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- Vandals ponder 'road not taken' - Detroit News
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Retiring principal ready for his extended summer vacation - Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier
CEDAR FALLS --- The heart attack gave him time to think. Tom Galligan was already considering walking away from the principal's desk at Southdale Elementary School in the next year or two when he was rushed to the hospital on Feb. 29. "While I was ...
- Film reviews: Killer of Sheep, Her Name is Sabine and more - Daily Telegraph
A classic finally released from copyright-related limbo, Charles Burnett 's 1977 debut observes the lives of a black family in the rundown Watts area of Los Angeles. A black cinema classic: Killer of Sheep At first, the focus is on the youngsters ...
- Rabindranath Tagore exhibition in Swindon until Saturday - Swindon Advertiser
Rabindranath Tagore exhibition in Swindon until SaturdaySwindon Advertiser, UK - 13 hours agoThe poet had a deep interest in nature and expressed his love for all living things through his poetry. He was knighted by King George in 1915 but returned ...
- ReeceSociety to honor poet’s memory at annual meeting - Daily Citizen
ReeceSociety to honor poet’s memory at annual meetingDaily Citizen, GA - 1 hour agoThe four volumes of Reece’s books of poetry and his two novels will also be on display. Most of the authors will be present to sign copies of books that are ...
- Pilgrims (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
At her very element if not for a thin layer of wax to keep the lambent calm on her face.
- Rank and File (The Hendersonville Times-News)
Online lists, and the (many) people who love them.
- Young vandals in Vermont get lessons in poetry - Kansas City Star
More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost’s former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using “The Road Not Taken” and another poem as ...
- The Three Of Us: A Family Story, by Julia Blackburn (Independent)
The trio in the title of this surprising and illuminating book consists of the author and her parents. Thomas Blackburn, the son of a religious fanatic, was a poet who consumed an oceanic amount of booze. He was violent in his cups and for a lengthy period became addicted to the barbiturate sodium amytal. The lethal combination of drug and alcohol exacerbated his tendency to violence and ...
- Hipster Hip-Hop: Nerds in Rap Paradise? - allhiphop.com
"If Andre 3000 came out right now they'd call him hipster rap,” says The Bronx’s Mickey Factz. “Right now it's a trend for 50 Cent and Lil Wayne to sing with a vocoder. What we’re doing isn’t a trend, it’s real. When 50 Cent raps over ...
- Local Starbucks will close - Plainview Daily Herald
Coffee lovers in Plainview received a slight shock this week when they learned Starbucks here will be closing down. “I’m so sad. I just found out an hour ago,” Amanda Murray said Wednesday night. “I’m heartbroken.” Starbucks announced ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Miami Herald
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the ...
- 'Poetry in motion' - Twin Falls Times-News
Remember that scene at the beginning of the recent Bond adventure "Casino Royale" in which the agent chases a man across a construction site, bounding fences, scaling girders, leaping across empty space to land on a crane boom? That's parkour. Kind ...
- Memories of my melancholy nights - Daily News & Analysis
Memories of my melancholy nightsDaily News & Analysis, India - Jun 30, 2008While browsing through my dog-eared copy of poems - yes, I still read poetry when I feel melancholy enough - I came across an old favourite, where WH Auden ...
- Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen Bring "One Ounce of Truth" to Joe's Pub May 12 (Playbill)
Broadway singer-actress Capathia Jenkins and songwriter-performer Louis Rosen celebrate the release of their new CD, "One Ounce of Truth: The Nikki Giovanni Songs," with a Joe's Pub engagement starting May 12.
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