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- Islands tunes weave colorful storytelling (The Charlotte Observer)
On its second album, “Arm's Way,” indie-rock sextet Islands splatters its beautifully bombastic, orchestral arrangements with vivid, sometimes gory and gruesome images – not to mention the CD cover, which features a fantasy scene inside an exploding rib cage. Yet all those elements tie together for a unique disc, where a sinister traveling carnival meets arena rock. “I feel an album is really a ...
- Frat housemother at SMU loves serving Pi - QuickDFW.com
The bass of a neighbor's stereo thumped against the thin walls of Lila McCurtain's apartment. Deep voices shouted profanities outside her window. A car alarm went off. CHERYL DIAZ MEYER/DMN Lila McCurtain, 76, is one of only four fraternity moms left ...
- Morton Library turns 100 (Gazette Advertiser)
RHINECLIFF - Join the residents of Rhinecliff as they celebrate their library's 100th birthday with an all-day and all-night celebration.
- By RACHEL KATZ, DAILY SUN (The Villages Daily Sun)
THE VILLAGES — For many people, Memorial Day blends into the background of their daily lives, simply becoming an excuse for a three-day weekend. Terry Robertson, a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, does not want Memorial Day to be just another day.
- Writers@Jordan House Sponsoring Spring Writing Workshop (Rockbridge Weekly)
WRITERS@JORDAN HOUSE is now accepting applicants for the spring writing workshop, six Mondays, beginning May 19 through June 23, 5:30-7:30 pm. Tuition is $175.
- Shenandoah fish kills cause roiling on river (The Washington Times)
Few American waterways evoke as much passion, poetry and song, and memories of days gone by as the Shenandoah River,...
- African businesses to aid xenophobia victims - Independent Online
African businesses to aid xenophobia victimsIndependent Online, South Africa - 53 minutes agoOther highlights of the carnival included story telling and poetry, field bands and street parades. The carnival will be held in Ladysmith, Howick, Durban, ...
- Synopses of 2008 IMPAC finalist novels and list of previous year's winners (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The finalists for this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, with synopses from the Web site, are: ...
- Be afraid - Independent
Sligo talisman Eamonn O'Hara in contemplative mood on the beach at Strandhill earlier this week as he and his team-mates prepare to travel to Castlebar to face Mayo for tomorrow's Connacht SFC semi-final A Sligo supporter visits a psychiatrist last ...
- Would A Bigger Barnes & Noble Kill Independent Bookstores - Wall Street Journal Blogs
Would A Bigger Barnes & Noble Kill Independent BookstoresWall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 15 minutes agoWe have classes too: a poetry class, and a class in 19th century literature. We have a climate change group that we started two years ago that has attracted ...
- Courting Trouble - Wall Street Journal
Many people are rubbing their eyes at the fact that Britain is letting out of jail some of al Qaeda's most dangerous members. In June a British court released the notorious Islamist preacher Abu Qatada, who had spent the previous three years in jail ...
- Poetry column: Honor fallen law enforcement officers (The Evening Sun)
If it weren't for mothers, the world would not lose its harsh edge. Moms have a way to soften the blow of human gales and the globe's disasters. They are the first defense we have, our protectors, our nurturers under the laws of nature. A blesséd day to all women who mother!
- Tango: soul and soundtrack of Buenos Aires - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukTango: soul and soundtrack of Buenos AiresTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoThe city didn't found itself, however, until Carlos Gardel sang the first great tango song, Mi noche triste, in 1917 - transforming into tremulous poetry ...
- Flying through life's regrets - San Jose Mercury News
Flying through life's regretsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 13 minutes agoAfter Ford's daughter is born, his wife, also a poet, pushes him to give up poetry. " 'You're a father,' " she said, as if drawing an impenetrable line ...
- Michael B. Casey, 76 - Baltimore Sun
Michael B. Casey, a retired bonding insurance administrator and freelance writer, died of cancer Monday at Memorial Hospital in Easton. The former Towson resident was 76. Mr. Casey was born in Hartford, Conn., and raised in New York City, Des Moines ...
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