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- Iguodala Remains In Limbo - The Bulletin
Philadelphia -Ă‚Â One down, one to go. With the signing of Lou Williams becoming official on Monday, the Sixers have one more restricted free agent remaining on their to-sign list. But it's not just any restricted free agent. It's Andre Iguodala, the ...
- Song of myself - The National
Song of myselfThe National, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoCourtesy Ostkreuz Robyn Creswell wonders if the enfant terrible of Arab poetry is now content to dispense hollow verities. Conversations with My Father, ...
- Pop culture's fabled green elixer now trendy, potent and legal in US - NWI.com
It's no coincidence that in just the past week, I've received two publicist pitches promoting the return of absinthe, that green liquor potion portrayed in movies and pop culture as mind-altering. ( Graphic ) In the 1952 classic film MGM musical ...
- Out and About: Aug. 13 - 24 - West Bridgewater Times
Out and About: Aug. 13 - 24West Bridgewater Times, MA - 1 hour agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- Cancer Stories: How Telling The Tale Impacts The Illness, November 6-8, Indiana University School Of Medicine (Medical News Today)
Cancer patients, nurses, doctors, advocates and scholars will gather Nov. 6-8 on the Indiana University School of Medicine campus to explore how stories about cancer have affected perceptions about the illness.
- Professor to discuss poet priest - Deseret News
Professor to discuss poet priestDeseret News, UT - 5 minutes agoZarathushtra (known in Greek as Zoroaster) preached in verse, and it is his poetry — but not much else about the poet priest himself — that has survived. ...
- Wisdom Like a Flower Bed: Sa'di's 'Gulistan' (The New York Sun)
Common sense is probably the last thing we want or expect from poets. Give us confessions, prophecies, manifestos, but spare us the advice — especially advice in verse. The poet should be a firebrand, not some mumbling old uncle. And yet, it wasn't always thus. In older cultures, not only in Greece and Rome but in India, Persia, and China, the poet was often seen less as a visionary than as a ...
- George Takei marries longtime partner Brad Altman - Grand Rapids Press
AP File Photo George Takei and Brad Altman were the first to get their marriage license on June 17. LOS ANGELES -- George Takei and his longtime partner, Brad Altman, have agreed to live long and prosper together. Takei, 71, and Altman, 54, were ...
- Pupils get poetic - Swindon Advertiser
Pupils get poeticSwindon Advertiser, UK - 7 hours agoNorth Star Nursery tots described their favourite people and toys in verse for the competition – My First Poem. And all 18 of the three and four year olds ...
- Knowing What You Don't Know - Huffington Post
Knowing What You Don't KnowHuffington Post, NY - 20 hours agoThis reminded me of a famous Donald Rumsfeld quote that is now considered poetry according to Slate.com: I've always liked this quote, despite my opinion of ...
- Alien Pods in Our Neighborhood, or The 100-Species Challenge - Wired News
Alien Pods in Our Neighborhood, or The 100-Species ChallengeWired News - 3 hours agoSince then, families have begun recording what they find in their corner of the world with photos, descriptions, and even poetry. Since we are homeschooling ...
- Urgent bonding sparks everything - Louisiana Weekly
Except for a few cynics and recluses, all people crave intimate ties to at least someone. In defining us as "social animals," philosophers and sociologists invariably start from the standpoint of the family. Where it is absent, even gangs become ...
- A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans - Seattle Times
Louise Webb spent nearly two decades selling watercolors in New Orleans' French Quarter to support her and her husband's publishing business. One journalist said she looked like a gypsy with her billowing skirts, berets and cowboy boots, so she ...
- Red Sox Nation feels Yastrzemski's pain (Yahoo! Sports)
Hall-of-Famer came through triple-bypass surgery OK, to the relief of fans who remember his Triple Crown in 1967.
- Gossip: Nicole Gregg talks wrestling moves, Anne Rhener takes a fall - Portsmouth Herald News
Gossip: Nicole Gregg talks wrestling moves, Anne Rhener takes a fallPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 9 hours agoThe following day the center will hold a Rye Day, for residents, with project, including build-your-own wooden clothes racks, and write and share poetry on ...
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