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- Bar owners claim ban hurts business (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
While his barmaid and wait staff were telling customers that they could no longer smoke on the premises, John Elavsky, owner of Hemingway's Cafe in Oakland, was downstairs, writing letters to ...
- Bard productions showcase works of Polish composer - Daily Gazette
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is not a name familiar to most American audiences. Bard Summerscape will change that tonight with its double bill of Szymanowski’s opera “King Roger” and his pastoral dance “Harnasie ...
- Kids’ questions, answers are tricky - Burlington Union
You’re in tricky waters when you talk to small children. You often don’t know WHAT they’ll ask or how you should answer. My spouse was away last weekend, as was the spouse of our daughter. Thus, I invited her to bring the two little ones for a ...
- Academia, religion coexist at Ave Maria (The News-Press)
Molecular biology. Quantum mechanics. Business law. Not exactly courses based on the classical teachings of the Catholic church.
- Foreclosures raise health concerns (Boston Globe)
Half-full with water turned green by algae and surrounded by knee-high grass, the kiddie pool behind the foreclosed house on Bank Street provides the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. Such properties are a growing concern for health agent Michelle Roberts. "It's starting to become a real problem," Roberts said last week of the town's 10 or so foreclosed and ...
- Central students get personal in 'Portrait' (The Doings Clarendon Hills)
To read poems is one thing. To bring them to life on stage is something else entirely. But that's exactly what the cast of "Stuck in a Portrait: A Performance in Three Snap Shots" will do next week at Hinsdale Central High School. Performers will stage poems that were written by students in August during a week-long poetry writing camp with published poet Kevin Coval. The poems will be brought ...
- A feast of ill will (Journal Inquirer)
A guy whose favorite presidents are Ike and Jerry Ford, whose first political hero was Barry Goldwater, who voted for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, Bush the Elder (once), and Bush the Younger (once), tuned in to the Republican convention this week.
- Pat West - Guardian Unlimited
During the 1970s, my friend, Pat West, who has died of cancer aged 69, blossomed in Sistershow, as a poet, performance artist and feminist. For at least 15 years from the early 1990s she organised and hosted the poetry and words tent at the ...
- Poster poems: autumn leaves - Guardian Unlimited
As I think I might have mentioned previously , May 1 is the official start of summer here in Ireland. And so, three months later August 1, Lughnasadh , is the first day of autumn. Lughnasadh, or Lammas, was the traditional start of the harvest and ...
- Shock jock Stern ties knot with Ostrosky in NYC - Grand Rapids Press
AP Photo Radio host Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky attend a Cinema Society screening of "Stop-Loss" at the IFC Center. NEW YORK -- Shock jock Howard Stern has embraced tradition. The radio talk show host known for hosting porn stars married his ...
- At the Senior Center: July 31-Aug. 8 - Brookline TAB
At the Senior Center: July 31-Aug. 8Brookline TAB, MA - 42 minutes agoMary McManus, a published poet in Brookline, would like to do a workshop later this summer in poetry writing and publishing. ...
- Cowboy poets make audiences feel pull of open trail - Anchorage Daily News
PALMER -- Jim Reader and T.J. Casey are the kind of cowboys who still rustle stock, who proclaim their country-folk status with big hats, blue jeans and calloused fingers. Their callouses aren't earned entirely through ranching -- although they say ...
- Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize - Miami Herald
Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday. Glueck, who served as poet laureate in ...
- S.F. Symphony pays homage to Bernstein - San Francisco Gate
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 How do you pay tribute to an artistic legacy as various and far-reaching as Leonard Bernstein's? You have to take it one chunk at a time. Bernstein's 90th birthday was in August, and for reasons best known to themselves ...
- Sheehan Challenges Fed with Impromptu Street Theatre Protest - OpEdNews
Sheehan Challenges Fed with Impromptu Street Theatre ProtestOpEdNews, PA - 5 hours ago... publish hundreds of freelance magazine and newspaper articles and political commentary columns along with 7 books of poetry and short fiction. ...
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