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- Foreclosures raise health concerns (Boston Globe)
Half-full with water turned green by algae and surrounded by knee-high grass, the kiddie pool behind the foreclosed house on Bank Street provides the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. Such properties are a growing concern for health agent Michelle Roberts. "It's starting to become a real problem," Roberts said last week of the town's 10 or so foreclosed and ...
- Fireman’s Roundup - Youngstown Vindicator
Fireman’s RoundupYoungstown Vindicator, OH - 6 hours agoBoth serious and light poetry will be interpreted, including a reading from Charles Dicken’s “Tale of Two Cities,” popular song lyrics spoken to piano ...
- Ex-wife's book shows Che Guevara's transformation - North Channel Sun
This revised and updated version of Hilda Gadea's 1972 book tells of the pair meeting in December 1953 when she was a Peruvian political exile living in Guatemala and he was wrapping up his motorcycle travels across Latin America. Although later ...
- Rapper David Banner Talks Jesse Jackson - allhiphop.com
Days after the Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized for making negative comments about Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, rapper David Banner is weighing in on the controversy. Banner, who drew headlines during the Imus scandal for his scathing ...
- 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 ...
- In Bruges - Salon
We're still running on a wing and a prayer over here at the temporary West Coast HQ of Beyond the Multiplex, battling a winter flu bug and some family blues, but there are a couple of new movies this week I didn't want to let slip past unnoticed. "In ...
- ASHANTI's New Album 'THE DECLARATION' Arrives in Stores - Earthtimes
NEW YORK - (Business Wire) The fourth studio album by The Inc./Universal Motown superstar singer-songwriter ASHANTI , titled THE DECLARATION, reaches retail stores and digital online sellers on June 3 rd , 2008. Album producers and collaborators ...
- Literary post for S.J. native - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose native Kay Ryan thought she might someday be a stand-up comedian, or a funny card writer for Hallmark, but the nation's next poet laureate? Never. That is, until Monday, when Librarian of Congress James H. Billington left a message for her ...
- Summer's beautiful melodies - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunSummer's beautiful melodiesVancouver Sun, Canada - 3 hours agoWhat a lovely heart for poetry and justice, albeit with a slightly cynical edge, our young people have. I thought this was more the kind of music Amy ...
- ACT-SO students to go to nationals (Florence Morning News)
A group of high school students from the Pee Dee will soon be on their way to compete at the NAACP National ACT-SO scholarship competition in Orlando.
- Teenage "Cats" fans lap it up like cream (Denver Post)
Review: Fort Collins' Carousel Dinner Theatre has brought back "Cats," the biggest hit in its 15-year history, after a four-year absence. And while director Scott Wright's revival doesn't quite reach the same artistic heights in its second life, one carpool of kitty-loving kiddies got what they came for — and more. Rating: ***
- Happy campers - Waterloo Record
Waterloo RecordHappy campersWaterloo Record, Canada - 2 hours agoScuttle about the web and a unique summer camp is a mouse click away: gold panning camp, dressage camp, writing camp, poetry camp, hip-hop boot camp, ...
- Definitive Gonzo - Louisville Courier-Journal
Definitive GonzoLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 1 hour agoFrederick Smock chairs the English department at Bellarmine University. His forthcoming book is Craft-talk: On Writing Poetry.
- Marge Tucker: Local ranch woman also is a cowboy poet - Sun Shopper
Marge Tucker: Local ranch woman also is a cowboy poetSun Shopper, AZ - 2 hours agoThis red-headed whippersnapper won the Gail Gardner Award for a Working Cowboy Poet at the Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering this past year. ...
- Obituary: William Buchan (Guardian Unlimited)
July 8: Writer faced with a mixed inheritance as John Buchan's son
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