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- Mourning parents target suicide sites (The Washington Times)
A married couple whose daughter killed herself with the aid of a suicide Web site are in Washington for the first time, making rounds on Capitol Hill to drum up support for a bill that would criminalize using the Internet to help someone end his life.
- Composer Stephen Foster's life in city helped shape music (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Stephen Collins Foster's young years in Pittsburgh in the 1800s helped shaped the music he would write later in his life.
- Homegrown rapper earns radio frame (Calaveras Enterprise)
Calaveras County rapper Romie Rome grew up surrounded by music. Now, his own music is gaining airwave exposure thanks to a contest offered to unsigned artists, and support from his family and friends.
- US: Indian student wins prestigious scholarship (rediff.com)
An 18-year-old 'exceptionally promising' high school senior from Andover, Massachusetts, was among 28 students named by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation last week as recipients of its up to $30,000 per year scholarship for four years of college education. Veda Eswarappa was the only Indian American among the 28 students from lower-income backgrounds named for the prestigious scholarship that the ...
- Beautiful 'Tree' bears fruit despite ill-suited story line - Chicago Sun-Times
You have to give big props to Chicago Opera Theater, the little company that could, can and does. Its remarkable coup in presenting the long-overdue Chicago premiere of John Adams' landmark "Nixon in China" two years ago so impressed the composer ...
- 'World's worst poems' at auction - BBC UK News
The ditties by "The Tayside Tragedian" have been valued in the same league as Harry Potter first editions signed by JK Rowling. McGonagall, who died in 1902, was often mocked and had food thrown at him during readings in Dundee. He was born in ...
- The Movie Masochist: The unexpected, undeserving summer hit (The Charlotte Observer)
Hollywood's stream of bad movies usually seems endless, but sometimes there's a drought. This often happens during the summer, when all the big studio movies stomp their way into multiplexes after marking their opening weekends with the noise and ferocity of rutting elephants. Summer is the time when the studios look to score big, so they lavish extra care and use excessive caution on projects ...
- Poet bitten by insects' intrigue (Toronto Star)
Lives of the poets, a continuing series.
- As freedoms roll back in the ex-Soviet world, Ukraine becomes an ... - PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
As freedoms roll back in the ex-Soviet world, Ukraine becomes an ...PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 14 hours agoDuring the past two years, Belarusian expatriates have held an annual «Belarusian Spring» festival, featuring fare banned back home _ movies, poetry ...
- Chautauqua features heroes of the natural world - Asheville Citizen-Times
Chautauqua features heroes of the natural worldAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoHer 1951 bestseller, “The Sea Around Us,” thrilled readers with the poetry of science. Eleven years later in her shattering classic “Silent Spring,” she ...
- Prince Releasing A New Multi-Media Book - The Celebrity Truth
The Celebrity TruthPrince Releasing A New Multi-Media BookThe Celebrity Truth, Australia - 4 hours ago... book book, being published by Atria, "transcends the conventions of form" according to a statement by the company and contains photographs, poetry by ...
- The poetry of train and track - Financial Times
Art in the Age of Steam Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool “Away with a shriek, and a roar, and a rattle,” runs Dickens’ enthralled/horrified description of a journey along “the track of the remorseless monster, Death!” in Dombey and Son in 1846 ...
- Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: the shortlist - Guardian Blogs
The big man himself ... but which book is a winner worthy of his name? Photograph: National Portrait Gallery/PA There are almost as many ways to read a book as there are books to read - in the bath, on the loo, or slumped in your favourite armchair ...
- East Palo Alto to celebrate Juneteenth (Palo Alto Weekly)
East Palo Alto will celebrate Juneteenth this weekend with a parade, music performances, activities and community speakers.
- Anger after judge acquits Hannibal - Scotsman
Anger after judge acquits HannibalScotsman, United Kingdom - 49 minutes agoBy Gareth Rose A VIOLENT rapist dubbed Hannibal has walked free from court after sending a message that left an NHS Lothian official in fear of his life. ...
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