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- Pete Lacaba receives lifetime achievement award in India (PEP)
Filipino poet, journalist, editor, translator, and screenwriter Jose "Pete" Lacaba receives the Aruna Vasudev Lifetime Achievement Awardee for Writing on Cinema during the 10th Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival.
- Rock Legends' Stuff On Block This Weekend - CBS News
Rock Legends' Stuff On Block This WeekendCBS News, NY - 21 hours agoBono usually changed into this jacket onstage for the 'Love and Peace' through to 'Bullet the Blue Sky' part of the show. All versions of this jacket differ ...
- The Kansas City Literary Festival is Saturday on the Plaza - Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Literary Festival is Saturday on the PlazaKansas City Star, MO - 3 hours agoDozens of local, regional and national authors will appear on several stages: Culinary, Children’s, Poetry, Specialty and Main. Also on hand: food and drink ...
- NPS2008: First round bouts released for National Poetry Slam - Dane101
NPS2008: First round bouts released for National Poetry SlamDane101, WI - 8 hours agoSeventy-six slam poetry teams will be descending on the city of Madison starting August 3rd to engage in a war of words. NPS announced the final list of 76 ...ARTS BEAT Mouth music Isthmusall 2 news articles
- Blast from the past - Arab News
Arab NewsBlast from the pastArab News, Saudi Arabia - 1 hour agoThe style and rhythm of this form is somewhat similar to the Urdu ghazal (poetry) and najm (verses), something that helped Al-Omari shift gears to Indian ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways _ and the redemptive power ...
- A flood of ideas - Iowa City Press Citizen
A flood of ideasIowa City Press Citizen, IA - 24 minutes agoFor 16-year-old Miranda Stinson, a poem she helped write Saturday was "the worst poetry I've written in my life," she said. But it likely ranks high as the ...
- Woman’s search for knowledge about father who died in WWII leads her ... - Asheville Citizen-Times
Beverly Jackson carried a piece of her dead father’s downed B-17 in her arms, along with a scrapbook cracking with old black-and-white photos. The sharp metal of the B-17 Flying Fortress’ wing is what she has left of the man she never had the ...
- Andras Mezei: Many-sided poet and editor - The Independent
András Mezei was a many-sided and accomplished Hungarian writer and poet. One of the defining experiences of his life was the period of Nazi terror in German-occupied Hungary during 1944. His father perished in Auschwitz and although Mezei himself ...
- Gary R. Widger Jr. - Portsmouth Herald News
Gary R. Widger Jr.Portsmouth Herald News, NH - 1 hour agoWE REMEMBER: Gary enjoyed all facets of literature, especially writing, reading and discussing poetry. He also enjoyed music and spending time at the beach ...
- Latitude, Leonard and the mob mind (The New Statesman)
Get out of my country! shouts a young man. A tidal swell of assent and applause fills the comedy tent. I feel nauseous, unnerved by how quickly and completely the crowd has turned
- LAist Interview: Ed Park, founding editor of The Believer and author of Personal Days (LAist)
Ed Park is in town this week to read from and sign Personal Days , his funny, frightening & frighteningly spot-on novel about modern-day office life in this time of mergers, acquisitions, and business books full of empty platitudes that encourage workers to "do whatever it takes" and "put the customer first." Employees go missing without reason and a rogue element shakes things up, all ...
- 'Ah, Wilderness!' sets sentimental comedy in the woods - The Capital Times
'Ah, Wilderness!' sets sentimental comedy in the woodsThe Capital Times, WI - 34 minutes agoThis play is sentimental, somewhat slow despite Langs' admirable efforts, full of quoted poetry and people stifling the urge to giggle at "improper" things. ...
- Retirement is right move - Buffalo News
It seems as though the decision could have been made earlier, but State Supreme Court Justice Amy J. Fricano did the right thing recently by announcing her forthcoming retirement from the bench. The Niagara County judge hasn’t heard a case since ...
- Posted -40 sec ago - Sarnia Observer
Posted -40 sec agoSarnia Observer, Canada - 19 minutes agoAlthough Albert was very skilled mechanically, his greatest passion was towards poetry, drawing, and singing. He will be missed by many for his great sense ...
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