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- Kicking a Dead Horse: mounting tedium of a dead-horse drama - Daily Telegraph
In real time, this new play from the American dramatist Sam Shepard lasts only 70 minutes, but it feels immeasurably longer than that. Indeed, I began to wonder whether I'd get out of the theatre alive or succumb to death by chronic tedium. Going ...
- 'Contrary' Literary Journal Celebrates Awards, Anniversary (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The literary journal Contrary wins four industry awards as it celebrates its fifth anniversary. Founded by University of Chicago alumni, Contrary is an independent journal of commentary, fiction, and poetry published indendently on the South Side of Chicago.
- Burn before reading: The day-late box-office report - Ann Arbor News Blog
OK, so I've fallen off the weekly box-office reports lately, for reasons various, sundry and too boring to detail -- so I apologize for not polluting the Web with my terrible poetry. But I'm back on the bandwagon this week, and a day late, because ...
- The Return of the Old - China International Business
China International BusinessThe Return of the OldChina International Business, China - 54 minutes agoIn Daoism it is retreating to a mountain, perhaps to read poetry; it’sa much more individualistic idea. In Confucianism it is in your social relationships. ...
- 'Walking park' to open Saturday - Olympian
• What: Olympia's Southwest Neighborhood Association invites neighbors to the opening of a new "walking park" in the neighborhood Saturday morning. The walking park is not a single park, but four mini-parks to which people in the neighborhood can ...
- Weekly interview: Terry Hilt (Sept. 26, 2008) - Gab with the Gazette
Weekly interview: Terry Hilt (Sept. 26, 2008)Gab with the Gazette, ME - 7 minutes agoHilt’s other interests include collecting Maine art, a hobby she shares with her husband, as well as writing poetry. She was able to combine two passions ...
- Poetry workshop set in Newport (Newport News-Times)
Willamette Writers Coast Branch brings nationally recognized poet and poetry teacher Ingrid Wendt to lead a poetry workshop called “Beginnings and Endings” from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Newport Public Library. The free workshop is open to poetry lovers of all ages.
- With tunes from Scotland's past, she finds a resonance with the ... - Boston Globe
Julie Fowlis is the gentlest of revolutionaries. Singing in Gaelic, a language spoken by only about 1 percent of her fellow Scottish citizens, she's at the forefront of a cultural movement that threatens the very foundation of the United Kingdom ...
- Author, 93, blows book proceeds on massive house...and invites ... - This is London
Author, 93, blows book proceeds on massive house...and invites ...This is London, UK - 1 hour agoI started as soon as I could hold a pencil - fairy stories, poetry, short stories, magazine articles. It seems I've been writing for a hundred years. ...
- New research: Jews, Israel suffer unfair hits in U.S. textbooks - Jewish News Weekly
If your child brought home a history book that said Jesus was a Palestinian, or that Jews contributed little to the arts and sciences aside from Old Testament poetry, how would you react? Would you rush to the principal’s office, tear out the pages ...
- The Chinese Olympic Journey - Fool's Mountain
The Chinese Olympic JourneyFool's Mountain, San Francisco - 25 minutes agoWe had a president who sang opera, danced, recited poetry and Lincoln speeches, and groomed on camera at state banquets on his foreign visits. ...
- Dr. Idris Badmus Joins XYTOS Inc. as Director - MSN MoneyCentral
XYTOS, Inc. (OTC:XYTS), announced today that Dr. Idris Olagoke Badmus has been appointed as a Director of the company and it ’ s Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Badmus has a first degree in Virology from the University Of Ilorin and a Doctorate in ...
- Festival Diary: Wigtown (Independent)
The tenth annual Wigtown Book Festival began on the sunny coast of Galloway at the weekend, with a surprising combination of poetry, humour and unexpected honesty.
- August 2 to 23 (Rome Observer)
Love and Memory quilt show in the West Gallery of the Earlville Opera House. Local quilters invited to exhibit their quilts to celebrate this region's quilting culture. Quilters write a description of how quilt fits the theme "Love and Memory."
- Chennai, the erstwhile Madras, celebrates 369th birthday (Outlook India)
Fast turning out to be the Detroit of India, for its rapid expansion of automobile manufacturing units and growing reputation of being the cultural capital of the south, Chennai, the erstwhile Madras, turned 369 today.
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