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- Reading to children losing out to TV and dinner - guardian.co.uk
Reading to children losing out to TV and dinnerguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago"I think that modern life is more stressful - people are working harder and longer hours, and also there is more competition amongst the leisure activities ...
- For the Love of Skipjacks (Bay Weekly)
Sails taut and spray flying, sailing vessels have plowed through time and our imaginations. With every adventure came a sailor’s story. On the Chesapeake, the broad-beamed skipjack has inspired many tales, from the work of dredging oysters to the watermen themselves.
- Urban Planner: October 2, 2008 - Torontoist
TorontoistUrban Planner: October 2, 2008Torontoist, Canada - 8 hours agoEditors Paola Poletto and Jake Kennedy are releasing Boredom Fighters, an anthology of graphic poetry. As well, writer Sean Stanley and illustrator ...
- An eye for beauty, a passion for truth - Raleigh News & Observer
What: "Gordon Parks: Crossroads." When: Today-April 11. Where: N.C. Central Art Museum, Lawson Street (just east of Fayetteville Street), Durham. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. DURHAM - At this point, the photographs aren't on the walls. They ...
- Wildfire transforms Angel Island - San Francisco Chronicle
Wildfire transforms Angel IslandSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 6 hours agoThousands of immigrants, many of them from China, passed through the station in the early 20th century, and notes and poetry from some who were kept there ...
- Freshmen discuss summer reading in several classes - The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
Freshmen discuss summer reading in several classesThe Post-Standard - Syracuse.com, NY - 1 hour agoPhysics teacher Barry Glickstein read "Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost." Glickstein and some students who read the same book analyzed some of the ...
- U.N. troops offer lessons in peace in Lebanon (Los Angeles Times)
Yoga, French poetry, pizza making -- the international forces stationed there give war-weary residents a respite from their cares. The yoga instructor chuckles, and the three dozen or so women follow along, giggling nervously before bursting through some invisible layer of restraint or sorrow and laughing with abandon. Grins widen into smiles, tentative squeals bloom into full-bore howls.
- Going green through words - Sequim Gazette
Sequim GazetteGoing green through wordsSequim Gazette, WA - 27 minutes agoAfter relocating to Sequim in 2002 with his wife, Jane, McGee wanted to continue to bring poetry — both his and other people’s — to the community. ...
- Five Questions: Pasha Malla - Walrus Magazine
Walrus MagazineFive Questions: Pasha MallaWalrus Magazine, Canada - Aug 12, 2008I wrote them, obviously, trying to be funny, but other people finding my stuff funny—or not—is up to them. That’s the thing about humour: it’s completely ...
- Ginsberg poem sets the tempo for Brentano Quartet performance (The Kansas City Star)
When the Brentano String Quartet returns to town Friday night at the Folly Theater, it’ll be hauling onstage a fairly typical mix of old and new.
- Sometimes I Wonder What I'm Gonna Do! (Indymedia Chiapas)
The Who wrote the best version of Summertime Blues, but the final verse needed work, so I wrote a new final verse. This should be folk music by now. Wouldn't you like to honor the last of the Jesus Freak Kid's clan? Well here's a third verse that The Who or you might want to do!
- Still a smash - Daily Progress
Maybe “1979” made you feel nostalgic for teenage boredom. Perhaps the video for “Tonight, Tonight,’’ with its silent-film homage to Georges Melies’ fanciful “A Trip to the Moon,’’ kept you switching back to MTV. Whichever songs from ...
- Getting remaindered is not the end of the line - guardian.co.uk
Getting remaindered is not the end of the lineguardian.co.uk, UK - 7 hours agoClive James' poetry has just been published in the US for the first time and this weekend the New York Times was paying particular attention to his piece of ...
- From rock to country to academia, Tricia Walker settles on 'Velvet' (The Vicksburg Post)
CLEVELAND - With a voice both soft and smooth, it was natural that Tricia Walker would call her new jazz CD "Velvet."
- Literary, culinary journeys set for upcoming Ubud festival - Jakarta Post
Literary, culinary journeys set for upcoming Ubud festivalJakarta Post, Indonesia - 33 minutes agoZuleikha Abu-Risha has published her poetry in several literary magazines and has three outstanding collections. She is known for her outspoken views on ...
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