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- What’s Happening! Journal of the San Juans Entertainment Calendar - PNW Local News
What’s Happening! Journal of the San Juans Entertainment CalendarPNW Local News, WA - 28 minutes agoJoin other adults and listen to poetry, articles and essays, snippets and stories. Free. n Poetry and Spoken Word, 7 pm, San Juan Island Library. ...
- Prayer vigil in Clemson honors lives lost in China - Anderson Independent-Mail
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY — During a campus candlelight vigil Friday night at Clemson University, students and faculty honored those in China who were lost in the 8.0 magnitude earthquake on May 12. Recent reports place the death toll at more than 50,000 ...
- Strike up the symphony to celebrate the Fourth - Contra Costa Times
A VERITABLE critical mass of red-white-and-blue icons gathers at the Shoreline Amphitheatre on the Fourth of July, where the San Francisco Symphony presents a work by our most famous homegrown composer about, arguably, our history's most esteemed ...
- 'Bull Durham' hits the 20-year mark - Chicago Sun-Times
DURHAM, N.C. -- The bull still snarls from atop the outfield wall, snorting smoke after home runs and taunting hitters with four simple words written on it: Hit bull, win steak. The replica of the prop Hollywood built for ''Bull Durham'' is larger ...
- We're not number one - Capitol Hill Blue
Being a patriotic fellow, I am always saddened to learn that the good ol' USA isn't No. 1 in all fields. That was my reaction last week when I read an Associated Press story from Edinburgh, Scotland, that said a collector had paid $12,840 for 35 ...
- Dalai Lama thrills area students at Seeds of Compassion Youth Day - The Olympian
Dalai Lama thrills area students at Seeds of Compassion Youth DayThe Olympian, WA - 46 minutes agoThe event included several music and dance performances, spoken-word poetry and clips from documentaries — all encompassing the theme of compassion. ...
- Selected and otherwise - The Phoenix
The PhoenixSelected and otherwiseThe Phoenix, MA - 1 hour agoMs. Mansfield notwithstanding, most poetry readers make their own selections of their favorite poets. Recently in an unconvincing, and in my opinion unfair, ...
- Richard Fuchs - SOUNZ
Richard Fuchs was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, the eldest son of a well established German Jewish Family. Although he trained as an architect, he was a gifted pianist and composer. A disciple of Wagner and Mahler, he wrote symphonies, chamber works as ...
- Chipper homers on birthday as Braves top Marlins (USA Today)
Happy birthday, Chipper Jones. The Braves slugger celebrated his 36th birthday by going 3-for-3, including a homer, to lead Atlanta past the NL East-leading Florida Marlins 7-4 on Thursday night.
- Poetry review: Elegy, by Mary Jo Bang (The Tennessean)
While perhaps not a household name, Bang won this year's National Book Critics' Circle Award for Elegy, the chronicle of a year following the apparent suicide of her son. The collection is characterized by short, honed sentences and syntax that acts like knife-thrusts to the reader's heart, avoiding any sentimentality.
- Tidioute Area News In Brief - Warren Times-Observer
There will be a meeting for Vacation Bible School on Wednesday night, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the Tidioute First United Methodist Church. Those wishing to help with V.B.S. this year are urged to attend this meeting. V. B. S. will be held July 27 ...
- Colin James: Anzac friends put oomph into ties - New Zealand Herald
Colin James: Anzac friends put oomph into tiesNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 4 hours agoHe reads poetry for pleasure besides running New Zealand Post. He wants a strategic future for the forum. So, bank the working groups' successes - which ...
- In creative writing, the girls get the last word (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Linda Melcher's 18-year-old daughter likes to write poetry, but her 14-year-old son doesn't like to write at all. Â Â Â "He doesn't have the patience," the Butler Middle School parent said.
- Bob Dylan at the Halcyon Gallery - the Sunday Times review - Times Online
Picasso once said, very foolishly, that he would be remembered as “a Spanish poet who dabbled in painting”. He was kidding himself. The terrible poems and plays he began spewing out in the 1930s were the least convincing signs of genius he ever ...
- Cape Town refugees celebrate Africa Day - Athlone
Cape Town refugees celebrate Africa DayAthlone, South Africa - 10 hours agoThere will also be an arts and crafts exhibition involving about 100 exhibitors, short films on African heritage, poetry readings, drama, song and dance ...
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