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- Time to Pick: Banjo Fest or Folkie Fun? (Washington Post)
Tomorrow is all about musical heritage, as two long-standing celebrations, the Takoma Park Folk Festival and the Speedy Tolliver Fiddle and Banjo Fest, return.
- The Monitor: Coals, Newcastle, get it? (BBC News)
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press. All week the Guardian's giveaway is pamphlets on how to write. Obviously the nation's journalists have been squirreling away How to Write: Fiction and How to Write: Poetry, since this is what newshounds secretly would prefer to be doing.
- Put Yourself in Key's Shoes - Washington Post
Put Yourself in Key's ShoesWashington Post, United States - 3 hours agoBut even if he didn't really see"the rockets' red glare" or "the bombs bursting in air," what he felt, Bailey says, and what came out in his poetry was ...
- Where Aspirins Cost $15 - New York Times Blogs
It costs 10 euros — about $15 — for a package of 50 aspirins at the local drugstore in Bonn, Germany! What an outrage. Why so expensive? I could get a bottle of generic aspirins at home for well below $5 for 100! Looking around I also notice, as ...
- Stooges back on ballot for Rock Hall of Fame - MLive.com
The Stooges have been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - again. The iconic Ann Arbor band - led by wild, charismatic frontman Iggy Pop and widely considered the godfathers of punk rock - is among nine nominees for next year's hall ...
- Michael Rosen: 'Give children books, not SATs' - Independent
Michael Rosen: 'Give children books, not SATs'Independent, UK - 15 minutes agoHis everyday speech, you notice, has the same lively stream of consciousness as his poetry. But by far his biggest concern is what testing has done to his ...
- Bali bikini ban threatens tourism - News.com.au
FIRST it was the Bali bombers, now it is law-makers in faraway Jakarta that threaten to drive Aussies from the resort island. Bikini-clad tourists may have to cover up if a law is passed across Indonesia. The Bill is designed to define pornography ...
- Irene Gammel's 'Looking For Anne of Green Gables' - International Herald Tribune
Irene Gammel's 'Looking For Anne of Green Gables'International Herald Tribune, France - 2 hours agoEwan Macdonald won her affections and carried her off to Ontario, where she raised two children and wrote 20 novels and two poetry collections. ...
- Darren Sutherland v James Degale (Britain) middleweight (8.01am Irish ... - Independent
Psychologically, Sutherland has a clear edge on Degale, having won four of their five meetings. So the Englishman holds no secrets for the Irish camp. Sutherland can be expected to summon a repeat of his defensive master-class that so disillusioned ...
- Bucurestiul cultural 10(73) part 1 - Revista 22
Bucurestiul cultural 10(73) part 1Revista 22, Romania - Aug 6, 2008In 1977 l-am tradus pe Leonid Dimov pentru festivalul Poetry International din Rotterdam. Poetul ma simpatiza si, in perioada in care am fost la ...
- Palestinians bid farewell to their top poet - Monsters and Critics.com
Palestinians bid farewell to their top poetMonsters and Critics.com - Aug 13, 2008Darwish had asked to be buried at that location, having dedicated his life to culture, poetry and literature. He was born in a village near Acre in 1941 in ...
- Wham bam, thank you Slam - News.com.au
IT'S a novel idea ¿ applying the format of mainstream television contests such as Australian Idol to an underground artform like spoken-word poetry. Hosted in Perth by WritingWA, Australian Poetry Slam ’08 is a battle of the words in which ...
- Belle's Book Review - The Tribune
Belle's Book ReviewThe Tribune, TX - 30 minutes agoWhile writing it down on waking, he was interrupted and unable to remember the rest. Lithgow's grandmother recited poetry from memory for forty minutes at a ...
- Events calendar (The Times-News)
The Faulkner Planetarium at the Herrett Center for Arts and Science on the College of Southern Idaho campus will present "Dinosaur Chronicles" at 2 p.m.; "Mysteries from the Depths of Space" at 7 p.m.; and "Space Jammin'" at 8:15 p.m. Tickets are $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2 for students and $9 for families.
- Massive theater event, and it's all free! - Examiner.com
Examiner.comMassive theater event, and it's all free!Examiner.com - 2 hours ago... absurd theater, inter-species love. relationships, conservation, jug band, folk tales, poetry, Asian identity, God & man, magic, illusion, clowning. ...
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