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- Arts Commission awards annual medals - WRAL
Raleigh, N.C. — The Raleigh Arts Commission named six winners of the annual medal of arts Friday. The Raleigh Medal of Arts honors individuals and organizations for long-term achievement in and support of local arts. The program is in its 24th year ...
- SRB: Ode to a Foreskin - Scoop.co.nz
SRB: Ode to a ForeskinScoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 46 minutes agoBy Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books Collectors of obscure Wellington poetry collections may remember a book by Israeli Historian Benny Morris's ...
- Scribe-turned-Taleban ultra assumes 'complete control' over Mohmand Agency (New Kerala)
Peshawar, July 24 : Umar Khalid, a poet-and-journalist-turned-Taleban, has assumed the complete control over the Mohmand Agency after eliminating the chief and deputy chief of the Shah Sahib militant group in a bloody battle last Friday.
- Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian file - Independent
Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian fileIndependent, UK - 3 hours agoNot surprisingly, two other Erdrichs are writers – Lise, a children's author, and Heid, the author of three poetry collections. Erdrich has published three ...
- Beatnix closing doors today with final 'bash' - Waco Tribune-Herald
It served a good cup of coffee and welcomed artists to show or sing their creations, but Beatnix ends its run today. The funky, eclectic joint at North 19th Street and Lake Shore Drive had survived since September 2005, but a combination of economic ...
- 'Footprints' author tiff steps into court - Detroit News
The single set of footprints in the sand -- as millions of inspired souls know -- was that time when the Lord picked you up and carried you. It's a metaphor: He is there when you need Him most, and so is the ubiquitous poem known as "Footprints in ...
- LIFE OF REILLY - ESPN.com
Since this is my first column for The Magazine , I figure I should introduce myself. And maybe the best way to tell you who I am is to tell you about my dad, Jack. He was an Irish tenor, a yarn spinner, a songwriter, a father of four, a crack golfer ...
- Eat to the Pariah Beat - Argus Champion
Eat to the Pariah BeatArgus Champion, NH - 50 minutes ago“Pariah Beat Radio” is a lively stew of Americana, punk, sacred harp, western swing, beat poetry crusty blues and eastern European klezmer music. ...
- Cruise Is 'Mentally Ill,' Pinsky's a 'Nazi' - ABC News Blogs
You mess with Top Gun, you get called a Nazi. Then, apparently, you apologize. Late Thursday, Dr. Drew Pinsky apologized to Tom Cruise for insinuating he's mentally ill, but refused to let the star's lawyer, who compared him to the Nazis, have the ...
- Whale of a city (Boston Globe)
DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 112 miles POPULATION: 25,671 WEBSITES: newlondonmainstreet.org, ci.new-london.ct.us ODD FACT: Eugene O'Neill, the country's only Nobel-prize-winning playwright, spent his early summers in New London, where he later wrote stories and poetry for The New London Telegraph. The story of modern-day New London can be seen in Bank Street, not far from the mouth of the Thames River, ...
- :. Touched with Fire - Kashmir Watch
:. Touched with FireKashmir Watch, Pakistan - 22 minutes agoAmidst Yasin's narrations of the rough and tumble of his life and brink-of-death experiences, he inevitably tosses in the unexpected reference to the poetry ...
- Big B plans a memorial for his father - Screen India
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan plans a memorial for his late father Harivansh Rai Bachchan, a distinguished Hindi poet whose contribution to literature, the actor feels ‘cannot be ever challenged’. "We want to do things in his memory, be it ...
- Gender-bending, role-switching keep Savoyards cast lively (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
The expression that "men are from Mars and women are from Venus" only entered our modern lexicon about 15 years ago -- but Gilbert & Sullivan not only understood the idea about 100 years before that, but also used it as rich fodder for their famed brand of musical satire.
- DStv Pick - The Times
DStv PickThe Times, South Africa - 1 hour agoInside the magnificent royal palaces of the Alhambra, Omaar sees the knowledge Muslims possessed in mathematics, architecture and poetry. ...
- Salvaged WWII stories waiting to be read (New Hampshire Union Leader)
Thirty-three issues of the publication are now on microfilm at the Derry Public Library.
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