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- 'He was a smart, rather vain man' (BBC News)
Former BBC chief news correspondent Kate Adie spent several years covering the Bosnian conflict, and met one of its "architects", Radovan Karadzic, several times.
- Poetry and photography contest deadline is Thursday - Reporter-Times
Poetry and photography contest deadline is ThursdayReporter-Times, IN - 5 hours ago... Arts Council and Morgan County Public Library are co-sponsors of the 2008 Morgan County Fall Foliage Festival poetry and photography contest. ...
- Gentleman Ronnie made everyone around him feel better about themselves - Independent
Only his family would have known how much Ronnie Drew depended on and drew strength from his wife. Her loss was devastating As a man who appreciated poetry, Ronnie Drew would probably have seen something of himself in this doggerel: "Between the ...
- Poetry book of the week: The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah (Independent)
Admirers of Birthmarks, the debut by Mick Imlah, have waited 20 years for a second book, an unusual hiatus. But The Lost Leader is also remarkable for its size — at 124 pages, it is a big book of poems — and for a tonal and technical range which makes most new collections seem like one-note performances.
- Finding the man who walked away - Boston Globe
Unless you're familiar with the arcane details surrounding Andy Warhol and the characters who inhabited his world, you're not likely to be familiar with the name Danny Williams. But Williams had a mysterious, chilling, and now rediscovered life story ...
- Michael Jackson 'Records Album Of Robert Burns Poetry' - Sound-Check Music
Michael Jackson recorded an album of Robert Burns poems at his studio in California, friend David Guest has revealed. Gest, who featured in the recording sessions, said the pair both regard Burns, who died in 1796, as “our favourite poet in the ...
- North Texas Events, September 5 - Times Record News
North Texas Events, September 5Times Record News, TX - 9 hours agoTalks include everything from outdoor survival to wildlife, cowboy poetry and more. For the Sept. 6 talk, park volunteer Doug Holbert will give an ...
- Meet David Rubadiri: one of Africa’s finest - Malawi's Daily Times
Malawi's Daily TimesMeet David Rubadiri: one of Africa’s finestMalawi's Daily Times, Malawi - 3 hours agoHis poetry is rated among the best in Africa. In Kenya, while attending a conference on the future of African writing, a BBC reporter asked him on the ...
- 21st annual mayor's walk draws a crowd - St. George Daily Spectrum
21st annual mayor's walk draws a crowdSt. George Daily Spectrum, UT - 3 hours agoMcArthur walked down the course with his megaphone, singing “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” and reciting poetry. Jolene and 10-year-old Leighton Ipson, ...
- The Fact-Free Debate - Slate
When Joe Biden described an Obama ad attacking John McCain's inability to use a computer as "terrible," the world acted as if the Joe-pocalypse had finally arrived. Jonathan Martin of Politico called it "perhaps his most off-message statement yet ...
- Writers rule! (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Wendy Merrill sold her book proposal two years ago at the Maui Writers Conference. She returns this weekend to encourage would-be authors in a seminar titled "All About Publishing: How a Book Gets Discovered" with Penguin Group icon Neil Nyren and literary agent Robert Stricker.
- Creative Arts Emmy winners for 60th annual awards (AP via Yahoo! News)
List of winners in the creative arts categories of the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
- Jury Hears About Cat Killer's 'Obsession' - FOX News
A man accused of slaughtering his girlfriend's cat was so obsessed with the tiny tabby that he wrote about it in his diary, the tearful woman testified yesterday at his bizarre feline-bludgeoning trial. In the weeks before lay-about actor Joseph ...
- A new voice aims to evangelize, inform - Miami Herald
The establishment of Vwa Katolik says the Haitian community is ‘here and we're here to stay,' says Father Patrick Charles. For years, as he celebrated Mass at St. James Catholic Church in North Miami or tended to the special needs of his Haitian ...
- The captivating story of how one man walked between the Twin ... - Philadelphia citypaper.net
The captivating story of how one man walked between the Twin ...Philadelphia citypaper.net, PA - 3 hours agoWhen his longtime lover, Annie Allix, remembers meeting Petit, when she was just 20 years old, we see black-and-white footage of a backyard, ...
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