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- Witness who took risky stand in Sacramento gangland trial works to build new life (The Sacramento Bee)
One bullet perforated his left lung and induced a bloody cough. Timothy Hurst sings in his bedroom wearing a T-shirt he designed; his brother Iam Mason sings on the bed. Hurst's testimony helped convict two gang members who tried to kill him. Now he's living in another city and trying to establish himself as an artist. Timothy Hurst looks in the mirror, where he's written "God's ...
- Sun, Sea, Sand and Stories - North Florida NewsDaily
Sun, Sea, Sand and StoriesNorth Florida NewsDaily, FL - 14 minutes agoShe later became part of the launch of Harlequin's new African American romance line, Kimani Romance, with her Masterson family series. ...
- Lipizzaners to leap into Lincoln County - Newport News-Times
Call it poetry in motion, a horse-and-rider ballet, or a graceful display of harmony between man - or woman - and beast. Only these beasts are also majestic beauties. The “World Famous†Lipizzaner Stallions - former horses of battle who galloped ...
- Pakistan Coalition Faces Deadline - The Bulletin
Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan's political crisis deepened yesterday with former premier Nawaz Sharif poised to quit the ruling coalition unless judges ousted by ex-President Pervez Musharraf are restored within a day. A third party declared its ...
- Iranian professors to participate in Roudaki confab in Tajikistan (Islamic Republic News Agency)
Iran - Tajikistan - Roudaki A five-member group of Iranian Persian language professors arrived in Tajikistan on Wednesday. The Iranian professors are going to participate in a conference marking the 1,150th death anniversary of the founder of Persian poetry, Abu Abdollah Jaafar Roudaki.
- Youth poets to appear at Nye Beach Writers' Series in Newport - Newport News Times
Youth poets to appear at Nye Beach Writers' Series in NewportNewport News Times, OR - 16 hours agoGeneral admission is $5, with free admission for students. The young writers are participants in the week-long “Write On! Write Now!†summer youth poetry ...
- Flap over arts cuts is a 'niche' issue: Harper (CTV.ca)
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper defended slashing $45 million from the arts budget and dismissed mounting criticism by calling it a "niche" issue that doesn't resonate with "ordinary" Canadians.
- Book it Over to the Festival - The Emory Wheel
Book it Over to the FestivalThe Emory Wheel - 5 minutes agoBy Bridget Riley Posted: 08/25/2008 Poetry slams are already the norm at Java Monkey, a downtown coffee shop, while a recent “Save Our Bookstore†campaign ...
- Storyteller La'Ron Williams: Funny thing happened on his way to ... - MLive.com
MLive.comStoryteller La'Ron Williams: Funny thing happened on his way to ...MLive.com, MI - 26 minutes agoWaddie Mitchell of Nevada will share cowboy poetry and stories of the lessons he learned during his life spent as a buckaroo. Mitchell is a nationally ...
- Olympic Inspiration for Peace - Media For Freedom
Olympic Inspiration for PeaceMedia For Freedom, Nepal - 3 hours agoThere could be other great festivals and celebrations of human achievement in the areas of music, poetry, dancing and drama. We could celebrate those who ...
- Obama fires up old magic - Arab News
Obama fires up old magicArab News, Saudi Arabia - 1 hour agoHis speech delivered almost more than any single speech could accomplish  a combination of poetry and prose aimed to put to rest questions about his ...
- Here the Birds’ Journey Ends - New Yorker
Here the Birds’ Journey EndsNew Yorker, United States - 5 hours agoMahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), the Palestinian poet, who died this month, was the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry in Arabic. ...
- Candidates' efforts misguided - Hattiesburg American
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 is, people ...
- Literary world grieves over Wallace’s apparent suicide - Lincoln Courier
The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. He was a professor at Illinois State University for about a decade. Wallace, who ...
- A history of the Arvon International Poetry Copmpetition on its ... - Times Online
A history of the Arvon International Poetry Copmpetition on its ...Times Online, UK - 1 hour agoThe Arvon International Poetry Competition began in 1980. The deadline for this year's is August 15 at 5pm. All ages and every kind of poem are welcomed. ...
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