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- Columbus-born boxer to be honored with marker (The Commercial Dispatch)
Once a month, Joe Lee Tuggle has been driving to Old Frierson’s Place, with his two sons, Frederick and Henry, to clean up trash and mow the grass. Joe Lee Tuggle’s mother, Laura Mae Tuggle, is buried in the old black cemetery.
- Jessica: Outgoing type is into helping others (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Jessica Glover is an 18-year-old graduate of Central High School Magnet Career Academy. She will be attending Eastern Kentucky University starting next month. She wants to be a psychiatrist and is always there for friends and family.
- Hip hop artist to rally for Zimbabwe - Frost Illustrated
Hip hop artist to rally for ZimbabweFrost Illustrated, IN - 1 hour agoMAKE SOME NOISE! will star the controversial poet Comrade Fatso with Chabvondoka, Zimbabwe’s leading protest band blending poetry, hip hop, chimurenga and ...
- Double celebration for double retirement - Grantham Today
Double celebration for double retirementGrantham Today, UK - Jul 30, 2008Some students read poetry and others gave stunning musical performances, with hymns Angels and Joyful, Joyful bringing the assembly to an end. ...
- Elizabeth Bartlett: Poet of the lonely and vulnerable (Independent)
Although her poems were first published when she was only 19, in Tambimuttu's Poetry London, Elizabeth Bartlett did not publish again until her mid-fifties. However, she claimed that she was "not so much a neglected poet as neglectful of the kind of ways to get published at all . . . it suited me to write without an audience, so I could do what I wanted without an editor or a publisher". As she ...
- Registration open for summer camp (Billings Gazette)
Chief Plenty Coups State Park and The Art Ranch will team up July 5-11 on a free weeklong overnight summer camp for children 9 to 17 years old. Participation is limited to 40 and only 15 spaces remain. Register by calling Susan Stewart, manager of Chief Plenty Coups State Park, at 406-252-1289.
- NOBODY BEATS THE LIZ - New York Post
THE great Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the English monarch in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age," Shekhar Kapur's inferior follow-up to their 1998 film, which is still quite lavish and entertaining in the grand old Hollywood manner. That is, expect ...
- Learning English key to life in U.S. - Statesman Journal
WASHINGTON — La cucaracha, la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar. La cucaracha, la cuca ... Oh, perdón. I was just tuning up for an interview with Baracko Obama and Juan McCain. Juan y Baracko have been busy lately wooing los que hablan español. That ...
- Movie allows time to share kung fu magic with the grandkids - Democrat and Chronicle
STAMFORD, Conn. — Two of my grandchildren and I are on our way to see Kung Fu Panda , an animated film starring the voice of Jack Black. We're doing this to escape the heat — it's 95 degrees here — and because Kung Fu Panda is required viewing ...
- Rabbit recollections - Calgary Herald
Brian Paisley, founder of the Edmonton Fringe: It's not so much for their bold visual style and their choice of offbeat, frequently provocative material, but because their very existence proves an oft-forgotten touchstone for the courageous (or ...
- Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst (Houston Press)
Conor Oberst's lyrics tend to be heavy-handed with metaphors and language in general, often reading like a hipper, more literate version of a 16-year-old girl's poetry journal. His self-titled effort (and first under his given name) doesn't shy away from that kind of grating poetic license. The musi ...
- Easy listening - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentEasy listeningIrish Independent, Ireland - 16 minutes agoIn addition, there are book and poetry readings, talk radio podcasts and recordings of public performances of classical music. The sound quality varies on ...
- Darwish: 'Identity and humanity' - BBC News
BBC NewsDarwish: 'Identity and humanity'BBC News, UK - Aug 13, 2008You rarely find a poet that can bring out thousands of people to his poetry readings. His lyrics were set to music, people sang his poems, ...
- Ttravel digest - Daily Gleaner
Ttravel digestDaily Gleaner, Canada - 12 minutes agoA total of $3000 in prize money will be handed out in a Burns recital and competition, which will feature both poetry and song. Competitors will be split ...
- Revival for great Dane Vilhelm Hammershøi - This is London
This is LondonRevival for great Dane Vilhelm HammershøiThis is London, UK - 1 hour agoVilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence opens tomorrow and runs until 7 September (020 7300 8000, www.royalacademy.org.uk).
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