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- Cider supper tests poet's mettle - Ledbury Reporter
Cider supper tests poet's mettleLedbury Reporter, UK - 3 hours agoBy Gary Bills-Geddes THE age-old question as to whether poets can hold their drink should be solved at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival, where the local ...
- Noted Palestinian poet Darwish dead at 67 (Moldova.org)
Poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was best known for his works about life in Palestinian territories, has died in Houston at the age of 67, officials say.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Darwish's death Saturday was a blow to the occupied Palestinian territories and would be followed by a three-day mourning period, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.Words cannot describe the depth ...
- Arles: Gregoire Alexandre - wallpaper.com
wallpaper.comArles: Gregoire Alexandrewallpaper.com, UK - 5 hours agoChristian Lacroix describes Gregoire Alexandre’s photography as being like ‘contemporary poetry’. Equal parts installation artist, illusionist, set designer ...
- Mantegna, Andrea: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1495) - The Independent
Some poems are remembered by a single line. Paintings don't come to bits so easily, and there are no dictionaries of famous pictorial quotations. But the same thing can be true. With certain pictures, a single detail is their gift to the world. The ...
- Women doctor shares journey into heart of Islam (Jam! Showbiz)
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Dr. Qanta Ahmed's journey into the heart of Islam began as a spur-of-the-moment decision to practise medicine in Saudi Arabia.
- A very grown-up book club - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukA very grown-up book clubguardian.co.uk, UK - 44 minutes agoMusic and poetry have a part to play, too, not least with those who have dementia or Alzheimer's, as two-thirds of those in the Nightingale do. ...
- Prime Time Calendar the week of June 18, 2008 (Independent Press)
Auditions, will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 24 and Friday, June 27, at the Summit Playhouse, 10 New England Ave., Summit, for the musical, "Baby" by Maltby and Shire. Bring an up-tempo ballad. Production dates for this show are Oct. 24 to Nov. 8. Call 908-578-6882.
- Paul Morley's Guide to Musical Genres, Radio 2 (Independent)
One does not automatically connect Radio 2 with the avant-garde. But every so often it happens that a slot for it is made available, and the collision of the two makes for enormously uplifting radio. Such was the case with this week's Paul Morley's Guide to Musical Genres, which went out last Tuesday at 11.30pm, so as not to scare the infants.
- Sneak thief loses the plot on stereotypes (Independent Online)
Very naive Meat! magazine editor learns a hard lesson about trust, friendship and pickpocketing...
- Ray City mayor gets poetic in new book - Valdosta Daily Times
RAY CITY — Carl Camon had never felt much interest in poetry. He had nothing against it. He’d listen if poems were offered but he didn’t seek poetry. Life kept him busy. Camon is the mayor of the Berrien County town of Ray City. He and wife ...
- 'Step outside the box' - Danbury News-Times
DANBURY -- Immaculate High School Principal Richard Stoops gathered his 99 seniors outside the Danbury school after their graduation Wednesday so they could toss their caps into the air in unison. For them, it was his final show of leadership, and in ...
- The stranger in my bed - - Relationships - East African Standard
As a young girl my best friend and I loved to dream about getting married one day. We always wanted to have a double wedding because we believed that we would be the best friends forever who would be proposed to at the same time. Unfortunately, life ...
- New Lonely Planet guide urges us to stay green - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
New Lonely Planet guide urges us to stay greenScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 1 hour agoArtsy, dreadlocked wanderers mooch between cafés and coffee-carts, ducking into the Bridge St bars or poetry readings in bookshops." (p. ...
- British universities are losing out as authors are selling their archives to US institutions (Guardian Unlimited)
British universities are losing out as big bucks are leading authors to sell their archives to US institutions, says Chris Arnot
- Max Bernstein: Liveblogging from the SeaChange Ideas Forum at the Starz Green Room in Denver (HuffingtonPost)
I just left a panel about nonmilitary solutions to combating terrorism, and left feeling horrified about how inefficient and underfunded our perfunctory nods to this concept are compared to Britain, etc.
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