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- Historical anti-slavery speech the subject of July 4th celebration - Oakland Tribune
Oakland musicians and poets will offer an alternative celebration of Independence Day this week with a staged version of Frederick Douglass' famed 1852 speech decrying the hypocrisy of slavery in a supposedly free country. Poetry and jazz ensemble ...
- Travel: Days Out - Independent
Travel: Days OutIndependent, UK - 17 minutes agoGrouped into five key themes – war, emigration, industry, entertainment and politics – each is brought to life by snippets of poetry, literature, film, ...
- Memoirs of a Girl From the East Country (O.K., Queens) - New York Times
IT is one of the most evocative images of Greenwich Village in the 1960s. An attractive young couple are walking down the middle of a snow-covered street. His head is down and tilted toward her. He’s wearing an artfully half-buttoned brown suede ...
- Let the revelry begin: Society for Creative Anachronism holds ... - Salisbury Post
Let the revelry begin: Society for Creative Anachronism holds ...Salisbury Post, NC - 4 hours ago... tennis shoes and oh yeah, without the Black Plague. SCA members and appreciators gathered Saturday for an afternoon and evening of music, poetry and ...
- Miley Cyrus (Gay Wired)
There once was a trivial pursuit question that asked what kind of people come from Lesbos? The answer is lesbians, of course. This week, however, the small Greek providence is trying to put an end to that with what is perhaps one of the silliest lawsuits ever conceived.
- How Libby became Cheney's pawn - Salon
Photo composite: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (left) and Vice President Dick Cheney. Feb. 1, 2007 | Few issues more agitated and preoccupied Vice President Dick Cheney in the early months after the declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq than ...
- Modernity collides with Elizabethan sensibilities in 'Cardenio,' a ... - Boston Globe
Modernity collides with Elizabethan sensibilities in 'Cardenio,' a ...Boston Globe, United States - 55 minutes agoAnd so it is with "Cardenio," which opened Wednesday at the American Repertory Theatre. Hugely anticipated, it is also, I am very sorry to say, ...
- Queen Victoria had an affair with Indian courtier: Film - Rediff
Contrary to her sombre public image, in private Britain's Queen Victoria was a passionate, romantic and a feisty politician who even had an affair with an young and handsome Indian servant, according to a new film. Apart from the Indian courtier ...
- Festival to rock out with Patti Smith - News.com.au
Legendary writer and 1970s rock performer Patti Smith will perform in Melbourne for the first time in more than a decade. She will also join composer Philip Glass on stage for one performance of music and poetry in tribute to the late beat poet ...
- Kenya: Kwani Lit Fest Faculty - AllAfrica.com
Kenya: Kwani Lit Fest FacultyAllAfrica.com, Washington - 14 minutes agoHis collection of poetry, 'What if I am a literary gangster?' was published by Brown Bear Insignia in 2007. Wambui Mwangi (Kenya): A scholar and a writer. ...
- Fred Hersch and Kurt Elling: Poetic Collaboration at the ... - Jazz Police
Fred Hersch and Kurt Elling: Poetic Collaboration at the ...Jazz Police, MN - 10 hours agoPoetry transcends form. Fred Hersch and Kurt Elling, whether reinterpreting Walt Whitman or inventing language in the moment, are complementary instruments, ...
- These United States join WMUA line-up - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
These United States join WMUA line-upThe Massachusetts Daily Collegian, MA - 16 minutes agoIt is a simple, free-flowing style, much like Whitman's poetry. "The song is usually written in one burst - maybe pored back over and edited several ...
- 'A Step from Death' is a memoir full of poetry (Prairie Public Broadcasting)
North Dakota's poet laureate traces his life as father, farmer, and writer. It's hard to know where to start praising Larry Woiwode's new memoir A Step From Death . Perhaps with the language – perfect, poetic, layered. Perhaps with the pace – wandering, peripatetic, interrupted, like memory itself.
- Summer Travel Must-Do: Edinburgh Comedy Festival - Travel Connect
Summer Travel Must-Do: Edinburgh Comedy FestivalTravel Connect, UK - 22 hours ago... some of the most promising emerging and unknown talent from across the spectrum of sketch, improv, stand up, poetry, musical and comic theatre. ...
- Singing in the Rain - ESPN.com
In the end it was all fairly dramatic, as the rain poured down from the dark Pamplona sky. The owner of the bar where I decided to watch the second half of the Osasuna v Real Madrid game is from Navarre, and he adorns the walls of his hostelry with ...
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