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- He really nose, you know - Tonight South Africa
Pinotage-on-Tap kicks off on Sunday with Plush at Island Diner at the Beacon Island timeshare resort, Plettenberg Bay. Features live music, Pinotage and chocolate fountains. Time: noon. Tel: 044-533-3445. Mummenschanz 3 x 11 runs until July 5 at the ...
- Hey, so what's up for this weekend? - McAllen Monitor
What's Happening?: Artist Carl Vestweber will present his perfectly-titled show "New Stuff By Carl Vestweber." The artist will be on hand to speak about his work. The reception marks the launch of the exhibit, which stays on display until Aug. 1. The ...
- Minneapolis' Rain Taxi keeps tabs on the literary scene - Los Angeles Times
Minneapolis' Rain Taxi keeps tabs on the literary sceneLos Angeles Times, CA - 38 minutes agoThere are reviews of poetry and audio and graphic novels, including a look at "Witness," a compilation of wordless graphic novels published between 1918 and ...
- Assessing Palin's Big Speech - Newsweek
Assessing Palin's Big SpeechNewsweek - 2 hours agoThere was plenty of praise of John McCain's character and courage, some of it even bordering on poetry. "He's the kind of fellow whose name you will find on ...
- On that point - a weekly column examining media - PSU Daily Vanguard
On that point - a weekly column examining mediaPSU Daily Vanguard, OR - 2 hours agoAnd while I am not a writing critic, I must say I have seen a more substantial grasp on the mechanics as well as some creative intuition in poetry from my ...
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power - MiamiHerald.com
Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in powerMiamiHerald.com, FL - Aug 18, 2008He likes good food, traditional Pakistani music, Urdu poetry and fine clothes. He is known to enjoy dancing to Western music at parties. ...
- Sunday at the Skin Launderette, By Kathryn Simmonds (Independent)
Rather than giving in to dolefulness — the default mode of poetry past and present — Kathryn Simmonds opts for ebullience and optimism. Borrowing from Ian Dury, she lists "Reasons to Be Cheerful" in a piece entitled "Against Melancholy". Her poems are engaging, witty ideas skilfully executed in a range of forms and she has a good eye, seeing varnished floorboards split water into glassy ...
- Hillary deserves vice presidency - La Crosse Tribune
Sen. Obama, I am one of the 18 million Hillary voters who feel it is only right and fitting for you to select Hillary as your running mate. Many voters, as I am, are having a tough time getting over how poorly she was treated in the primaries ...
- Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London - Independent
Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, LondonIndependent, UK - 4 hours ago... suavity and ease are at odds with the dreary clowning. Next season, one hopes, the Open Air will get back to basics – they are poetry, poetry, and poetry.
- Critics choose their most-loathed books - Times Online
Critics choose their most-loathed booksTimes Online, UK - 3 hours agoI was studying American literature at university, and he was supposed to be a leading writer. I gave up at about page 600, tired of pharaohs and anal sex. ...
- Got creatures? Author says we need each other - Staunton News Leader
N ot "Got milk?" but "Got beavers, coyotes, wildlife?" prompts an ad for an area company that offers solutions for "nuisance" animals that have invaded homes or property. Just who has been invading whose territory ceased to be a question, among most ...
- 'Hippest man on earth' (Vancouver Sun)
Vancouver's Robin Blaser joined some of the planet's most renowned poets two months ago on stage at a gala literary event in Toronto, where he read some of his verse.
- Meet a living relic of bohemian New Orleans - SouthCoastToday.com
Meet a living relic of bohemian New OrleansSouthCoastToday.com, MA - Aug 9, 2008And what is most important, they gave the world Charles Bukowski, the king of boozy and sexually charged underground poetry, with the publication in 1963 of ...
- Slamming in Kinston - Kinston Free Press
If you think you might be rhyme-inclined, then you may want to check out Fabulous Ink's first official poetry slam at Sweets Coffee Shop in Kinston. "I see this as a way to make poetry a part of Kinston and the surrounding counties," says Felecia ...
- Pair of Singles - Edmonton Journal
I really hope no one takes my dating advice seriously, because that would be ill advised. But if you do, then please file this week's column under "do as I say, not as I do." This week, we're talking about pedestals. Do I put my dates on a pedestal ...
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