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- Thursday Best Bets - MetroMix
Feeling strummy: The 20 hopefuls at this year’s U.S. Air Guitar Championships Regional Finals are poised to prove that you don’t need an actual instrument to rock out on stage. Last year’s regional winner, Nordic Thunder, competes again this ...
- Is Amy Poehler ‘Office’-Bound? - Nymag.com
Poehler Gets a Day Job?: And so the upfront rumors have come to pass; Amy Poehler is in negotiations to join Aziz Ansari in NBC's spinoff of The Office . Yes, we're excited for her new career move but way more excited by the prospect of Kristin Wiig ...
- Meet Miss Popcorn contestants before this Saturday's pageant - Marion Star
MARION - Twelve young women will vie for the honor of representing Marion as Miss Marion Popcorn Festival Queen this weekend. The pre-show begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9 at Marion Harding High School, and the pageant at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are ...
- Linda Jo Scott: The story of a life-long friendship - Battle Creek Enquirer
Linda Jo Scott: The story of a life-long friendshipBattle Creek Enquirer, MI - 19 minutes agoThe last time I saw Agnes was at my mother's funeral, where we got to talking about our mutual love for poetry. She promised to send me some of her poems, ...
- Who got city arts grants - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs
The Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs has grants to declare, to the tune of $225,000, going to 38 artists in visual, literary, film and media arts. (Isn't film a media art?) The list looks good, but why does every artist have to have a ...
- Shakespeare on Film: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Baz ... - MovieMaker Magazine
MovieMaker MagazineShakespeare on Film: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Baz ...MovieMaker Magazine, NY - 2 hours agoLeonardo DiCaprio’s idle, rich-kid Romeo hangs out at a ruined beachside theater, writing poetry, and shoots pool with Benvolio. Capulet and “Bachelor of ...
- Texas executes man who killed adoptive parents (USA Today)
Texas has executed Carlton Turner for killing his adoptive parents in their suburban Dallas home 10 years ago. The U.S. Supreme Court denied two appeals late this afternoon. In September the court gave him a reprieve after the justices decided...
- Religion is poetry (Salon.com)
The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
- Byron Coley / No More Bush Tour - Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City PaperByron Coley / No More Bush TourBaltimore City Paper, MD - 36 minutes agoBut he's also been writing poems for decades, often for a journal edited by longtime friend Thurston Moore. In 2003, Coley and Moore led a revolving tour of ...
- Felix Dennis's top 10 anti-poverty books - guardian.co.uk
Felix Dennis's top 10 anti-poverty booksguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoFelix Dennis is a poet (he endows the annual Forward poetry prize for best first collection), a publisher, and one of the richest men in Britain. ...
- Sylvia Plath (Guardian Unlimited)
'Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. '
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - Reuters
ReutersBrazilian director swaps Saramago for ShakespeareReuters - 1 hour agoEach line has poetry, philosophy, a deep understanding of what we are." The movie is based on a Brazilian adaptation of "Love's Labour's Lost" by moviemaker ...
- Stand-Ins stands out - Edmonton Sun
Stand-Ins stands outEdmonton Sun, Canada - 4 hours agoWith a voice that could be described as exhausted, Sheff sings words that read like good fiction outside of poetry on paper: "And this thing you once did ...
- Heal the World and Look Up to God -- New Book Reflects Deeply With Inspiring Essays, Short Stories and Poems (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill., June 17, 2008 -- When any person reaches the twilight of his or her life, reflections and flashbacks begin to move around in the mind. Each person has his own view of the world, and experiences are truly the most treasured lessons anyone can learn.
- Marc Cabrera: Slams a chance to shine ... or come in last - Monterey County Herald
Marc Cabrera: Slams a chance to shine ... or come in lastMonterey County Herald, CA - 6 hours agoThere is no real reason for me to perform at poetry slams other than to seek attention and maybe inspire someone to write a poem themselves. ...
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