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- The truth about life after 80 - Guardian Unlimited
Being 80 is the moment of truth. This is the moment when you can no longer think of yourself as "promising", when you can no longer huffily say "elderly", or use the dread phrase "I'm 78 years young." You are old. Being old is not necessarily awful ...
- Playwright's own story adds a personal touch to the myth of Orpheus ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Staging one of Ruhl's lyrical works is like that, too, Alison Narver has discovered. It demands time and patience to render something so spare. "Eurydice," which begins previews Friday at ACT Theatre, is the second of Ruhl's plays that Narver has ...
- Sanctuary hosts open house to show off brood - Record Searchlight
SHINGLETOWN -- Once again, the home of an elusive equine celebrity is throwing down the welcome mat. The Wild Horse Sanctuary -- refuge for some 300 wild burros and horses, including a white stallion named Phantom -- will hold its annual open house ...
- Legendary Actor Paul Newman dies at 83 (Zap2It)
The blue-eyed star of 'The Hustler,' 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' was at home after a long battle with cancer Paul Newman, the legendary movie star and irreverent cultural icon who created a model philanthropy fueled by profits from a salad dressing that became nearly as famous as he was, has died. He was 83.
- Poet laureate Kay Ryan, a river of contradiction (The Buffalo News)
Kay Ryan is a woman built on contradictions. She's an adventurer who once rode her bicycle clear across the country –and she's a poet who writes while lying in bed.
- Wednesday's Agenda, July 23 - Miami Herald
Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. Or e-mail your items to newscalendar@MiamiHerald.com . No faxes, please. For a complete ...
- Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wins the 11th Triennial ... - MLive.com
Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wins the 11th Triennial ...MLive.com, MI - 2 hours agoRobert Pinsky, 67, was chosen by a panel of three judges to receive the $3000 Saginaw-based poetry prize for his 2007 book titled "Gulf Music. ...
- Family Feature Film - Birmingham News
Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope Florence Forest Park Fultondale Gadsden Gardendale ...
- Kershaw, Dodgers to face rookie Scherzer today, not Randy Johnson - Press-Enterprise
Kershaw, Dodgers to face rookie Scherzer today, not Randy JohnsonPress-Enterprise, CA - 1 hour agoDodgers fans can expect to enjoy at least one more season of Vin Scully's one-of-a-kind baseball poetry over the Southern California airwaves. ...
- Hailing Rain Taxi for years of service - Minneapolis City Pages
Hailing Rain Taxi for years of serviceMinneapolis City Pages, MN - 13 minutes ago"We're seeing creators in this medium really pushing their boundaries, in the same way that poetry or visual art did in the early part of the 20th century. ...
- Council Will Examine Radiotherapy Concerns (Scoop.co.nz)
Recent revelations that Canterbury District Health Board patients are not getting radiotherapy within the mandatory eight weeks as prescribed by the government, concern the Cancer Control Council of New Zealand, Chair Dame Cath Tizard says.
- Teen Prostitute Describes Life On The Streets (KTVU 2 San Francisco)
As police continue to crack down on suspected prostitutes in Fruitvale, one young woman spoke candidly to KTVU reporter Amber Lee about how her young life as a top student fell into a downward spiral of sex and drugs.
- Big human questions in 'Rock 'n' Roll' (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is about political history and love and rock music and families and sex and death and passionately held ideologies; it's about cancer and Sappho's poetry and newspapers; it's about the differences between freedom and liberty,
- Appalachian Festival begins Aug. 21; ‘Barney’ will be there (The Register-Herald)
If you thought your young children might not want to attend the 44th annual Appalachian Festival in Beckley, think again.
- Copenhagen: A seasonal guide (CNN.com)
Roskilde Festival (July) The Danes love the outdoors and they love rock music; the Roskilde Festival is where they combine these passions for a weekend of drunken revelry.
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