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- Killers stake it all on 'Do or Die' CD (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Chef Steve Martorano, left, served a homemade chocolate cupcake and tiramisu dessert to Pete Rose and his lady friend. Courtesy photo
- Deaths & Funerals (Victoria Times Colonist)
BAILEY, Lawrence Irvine July 20, 1923 - September 6, 2008 Larry left us suddenly on September 6, 2008 leaving a huge hole in the lives of those who knew and loved him. Left to mourn are his loving wife of 60 years, Iona, his daughter-in-law, Suzanne, and grandchildren Katherine and Tyson. His only son, Rick, predeceased him in 2007. Larry proudly served his country in the Merchant Marines and, ...
- Ryan’s hope - Washington Blade
Ryan’s hopeWashington Blade, DC - 33 minutes agoRyan’s spare, elegant poetry is often compared to that of Emily Dickinson, a poet also known for her sometimes humorous reflections on everyday life. ...
- Poets share thoughts, ideas, emotions on stage (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON — The group Poetic Voices hosts an open-mic night at Mod Reserve in Galveston, elevating poetry into performance art.
- Five contend for title of queen of Farm Fair - Bucks County Courier Times
LUMBERTON — A teenage girl will be chosen this week to reign over this year's Burlington County Farm Fair. Five girls will compete in the annual Farm Fair Queen pageant at 8 p.m. Wednesday, the first day of the 62nd annual fair at the Village Green ...
- Peter rabbit and his eclectic band in the deserts of Iraq - Age
THE MARX BROTHERS DON'T USUALLY spring to mind when you talk about Australian poetry. And it wasn't J.S.Harry's full-bodied and frequent laugh that did it. No, it was the main character of her most recent book, Not Meeting Wittgenstein , who prompted ...
- Scheduling comes back to bite the Wolverines - Detroit News
Watching Michigan get thrashed during the first half of Saturday's Rich Rodriguez inaugural at Michigan Stadium made a few of us think about scheduling. The reason, of course, that teams so often invite cupcakes to their season opener is to give the ...
- Locations of underground fuel tanks (Las Vegas Sun)
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- IN THE SPOTLIGHT: IRANIAN STUDIES PROGRAMS - Keeping the Persian Light Shining (Payvand Iran News)
Universities around the world are carrying on the torch of telling the enduring story of Persian culture and modern-day Iran by engaging in the inquisitive and long-term research that can only happen in such an academic environment. This rigorous research is vitally important in the role it plays to help expand the discourse around Iran today from sound-bites and punditry to a more thoughtful ...
- The Week In Letters - National Post
The Week In LettersNational Post, Canada - 5 hours agoA few correspondents even turned to poetry to make their statements. Here's a short excerpt from writer/ poet Dennis Hayes: "Beguiled and foolish, ...
- Turning Poetry Into Music - Huffingtonpost.com
Has poetry officially jumped the shark? I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald Rumsfeld--pulled from some of Rummy's more quixotic press conferences and poeticized by Slate writer Hart Seely--to ...
- Planning a killer World Music Fest - Chicago Tribune
Planning a killer World Music FestChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours agoListeners who attended the "Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz" series this summer heard the lyric poetry of trumpeter-composer ElSaffar; this time, ...
- Perfect Reading Weather (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - No, not even the rain has such small hands, according to e.e. cummings, but rain—with its syncopated march on windows, its telltale gray cloak, its earthy bouquet—can also catalyze a nascent need to pick up a certain book.
- Local songwriter sees God in everything Wilson County News August 19, 2008 (Wilson County News)
SEGUIN — Although he’d been writing poetry since high school, Danny “Dan” F. Hix had never considered songwriting … until recently. A song by Hix has been recorded on a CD of contemporary Christian music released by JIP Records in Nashville.
- Alice McDowell wins Dan Davin Award - Southland Times
Southland TimesAlice McDowell wins Dan Davin AwardSouthland Times, New Zealand - 10 minutes agoMarion McLean won the poetry competition with her poem A Pantoum for Autumn 1964. The short story award for school-aged aspiring writers has run since 1995, ...
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