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- The Palestinian Oscar hope (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
Take the sexiest man of the year, team him up with a statuesque Palestinian-American spoken word muse, add a fiery filmmaker who sets out to make her first feature movie and you end up with "Salt of This Sea", this year's official Palestinian Academy Award entry.
- Down syndrome adoptions rise (Provo Daily Herald)
Jonny and Madeleine, the eighth and ninth children in the Curtis family, were born 54 weeks apart but grew up in many ways like twins. Best friends from the beginning, they learned to walk and sound out words together. But Madeleine's development soon outpaced her older brother's.
- Russell wrangles up tunes for Cowboy event (Standard-Examiner)
Tom Russell is one of those guys who might have written much of his stuff 100 years in the past, to be sung around the cattle-drive campfire. Those Western tunes are one reason he is a featured performer at Heber City's Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair, which begins on Tuesday.
- Kate Beckinsale On Juggling Two Guys at Once - E! Online
E! OnlineKate Beckinsale On Juggling Two Guys at OnceE! Online - 8 hours agoBeckinsale, who has, in fact, won two British national writing awards for her poetry and short stories, says, "The whole juggling-baby-acting thing has kept ...
- City on the Make: Made of steel - Minneapolis Star Tribune
City on the Make: Made of steelMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoIt sounds as if he's trying a little bit of a lot of different styles: Tom Waits' gritty howl, Craig Finn's stammering poetry, Muddy Waters' booming mojo ...
- Family mourns tent city woman - Alberni Valley News
Family mourns tent city womanAlberni Valley News, Canada - 6 hours agoInstead, Mundy says, she remembers a little girl who wrote poetry and was gifted at math; whose favourite dish was hamburger stew; and who gave away what ...
- Myth and magic of Wilfred Owen (BBC News)
Why does Wilfred Owen remain such a popular World War I poet when he died so young and published so very little?
- Bookmarks: Quotes galore! - Quill & Quire
Bookmarks: Quotes galore!Quill & Quire, Canada - 16 hours agoThere’s hope for the Canadian poetry scene yet. Squabbling... Bobby: My son is a huge Potter fan and he is the one that got me interested in the Rowling ...
- Yellowstone Art Museum - Billings Gazette
'Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art'; through Sunday, Jan. 4. 'A Covenant of Seasons: Monotypes by Joellyn Duesberry and Poetry by Pattiann Rogers'; through Sunday, Jan. 4. 'Joseph Stefanelli: Heroic Color'; through Sunday, Jan. 18 ...
- Seattle artist's rigor creates abstractions whose depth goes ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle artist's rigor creates abstractions whose depth goes ...Seattle Post Intelligencer - 5 hours agoBy REGINA HACKETT Seattle painter Lauri Chambers does not intend her black-and-white abstractions in oil on board to serve as metaphors. WHEN: Till Nov. 30. ...
- Royal visit...tall ships race...a book - Royal Gazette
Royal GazetteRoyal visit...tall ships race...a bookRoyal Gazette, Bermuda - 1 hour agoThey are holding a competition and calling for works of art, music, writing, photography and poetry that celebrates Bermuda. There is an adult category and ...
- Art, music, gossip - it's (virtually) all there in my parallel universe (Guardian Unlimited)
It has been quite a week for virtual worlds, the three-dimensional sector of the internet where people can live a parallel existence with their own avatar or alter ego. The world's most profitable virtual game, World of Warcraft, which has more than 11 million paying participants, released a long-awaited expansion that generated midnight queues as enthusiasts vied with each other to steal a ...
- WOUNDED: A look at the Civil War and Walt Whitman (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
"War" takes a look at how the Civil War shaped Walt Whitman's life and poetry.
- Bruce Robison's Winning Anti-Formula Strikes Again on His Greatest (Nashville Scene)
Bruce Robison is country music's Mr. Anti-Formula: a go-to songwriter for top artists who can leverage their popularity to step outside of conventions. His songs are unusual only for the power of their true-to-life narratives and effortless melodies. But it's not just Robison's songs that...
- Meat and Greet - New York Times
Meat and GreetNew York Times, United States - 20 hours ago... a cowboy town with a strong Basque community that is home to the state’s largest annual Basque festival as well as the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. ...
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