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- Sex and drugs and English literature: Coleridge and a Faustian pact - The Independent
A translation of Goethe's 'Faustus' by one of the greatest names in literary history is to be published in September. Arifa Akbar traces an extraordinary 200-year-old story that began with a ÂŁ100 advance and a broken promise The year was 1814 and ...
- Restored 'Once Upon a Time in the West' at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater - Los Angeles Times
Sergio Leone's 1968 masterwork, “Once Upon a Time in the West,” was showing the ravages of time. The negative that Paramount Pictures had been using over the years to strike prints was getting old and frayed, and the color was shifting. But ...
- Inspirational Youth Encourage You to Show Your Real Face - RedOrbit
Inspirational Youth Encourage You to Show Your Real FaceRedOrbit, TX - 28 minutes agoOne thing led to another and he was offered the opportunity to perform at the Toronto International Poetry SLAM. He was blown away by being on stage, ...
- Book learning - Wichita Falls Times Record News
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said, “I’ve seen the Promised Land,” in a speech on the eve of his assassination, he was referring to the Exodus story from the Bible. Abraham Lincoln drew his famous “House Divided Speech” from Luke 11:17 ...
- Rumors abound after quake - Boston Globe
BEIJING - Almost as soon as the initial aftershocks stopped reverberating last week, the rumors began. Some say that frogs, insects, and other animals fled shortly before the earth shook. Others insist that water mysteriously drained from ponds, or ...
- Bevan plaque for NHS anniversary - BBC News
BBC NewsBevan plaque for NHS anniversaryBBC News, UK - Jul 5, 2008A message from Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan's successor as the area's MP will be read, along with poetry from local author Patrick Jones. ...
- Burned Iraqi refugee rebuilds life in Houston (w/video) (Houston Chronicle)
Four years and 10 surgeries later, Ameera Shahmani is now in Houston to see whether specialists here can help her regain the use of her scar-warped fingers as she prepares to build a new life in America.
- A different kind of film school (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - What is unique about the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center in Antipolo is that film students are exposed not just to the basics of filmmaking but to the other forms of art as well.
- Paint Your Heart Out - Packet Online
On what is possibly the wettest, rainiest day of the year, a brightly painted arts and crafts room at the Family Preservation Center in Trenton has at least four rays of sunshine. Kimberley Lennon, Erica F., Jessica M. and Lisa B. sit and draw ...
- The Community College of Baltimore County - Hampton Roads Daily Press
Those with good memories may remember a system of junior colleges that started in the 1950s and prepared students for four-year colleges and universities. The Independent System of Junior Colleges eventually became Catonsville Community College ...
- Somalia: Crush the Extremists in Mogadishu! - Garowe Online
Somalia: Crush the Extremists in Mogadishu!Garowe Online, Somalia - 14 minutes agoNo Somali Ulema bothered, let alone condemn it, with Somalis performing or listening to music, poetry, Somali traditional dances or wedding ceremonies; ...
- AJC Organizes its Eighth Poetry Competition - Al Arab Online
In order to promote artistic creation and encourage cultural communication, the Tangier Young Creators’ Association (AJC) is organizing its eighth poetry competition. This eighth contest, opening in April 2008, is dedicated to the great Arab poets ...
- Wanda’s Picks (5-21-08) (San Francisco Bay View)
Carnaval is this weekend in San Francisco.
- Community lifted me from grief over brother's murder - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Community lifted me from grief over brother's murderRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 3 hours agoIn school, I had the opportunity to involve myself in a grief group that opened up a venue to release my inner feelings by writing and performing poetry. ...
- Date our friend Catie - Time Out New York
Date our friend CatieTime Out New York, NY - 1 hour agoDid I mention that she writes poetry, too?” The TONY Blog is for both our writers and readers to talk about what's going on in New York. ...
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