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- Legends and lore: Secrets of North Texas (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By ALYSON WARD We’re no dummies. We know you would rather be anywhere but here this week. It’s the middle of July, and there you are on the hot highways of the Metroplex, trying to work up some energy to go forward. You daydream about the beach, about the streets of Paris, about a road trip to the Grand Canyon. But that is so not happening this summer. A road trip to the grocery store is ...
- Where the Oceans meet - Indolink
WHERE THE OCEANS MEET is the first novel that author Bhargavi Mandava, an Indian American writer living in Los Angeles, offers us. Her vivid characterizations of men and women, whether in India or the U.S., capture our attention because they are ...
- 500 Festival revs up fun in Indy - Chicago Daily Herald
500 Festival revs up fun in IndyChicago Daily Herald, IL - 5 hours agoA poetry contest might produce an ode to the slender green stalk, plus there is an asparagus-themed dinner, 5K Kick Ass-paragus Run, parade and cook-off. ...
- In the frame - Financial Times
Even we who have experienced these techniques for years – in my case 35 – cannot quite get used to them. Each May, we are flown to a remote French fishing port and subjected to ruthless disorientation methods. Night becomes day; day night. We are ...
- Jasper native named Indiana poet laureate (WANE-TV Fort Wayne)
JASPER, Ind. (AP) -- An author who writes about his youth in the southern Indiana city of Jasper and his German heritage has been named the state's second poet laureate. Sixty-four-year-old Norbert
- Summer activities abound at area libraries (County Press)
LAPEER COUNTY -- This summer, libraries in Lapeer County are inviting children to catch the reading bug through special programming. Based on a statewide theme, librarians are inviting kids to spend the summer reading and attending various summer activities planned for libraries.
- Canadian poet and playwright James Reaney dies at 81 - CBC News
James Reaney, a poet, author and dramatist of three famous plays about Ontario's feuding Donnelly family, has died. He was 81. Reaney died Wednesday in London, Ont., after a long illness. Reaney won the Governor General's Award for poetry three times ...
- Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in new novel - Jam! Showbiz
Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real ...
- What's Happening - Tahoe Daily Tribune
Writing club having party for its annual publication The Lake Tahoe Writing Club will hold a publication release party and wine reception for its annual publication, "Edge," from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Valhalla Grand Hall. "Edge" is a ...
- FCC OKs sale of stations including Cleveland's WJW - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fox News Corp.'s WJW Channel 8 is a step closer to being sold to Local TV LLC, a division of Oak Hill Capital Partners. The Federal Communications Commission on Monday approved the sale of nine television stations, including Channel 8, to Kentucky ...
- Magic transcends borders as Lincoln couple bring smiles to refugees in ... - Addison Independent
LINCOLN — Even in the middle of a refugee camp in Iran near the border with Iraq, Tom Verner of Lincoln almost felt at home. “We just felt so warmly welcomed by the Iranian people,” Verner said. Verner and his wife, Janet Fredericks, last month ...
- POET'S APPEAL FOR ONLINE PROJECT - thisisgloucestershire.co.uk
POET'S APPEAL FOR ONLINE PROJECTthisisgloucestershire.co.uk, UK - 28 minutes agoHe first encountered the work of Brooke at the age of 18, when a friend gave him a copy of 1914 and Other Poems. He said: "I was writing poetry at the time ...
- WPR’s annual listeners’ dinner held at Mabel Tainter; Michael ... - Dunn County News
On Wednesday evening, Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts (MTCA) was the site of the annual listeners’ dinner for Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR). Claire Couillard, a UW-EC senior and WPR intern, coordinated the event. Following a social hour and dinner ...
- Teens sought in student's stabbing (Toronto Star)
In what may have begun as a dispute over a new cellphone, police said, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed at his high school locker this afternoon while his girlfriend stood next to him.
- Afghan journalist appeals death sentence - Chicago Sun-Times
PUL-E CHARKHI, Afghanistan---- The prison uniform Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh wears is emblazoned with crudely painted black scales of justice, but the young journalist insists on the eve of his appeal that he has yet to see justice done. A court in ...
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