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- Break-in at Anne author's birthplace - CBC News
The New London home where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables , was born was broken into on Monday night. The incident was part of a string of break and enters in the area that night. The board that runs the museum and bookstore says ...
- Mark Swed: Tough times call for tougher music - Los Angeles Times
MODERNISM HAD a good run, the historian Peter Gay concludes in his new study of the subject. His estimate is about 120 years, beginning with the simultaneous publication in 1857 of Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary" and Baudelaire's collection of poems ...
- Springing into spring cleaning - Escanaba Daily Press
GLADSTONE — One problem with the snowbird lifestyle is that the seasons seem to run together. I live in a constant summer. Even the coolest days in Florida are warmer than back home. I am inspired to swim, not clean, to bike, not dust. My question ...
- Poetry Comes Home to Battery Park City - New York Sun
It was a night words and music triumphed over rain. Poets and poetry fans convened Wednesday for a picnic in Battery Park City organized by Poets House. Songwriter Jill Sobule sang melodious ballads, engaging some of the poets in her performance. For ...
- Film reviews: Killer of Sheep, Her Name is Sabine and more - Daily Telegraph
A classic finally released from copyright-related limbo, Charles Burnett 's 1977 debut observes the lives of a black family in the rundown Watts area of Los Angeles. A black cinema classic: Killer of Sheep At first, the focus is on the youngsters ...
- Art calendar - Monterey County Herald
Art calendarMonterey County Herald, CA - 56 minutes agoPoetry trail hikes, nature photography tutorials and plein air demonstrations with local artists. Cost: $9 per car; discounts for seniors. ...
- They put the words in the presidents? mouths - Boston Globe
Speechwriters, President Lyndon B. Johnson told one of his, need to have "a passion for anonymity." Yet the words they write, such as Ted Sorensen's lyrical speeches for President John F. Kennedy, can inspire millions and help transform soaring ...
- Poetry Slam scheduled - Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON — Probably not since the Calamity Cafe was cooking up flying words in its soul kitchen has there been a regular poetry slam at a Huntington nightclub. But local poet and Christian hip hop artist Byron Holmes has cranked up the mic again ...
- Who's Townshend slams iTunes as 'heartless' (PC Advisor)
Apple iTunes is 'software attached to a bank' The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has blasted Apple's iTunes Store as "brilliant, but heartless".
- Women & Children First Annual Pride Reading and Open Mic - MetroMix
Features readings by local authors Achy Obejas, Carol Anshaw, Gregg Shapiro, Drew Ferguson, Deb R. Lewis, Nikki Patin, Rick Karlin and Darwyn Jones. Open mic readers are interspersed between the featured readers--bring one double-spaced page of ...
- Briefly... CITY/REGION (Philadelphia Daily News)
For gardeners, free compost The city Water Department has EarthMate Compost, a mulch and soil amendment, available for pickup at three sites:
- Young & Talented notebook (The Star-Ledger)
Allison Strong, the New Jersey Poetry Out Loud state champion, came in fifth in the national competition, winning a $1,000 scholarship and a $500 stipend for her school to purchase poetry books.
- Germany films life of critic Reich-Ranicki - Monsters and Critics.com
Germany films life of critic Reich-RanickiMonsters and Critics.com - 1 hour agoMarcel Reich-Ranicki, 88, is in many ways an old-style European intellectual, part of a world that reveres sublime poetry and profound minds and sneers at ...
- The bard of Belfast - Guardian Unlimited
One of the most memorable nights I ever spent at the theatre - and one of the most memorable nights I ever spent in Belfast - was the opening of a revival of Stewart Parker's Northern Star. The play imagines Henry Joy McCracken's final hours of ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Ararat Advertiser)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
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