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- Calendar - books - Herald News
DANIEL ROBB, author of “Sloop: Restoring My Family’s Wooden Sailboat — An Adventure in Old-Fashioned Values,†will be signing and talking about his book at 6:30 p.m., on Wednesday, June 4 at Island Books, 565 East Main Road, Middletown, R.I ...
- Charlotte Sometimes hopes to ride a wave - Orange County Register
From Evanescence, Paramore and Flyleaf to Feist, Regina Spektor and current sensation Sara Bareilles, today's female musicians are taking the music world by storm. Singer-songwriter Charlotte Sometimes, who soon could be joining them, weighed in on ...
- Rock'n'roll survival the Marianne Faithfull way - Birmingham Post
Rock'n'roll survival the Marianne Faithfull wayBirmingham Post, UK - 1 hour agoShe even helped out Carla Bruni (on the recommendation of their mutual old flame Mick Jagger) with the text on her poetry-based album No Promises, ...
- English Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships (Newswise)
Paul Sorrentino was awarded a Guggenheim for his work on the life of Stephen Crane. Bob Hicok, awarded the Guggenheim for poetry, has been called one of the best poets of his generation. He also garnered the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for his most recent collection, This Clumsy Living.
- Your Community (Albany Democrat-Herald)
ALBANY Model A’s to roll through town Saturday The Enduring A’s Model A Ford Club of America will tour through Albany as part of International Model A Day on Saturday to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Model A.
- Poet staves off poverty in exotic Edmonton - National Post
Poet staves off poverty in exotic EdmontonNational Post, Canada - 1 hour agoThough he's written three novels and a memoir (last fall's The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture), Bowling's first love is poetry. ...
- Saddam feared getting AIDS or venereal diseases from US prison guards ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune
CAIRO, Egypt - Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in ...
- Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada" - Boston IMC
Ramzy Baroud is a veteran Palestinian-American journalist and former Al-Jazeera producer. He also taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, a vital ...
- Five contend for title of queen of Farm Fair - Bucks County Courier Times
LUMBERTON — A teenage girl will be chosen this week to reign over this year's Burlington County Farm Fair. Five girls will compete in the annual Farm Fair Queen pageant at 8 p.m. Wednesday, the first day of the 62nd annual fair at the Village Green ...
- Montmartre routs Grand Prix raiders - Daily Telegraph
It is usually the Derby or the Irish equivalent that establishes the pecking order for three-year-old colts. However, the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris, one of the few European Group One events to be run at an evening meeting, threw up a horse to ...
- Fathers and Druthers (Washington Post)
So how was Father's Day for you? Did you get a new tie and a Sinatra record? Oh, you got a game for your Wii and the new Death Cab for Cutie? Cool. Pretty great to be treated like a king after a long week at the office, right? What, your wife's got the full-time job? No, it's your partner, Fred, ...
- Spaces' 30th anniversary show mixes compelling work, pervasive gloom - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Spaces is showing its age in more ways than one. The nonprofit, artist-run gallery is marking its 30th anniversary with a downbeat exhibition that looks backward, not forward. Called "Living in Your Imagination," the show displays new works by ...
- When Poetry Got Difficult (Arts Journal)
"One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21st century, when music videos and satellite television offer daunting competition for poems, which demand a good deal of attention and considerable analytic skills, as well as some knowledge of the traditions of poetry.
- Guttman to Participate in Artsweek Book Fair - Hamilton College News
Guttman to Participate in Artsweek Book FairHamilton College News, NY - 2 hours agoWet Apples, White Blood was recently awarded the Adirondack Literary Award for Best Book of Poetry in 2007. For more book fair information go to: ...
- Quake books sold for victims - CCTV
CCTVQuake books sold for victimsCCTV, China - 5 hours agoBook lovers in Shanghai thronged to a bookstore Saturday morning, buying a collection of poetry commemorating the Wenchuan Earthquake. ...
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