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- West Lake, Buzzing Hangzhou’s Centre Of Calm (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
Located 150km South of Shanghai, China, fabled Hangzhou has been so celebrated in history, art and folklore that from a thousand years ago a picture of the city’s vast West Lake has remained in the Chinese collective consciousness, symbolising a place of unparalleled, serene beauty and calm.
- League to honor 3 for preserving internees' tales - Honolulu Advertiser
Three influential figures in the effort to preserve Hawai'i's Japanese internment stories will be honored today by the Honolulu chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. Robert Bratt, the first director of the Justice Department's Office of ...
- Community Notes - Abington Mariner
To send an announcement, write to the Watertown TAB, 254 Second Ave., Needham, MA 02494; fax 781-433-8202 or e-mail watertown@cnc.com. Please keep submissions to 150 words or fewer. The deadline for listing submissions is Friday at 5 p.m. for the ...
- Author spotlight: Eugene Stelzig of Groveland, Livingston County. - Democrat and Chronicle
Eugene Stelzig : State University College at Geneseo English professor lives in Groveland, Livingston County. Most recent work : Fool's Gold: Selected Poems of a Decade ( FootHills Publishing, $15). Synopsis : A collection of (mostly short) lyrical ...
- Gao Xingjian: Composing a narrative in ink paint - International Herald Tribune
HONG KONG : 'An artist must walk his own path, and if there are rules, they should only be rules that he himself has created," Gao Xingjian writes in the catalogue for the current exhibition of his paintings at the Alisan Fine Arts gallery in Hong ...
- The Russians Are Back! - CounterCurrents.org
The Russians Are Back!CounterCurrents.org, India - 4 hours agoMaybe because Russians also have a penchant for disorder, procrastination, inefficiency, qualities more than redeemed by their fantasy, poetry, nobility and ...
- COMMUNITY CALENDAR - The Wichita Eagle
COMMUNITY CALENDARThe Wichita Eagle, KS - 6 hours agoKansas Writers Association meeting and poetry reading by author Chinyere Okafor, 1:30 to 4:30 pm Saturday, Rockwell Branch Library, 5939 E. Ninth St. Free ...
- In the footsteps of a trailblazer: First woman to scale Pikes Peak (Colorado Springs Gazette)
When Julia Archibald Holmes stepped onto the summit of Pikes Peak 150 years ago, she not only became the first woman to scale the 14,115-foot mountain in recorded history, she also became the first person to do it with panache.
- Performance poet strikes a line at Lorenzo’s - Vernon Morning Star
Performance poet strikes a line at Lorenzo’sVernon Morning Star, Canada - 5 minutes ago... has performed his poetry to full houses around the world. Last year he was commissioned to write a poem for Canada by the Canadian Tourism Commission. ...
- Vidal takes aim and why the web makes us dumb - Canberra Times
Welcome, to a hopefully weekly blog which will take a wide global view of the books and information worlds. Rather than impose my thoughts on the on-line readership, I'll usually try and sift through and then annotate key interesting trends and ...
- Opening young eyes - Haaretz.com
Bedlam reigns in the Ramle kindergarten yard as the 5- and 6-year-olds await a visit by their peers from an Arab kindergarten in a distant neighborhood of the city. Their excitement is palpable as their diminutive guests finally enter the ...
- Michael Phelps joins Olympic greats with ninth gold medal - Daily Telegraph
Michael Phelps joins Olympic greats with ninth gold medal Michael Phelps, having been pulled out of the mire by Jason Lezak in the relay on Monday, began his assault on the record books in earnest with the most effortless and imperial world ...
- HUMPHREY GAVE GREATEST CONVENTION SPEECH YOU'VE NEVER HEARD (David Shribman via Yahoo! News)
MINNEAPOLIS -- If you have an eye for these things, you might have noticed that Sen. Barack Obama is going to deliver his acceptance speech in a football stadium on Aug. 28. The last man to deliver an acceptance speech in a stadium was John F. Kennedy. The last important speech to be delivered on an Aug. 28 was given by the Rev. Martin Luther King 45 years ago.
- TUESDAY'S CALENDAR - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
TUESDAY'S CALENDARThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 17 hours agoAn exhibit of photography, film, painting, clay, glass, jewelry, poetry, theater, music and more by Louisisan artists, honoring communities rebuilding after ...
- Scranton native’s book on Tolstoy transformed into film (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Jay Parini has written a few shelves’ worth of books over the past four decades, from highly detailed historical novels to lyrical, nature-influenced poetry collections to hefty biographies on some of the most cherished authors in all of American letters.
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