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- Column: Back to Beirut (The Daily Review)
My heart started thumping when my parents told us we were going to Lebanon. They were beaming with excitement — my dad hasn't gone back to his homeland in nearly 20 years and it has been 14 years since my mom and I went there.
- BOOKS-US: Blogging Brobdingnagian Blowback - Inter Press Service (subscription)
BOOKS-US: Blogging Brobdingnagian BlowbackInter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 4 hours agoEnglehardt's work -- and those he selects from the blog -- read like poetry. In the rapid-fire blogger world, he breaks the mold by sticking to the old ...
- Entertainment Calendar: 06/20/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Entertainment Calendar: 06/20/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour agoStone Circle 25th anniversary celebration, 9 pm, family-friendly poetry, storytelling and music around a fire, $4 adults, $2 children; US 31, 10 miles north ...
- Ian Hunter on William Topaz McGonagall, the world's worst poet - National Post
Ian Hunter on William Topaz McGonagall, the world's worst poetNational Post, Canada - 3 hours agoMcGonagall would be sad to learn that perhaps his most famous poem, Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silver Tay, is used in schools as an object lesson in ...
- Africa Alive Festival aims to help orphans with AIDS - Wisconsin State Journal
Capital Brewery in Middleton will host an important fundraiser for South African AIDS orphans on Saturday, Aug. 2. The 3rd annual Africa Alive Festival, sponsored by Kidlinks World Inc., will feature a variety of entertainment for the entire family ...
- Three Days To Hone Craft, Meet Agents And Talk Shop - Evening Bulletin
Three Days To Hone Craft, Meet Agents And Talk ShopEvening Bulletin, PA - 27 minutes agoParticipants will have the opportunity to explore many topics including novel, magazine, poetry, memoir, nonfiction books, short story and juvenile writing. ...
- Citizens, alliance support Boston's at-risk youth - Boston Globe
Citizens Bank and the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston said they are teaming up again to bring a summer enrichment program to Boston neighborhoods. The program, funded by a $100,000 grant from the Citizens Bank Foundation, focuses on ...
- Derek Walcott attacks Sir VS Naipaul in verse - Hindu
Derek Walcott attacks Sir VS Naipaul in verseHindu, India - 6 hours agoNow, he has upped the ante by slamming his old sparring partner in a poem that mocked the Indian-origin author as a "mongoose". ...
- Books bagged by Gladstone to go under hammer - Times Online
Books bagged by Gladstone to go under hammerTimes Online, UK - 5 hours agoAmong them are Bibles, poetry, literature and a vast range of books on ornithology, military history, botany, exploration and geography. ...
- WIU celebrates African women writers, Achebe - Daily Sun
WIU celebrates African women writers, AchebeDaily Sun, Nigeria - 2 hours ago... fiction and poetry readings, African cinema and art, African children literature, performances, workshops, round tables and book signing. ...
- On radio: Prescott joins the workers' revolution - Daily Telegraph
Alf the plumber first drew my family's attention to Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists back in 1946. Alf, more given to pinching me than plumbing, was attempting to engage my mother in the workers' revolution. My mother, who had ...
- Idealism, refashioned - Los Angeles Times
It's hard not to notice that we're suddenly in the grip of what might be called "Kennedy chic," triggered in part by the enthusiasm for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidacy. Just this month, major books on John and Robert Kennedy have hit the ...
- The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival is still everybody's favourite fringe fest (Uptown Magazine)
The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival turns 21 this week - and it's celebrating Vegas-style. The annual alt theatre festival kicked off on July 16, and 141 local, national and international companies will draw over 100,000 Fringers to 22 venues in the Exchange District over the next 11 days.
- New play explores what search reveals about us (Local Tech Wire)
PHILADELPHIA — They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person?
- Sadly, what we have here is a failure to be happy (News Transcript)
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think.
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