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- Kermit Love: Designer of Big Bird (Independent)
With a background in designing costumes and marionettes for ballet productions, Kermit Love created for television a towering, iconic character that would achieve worldwide fame in a programme acclaimed for its educational qualities. The 8ft 2in Big Bird, with bright-yellow feathers, orange legs and big feet, is one of the mainstays of the American series Sesame Street, aimed at pre-school ...
- Song & Dance by John Fuller - Times Online
Song & Dance by John FullerTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoAnd then who else could get away with writing in waltz rhythm, in The Armpit Waltz, about a baron obsessed with that physical feature of a ‘little heiress' ...
- Latest Additions (The Barnstable Patriot)
Yahoo! Jeff Streeby is a true Cowboy poet Cowboy poetry has been around for over 100 years. Initially, it was an oral tradition, as cowboys would gather 'round the campfire at night, tell tall tales and sing songs.
- Once And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen - Metro
MetroOnce And For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And ListenMetro, UK - 47 minutes agoIn Once And For All Belgian company Ontroerend Goed presents a portrait of teenage life in all its messy glory through an inspired piece of visual poetry. ...
- US travel memoir wins Age Book of the Year Award - The Age
US travel memoir wins Age Book of the Year AwardThe Age, Australia - 5 hours agoJS Harry won the $10000 Dinny O'Hearn poetry prize for Not Finding Wittgenstein. The prizes were presented last night at the opening of the Melbourne ...
- America's Busiest Poet (Time Magazine)
Kay Ryan is the latest pick as the nation's top poet. If her predecessors are any guide, she'll have an exhausting year
- Paintings echo Dickinson poems - The Republican - MassLive.com
Paintings echo Dickinson poemsThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 8 hours agoMancini, for whom English is a second language, tends to express himself in abstract terms, and often protests that his feelings for the poetry are too ...
- Sisters celebrate their golden, other anniversaries - Beaverton Valley Times
Sisters celebrate their golden, other anniversariesBeaverton Valley Times, OR - 3 hours agoHer hobbies are writing poetry and collecting stamps. - Sister Catherine was born in 1941, the fourth of 12 children of Raymond and Agnes Hertel. ...
- This and That - Plainview Daily Herald
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH will host its 2008 Girls Conference from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday for girls grades 6-12. This will include a workshop lead by the church’s girls praise team, live dramas, testimonies and much more. Cost is $20 and includes T ...
- The Essentials | City Weekly's Entertainment Picks August 21-27 - Salt Lake City Weekly
Salt Lake City WeeklyThe Essentials | City Weekly's Entertainment Picks August 21-27Salt Lake City Weekly, UT - 2 hours agoYou can share your own coming-of-age journals, poetry, diaries—anything that makes you cringe—at an open mic event Sept. 12 at 7 pm Cringe: Purge @ Sam ...
- Longtime S.B. Poet Cynthia Anderson Moves On (Santa Barbara Independent)
After 26 years in Santa Barbara, poet and editor Cynthia Anderson and her new husband and artistic collaborator Bill Dahl (they tied the knot August 4) are following their dream to a new home and inspiration in the high desert near Joshua Tree National Park.
- Mashpee soldier: A life celebrated (Cape Cod Times)
MASHPEE — Paul Conlon was generous, once giving his brand-new coat to a less-fortunate classmate and making sandwiches for a homeless man he saw on the street.
- Del Martin, longtime crusader for lesbian marriage rights (Rocky Mountain News)
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87.
- The List - this weekend - Portsmouth News
The List - this weekendPortsmouth News, UK - 5 hours agoGreat poetry and music. London poets Anna Robinson and Stephen Watts, with music from Nick Evans, The Elderly Brothers and Sue Apicella. ...
- Kids learn from social Web sites - Detroit News
MINNEAPOLIS -- University of Minnesota researchers say they have discovered educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study also found that low-income students are in many ways just as technologically ...
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