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- Authors club annouces Youth Writing contest (Salina Journal)
The Kansas Authors Club announces its 2008 Writing Contest for Youth. Kansas students, grades 1 through 12, may submit one entry in each of three categories. Entrants are grouped according to grade, with different word limits, for poetry and prose (fiction and nonfiction) on any subject.
- 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.
- 'It's not really a career, more like a series of identity crises' (Sydney Morning Herald)
I WANDER into the room next to the London Sofitel's Peggy Ashcroft Suite, where I am to interview Sophie Marceau. The vast bed is tempting, as is the room-service menu.
- Dazzled by derby: Super fans take their devotion to the rink of madness (The Capital Times)
They claim to be "more rabid than Badgers or Packers fans" and they show their love any way they can: one makes teddy bears, one writes poetry and another is a prolific poster-maker. This subculture of dedicated super fans has grown up around Madison's all-women roller derby league, the Mad Rollin' Dolls. The fans will surely be out in force when the league's travel team, the Dairyland Dolls, ...
- LiveBlog: The Oretucky Primaries - Bourbon vs. Kind Bud - Indecision 2008 (satire)
LiveBlog: The Oretucky Primaries - Bourbon vs. Kind BudIndecision 2008 (satire) - 13 hours ago... will have their say in choosing between the black dude and the white chick. Which one will the latte-drinking, poetry-writing, vegetarian stoners pick? ...
- Worth the Drive: Steely Dan, "2001: A Space Odyssey," JVC Jazz ... - Times Herald-Record
Worth the Drive: Steely Dan, "2001: A Space Odyssey," JVC Jazz ...Times Herald-Record, NY - 4 hours agoJazz singer Phoebe Snow, known for her song "Poetry Man," gets all jazzed up for her gig at Birdland, 315 W 44th St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues, NYC, ...
- Zimbabwe: Leonard Zhakata Headlines 'One Love' Peace Festival (AllAfrica.com)
LEONARD Zhakata and other artists were yesterday expected to perform at a festival dubbed One Love Arts Festival, which calls for peace and development in Zimbabwe.
- Politics of the bear pit - Guardian Unlimited
Politics of the bear pitGuardian Unlimited, UK - 15 hours agoShe didn't serve in government, and clearly eschewed writing books on poetry, as did Mary Wilson. After all, they didn't make much money. ...
- Fabu: 'To be black is to be political' (Isthmus)
On the first Saturday night in May, while rowdy college kids roamed the Mifflin Street block party in search of their next keg, a quieter crowd gathered at Escape Java Joint on Willy Street. In the art gallery coarsely decorated with organic fair-trade coffee sacks, over 50 people sat in folding chairs and in the aisles. Madison's new poet laureate, Fabu Carter Brisco, took the mike.
- Dutch lessons on integration (Radio Netherlands)
The Dutch foreign ministry invited eleven officials and academics from North America to come see what is being done here to improve the integration of minorities, particularly Muslims. They liked what they saw.
- Summer reading list - Post-Star
Summer is in the air. While this season's gas rates may make it too pricey to hit the road in your SUV, you can snuggle up in a backyard hammock with a good book for the bargain rate of free. Ohlin, who lives in Saratoga Springs, and his writing ...
- APOC NORTHEAST REGIONAL CONFERENCE - Anarkismo.net
APOC NORTHEAST REGIONAL CONFERENCEAnarkismo.net - 8 minutes agoSaturday night will culminate with an APOC Rocks! hip hop, punk rock, and poetry concert. There will also be free (and cheap) food available as well as APOC ...
- Upcoming Events - Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Upcoming EventsSmoky Mountain Sentinel, NC - 2 hours agoThe NCWNW (Netwest) Prose Workshop and Critique Session will meet at Tri-County Community College in Murphy, North Carolina, Thursday, July 10, ...
- A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy world - Olympian
It should be. Beeps and buzzers tell you when to jump and screaming pundits tell you what to think. Then, there are the leaf blowers, the ring-tones and that new front-loader you call a washing machine whose spin cycle needs a launching pad. Some ...
- Sienna Miller: a sense of theatre - Daily Telegraph
At the age of 18, Sienna Miller enrolled for a three-month course at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, fresh out of Heathfield boarding school in Ascot. It proved a baptism of fire. 'On the first day, the teacher was going ...
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