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- HUMPHREY GAVE GREATEST CONVENTION SPEECH YOU'VE NEVER HEARD (David Shribman via Yahoo! News)
MINNEAPOLIS -- If you have an eye for these things, you might have noticed that Sen. Barack Obama is going to deliver his acceptance speech in a football stadium on Aug. 28. The last man to deliver an acceptance speech in a stadium was John F. Kennedy. The last important speech to be delivered on an Aug. 28 was given by the Rev. Martin Luther King 45 years ago.
- Book Marks - pride source.com
Book Markspride source.com, MI - Jul 17, 2008Sly cultural commentary, exuberant linguistic wordplay, potent racial commentary, even a few anti-romantic love poems - this is a tinderbox of inventive ...
- We Don't Die, We Multiply: Heartbeat Props - Popmatters.com
The Digital Underground party has apparently come to an end. If so, we must acknowledge the group for more reasons than popularizing "The Humpty Dance". When Public Enemy’s Chuck D famously referred to rap as the musical version of CNN, I always ...
- New Book Delivers Poems 'From the Heart of a Down Chick' (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Born in Harlem, Sasha Bonay was only 9 years old when her mother, who had raised Sasha alone, passed away at age 27.
- Sports docs that were almost as exciting as the sports themselves - National Post
Sports docs that were almost as exciting as the sports themselvesNational Post, Canada - 1 hour agoIt is also poetry and prose, muckraking and expose, journalism and polemic. It is one of the great moviegoing experiences of my lifetime. ...
- Mister Lonley - Yale Herald
ister Lonely begins with Michael Jackson and a stuffed monkey on a mini-bike. The shot is beautiful and bizarre but drags on far too long. The entirety of Harmony Korine’s dream-like tale of semi-self-discovery wanes in this dichotomous purgatory ...
- A Festival Reinvents Itself (East Bay Express)
Freight & Salvage is offering downtown Berkeley a big ol' howdy this weekend in anticipation of the venerable folk club's move from its West Berkeley digs up to the Downtown Arts District next year.
- The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation will host a gala ... - AME Info
AME InfoThe Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation will host a gala ...AME Info, United Arab Emirates - 15 hours agoThe literary meet will include nearly 300 dedicated events and present a wide diversity of contemporary literature, prose and poetry from around the world. ...
- On the road: Andrew Anthony goes for a test drive in the new Seat Ibiza 1.6 (Guardian Unlimited)
The Seat Ibiza is what's known as a "supermini", which is essentially a more exciting way - how could it not be? - of saying "small hatchback". In effect, that's also the aim of its new design: to find a more exciting way of saying "small hatchback". Alas, it's not possible to be too exciting with small hatchbacks, because then they would probably become expensive small hatchbacks, thereby ...
- Academics don’t know it all (Art Newspaper)
As an independent art “historianâ€, I am puzzled by how academic scholars deride and belittle the contributions of non-academic writers without considering their well-known advantage: outsiders can sometimes see what insiders cannot.
- For John Hiatt, words follow - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesFor John Hiatt, words followLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoI'm a little uncomfortable with that, because it's not really poetry per se. At least my lyrics aren't. They don't stand up by themselves. ...
- As far as elections go - Western Star
As far as elections goWestern Star, Canada - 2 hours agoLabrador can be considered to have its own native literary sub-genre, as can be seen in such works as Lydia Campbell’s “Sketches of Labrador Life,†Alice ...
- Solitude of Being - BlackNews.com
Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) - Introspection leads to incredible revelations about the curious female gender. In a new collection of poetry, Solitude of Being , Lady Janét R. Griffin, who professional name is Lady Janét, invites readers to ...
- Kapil Sibal turns poetical on a BlackBerry (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal knows how to get the creative juices flowing from his mobile.
- Your Weekend - Glens Falls Post-Star
Your WeekendGlens Falls Post-Star, NY - 17 minutes agoSalem Art Works will be presenting its second annual, all-day, outdoor music/sound/poetry/transmission event. This year will see a broader scope of music, ...
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