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- Rucker defends her right to be a poet - Metro
MetroRucker defends her right to be a poetMetro, UK - 11 hours agoRussell Simmons of hip-hop label Def Jam launched his stateside Def Poetry Jam and highlighted the links between contemporary prose and rap. ...
- No Escape: Marketing to Kids in the Digital Age - Multinational Monitor
No Escape: Marketing to Kids in the Digital AgeMultinational Monitor - Jul 26, 2008Habbo Hotel — “a teen community where you can meet people, play games and create your own online space” — aggressively promotes itself as a marketing venue, ...
- 15-year-old high school grad prepares for college this fall - Martinsville Bulletin
15-year-old high school grad prepares for college this fallMartinsville Bulletin, VA - 1 hour agoShe prefers art and writing poetry and short stories. The social aspect of school life in her earlier years was not as easy as her classes were. ...
- First novel shortlisted for top book award - Scoop
An early morning phone call from a friend alerted University creative writing tutor Mary McCallum that her first novel had been shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Ms McCallum was today named a finalist in the prestigious fiction ...
- South Africa: Fort Hare University to Honour Madiba (AllAfrica.com)
The University of Fort Hare is to hold a Festival of Ideas to celebrate the 90th birthday of one of it's former students - Nelson Mandela.
- A strange career - Daily Pioneer
Its time to write a political requiem for General Pervez Mushrraf. Seven years back, who would have thought such a day would come? Saturday Special's Indo--centric view of the strange successes and astonishing failures of a man a whole generation of ...
- WEIRDNESS A FRINGE BENEFIT AT MIDTOWN FEST - New York Post
THE International Fringe Festival may get the lion's share of attention around here, but don't discount its Midtown rival, now quietly entering its ninth season. Kicking off tonight and running through Aug. 3, this year's Midtown International ...
- Wow, what a story! - Winnipeg Sun
Wow, what a story!Winnipeg Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoLast May, Random House ponied up a $1.25-million advance for the US rights to the unorthodox gothic romance. Toss in other domestic and foreign rights and ...
- NOBODY BEATS THE LIZ - New York Post
THE great Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the English monarch in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age," Shekhar Kapur's inferior follow-up to their 1998 film, which is still quite lavish and entertaining in the grand old Hollywood manner. That is, expect ...
- Tavis Smiley Announces America I Am Exhibition will Debut at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center (Art Daily)
Phillis Wheatley writing table, ca.1760. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was the first book of poetry by a Black American, published in London in 1773. Photo: Massachusetts Historical Society.
- U2 Lists: Top Ten One-Line Lyrics - ATU2
[Ed. note: This is the first in a “U2 Lists” series currently being revisited by the @U2 staff. The first series, which focused primarily on Top Tens, ran from August through October of 2002.] You give it all but I want more –“With or Without ...
- Local wagon train to participate in annual event (El Dorado Times)
Area residents will have the opportunity to step back into the Old West Saturday as part of the Symphony in the Flint Hills, held one mile south of Council Grove.
- Youth group works to make homes more energy-efficient - Columbia Missourian
Youth group works to make homes more energy-efficientColumbia Missourian, MO - 15 hours agoThe group also put on activities for children and teens, including a puppet show and a poetry cafe, at the JW “Blind” Boone Center. ...
- Directing history: Alison Carey guides commissioning of new American plays at OSF (The Oregonian)
Your Uncle is having an identity crisis. Uncle Sam, that is. At least that's the view of Alison Carey, the director of an ambitious Oregon Shakespeare Festival project that over the next decade will commision 37 plays about the history of the United States.
- Day two scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison (Isthmus)
The second night of preliminary competition in the National Poetry Slam kept downtown Madison stages and clubs busy as the first round of bouts wrapped up and the second opened on Wednesday night. The bout winners were: Soap Boxing from St. Paul; Southflavas from Austin; Slamtopia from New Paltz, New York; H-Town Slam from Houston, Oakland Poetry Slam, Silver City Slam from New Mexico; ...
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