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- CD review: "Wild & Free," The Radiators (Norwalk Advocate)
Trying to the synthesize the 30 years of New Orleans road dogs The Radiators into a two-disc set is nearly impossible. The group has a catalog of more than 1,000 songs, has allowed its concerts to be taped from the beginning and hasn't played the same show twice.
- Farewell to ‘God’s Country’ - La Crosse Tribune
As I leave this area, I wish to say to the entire community that it has been a privilege to live and pastor here. This is a wonderful area to raise a family and enjoy “God’s Country.” My prayer for each of you is that you would truly seek God ...
- LVC graduates commence next phase of lives - Daily News
ANNVILLE — The word “commencement” implies endings and beginnings. Yesterday’s commencement at Lebanon Valley College was both, as the 398 students who received degrees ended this phase of their lives and began another. Philip Billings sent ...
- Slate: The End of Clinton Where Do Hillary and Her Fans Go From Here? - Washington Post
Emily Bazelon, Melinda Henneberger, Dahlia Lithwick and Meghan O'Rourke -- Slate's XX Factor bloggers -- were online Thursday, June 5 at 2 p.m. ET to examine Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, its end, and what its legacy will be for women ...
- The Other - San Francisco Gate
Two 16-year-old runners from opposite sides of Seattle, one descended from bankers, the other from "nail bangers," meet at a high school race. They connect over a shared love of wilderness hiking and lighting out for the territories - "with all the ...
- Why poetry matters, By Jay Parini (Independent)
In 1989, the American poet Dana Gioia lobbed a grenade into the cosy world of the US creative-writing industry. His essay, "Can Poetry Matter?", spoke wittily and despairingly of "poets" graduating from courses who teach and produce fresh multitudes of versifiers, publish in the same magazines and reverently review one another's books, most written in the same chopped-up free verse that has ...
- Song of passion for the Gael - Independent
Share 'I NOT I, she not she and he not he.' That was the deliciously cryptic quip Michael O'Loughlin flipped my way when I phoned to arrange this interview with his wife Judith Mok. What the hell was he talking about? Well, Judith's latest novel Gael ...
- Nature's Ecstasy: Joan Mitchell on Paper and Canvas (The New York Sun)
Spring and summer provide us with some of the headiest and most ephemeral experiences in the garden. While describing the suddenness and intensity with which our Yoshino cherry tree blossomed a full, feathery white and then, like snowfall, shed its petals in the afternoon breeze, a friend reminded me of Bonnard's paintings of flowering trees, suggesting that in Bonnard, no less so than in ...
- Woodstock, N.Y.: Where to go, dine, what to do - Newsday
A haven for artists and musicians, Woodstock , N.Y., still sticks to its hippie heritage. The town is best known for lending its name to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the 1960s festival that actually took place some 50 miles away in Bethel ...
- Curious times - Monday Magazine
Curious timesMonday Magazine, Canada - 4 hours ago“This is all new material . . . consisting of songs, trance-poetry, conversations, raps, ramblings, musings and more.” This album doesn’t seem to include ...
- Texas signs up Birmingham author Jim Crace - Birmingham Post
Texas signs up Birmingham author Jim CraceBirmingham Post, UK - 1 hour agoThe archive, including manuscripts of all his novels plus short stories and plays, research notes, correspondence and juvenilia including poetry written as ...
- Scholarship winners - Odessa American Online
Two area high school students have been named this year's recipients of the Barbara Trenchard Foundation scholarship. Wink High's Erin Whitmire and Hobbs High's Raul Aranda will each receive $10,000 as part of the scholarship. Raul is No. 21 of 425 ...
- Review Dickens' latest? Sorry, I'm all booked up (Rocky Mountain News)
By way of seeking absolution, today I unload my regrets about the many books that there won't be room to review in May.
- Students transform Iqbal’s verses into colours - The Post
The PostStudents transform Iqbal’s verses into coloursThe Post, Pakistan - 3 hours agoProject Director Suroosh Irfani told The Post that the aim of the exhibition 'is to aware the students about the depth in Iqbal's poetry. ...
- Australia and NZ's best wineland getways - News.com.au
THIS new redoubt in the southeast of the North Island, close to the art deco jewel of Napier, sits in rich green splendour abutting a rugged clifftop. The central cluster of main lodge and a line of unadorned timber guest cottages rippling along a ...
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