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- The Rush to Save Timbuktu’s Crumbling Manuscripts - Temoust
The Rush to Save Timbuktu’s Crumbling ManuscriptsTemoust, Niger - Aug 1, 2008The Ahmed Baba Library alone contains more than 20000 manuscripts, including works on herbal medicine and mathematics, yellowed volumes of poetry, ...
- A.S. Maulucci: Memories can elicit powerful, provoking poetry - Enterprise
Memory runs through our lives like an underground river. For poets that river carries rich imagery, has currents that swirl with inspiration and eddies into deep pools of emotion. Many great poets have written some of their best work when they have ...
- Grim Theatre | Idolatry and deceit are on the playbill this weekend (Urban Tulsa)
Two cutting-edge productions are coming to theaters near you. In mid-August, Midwestern Theater Troupe will present Tape, a play about "motive, memory, truth and perception," at the Nightingale Theater, 1416 E. 4th St. At the same time, Orasi Productions will present Graven Image, a combination of... By Paul Sheckarski.
- Calendar for Aug. 14 through Aug. 20 - Enterprise-Record
Calendar for Aug. 14 through Aug. 20Enterprise-Record, CA - 16 minutes agoAlso, poetry reading with the Thursday Writing Group and special guests, hosted by Bob Garner, 6-8 pm JOHNNIE'S RESTAURANT, HOTEL DIAMOND: Solo piano with ...
- On DVD, reviving memories of the great Maxwell Street Market - Chicago Sun-Times
Sociologists describe it as a point of entry for Eastern European immigrants and transplanted Southern blacks. Blues lovers point to the many greats who got their start there entertaining Sunday shoppers in pre-mall Middle America. Jewish businessmen ...
- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 - Hampton Roads Daily Press
LOS ANGELES - 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 national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- Why Sagging Pants are Conspicuously still In Style. - Political Affairs Magazine
Why Sagging Pants are Conspicuously still In Style.Political Affairs Magazine, NY - 5 hours agoAnd whether young African Americans and Hispanics want to hear it or not, White American fears your large numbers and your potential, but grown men adopting ...
- Book Reviews: Milwaukee Does Strange Things To People; National Anthem (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Milwaukee Does Strange Things To People: New and Selected Poems 1979-2007. By Susan Firer. The Backwaters Press. 163 pages. $16. National Anthem. By Kevin Prufer. Four Way Books. 82 pages. $15.95. Susan Firer and Ke...
- Christina Patterson: There is a lot to be said for marrying young (Independent)
My parents met on a hill in Heidelberg. It was, they always told us, love at first sight. My mother was 18. My father was 21. When they went home, three weeks later (she to Sweden, he to England), they continued their romance, in German, by letter. Four months later, my father sent my mother a telegram. "Will you marry me?" it said, in English. My mother's reply was one word: "Yes." By the time ...
- Poet was an inspiration to his niece, many others - Corpus Christi Caller Times
Poet was an inspiration to his niece, many othersCorpus Christi Caller Times, TX - Jun 27, 2008It was a gift that would make him a pioneer in Chicano poetry. Salinas, 70, died last month in California after a lengthy illness, but it was his hope and ...
- Rock Me, Ahmadinejad! - TIME
Rock Me, Ahmadinejad!TIME - 38 minutes agoDe Burgh will share the stage with Iranian pop giants Arian, on whose forthcoming album he has collaborated — in one song, De Burgh even sings "I love you," ...
- Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't ... - Village Voice
Why an NYC rap star threatened retirement, and why she hasn't ...Village Voice, NY - 39 minutes agoSecond, the problem: I'm married (not the problem) to a wonderful, funny, hardworking, sensitive-yet-manly dude, and the mother to two little ones (one just ...
- Graduation Speech - Rachel Barnard - Sarasota (51 Lines) (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
In eighth grade I promised myself I would become valedictorian and read a speech at graduation. At Booker High I studied with bright students, took honors and AP classes, took part in extra-curricular activites, was involved in the community, and improved my skills on violin and piano in VPA Music, all while writing poetry.
- United we stand, divided we fall (Provo Daily Herald)
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and more than 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system reaching down hundreds of feet into the earth. Not true. The redwoods actually have a very shallow root system, but they all intertwine. They don't stand alone, for all the ...
- Hendrix fire guitar 'to fetch ÂŁ1m' - Croydon Guardian
A guitar set on fire by Jimi Hendrix during a live show is to go on sale, it was revealed. Hendrix famously covered his Fender Stratocaster in lighter fluid at the end of his March 1967 show at the Finsbury Astoria in London. He then ignited it ...
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