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- Sydney for a steal - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldSydney for a stealSydney Morning Herald, Australia - Aug 7, 2008On the first Tuesday of every month at 7.30pm, the pub hosts poetry evenings, featuring an MC, a headline poet and the opportunity for anyone present to ...
- Eleven years of Labour, and all that's helped Paris is a ÂŁ3 pair ... - Daily Mail
Daily MailEleven years of Labour, and all that's helped Paris is a ÂŁ3 pair ...Daily Mail, UK - 55 minutes agoDespite a gift for poetry and short stories, she left school at 16 without a single qualification. With little hope of a job, and therefore a home of her ...
- The house where Al Purdy lived is on the block - Globe and Mail
The house where Al Purdy lived is on the blockGlobe and Mail, Canada - 26 minutes ago“Certainly there are some philanthropists that really do revere Purdy's memory and his poetry,” he added, referring specifically to Scott Griffin, ...
- Bards of a feather rhyme together - Central Western Daily
IT WAS poetry in motion. The words of eight bards, fastened to the legs of eight, elite homing birds, were carried aloft yesterday in a unique flight of imagination along the South Coast. Poetry fans and pigeon fanciers joined forces at Stanwell Tops ...
- Dick Martin, half of comic duo that brought 'Laugh-in' to TV, dies in California at 86 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The team's back together for an unlimited engagement. Tickets are free.
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant and a rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- Instant karma - Financial Times
“And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma – when you’re not nice – that the bad things happen to you?” Offhand speculation it may have been, but what Sharon Stone said about the Sichuan ...
- Strike up the symphony to celebrate the Fourth - Inside Bay Area
Strike up the symphony to celebrate the FourthInside Bay Area, CA - 2 hours agoNor is it all dark until fall at SF Opera itself, which through its Merola training program is offering a free Schwabacher Summer Concert with its young ...
- Bend's brew pubs cure what ales you - Seattle Times
The big and busy Deschutes Brewery's and Public House in Bend, Ore., is the town's original brew pub, established in 1988. Sunriver Resort, Mount Bachelor and 300 days of sunshine a year draw hordes of visitors to the town of Bend, a central Oregon ...
- BYU professor gains 2 honors - Deseret News
BYU professor gains 2 honorsDeseret News, UT - 4 hours agoPROVO — A Brigham Young University English professor was recently honored as the first-place winner of a national poetry contest and was also named ...
- Entertainment Calendar: 08/08/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Items for this calendar must be received by the Record-Eagle at least two weeks in advance. All calendars are published on a space available basis. Information may be mailed to Entertainment Calendar, Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632; faxed to 946-8632; or e-mail sbeach@record-eagle.com .
- The Death of English (LOL) - Newsweek
The most hotly contested controversy sparked by the text-messaging phenomenon of the past eight years is over truant letters. "Textese," a nascent dialect of English that subverts letters and numbers to produce ultra-concise words and sentiments, is ...
- Retiring teachers touched more than 2,000 lives - Tea and Harrisburg Champion
TEA – Tea Area first grade teacher Twyla Sine always wanted to teach. “I knew right away,” Sine said. “I remember my second grade teacher and I always played school when I was a kid.” Now, after 44 years of teaching, Sine, along with first ...
- The light of fallen friends (Boston Globe)
MASHPEE - About 600 people turned out at Mashpee's Community Park last night for a candlelight vigil honoring the town's three fallen members of the military.
- LAFF Review: Big Heart City - Cinematical
LAFF Review: Big Heart CityCinematical, CA - 49 minutes agoBig Heart City's not just an acting showcase, though; director of photography Peter J. Scalettar finds poetry and grandeur in the barren wastes of LA and ...
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