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- Fourth of July: Annual festival celebrates heritage - Sterling Journal-Advocate
The annual Heritage Festival Auction always draws a crowd of people, who bid on the Western-themed items donated by businesses and individuals in the community. An attendee over the antique cars on display at the 2007 Heritage Festival. Each year ...
- 'Beheading' poet wins conviction appeal (Perth Now)
A BRISTISH woman who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" and wrote a poem about beheading a hostage, has won an appeal against a criminal conviction in London. Samina Malik, 23, had been convicted last year of possessing documents useful to terrorists and was given a nine-month suspended sentence.
- The glory of Vallejo - Vallejo Times-Herald
Vallejo Music Theatre has created some wonderful moments in our city of gifted talent with its Supper Club. They had some wonderful young singers, dancers (who have appeared in commercials), and some seasoned folk singers, including Buddy Nash. I ...
- Poetry in motion (The Star)
This month's Young Adult fiction review examines a book that is a wonderful introduction to the life and work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
- Quiet, please; God speaking (Winnipeg Free Press)
"A monk is a man who has given up everything in order to possess everything . . . He has renounced his liberty in order to become free."
- 'Plague of Doves,' Multigenerational Murder Mystery (NPR)
Weekend Edition Sunday , May 4, 2008 · Louise Erdrich, who has written 12 novels and volumes of poetry, is known for her masterful storytelling. Liane Hansen talks with the author about her new book, The Plague of Doves , which focuses on a senseless and horrific crime that changes the lives of several families living around a Native American reservation in North Dakota.
- Blue Heron Committee working to keep statues in public eye - Winona Daily News
Last summer, Winona went to the birds and decorated the city with 15 blue heron statues. Now, the people who helped the herons land on street corners and storefronts have formed the Blue Heron Committee and want to make sure art is still visible. On ...
- Survivor profile: YALA KORWIN (Queens Courier)
Yala Korwin, born in Poland in 1923, was one of the best students in her town and was accepted to an art institute after she completed high school. However, in 1942 the war forced her to leave and focus on surviving.
- What We Loved This Week: ‘King Lear of the Taxi,’ Anthony Bourdain ... - World Hum
What We Loved This Week: ‘King Lear of the Taxi,’ Anthony Bourdain ...World Hum, CA - 2 hours agoIt turned out the driver, Davidson Garret, has been driving a cab for 25 years and has a self-published book of, among other things, taxi-inspired poetry ...
- Kudos: San Francisco’s Mission district lights up with flowers and ... - Examiner.com
Kudos: San Francisco’s Mission district lights up with flowers and ...Examiner.com - 35 minutes agoIt unites young, unpublished poets with seasoned veterans such as two-time American Book Award winner Alejandro Murgula and local Poet Laureate Jack ...
- Nature's Ecstasy: Joan Mitchell on Paper and Canvas (The New York Sun)
Spring and summer provide us with some of the headiest and most ephemeral experiences in the garden. While describing the suddenness and intensity with which our Yoshino cherry tree blossomed a full, feathery white and then, like snowfall, shed its petals in the afternoon breeze, a friend reminded me of Bonnard's paintings of flowering trees, suggesting that in Bonnard, no less so than in ...
- Waiting room reading gets a dose of poetry - Herald.ie
Herald.ieWaiting room reading gets a dose of poetryHerald.ie, Ireland - 2 hours agoThe poem leaflets are offered free of charge and visitors are encouraged to take one read it and then recycle it by leaving it in another waiting room. ...
- Congress throws gas on the oil fire - Chicago Tribune
Congress throws gas on the oil fireChicago Tribune, United States - 5 hours ago"He was 46 years old now, in April 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling ...
- Related Coverage (Gazette.Net)
Justin Davis died on June 25, 2006, at 19 in a faraway land in a war that many don’t want to think about and that she fears is forgotten. On Memorial Day, she hopes his death in Afghanistan is remembered.
- In brief: City of God director tackles Shakespeare - Guardian Unlimited
New Love... Fernando Meirelles is working on an adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost. Photo: John D McHugh/AP Fernando Meirelles , the director of City of God and the Cannes-feted Blindness, is making a loose Brazilian adaptation of Shakespeare's Love ...
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