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- Step right up to McCain's three-ring circus (Portsmouth Herald)
One of the strangest excuses I've ever seen from a politician came from Republican presidential hopeful John McCain who, much to his credit, laments the drop in rhetorical quality of the presidential campaign. According to McCain's diagnosis, the main...
- Music Preview: The Last Poets still on a mission to open minds - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteMusic Preview: The Last Poets still on a mission to open mindsPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 17 minutes agoOyewole had a good friend, David Nelson, who came up with the concept to form a group that performed poetry at the Malcolm X birthday commemoration in Mount ...
- Folk music - Bridlington Today
Folk musicBridlington Today, UK - 23 minutes agoBroadacres is also hosting a poetry share on Wednesday evening from 8pm onwards. Admission is £2, which includes sandwiches, and there are prizes to be won ...
- Writing like painting - UI The Daily Iowan (subscription)
Writing like paintingUI The Daily Iowan (subscription), IA - 3 hours agoEltayeb will read from a mix of his prose and poetry translated from Arabic on Sept. 14 at 5 pm at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St. "When I speak, ...
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - The Associated Press
Today in History - Aug. 4The Associated Press - 1 hour agoThought for Today: "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
- UTC Professor Named Finalist In International Poetry Competition (The Chattanoogan)
Just as the athletic competition concludes for avid Olympics viewers, a UTC faculty member gives another international victory to celebrate. Earl Braggs was named one of 14 finalists for the 2008 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry Competition.
- Comedy overrules romance in off Broadway "Tempest" - Reuters
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Star Mandy Patinkin makes an aggressive, angry Prospero in the Classic Stage Company's vivid new production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." For this is a determinedly anti-romantic "Tempest" that CSC artistic director ...
- Rachel Weisz's risky business - Daily Telegraph
Rachel Weisz's risky businessDaily Telegraph, Australia - 24 minutes agoShot in Memphis, the movie has been acknowledged in the US for its poetry, as much as for its over-sentimentality. Critics said Wai Wong's gamble in using ...
- These kids are making news - Herald & Review
DECATUR - The news staff of the Decatur Trumpet will be pondering, writing, rewriting, correcting this afternoon. The Saturday night panic - "Do we have enough stories? Should we give this story the lead position?" - has given way to a "let's do it ...
- Song writers' book of seaside verse - Scarborough Today
Song writers' book of seaside verseScarborough Today, UK - 23 minutes agoShe has won awards at festivals for poetry reading, writing and acting and holds LAMDA gold awards for both Verse and Prose speaking and acting. ...
- Unity party going on right now (The Examiner)
The first of many acts scheduled to rouse audiences into a vibe of unity are already on the stage at the Port Arthur Pavilion.
- Now locals can paddle their own canoe - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldNow locals can paddle their own canoeSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 18 hours agoThe executive director of the National Film and Sound Archive, Paolo Cherchi Usai, called the site "a work of pure visual poetry" that would be of interest ...
- Phosphorescence makes swimming at night magical - Herald Tribune
Last week I went out to do a feature story on the rangers who live and work at Cayo Costa State Park. After a long day of interviews, I finally got to the beach after dark. The surf at night is always spooky -- who knows what's under those waves ...
- Parkapalooza at Sanford Lake Park features nine bands - MLive.com
A newly renovated Midland County park is the site of a free day-long musical extravaganza on Sunday, Sept. 7. Nine mid-Michigan bands perform 45-minute sets during Parkapalooza on the shores of Sanford Lake at Sanford Lake Park. The line-up is as ...
- Wyoming State Historical Society presents awards - Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
Wyoming State Historical Society presents awardsJackson Hole Star-Tribune, WY - 3 hours ago*Poetry: Nominated by the Crook County Chapter, Hugh Thompson for "Cousins." *Pamphlets: Nominated by the Albany County Chapter, Mary Mountain for "The ...
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