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- Olympics opening ceremony - live! - Guardian Blogs
Gosh. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm so excited I can barely sit still. That's not sarcasm, by the way - I love pretty much every single thing about the Olympics, and that includes opening ceremonies, no matter how bizarre and metaphor-laden. So join ...
- New Milford auto repairman feels urge to compete in poetry slams (The News-Times)
DANBURY--There isn't a lot of money to be made on the competitive poetry circuit.Occasionally, you might win a small cash prize. More often, the rewards are far less tangible.That's one of the reasons that Craig Weidner is working as a service manager at a downtown auto repair shop rather than spinning his freestyle verse for appreciative audiences at poetry slams across the country.
- Virtual Greats Enters $1.5 Billion Virtual Goods Market - PR Inside
- Millions of Us LLC Mat Small, 510-684-3552 mat@millionsofus.com www.millionsofus.com Millions of Us LLC, an agency specializing in virtual worlds and large online communities, today announced that it is launching a new company, Virtual Greats, to ...
- Area digest -- Published Aug. 7, 2008 - Stockton Record
Area digest -- Published Aug. 7, 2008Stockton Record, CA - Aug 7, 2008Abstract artist David Jon Foster will share poetry, creative writing and free-form short stories from his new book, "The Writing of David Jon Foster" at 8 ...
- Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' - Fosters Daily Democrat
NEW YORK (AP) _ It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and ...
- Pretty pictures, poetry, prose perfect for lazy phase - Columbus Dispatch
Columbus DispatchPretty pictures, poetry, prose perfect for lazy phaseColumbus Dispatch, OH - 25 minutes ago... all ages): Still funny after 44 years: Shel Silverstein's first book of children's poetry has been reissued in all its original weirdness and appeal. ...
- He's your man - St. John's Telegram
St. John's TelegramHe's your manSt. John's Telegram, Canada - 1 hour agoAs the band started into "Dance Me To The End Of Love" from 1984's "Various Positions," the woman seated next to me gasped in excitement. ...
- Java franchise shop is on the go - Hampton Roads Daily Press
At a time major coffee chain Starbucks is closing some of its stores, Daily Grind Unwind, a nationally franchised coffee shop, is certain that lattes and espressos will never go out of style. The company plans to open several new locations in ...
- Art review: Foto - Scotsman
Art review: FotoScotsman, United Kingdom - 35 minutes agoDark Repose by Karel Kasparic shows a woman sleeping, her figure suggestively cut by sharp lines of light and shade. The shadows of people in a sunlit ...
- Abrams delivers poetry as a high art of human expression (Cornell News Service)
A poem is "one of the most nuanced of the arts in expressing what is human," said Cornell Professor Emeritus M.H. (Mike) Abrams, who shared some of his deep understanding and love of poetry in a public lecture, "On Reading Poems Aloud," July 16, in Alice Statler Auditorium.
- Social networks 'teaching tech skills' (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have suggested that social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook can have educational benefits for students.
- Look on my works, and despair - guardian.co.uk
Look on my works, and despairguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours agoIt as if they were finalists in a Friday-Nite Hyborian Age poetry smackdown, pitting the long of tooth against the short on smarts, where first prize is a ...
- Pay No Attention To That Man Behind the Curtain (Blogcritics.org)
The lousy job of political reporting. In the middle of the last century, stories were told of poets in the then USSR commanding audiences of tens of thousands for readings. America was astounded. Poetry? Not rock and roll? Granted, the Soviet Union backed those poets and rock stars were, of course, not allowed to tour. But, I think it is apocryphal. People will gather any time...
- Tunisia Mourns Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish - Al Arab Online
Following the death of the prominent Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali addressed to Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and president of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation ...
- A Garland of Melodies: Ragamala Paintings at The Norton Simon Museum - Art Daily
A Garland of Melodies: Ragamala Paintings at The Norton Simon MuseumArt Daily - 3 hours agoRagamala paintings are a combination of three forms of artistic expression—music, poetry and the visual arts. Traditional Indian music is organized into a ...
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