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- Grant Park Festival offers fine-spun mix of music (Chicago Sun-Times)
A welcome anomaly occurred last Wednesday when the Grant Park Festival had to turn away patrons for a packed midweek concert of Brahms' "German" Requiem. It isn't often when the capacity of free classical music festivals falls short of popular demand.
- Not throwing in the towel (New York Daily News)
Alanna Ubach (l.) found inspiration for Yolanda RodrĂguez, the narrator of her ongoing one-woman show, ?Patriotic Bitch,? in an interaction with a bathroom attendant.
- Write dad a poem and enter our Father's Day poetry contest - Daily Journal
On their day, moms get all the mushy stuff -- flowers, frilly cards and fancy brunches. When Father's Day rolls around, dads get practical stuff like tools and ties. It's not that we don't love these guys like crazy. Sometimes, it's just difficult to ...
- Hey, big spender, flying my way? - International Herald Tribune
Hey, big spender, flying my way?International Herald Tribune, France - 4 hours agoGreen that formulation is not, and yet it does possess a kind of poetry for its beneficiaries. Someone happens to have a plane. As it turns out, ...
- Audit results reviewed - Ironton Tribune
Audit results reviewedIronton Tribune, OH - 1 hour agoLibrary branch marks poetry monthSOUTH POINT — It was a big sister who introduced Jennifer Stapleton to poetry. That was when Stapleton, now an English ...
- United we stand, divided we fall (Provo Daily Herald)
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and more than 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system reaching down hundreds of feet into the earth. Not true. The redwoods actually have a very shallow root system, but they all intertwine. They don't stand alone, for all the ...
- A week full of fairing and feasting - Sandy Post
A week full of fairing and feastingSandy Post, OR - 10 minutes agoArea youth between the ages of 6 and 18 will put their musical skills, dance prowess, poetry reading and acting abilities on display in hopes of winning ...
- The Antidote: Classic Poetry for Modern Life - The Epoch Times Ireland
The Epoch Times IrelandThe Antidote: Classic Poetry for Modern LifeThe Epoch Times Ireland, Ireland - 6 hours agoThe cackling death's head signals its victory over life. The grieving multitude turn the head to the four compass points, but there is no reply and no ...
- Memoirs (Washington Post)
Harry Bernstein's first critical success came with his memoir The Invisible Wall , published two years ago when he was 96. It described his upbringing in an impoverished Lancashire town, where the Jews lived on one side of the street and the Christians on the other. Though he'd been a writer all his...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Narromine News)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Following in Dylan’s footsteps - WalesOnline
Following in Dylan’s footstepsWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 1 hour ago... appealed to decades of poets and writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Eugene O’Neill, EE Cummings and Dylan. The black-and-white ink ...
- For retired Rutgers professor, new role not lost in translation (The Star-Ledger)
When it comes to corporate gobbledygook, William Lutz shares your pain. As a consultant to promote the use of plain English in financial documents, the retired Rutgers professor managed to plow through 58 mutual fund prospectuses before crying "uncle."
- Social networking sites provide educational benefits to students ... - Telecom Paper (subscription)
Social networking sites provide educational benefits to students ...Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Jun 22, 2008... editing and customising content and thinking about online design and layout. The students also share creative original work like poetry and film and ...
- Rain-soaked patrol for Nazis (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Richard Bausch is one of our country's best short-story writers, and his fine new novel, Peace, has the taut, spare power of the shorter form.
- London bishop to investigate gay church ceremony - The Associated Press
London bishop to investigate gay church ceremonyThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoDavid Lord exchanged rings, read each other poetry and took part in communion, the paper said. While not technically a marriage, the ceremony's liturgy, ...
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