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- Taliban use ring tones to spread the word - Globe and Mail
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a ...
- I just don't get modern art, says Italy's culture minister - guardian.co.uk
I just don't get modern art, says Italy's culture ministerguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours ago"Under fascism in Italy, everything that was not straight or in line was also deemed perverted art," he told the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. ...
- Classic in a modern tone (Al-Ahram Weekly)
It took only few years for Eskendrella to acquire its fame and an audience. Formed like many other musical groups in Egypt in 2005, the band with its focus on Sayed Darwish and Sheikh Imam Eissa's music immediately clicked with audiences of all ages.
- Art that pokes politics in the eye - Ottawa Citizen
Art that pokes politics in the eyeOttawa Citizen, Canada - 41 minutes ago"I think if you talk to the average person you meet on the street, you'll find that the notion of beauty, of poetry, even of entertainment, is present in ...
- Studies in Crap: License to Kill PLUS: Enjoy Your Pigeons - Pitch Weekly
Studies in Crap: License to Kill PLUS: Enjoy Your PigeonsPitch Weekly, MO - 2 hours agoThis chapbook of loose, chatty, beat-influenced, table-napkin poetry is a study in just how much white space an author can squeeze onto 24 pages and still ...
- Ferguson's a man of many words - Tonight South Africa
Gus Ferguson is one of the greatest poets this country has. His poetry is quirky and sometimes very deep. Based in Cape Town, he's a cartoonist, a pharmacist and a committed cyclist. He publishes other poets through his company, Snailpress, and runs ...
- Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain - Tribune
I sn’t it a lovely day to be caught in the rain. .. sang Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the classic musical Top Hat (1935). Seventeen years later, the sprightly Gene Kelly sang and danced his way into immortality with the title number of Singin ...
- Mohammed Naseehu Ali - Slate
Worshipping at the church of Disney. State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America started with a hunch and a conviction. The conviction was the easy part: that despite drive-time radio and the nightly news and the Sunday paper, despite all the ...
- Long-running workshop boosts writers (Post-Tribune)
GARY -- The Gary Historical and Cultural Society held its annual Writers Workshop at St. John Lutheran Church recently, allowing published and aspiring writers to share their ideas on creativity, choosing a topic and self-publishing.
- Literary journeys lead back to childhood for 2 women (Daily Record)
While at Rocking Horse Ranch Resort recently, Marcia Ivans of Chatham Township asked her son for batting pointers so she could hit better in her next game with the Chatham Adult Women's Softball League. She's 68. He's 44.
- Ian Hunter: My commonplace books - National Post
Ian Hunter: My commonplace booksNational Post, Canada - 1 hour agoIronically, the only criterion for inclusion in a commonplace book is that the entry not be commonplace; mine contain poetry, aphorisms, snatches of song ...
- Kicking a Dead Horse - guardian.co.uk
Kicking a Dead Horseguardian.co.uk, UK - 8 hours agoBut the piece is filled with the indefinable poetry of loss, and with the sense that Hobart's personal corruption mirrors that of America itself. ...
- Contest seeks poems about human rights / Students could earn cash ... - Missoulian
Most Americans recognize that basic human rights are the foundation of a just society, paying societal dividends in countless ways. This week, area schoolchildren will have an opportunity to explore the importance of human rights while possibly ...
- Unbalanced balance - Charlevoix Courier
Unbalanced balanceCharlevoix Courier, MI - 12 minutes agoThe idea of witches as manipulators of events is useable in poetry or in fiction, but not in reality. Now, about the balance of nature: According to Webster ...
- Blogs can be another way to draw customers - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Blogs can be another way to draw customersRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 18 hours ago... to find you online. Write for your buyers, not yourself: Save your stream-of-consciousness poetry or Grandma's apple pie recipe for your personal blog. ...
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