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- Two million tourists visit Salalah Tourism Festival - Times of Oman
SALALAH — About two million domestic as well as foreign tourists visited the 48-day long annual Salalah Tourism Festival which concludes today. The festival witnessed a number of religious, cultural, economic, recreational, social and sports ...
- Nude sculpture wins religious prize - Sydney Morning Herald
A provocative unravelling of an ancient Hindu goddess has won this year's Blake Prize - the first sculpture to take the top gong for religious art in the award's 57-year history. David Tucker's work, A Local Girl Comes Home , was awarded the prize ...
- Literary Calendar (San Jose Mercury News)
Upcoming literary events
- Review: 'Pineapple Express' is a high old time (CNN.com)
Producer Judd Apatow continues his popular assault on common decency in "Pineapple Express," an R-rated celebration of recreational drugs, anti-authoritarianism and mindless violence.
- Dominic Lawson: A simple lesson in humanity - The Independent
It could be described as the ultimate stamp of approval – to be commemorated on the surface of countless letters sent across the country every day. All of us will have our own idea of the sort of person who deserves the immortality of appearing on ...
- Correction: The Poetry of Scissors and Glue (New York Times)
An article last Sunday about an exhibition of works by the poet and artist John Ashbery misstated the given name of a poet with whom Mr. Ashbery attended Harvard. He was Frank O?Hara, not John.
- Real Lives: Learned scholar nurtured passion for books over a ... - Edinburgh News
IAN JACK, whose passion for books lead him to teach literature for nearly four decades, was one of the most accomplished literary scholars of his generation. would become a lifelong passion for book collecting. Over the years he amassed a superb ...
- Opposition to limestone mine takes a poetic turn - Kansas City Star
Opposition to limestone mine takes a poetic turnKansas City Star, MO - 18 hours agoThis time they will bring no poetry but an old filter from their house’s furnace. It is caked, Dee Wiss said, with dust generated by the Lafarge mining. ...
- Definitive Gonzo (Louisville Courier-Journal)
A lot has been — and will be — written about Hunter S. Thompson, the accidental genius behind Gonzo journalism (drunk, covering the Kentucky Derby for Scanlon's magazine, he mashed his notes into an envelope and the editor published them as they were). With the present volume, only three years after Thompson's suicide, we have what can be called a definitive biography.
- Playwrights discuss Thornton Wilder's underappreciated genius - The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
Playwrights discuss Thornton Wilder's underappreciated geniusThe Times of Trenton - NJ.com, NJ - 52 minutes agoI think he was trying to save poetry from me," Albee said, drawing laughter from the audience of Wilder scholars and enthusiasts, which included members of ...
- Boys in Beijing - Michael Burgess: One night at the Volleyball (AUG 23 ... - ONE News
Take a volleyball stadium packed to the rafters, add the defending champions and hometown heroes China, throw in the fantastic flair that is Brazil and you have the recipe for one hell of an atmosphere. There were 18,000 people in the stadium, and ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies at age of 67 - MENAFN
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) MAHMOUD DARWISH, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. Nabil Abu Rudeina, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said ...
- NEA Chairman Dana Gioia to leave in 2009 - Forbes
The confident baritone of Dana Gioia sounded a little hoarse during a recent telephone interview, as it often has since he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a job that has exhilarated and exhausted him. "I have traveled nearly ...
- P.E.I. Book Awards jury releases shortlist of titles (The Guardian)
The jury for the 2008 P.E.I. Book Awards has released the shortlist of titles for the prestigious award.
- Joe Louis and Friends - Birmingham News
Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope Florence Forest Park Fultondale Gadsden Gardendale ...
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