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- Well Done -- West Des Moines, Clive, Waukee (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)
Laura Terlouw, a graduate of Valley High School in West Des Moines and Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., received her law degree from Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif., on May 4.
- Sanpete communities roll out wagonload of Pioneer Day events - San Pete Messenger
As some Sanpete cities settle down from a fun-filled explosion of Independence Day events, others are getting fired up for their Pioneer Day celebrations. Following are highlights of the activities planned around the county: Centerfield Today at 6 p ...
- Controversial abortion doctor faced a lifetime of persecution - Globe and Mail
Henry Morgentaler, the Holocaust survivor and medical doctor who won a Supreme Court decision making abortion legally available in Canada in 1988, has attracted admiration from pro-choice groups and condemnation from anti-abortion activists. That ...
- 826michigan offers summer writing programs - MLive.com
With the end of this school year, 826michigan volunteers are done helping with homework. Instead, the organization is providing writing activities throughout the summer. Programs, dates and times of activities at its location, 115 E. Liberty St ...
- Taking action - Daily Triplicate
Daily TriplicateTaking actionDaily Triplicate, CA - 3 hours agoThey teamed up with the Klamath Boys and Girls Club to organize youth activities including a movie night, arts and crafts and a community poetry and ...
- Literary community lobbies for city to create poet laureate - Kingston Whig
By the end of the month, the city's arts and literary community will find out whether a proposal to create a poet laureate for Kingston will become a reality. And compared to the other major projects being bandied about, creating a poet laureate ...
- Students tested on Winehouse lyrics (Moldova.org)
Students taking the Practical Criticism class at Cambridge University in England compared Amy Winehouse's lyrics to Sir Walter Raleigh's poetry for an exam. The Daily Telegraph said the third-year students were also asked to compare Raleigh's work with songs by Bob Dylan and Billie Holiday.One student who didn't want to be named until his final examination paper had been graded, said: It was ...
- Burnside, Thirlwell and Riley among Society of Authors winners - guardian.co.uk
Burnside, Thirlwell and Riley among Society of Authors winnersguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoAmong the poetry awards, the McKitterick prize went to Jennie Walker, pseudonym of the novelist and publisher Charles Boyle and recipient of one of the ...
- Sherman Lee, who led the Cleveland Museum of Art to global renown ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sherman Lee, the Cleveland Museum of Art's director from 1958 to 1983, bought many of the most famous pieces in its collection and cemented its global reputation. Sherman Lee, who led the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1958 to 1983 and was hailed ...
- Moorhead center features 'Capturing Memories' exhibit - Sioux City Journal
MOORHEAD, Iowa -- The 14th annual Capturing Memories exhibit, now at the Moorhead Cultural Center, has the theme "The World as Seen from My Point of View." Entrants in the exhibit range in age from 16 to senior citizens in their 80's. "There is truly ...
- NH child-sex fugitive on FBI's most-wanted list is arrested (7 News Boston)
CONCORD, N.H. -- An FBI most-wanted fugitive who writes poetry, plays the piano and speaks several languages has been arrested in Mexico nine years after he allegedly molested the 5-year-old son of a couple who befriended him, authorities said Friday.
- Various : Exit Wounds - The Album - NME
It's almost standard practice for Hollywood moguls to tie-in action movies with a hip-hop soundtrack, especially when a rapper co-stars. As DMX extends his thespian powers in the new Steven Segal vehicle, here's a compilation of established and ...
- Boarding Gate - Salon
Michael Madsen and Asia Argento in "Boarding Gate." March 21, 2008 | In an early scene in Olivier Assayas' hypnotic, angular thriller "Boarding Gate," Asia Argento, as the ex-lover of Michael Madsen's international business tycoon, reflects on the ...
- STRAIGHT TO THE HEART (The Monterey County Herald)
We talk about it in a thousand ways — big-hearted, broken-hearted, all heart. It's celebrated in poetry and song as the center of passion and of pain and compassion, its cartoonish image doodled on notes, Valentine's candies cast in its idealized likeness.
- In a derelict barn quietly grows the last piece of ‘Scotland’s greatest artwork’ (Sunday Herald)
Hamilton Finlay died in 2006 it was believed that Little Sparta, the garden he created and filled with his artwork, was complete.
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