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- Populist: 5-11 October - Londonist
LondonistPopulist: 5-11 OctoberLondonist, UK - 6 hours agoOur proud priapic logo star, St Stephen's Tower got us all frisky and National Poetry Day elicited a fertile gush of handsome haiku about commuting. ...
- Russell lectures about Armenian-Slavic folklore connections Thursday (Belmont Citizen-Herald)
Prof. James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University, will give the first lecture of NAASR’s fall 2008 series on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave. in Belmont.
- Solzhenitsyn: A tortured patriot (BBC News)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn tackled the big themes of Russian literature, writes Oxford lecturer Michael Nicholson.
- Beyond Bogotá - Guardian Unlimited
The Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez had been struggling with a story set in the second world war for three years when it struck him that the thing which had been holding him back from writing was in fact the best reason for trying to tell the ...
- When Music Was News to Me (Metro Santa Cruz)
Now that culture has been atomized into 18 million targeted niche markets, and anyone can program their personal menu of musical taste into their personal portable digital device, I guess the antique medium of radio can't be expected to provide the public with what it already thinks it wants to hear.
- NFU-O Commentary - CKNX Radio
NFU-O CommentaryCKNX Radio, Canada - 3 hours agoReading over the Vision Green document from the Greens is an exercise in reading poetry with little content. It is clear from reading this document that ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - San Diego Union-Tribune
HONOLULU – At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Houses of culture: Wooden cultural iconic edifices of Georgetown - Stabroek News
Houses of culture: Wooden cultural iconic edifices of GeorgetownStabroek News, Guyana - 3 hours agoIt was here that he nurtured the passion that has made him one of Guyana’s greatest performers of poetry. ‘The Big House’ also lays legitimate claim to the ...
- Vermont poet dies (The Nashua Telegraph)
Hayden Carruth, an award-winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont, has died. ...
- Tunisia Finest Voices Pay Tribute to Late Saliha - Al Arab Online
They were five women, five roses, a fine bouquet of the sweetest Tunisian voices, they were five on the stage of the greatest festival in the region, but the magic of their talent and art was one, was great and impressive. Rihab Sghair, Shehrazed ...
- Power to the people - Guardian Unlimited
'Let's be frank about it - most of our people have never had it so good,' declared Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957. With the Suez Crisis still fresh in people's minds, a potentially cataclysmic outbreak of fire at the Windscale ...
- What the @#$ Is Pecha Kucha Night? - Just Out
What the @#$ Is Pecha Kucha Night?Just Out, OR - 3 hours agoThe result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling ...
- Happy days are here again as Fonz returns - Tonight
Happy days are here again as Fonz returnsTonight, South Africa - 7 hours ago"I read a lot of British and Irish poetry and am influenced by it. I love singer-songwriters who are lyrical in their approach, like Johnny Cash and Bob ...
- The story of Coffee in the history of Globalization - KanglaOnline
The story of Coffee in the history of GlobalizationKanglaOnline, India - 53 minutes agoThey read, played backgammon and listen to poetry but did not much frequent the mosque. Half jokingly, they were called the Mekteb-i-irfan (School of ...
- The fast track guide to Slow Food - San Francisco Gate
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 The fast track guide to Slow Food 08.27.08 Slow Food Nation festival opens Friday in S.F. 08.26.08 A modest proposal for sustainable eating 08.17.08 Slow Food Nation comes to San Francisco 06.29.08 Official Slow Food Nation ...
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