2008, 528 pp. $35.00.
- Night of free cultural events goes nationwide - Irish Times
Night of free cultural events goes nationwideIrish Times, Ireland - 2 hours agoJoe Woods, director of Poetry Ireland, which is hosting Open Mic Poetry, said the night "is a marvellous idea which provides people with the opportunity to ...
- Workshop gives students tools to use power of words - The Olympian
Workshop gives students tools to use power of wordsThe Olympian, WA - 5 hours agoThe weeklong workshop uses poetry to teach students to be leaders. Students didn't let one another get away with a quick recitation of their poems. ...
- Anthem? More like a commodity - Globe and Mail
Anthem? More like a commodityGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoCompared to Irving Berlin, John Lennon was a song-writing klutz. Rappers have better lyrics and find better rhymes than Give Peace a Chance. ...
- Silly fun with teens in 'Emo! The Musical' (The San Francisco Examiner)
Teen angst - it happens to the best of us. Take a second to reflect upon those melodramatic years and recall the disaffected youth you most identified with: Were you the misunderstood artiste, the perpetually stoned slacker or perhaps the sad-sack scribe of seriously bad poetry?
- Regent Square poet favors words that allow for evolution - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Regent Square poet favors words that allow for evolutionPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 26 minutes agoBy Regis Behe Leslie Anne Mcilroy's life has changed dramatically since she released "Rare Space," her first full-length poetry collection, in 2001. ...
- Stefan Fatsis (Washington City Paper)
Stefan Fatsis has titled the first chapter of his new book, “I’m No Plimpton.”
- Gone Native - The INDsider
Gone NativeThe INDsider, LA - 1 hour agoBoth of his parents were pharmacists, and he simply assumed he would become one as well, while pursuing what he really wanted to do — write poetry — on the ...
- Supermodel’s death suspected suicide - TheCelebrityCafe.com
Supermodel’s death suspected suicideTheCelebrityCafe.com, NY - 3 hours agoThe New York Daily News reported that a lost love may have been the reason for Korshunova’s condition, and that she quoted poetry she had read on the ...
- Shelf life What's happening at area bookstores (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Breaking Dawn, in the Twilight Saga vampire series, is getting the Harry Potter treatment, the Mercantile Library is discussing China, and more.
- A MOUNTAIN VIEW: Great day in the morning! - Southwest Virginia Today
A MOUNTAIN VIEW: Great day in the morning!Southwest Virginia Today, VA - 59 minutes agoPoetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable actions of men, date from such an hour.” Christian and Buddhist monks regard the pre-dawn in this light. ...
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