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- Biz Buzz: Web-surfing isn't a sin, even if it's not work (The Star-Ledger)
It's Monday morning and you've been at your desk since 7:30 a.m. -- writing reports, firing off memos, or whatever it is you do in that cubicle. By 11 a.m. you need a break, so you hop on the web to watch the National Zoo's "Panda Cam" -- live footage of pandas walking around, eating and sleeping.
- Words to cringe by -- and laugh about (The News & Observer)
Sarah Brown's parents were cleaning out her old bedroom back in Oklahoma, so they called the transplanted New Yorker home to retrieve some sweater boxes filled to the brim with old composition notebooks. They were her diaries, with years of adolescent drama scrawled in book after book.
- Comedy overrules romance in off Broadway "Tempest" - Reuters
Comedy overrules romance in off Broadway "Tempest"Reuters - 4 hours agoThe downside of this imaginative comic interpretation is that the poetry-laced scenes involving Prospero and his captive sprite, Ariel (Angel Desai), ...
- REVIEW: Alanis Morissette - MLive.com
The main event was well worth the nearly one-hour wait between show opener Alexi Murdoch (more on him later) and Canadian superstar Alanis Morissette Tuesday night at the Michigan Theater. The show opened with Morissette's 1999 hit "Uninvited," and ...
- The Palestinian icon - GulfNews
GulfNewsThe Palestinian iconGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - Aug 13, 2008Unlike his American counterpart who did not utter a word about the demise of this renowned Palestinian poet, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, ...
- ARTSY EFFORTS COME . . . AND GO - Toronto Star
Here for a moment, then gone. That's the nature of urban artistic interventions; they are quirky – did I really see that? – and ephemeral as a cloud. Toronto has experienced a number of these random acts, which have appeared without explanation ...
- Tim Jennings, new director of Children's Theatre (Seattle Times)
Seattle theater news: Seattle Children's Theatre names a new managing director, New City Theater announces its 2008 fall season, and Roosevelt High School's theater tech crew places fourth at an international contest.
- County’s environmental watchdog turns 20 (Telluride Daily Planet)
Sheep Mountain Alliance celebrates victories, shares memories on Sunday
- Literary Happenings: 3 Vietnam War books geared to young people (Ventura County Star)
Although much has been written about the Vietnam War and its aftermath, few books have been geared toward children or young adults. Here are three excellent titles for young people: "Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam," "When Heaven Fell" and "Escape From Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy."
- Cuban Artists Return Activities Today - Prensa Latina
Cuban Artists Return Activities TodayPrensa Latina, Cuba - 8 hours ago... and students from the Experimental Department of Improvised Poetry have fulfilled their mission and delighted people from the special municipality. ...
- When brown paper wasn’t for parcels - Independent
My memories of my second and third years at Cork University have more to do with hardship than scholarship. The war that ended in 1945 left a terrible legacy. Food and fuel were very scarce -- the city of Cork didn't escape. Many women spent much of ...
- • Family sets up scholarship in son’s memory - Daily Pilot
• Family sets up scholarship in son’s memoryDaily Pilot, CA - 53 minutes ago“After he passed away, we found his journal and there’s some amazing poetry we never knew he had written,” said his younger sister Stephanie Wood. ...
- Brodhead: Hapless Revenger - The Conservative Voice
The Conservative VoiceBrodhead: Hapless RevengerThe Conservative Voice, NC - Jul 16, 2008Protected, cosseted all his academic career despite the pinch of inflation in the dark 1970s (which he perceives as his own Great Depression), ...
- Gifted city singer aims to inspire - Independent Online
Gifted city singer aims to inspireIndependent Online, South Africa - 3 hours agoMamputa will perform with Lyrical Base Project and Bulelwa Basse on Tuesday at 7.30pm as part of the Speak the Mind Poetry Sessions at Artscape. ...
- Passion Play - Variety
VarietyPassion PlayVariety, CA - 18 minutes agoBut Sarah Ruhl's much-developed 3½-hour intimate epic, "Passion Play," delicately wafts over the didactic with her own special lyrical blend of poetry, ...
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