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- Brooks & Dunn to rock with ZZ Top - AZCentral.com
Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have been musical partners for 17 years. That's long enough to rack up 20 No. 1 country singles and a staggering number of trophies from the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music. The duo's latest ...
- Saddam feared disease in prison, according to his `diary' - Kansas City Star
Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein reacts in court in this 2006 file photo in Baghdad, Iraq. Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his ...
- Bill Brownstein - The Gazette (Montreal)
Bill BrownsteinThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 7 hours agoHe should know, after penning the volume of poetry, Live at the Apollo. He is the author of Sex Carnival, a whimsical peek into the wide world of sex, ...
- Great Basin Jazz Camp: Summer event moves to Nampa, Idaho - Elko Daily Free Press
Submitted Music students learn the finer points of performing in a jazz ensemble during the 2007 Great Basin Jazz Camp. ELKO - With summer quickly approaching, people are faced with a variety of activities to broaden their horizons. The Great Basin ...
- Man arrested over theft of £15million Shakespeare book from Durham University (Daily Mail)
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the theft of a priceless book from Durham University ten years ago. It is believed to be worth at least £15million.
- Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
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 soon faces a second round with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb.
- Racist Media Whore Designer Says Dumb Things All By Himself [Fools] (Gawker)
We dislike giving any unnecessary PR to [bad designer], the L.E.S. twit who duped the free NYC paper Metro into putting him on its cover for a racist publicity stunt about a (probably nonexistent)...
- Winners of Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The National League of American Pen Women's Honolulu chapter has announced the winners of the 2008 Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition. The biennial contest was open to all writers in categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The poetry winners are printed below.
- 'Auguries of Innocence' by Patti Smith - Los Angeles Times
'Auguries of Innocence' by Patti SmithLos Angeles Times, CA - 7 minutes ago... or "The Writer's Song," which closes out the book. There, she reminds us once again of the sustaining power of poetry: "it is better to write / then die ...
- District Community Events May 8-15, 2008 - Washington Post
District Community Events May 8-15, 2008Washington Post, United States - 7 hours agoUS POET LAUREATE LECTURE, Charles Simic discusses poetry translation. 6:45 pm, Library of Congress, Madison Building, Montpelier Room, 101 Independence Ave. ...
- The O.C.: Our Guide to ALA in Anaheim - School Library Journal
For those of us who grew up in Orange County (O.C.), Disneyland is the metaphoricmorsel of food that gets stuck between the teeth of someone you don’t like. Yes, it’s obviously there and you could mention it, but pretending you don’t see it ...
- Poster poems: Actually creating reading of substance trapped in ... - Guardian Blogs
OK, so it's better if you don't have a Y in your name. With more advanced students, I liked to explore more complex possibilities; the language of affection, irony, satire, the natural world and so on were all practised by generating acrostics. But ...
- Poetry like a prayer (The Norman Transcript)
Jim Chastain — father, husband, friend, writer, poet, movie critic, attorney, cancer patient — has found a whole new universe of friends and fans as he’s dealt with his illness and reached out to those close and not so close with his creative talents, whether or not he meant to.
- Lost Dog wins NSW literary gong - The West Australian
Lost Dog wins NSW literary gongThe West Australian, Australia - 6 hours agoKathryn Lomer's work Two Kinds of Silence was awarded the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and James Roy received the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's ...
- Letters to the Editor: (Berkeley Daily Planet)
I love New York—the sprawling cement, the bustle of the non-stop traffic, the throngs of people pushing through the sidewalks, as long shadows are cast on the street below from enormous skyscrapers.
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