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- A Latino institution struggles to stay open (Los Angeles Times)
Ruebén Martinez's Libreria Martinez has become a cultural focal point in Santa Ana and a magnet for famous authors. But dwindling customers and landlord pressure may put him out of business. When Ruebén Martinez set up his bookshop in an old Santa Ana furniture store a decade ago, he bargained the landlord down to half-price rent, saying he sold books, not diamonds. ...
- Bodies of Water - Chicago Tribune
The buzz of an outboard motor sends pelicans skyward as Charlie Hopkins' skiff glides along the Ohio River to paddlefish nets placed beneath the murky surface. The snowy-white birds watch from a distance as Hopkins pulls aboard huge, ugly fish, their ...
- Cosmic Realism by Francesca Mari - New Republic (subscription)
Cosmic Realism by Francesca MariNew Republic (subscription), DC - 21 minutes agoThis prose promises to be experienced as poetry. It engrosses when it engages. Cosmic realism is not altogether new. Its modern ancestors were, ...
- Gaia Online Gives Teens the Chance to Take Home "Olympic Gold" (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----For those of us who have dreamt of Olympic glory, but prefer thumb wrestling and hot dog eating to swimming and hurdles, Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 5 million teens, today announced it will host the Olympics Games for the rest of us…the Rejected Olympics.
- Write on... - Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen
Write on...Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen, UK - 15 hours agoIt covers poetry, short stories, novels, screenwriting, travel writing and writing for performance - and there is also a day of workshops discussions and a ...
- Brazil's Veloso defends Ronaldo's walk on wild side - Reuters.uk
Brazil's Veloso defends Ronaldo's walk on wild sideReuters.uk, UK - 8 hours agoRonaldo's football is poetry and poetry must be respected," he told the audience. "Ronaldo was right when he said he didn't want to pay because he was being ...
- A green thought in a green shade - Rye and Battle Today
A green thought in a green shadeRye and Battle Today, UK - 8 hours agoBy Andy Hemsley Defining the nature of poetry is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle, yet it hasn't stopped people from having a stab, ...
- News in brief: Center's Pride party Sat. - Bay Area Reporter
Bay Area ReporterNews in brief: Center's Pride party Sat.Bay Area Reporter, CA - 53 minutes agoSome of the activities will include the Center Women Present's LesboBingo with Sister Dinah Might; a mini-match-up speed dating event; and a poetry and ...
- Big B to collaborate with Aadesh over father's poems - India FM
After the Hanuman Chalisa set to a trendy youth-oriented beat , Mr Bachchan and his 'Hanuman"(that's how the composer likes to see himself) are coming together for the most ambitious musical project involving the Big B. It would be a musical ...
- The beauty of Islam - Kansas City Star
The beauty of IslamKansas City Star, MO - 8 hours ago... for centuries the pre-eminent Christian theologian, was influenced by Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Renaissance art, music and poetry, ...
- Arts Briefs 6/12 - Daily Herald
Arts Briefs 6/12Daily Herald, UT - 26 minutes agoBYU English professor Trent Hickman was recently declared the first-place winner of a national poetry contest. Winning in the adult division of the Borders ...
- Carolyn Barber: Gas, Guest and go - Red Bluff Daily News
Carolyn Barber: Gas, Guest and goRed Bluff Daily News, CA - 21 minutes agoA few were anxious to read the whole poem written by Edgar A. Guest I suggested checking at Tehama County Library for Guest's poetry. ...
- Sluggish pace hampers RVP's 'Brooklyn Boy' - Marin Independent Journal
Ross Valley Players' production of "Brooklyn Boy" - a somewhat thought-provoking, occasionally nuance-layered and, at times, well-crafted evening of community theater - is, well, a little dull. Now, I am a critic of a certain age, born in the '50s ...
- Prescription drug abuse rising among youth (The Union Democrat)
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- Review: The Stone Angel - Canada.com
Relax, all you Grade 12 literary slackers. You don't have to read the book anymore. Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel has been turned into a movie, and though it's not high art, it's a journeyman effort that captures the basic plot points and ...
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