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- Left-wing forum pays homage to actor Mohammed Bakri - YNET News
In solidarity with the controversy around his disputed documentary “Jenin, Jenin,” the evening will feature performance numbers and literary and poetry readings as well as a speech by Bakri himself.
- Barfly: Getting a lesson from a mysterious absintheur - Marin Independent-Journal
Barfly: Getting a lesson from a mysterious absintheurMarin Independent-Journal, CA - 2 hours agoI was to meet him at his friend's house where another friend would "host us." It had the feel of going over to that kid's dorm room in college; ...
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Dick Martin of 'Laugh-In' fame dies at 86 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose ``Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'' took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such ...
- Rockland student a finalist in national poetry contest - Patriot Ledger
Gabrielle Guarracino, a high-honors senior at Rockland High School, was among 12 students who competed Tuesday in the national finals of Poetry Out Loud. The two-time Massachusetts champion recited Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Anne Sexton ...
- Museum's exhibit reflects Vermont's art and culture (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)
hen Glenn Suokko began his artist talk last weekend at the "Pastoral" exhibit at the Kent Tavern Museum, there was a cup-shaped bird's nest resting on a mantel just behind his left shoulder. Anecdotally, he mentioned that the week before, he'd been in the next room listening to a poetry reading by Carol Westberg when he noticed a robin sitting on her nest. He watched, through the wavy glass of ...
- A Funny Plant with a Painful Name - The Toothache Plant - San Francisco Examiner
The first time I saw this plant was in a Texas garden nursery. I heard a squeal of delight as someone exclaimed, “The Dr. Seuss Flower!” Indeed, it does look like something out of Horton Hears a Who! This funny little flower is also called ...
- NZ Poet Laureate to MC celebration of Kiwi poetry - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Scoop.co.nz (press release)NZ Poet Laureate to MC celebration of Kiwi poetryScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 2 hours ago... and the book-and-CD anthology New New Zealand Poets in Performance, edited by poets Jack Ross and Jan Kemp. The programme features poetry readings by ...
- Book of Poetry Brings Comfort to Grieving Family - BigNews.biz (press release)
BigNews.biz (press release)Book of Poetry Brings Comfort to Grieving FamilyBigNews.biz (press release), MA - 18 minutes agoHer son’s reflections on love, pain, addiction and God are revealed in Breaking Down the Wall of Silence. Apart from being a collection of Rivera’s poems, ...
- St. Paul children's book writer beats the odds with a double feature - MinnPost.com
MinnPost.comSt. Paul children's book writer beats the odds with a double featureMinnPost.com, MN - 41 minutes agoShe has published two other children's books and an anthology of poetry by children, but she began her writing life as a poet. "I'd been writing poetry for ...
- Theater Review (NYC): Henry James's The Aspern Papers, Adapted by ... - Blogcritics.org
Theater Review (NYC): Henry James's The Aspern Papers, Adapted by ...Blogcritics.org, OH - 1 hour agoStirred from her drab existence by his gaudy speeches, his love for flowers and poetry, his money, and his gondola, the niece eventually enters his ...
- What's New, Pusinky? - East Bay Express
What's New, Pusinky?East Bay Express, CA - 4 hours agoNew girl in school Tru (Najarra Townsend) seems to be dating Lodell (Matthew Thompson), but she's only a beard for the closeted gay African-American jock ...
- Campus mourns Chinese quake victims during candlelight vigil (Yale Daily News)
A candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the massive earthquake that struck the Chinese province of Sichuan last Monday drew approximately 80 to Cross Campus last night.
- Trinity professor writes gripping bio of Ringelblum (Connecticut Jewish Ledger)
“Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive,” by Samuel D. Kassow, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2007. $34.95, 523 pages
- Polish writer and anti-communist dissident dies - Thenews.pl
Polish writer and anti-communist dissident diesThenews.pl, Poland - 1 hour agoHer literary output includes several volumes of poetry and a book of reminiscences from her activities in the Committee for the Defense of Workers. (mk)
- Songs of Tragedy, Triumph and Hope (New York Times)
Reviews of performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, London Sinfonietta and Anne Sofie von Otter.
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