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- Nuestra Biblioteca celebrates second year with cultural celebration (Hispania News)
The Pueblo City-County Library District is pleased and excited to invite the public to the first anniversary of Nuestra Biblioteca Hispanic Resource Center at the Rawlings Public Library, 100 E. Abriendo Ave., on Sunday, Sept. 14 from 11 am. To 4:30 p.m.
- P.E.I. book award shortlist announced (The Guardian)
The jury for the 2008 P.E.I. Book Award has released the shortlist of titles for the prestigious award.
- Jessica: Outgoing type is into helping others (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Jessica Glover is an 18-year-old graduate of Central High School Magnet Career Academy. She will be attending Eastern Kentucky University starting next month. She wants to be a psychiatrist and is always there for friends and family.
- Much revered father figures (The New Straits Times)
RECENTLY, we celebrated Fathers Day. This month, we honour Merdeka and Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman. And on July 18 the world paid tribute to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday.
- Playing things by ear - The West Australian
Playing things by earThe West Australian, Australia - 1 hour agoPart political narrative, part found object and part concrete poetry, Momentum, Rolled and Drafted 1, 2 and 3 are more then just name-dropping pieces. ...
- Sister's death devastates in 'Goldengrove' (The Wichita Eagle)
"Goldengrove" by Francine Prose (Harper, $24.95) So much seems tragic when we're teenagers: our appeal -- or rather, the lack thereof -- to the opposite sex; our embarrassing parents; a spectacularly bad haircut. Nico, the 13-year-old protagonist of Francine Prose's new novel, experiences all that through the prism of true tragedy: the death of her golden, talented older sister, Margaret. ...
- Bush Vetoes Bill Outlawing CIA Waterboarding - Common Dreams
WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush on Saturday vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques. Lawmakers included the anti-torture measure in a ...
- Lincoln Center Festival Presents Gate|Beckett Beginning July 16 - Playbill.com
Lincoln Center Festival Presents Gate|Beckett Beginning July 16Playbill.com, NY - 2 hours agoThe production features three Beckett pieces not originally conceived for the theatre as well as readings of Beckett's poetry and prose. ...
- Air conditioning artist named - Gadsden Times
Earlier this year, in the cold of winter, the Air Conditioning Tribute Committee announced a call for entries for artists to pay tribute to the most important of summer-time inventions — the air conditioner. The response was positive, and the ...
- Poetry review presents 'Tres Poetas' - South Coast Today
Poetry review presents 'Tres Poetas'South Coast Today, MA - 38 minutes agoShe is a professor of sociology and French who has been writing poetry for many years. Her work has been published by The University of Valparaiso in ...
- Ha Jin wants to visit China (AP via Yahoo! News)
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books.
- War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane? (International Herald Tribune)
Soho Rep in New York is facing the challenge of staging Sarah Kane's "Blasted," a play bursting with audacious violence and wriggling with metaphor.
- SUNDAY ARTS CALENDAR (The Wichita Eagle)
EVENTS 2008 Wichita Flight Festival, starts 11 a.m.-5 p.m. today, Col. James Jabara Airport, 3512 N. Webb Road. Includes air show, Kansas Aviation Gallery, children's activities, static aircraft displays, car show. Tickets $5, available at Select-A-Seat outlets and at the gate; children 5-under free. Free parking and shuttle from designated area at Hawker Beechcraft, Central and Webb. ...
- Britney Spears’ mother: ‘It’s been a whirlwind’ - MSNBC
Lynne Spears, whose daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn found both fame and infamy in a dizzyingly short amount of time, said her new book is an attempt to set the record straight. “I think there was the tabloid version of our lives,” she told TODAY ...
- Rich rhythms of island life in Pynter Bender - Metro
MetroRich rhythms of island life in Pynter BenderMetro, UK - 8 hours agoEach sentence carries the weight of prose-poetry, suffused with rich, deep rhythms and other-worldly imagery that vividly conveys the tension between the ...
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