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- Windy City Wagers: Tips for betting the Cubs and Sox - Covers.com
Following the Wrigleyville chaos and the surprise on the Southside as a fan, scribe, and investor, what a way to roll through the few summer days in Chi-Town. On the Northside, I knew things were askew early when the lazy corner infielder, Aramis ...
- Slam Poetry Team Represents the First Coast - First Coast News
Slam Poetry Team Represents the First CoastFirst Coast News, FL - 10 hours agoJACKSONVILLE, FL -- The members of the Jacksonville youth poetry slam team, Shattered Thought, is preparing to represent the First Coast on a national level ...
- How alliteration enhances poetry, prose and memory - HULIQ.com
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful ...
- More of today's best - Detroit Free Press
More of today's bestDetroit Free Press, United States - Jul 4, 2008EchoVerse Poetry and Slam Series: Hosted by resident poet, JY-OBADELE aka Johnny Jenkins Jr. and weekly featured guest poets. With sounds by resident DJ ...
- In the footsteps of a trailblazer: First woman to scale Pikes Peak (Colorado Springs Gazette)
When Julia Archibald Holmes stepped onto the summit of Pikes Peak 150 years ago, she not only became the first woman to scale the 14,115-foot mountain in recorded history, she also became the first person to do it with panache.
- Signing off: the weird world of book signings - The Independent
To some authors, the book-signing is a curse. What could be more excruciatingly dull, to the sensitive creative mind, than to sit for hours in a festival tent or bookshop, inscribing your name on several hundred copies of your new masterpiece? This ...
- YouTube shows Couric’s fun side (The Fayetteville Observer)
NEW YORK — Every weekday evening, Katie Couric is the picture of sobriety on the “CBS Evening News”: buttoned-down and earnest.
- Highbrow lo-fi (Guardian Unlimited)
Culture: Meet the American bands giving rock an intelligent makeover
- Ebad, Shazia condole Ahmed Faraz’s death - The News - International
Ebad, Shazia condole Ahmed Faraz’s deathThe News - International, Pakistan - Aug 26, 2008In her condolence message, she said Faraz, through his “Ghazals” inspired millions of readers and with his demise the golden era of Urdu poetry came to an ...
- A (kirk) wall of sound - The Herald
A (kirk) wall of soundThe Herald, UK - 3 hours agoThere is real poetry in their playing; the care and attention given to the small details of the phrasing in the first movement of op18 no1, ...
- American Life in Poetry: Night Dive - Morris Sun Tribune
American Life in Poetry: Night DiveMorris Sun Tribune, MN - 1 hour agoBy Ted Kooser I've lived all my life on the plains, where no body of water is more than a few feet deep, and even at that shallow depth I'm afraid of it. ...
- The Sorrows of an American (The New Yorker)
I’m lost,” a patient tells her psychiatrist in Hustvedt’s fourth novel. “I’m cold. I’m all alone.” She might be speaking for all the characters in this sombre meditation on the isolation of urban professionals, in which daily routines are nothing but “pillars in an architecture of need,” erotic love is . . .
- Poet who gave identity to Palestinians dies - CNN
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston, Texas. He was 67. Mahmoud Darwish, in Ramallah in 2000, saw his poems become anthems ...
- Books in Brief // Spiritual (Baltimore Sun)
Summer often brings vacation days, trips to flee the routine and extra "me" time.
- A Washington doyenne's son discovers he is illegitimate. (Washington Post)
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