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- Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Arnold Wesker, playwright (Independent)
Sir Arnold Wesker, 76, is the author of 42 plays, including The Kitchen, Roots and Chips with Everything. His non-fiction includes As Much as I Dare, his autobiography. Wesker's Love Plays, Wesker's Monologues, and the playwright's first poetry collection, All Things Tire of Themselves, have all been published recently.
- John Matshikiza - Guardian Unlimited
John Matshikiza, who has died aged 54 following a heart attack, was one of those polymaths who South Africa has an odd way of throwing up: film and stage actor, poet, journalist, broadcaster and political activist, he seemed equally comfortable in ...
- Nagaland news on Localbrief sept 12 - MorungExpress
Nagaland news on Localbrief sept 12MorungExpress, India - 8 hours agoStating this in a release, the Union secretary, games & sports, Y Longshithung Kikon, informed that articles in the form of poetry or any write-up can be ...
- Fall Arts Preview: November (San Francisco Chronicle)
THEATER Rita Moreno: A showbiz legend, Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winner Rita Moreno makes her Rrazz Room debut with "Little Tributes," a new musical revue of old standards, forgotten chestnuts and new works. Nov. 4-23. Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason...
- Check it out: Books to cure the summer blues - Lincoln Journal Star
It’s hot and humid. The kids are getting bored. And in just one month, most of them will be heading back to school. What can cure the summer doldrums? A good book. And we have plenty to choose from. Book publishers have been printing fast and ...
- The jigsaw puzzles have returned. They have a way of doing that. A Monopoly... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The jigsaw puzzles have returned. They have a way of doing that. A Monopoly set, if you put it away for 15 years or so, inevitably turns out to be missing its dice, or its top hat or some other crucial game piece. We played Sorry with a spare pawn from a...
- Palestinians bury poet Darwish in emotional funeral (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish what amounted to a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, mourning a man who articulated their sense of loss, exile and defiance.
- Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guests - San Jose Mercury News
Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guestsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 6 hours agoThat afternoon, there would be a discussion of the mystical, reverent 13th-century poetry of Rumi, a key figure in Sufism. Whatever your tradition ...
- Dear Mexican - Local
Dear MexicanLocal, CO - 2 hours ago(E) Daily newspaper reporters love to describe as “undocumented workers” the men and women you call “illegal.” (F) Little-known fact: the fragment of poetry ...
- AP Lies about Obama’s Red Mentor - Family Security Matters
Family Security MattersAP Lies about Obama’s Red MentorFamily Security Matters, NJ - 26 minutes agoDavis “published several volumes of poetry,” AP said, failing to note that they include poems praising the Soviet Red Army and mocking Christian ...
- Young Guns: A new brand of gangster grows up in a killing culture - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"I stabbed about three people," he says, his angular face betraying no particular emotion. He mentions it offhandedly, like a kid trying to be modest about something in which he takes great pride. Now 18, Danger, has been a dedicated gang member for ...
- On the road: Andrew Anthony goes for a test drive in the new Seat Ibiza 1.6 (Guardian Unlimited)
The Seat Ibiza is what's known as a "supermini", which is essentially a more exciting way - how could it not be? - of saying "small hatchback". In effect, that's also the aim of its new design: to find a more exciting way of saying "small hatchback". Alas, it's not possible to be too exciting with small hatchbacks, because then they would probably become expensive small hatchbacks, thereby ...
- Hill of Tara Concert and Debate to mark the beginning of Heritage Week - Indymedia Ireland
Debate: Should the Hill of Tara be declared a World Heritage Site? In April 2008, the Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, announced he intended to seek UNESCO status for Tara, despite the M3 motorway being built within the Tara complex. Does ...
- Before 8/8/08, here are our favorite eights - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Before 8/8/08, here are our favorite eightsSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 9 minutes agoJohnson, 16, writes poetry. Certain segments of the population (MEN!!!) have no problem with NBC declaring beach volleyball the fifth "major" Olympic sport. ...
- Innocence and Experience - Atlantic Online
Innocence and ExperienceAtlantic Online - 22 minutes agoRobert Frost gets the young Truman Capote fired from his job at The New Yorker after he walks out of one of Frost’s poetry readings, 1944. ...
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