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- Good Weekend for December 5-7 - The San Francisco Examiner
Good Weekend for December 5-7The San Francisco Examiner, California - 24 minutes agoPoet lecture: The Poetry Center at SFSU presents the 23rd annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Poet, novelist and essayist Fanny Howe gives the talk. ...
- The Silence at the Song's End: a memorial for Nicholas - Times Online
When two artistic forms collide, or mate, something new is born. It can be exhilarating or awful: in the bad corner a novelist's work is traduced on screen, or a classical tune mangled by a pop remix. In the good corner a fine novel emerges from a ...
- Rosie Goes Live With Variety Show Special (The Lakeland Ledger)
Here's a novel idea: a live variety show. Sort of like "The Ed Sullivan Show," which crushed its network competition every Sunday night for decades.Live variety shows are the kind of TV they don't make anymore. Conventional wisdom says they went out with black-and-white sets and gas at 30 cents a gallon.
- TOME RAIDER LIVE: Shock of the New - Willamette Week
TOME RAIDER LIVE: Shock of the NewWillamette Week, OR - Nov 3, 2008He proceeded to tell a funny story about Mountain Dew. But his stuff was worth the otherworldly banter. I mean, it was definitely the only reading that ...
- Ben Bernanke, Chairman of Federal Reserve and World Crisis - Ecommerce Journal
Ecommerce JournalBen Bernanke, Chairman of Federal Reserve and World CrisisEcommerce Journal, MA - 1 hour agoIn high school, Bernanke taught himself calculus, submitted eleven entries to a state poetry contest, and played alto saxophone in the marching band. ...
- Vegas Valley Book Festival - KNPR
Vegas Valley Book FestivalKNPR, NV - 8 hours agoThere will be 70 authors participating in readings, panel discussions, book signings, workshops, poetry and spoken word performances, exhibitions, ...
- Poetry and Taxis - Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
"So much of a writer's life consists of assumed suffering, rhetorical suffering, that I felt something like relief, even elation, when the doctor told me that I had cancer of the prostate. Suddenly there was in the air a rich sense of crisis, real ...
- President Bush presents National Medals of the Arts Awards - Los Angeles Times
President Bush presents National Medals of the Arts AwardsLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour ago... who recently announced his resignation from the post in January to divide his time between writing poetry and a position at the Aspen Arts Institute; ...
- 18M reasons to not stop at Barack Obama - Chicago Defender
18M reasons to not stop at Barack ObamaChicago Defender, United States - 6 hours agoFor the first time in this nation’s history, a Black man has been elected to the highest office in the land. It is a great achievement for Barack Obama, ...
- Book Review: Magisterium by Joel Deane (Blogcritics.org)
This is poetry written at the limits of what our language can do; without sacrificing accessibility. It’s hard to pinpoint the power in Joel Deane’s Magisterium. Perhaps it’s the duality between the intuitive, interiority and the strong authoritative, apocalyptic voices that guide these poems. They are at once powerful and booming, yet muted at the same time. The tension created by this ...
- Her final moments - Kings County Record
Her final momentsKings County Record, Canada - 45 minutes agoShe was intelligent and funny. Smith's mental health was tested many times but she was not found mentally ill. Smith told guards she had learned the ...
- Exhibit kicks off Mongolian celebration in Middletown (Middletown Journal)
Middfest International will mark the official opening of its exhibits with an event from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, in Middletown's Donham Plaza that reflects Mongolian culture and life leading up to Middfest's weekend celebration of Mongolia Oct. 3-5.
- Screen: Notes on the local scene - WilliametteLive.com
Screen: Notes on the local sceneWilliametteLive.com, OR - Sep 30, 2008Nine examples of his work will be shown at Grand Theater on October 10 at 8:30 pm White's work has been described as black humor and cinematic poetry. ...
- Mayor Mike's Battle For Life And City - Hartford Courant
Hartford CourantMayor Mike's Battle For Life And CityHartford Courant, United States - 1 hour agoAttorney General Richard Blumenthal — not a man given to poetry — called him "an original and blithe spirit." Peters worked to reconnect the city with its ...
- Spencer's famous library cat dies - Sioux City Journal
SPENCER, Iowa -- One of the world's most famous felines, Dewey Readmore Books, died Wednesday in the arms of librarian Vicki Myron who had acted as his "mother" for most of the last 19 years. Dewey was adopted as the library cat at the Spencer Public ...
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