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- Pool company head pleads not guilty in boy’s death (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 12, 2008 (11:54 a.m.) A swimming pool company president has pleaded not guilty to a manslaughter charge in connection with the drowning death of a boy whose arm was trapped by a pool's powerful drain pump.
- Book Review: An A to Z Walk In The Park by R.M. Smith (Blogcritics.org)
Graphic artist R.M. Smith teaches the alphabet and animals in his lovely park. An A to Z Walk in the Park by R.M. Smith is a lovely animal themed stroll through the alphabet. This 9” by 9” picture book is aimed at the three to seven year old age group, and it should please animal loving youngsters with its combination of exotic and familiar beasts. The conceit of the book is inviting the reader ...
- From the Chicago Tribune - Orlando Sentinel
From the Chicago TribuneOrlando Sentinel, FL - 4 hours agoThe Library of Congress announced Thursday that Ryan, whose poetry has been compared with Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th US poet ...
- A Bronx Tale (The New York Sun)
Many a highbrow raised a brow high last year when the critic Clive James, in his book "Cultural Amnesia," included just three movie actors among his selections of the most significant cultural figures of the century. They were Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and ... Tony Curtis. That's right. Not Brando or Olivier or even John Wayne, but the Jewish kid from the Bronx, Bernie Schwartz — the guy who ...
- Foster kids tell their stories through art (The Arizona Republic)
The West Valley Art Museum features a traveling exhibit depicting life in the foster care system as seen through the artistic eyes of the children it affects.
- Last night's TV: A very British rocket launch (Guardian Unlimited)
Michelle Hodgson: A very British rocket launch
- Rochester poets show poetry is not for sissies - Democrat and Chronicle
Forget Stephen King. You want bone-chilling violence, blood-curdling revenge, read a poem. That's one lesson I learned from going though the 180 or so poems submitted to the first-ever Connections Contrition poetry contest. As announced last week ...
- Students leave as friends after summer EIU writing institute (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
CHARLESTON — Strangers only four weeks ago, 14 teachers from area schools huddled together in groups Thursday, laughing and discussing future plans.
- Regional Happenings: Elvis Week, cowboys, melons & more (Baxter Bulletin)
Here's a look at local and regional happenings.
- Schedule For 'IMWYRT' - GoErie.com
Schedule For 'IMWYRT'GoErie.com, PA - 9 hours ago12, 2 to 3:30 pm Discussion of Robert Frost's poetry from 1923 and 1928 Aug. 19, 2 to 3:30 pm Discussion of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry from 1923. Aug. ...
- Girls in shining armor? (Abilene Reporter-News)
You've probably seen pictures or movies with knights in armor or soldiers wearing chain mail small metal links woven into a vest or shirt -- worn for protection against swords.
- Anniversary: Scott - Livingston Daily
Anniversary: ScottLivingston Daily, MI - 3 hours agoHe enjoys art, music and writing, and is the author of "Special Moments in Poetry," and a textbook entitled "Basic Drafting." Carol Ruth (Ayrton) Scott was ...
- Looking at presidential contenders through a Hollywood lens - MiamiHerald.com
Looking at presidential contenders through a Hollywood lensMiamiHerald.com, FL - 31 minutes ago... on the theme of the fecklessness of youth, and nobody but Wayne could turn it into poetry. But I also remember Will Smith in the original Men in Black. ...
- Blindsided By Bon Iver - JamBase
JamBaseBlindsided By Bon IverJamBase, CA - 44 minutes ago"That's sort of an aside or a goal I'd love to do with my life as a musician or an artist, and it's cool to hear [it had that effect] but mostly I feel ...
- Part 1: The Bob Owen Story - Topeka Capitol-Journal
The Harvard graduate tipped a paper cup to his lips, tranquilizing his brain. Liquid stelazine tamed his delusions as it washed over him inside his sparsely decorated hospital room — a desk, a chair and a single bed inside four white walls. File ...
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