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- Nickelsville emptied in uneventful police sweep; 22 arrested - Seattle Times
Seattle police tell John Clark, seated, that he must vacate the homeless encampment known as Nickelsville. Clark refused to leave and was taken away by police. JOHN LOK / THE SEATTLE TIMES Before police arrived, volunteers and residents worked on ...
- 'Mixing It Up' by Ishmael Reed - Los Angeles Times
'Mixing It Up' by Ishmael ReedLos Angeles Times, CA - 12 minutes agoHis plays, poetry and especially his satirical, form-breaking novels have countered the racial distortions and omissions of popular (ie, white) media by ...
- Creative dissonance is the point of Ali's exhibit at the DeCordova - Boston Globe
"Deceptively simple" is a phrase frequently used to describe the style of artists like Laylah Ali. Ali, based in Williamstown, is the subject of a small show of recent drawings at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park called "Notes/Drawings ...
- Out and About: Sept. 3 - 14 - Mansfield News
Out and About: Sept. 3 - 14Mansfield News, MA - 30 minutes agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- Match book to young reader for success story - St. Petersburg Times
I love to read. As a middle school language arts teacher, part of my job is to teach reading  not just the mechanics and strategies. I try to inspire children to be lifelong readers. Most middle schoolers don't like to read. Most people don't like ...
- Neimanis' "Air Heart" this Weekend at Rhodes (The Memphis Flyer)
Mara Neimanis' visually compelling Air Heart --on stage at Rhodes College this Friday and Saturday -- mixes poetry, dance, sculpture, and aerial acrobatics, with the conventions of a well-worn theatrical convention: The one-person show about a famous historical character.
- An Americus author records his life story after becoming a Christian ... - Albany Herald
AMERICUS  When life ends for someone, what remains as a testament to their existence varies greatly, depending on what they did with their time on earth. For one Americus man, the recorded happenings of his life are now preserved for posterity in ...
- Dinner Dream (Pittsburgh City Paper)
A poem by Leslie Anne Mcilroy.
- Obama ticks all the boxes: Young, black, family man with tear-jerker ... - Daily Mail
So is he The One? A balmy night. Stepping onstage at sundown, before an audience of 85,000, Barack Obama - the first black man chosen by a major U.S. party as its presidential candidate - offered new politics for a new century. But why did they sound ...
- Open minds, open hearts, open house (Nuvo)
Indianapolis Peace House residents, who are making contributions to Indianapolis’ culture this summer at various peace-building organizations, will host an open house Wednesday, July 30.
- WEEKEND WATCH - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
WEEKEND WATCHKalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com, MI - 6 hours agoVISUAL AND PERFORMANCE ART, live music and spoken word poetry, 5-7:30 pm, Fire Studio and Gallery, 1249 Portage St. OIL PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLOR by Judy ...
- Book fair, parade highlight Dominican Independence Day (The Eagle-Tribune)
LAWRENCE  It's going to be a bittersweet Independence Day celebration for Dominicans after Jose Balbuena, who they were going to honor, died last week after battling cancer. "We don't want this to be a sad posthumous moment because we were going to honor him anyway," said Dario Silverio, parade organizer. "We want to remember him as he was, happy, full of life."
- Après Lewis - Wall Street Journal
Après LewisWall Street Journal - 4 hours agoBy DAVID SKEEL Recently a friend assured me that a book by a well-known evangelical Christian was the new "Mere Christianity." For an evangelical this ...
- The Poetry Of A Political Speech - Huffingtonpost.com
Presidential nomination acceptance speeches surely aim to create great quotes, not to repeat them. So I should have figured that when I went digging around in such speeches this past week looking for lines of poetry, I'd come up empty handed. Well ...
- Charm and cleverness - New Statesman
New StatesmanCharm and clevernessNew Statesman, UK - 2 hours agoSadly, but not fatally, Alison Anderson's English translation mislays much of the poetry of the original. Literal rather than instinctive, it is uneven, ...
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