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- Dear Abby: Guardian's cancer diagnosis puts boy's future in question - Philadelphia Daily News
DEAR ABBY: My cousin's 9-year-old son, "Andy," has been living with me for the past few years. Now my husband has been diagnosed with cancer, and I must return Andy to his mother. Abby, his mother is an alcoholic and drug addict. She has no income ...
- Nas attacks tracks, but misses knockout - Akron Beacon Journal
Nas attacks tracks, but misses knockoutAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 56 minutes agoOn the former, a cocky Nas spits: ''I'm Alex Pushkin/ The black poetry-writing Russian.'' That epic hip-hop trifecta precedes the album's polemical core. ...
- Mets pull ahead in the ninth to beat Reds 10-8 (The Columbus Dispatch)
CINCINNATI—The Reds fought two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana for four innings last night, then scratched and clawed against the New York Mets bullpen. There was no poetry in their game but admirable amounts of patience and power.
- Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, Actor (Independent)
Books At the moment I'm not managing to read much more than Dostoyevsky's The Idiot because I'm working on a multimedia adaptation of it on stage at the National Theatre. I first read it when I was 18 or 19. I couldn't have understood much of it but it stirred my imagination.
- Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'? (WorldNetDaily)
For years, I had a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging on my living room wall. I had painted it while in high school in New York at a salon overseen by Helen Farr Sloan, the widow of famed American painter John Sloan and herself a painter of no small talent.
- Poetry review: 'The Ghost Soldiers: Poems' by James Tate (Orlando Sentinel)
The sad details of everyday life are distilled into a brilliant collection. James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry.
- Barbara Gowdy, Rachel Zolf win Ontario's Trillium Book Awards - Canada East
TORONTO - Authors Barbara Gowdy and Rachel Zolf were named winners Thursday of the 21st annual Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's top literary prize. Gowdy won for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection ...
- Sugar maple is planted for late Clarendon teen (Rutland Herald)
Brightly colored balloons gently rose above the branches of a young sugar maple, one to highlight each of the joyous 19 years of Joseph "Joey" Earle's life. ... - By SARA-MEGAN WALSH Herald Staff
- Juneteenth: A day to celebrate - Paris News
Juneteenth activities, sponsored by the Paris Chapter of the NAACP, kick off with a downtown parade Saturday followed by activities at Leon Williams Park. The parade, which originates at the MLK Church of Christ on Martin Luther King Avenue, begins ...
- Scranhattan Festival Premieres in Downtown Scranton - WNEP-TV 16
The city of Scranton is preparing for it's first arts festival in many years. It's called " The Scranhattan Festival " and its kicking off with a premiere Thursday night in the Electric City's downtown. It's not only a premiere, but a red carpet ...
- Back to basics for Limetree Festival - Yorkshire Evening Post
Back to basics for Limetree FestivalYorkshire Evening Post, UK - 6 hours agoCompleting the festival are the classic funfair rides, comedy acts, cabaret and street theatre, open mic stage for poetry, politics, literature and more. ...The Limetree Festival Urban Planetall 2 news articles
- Review: The Dark Knight (PG-13) - Harare Tribune
Review: The Dark Knight (PG-13)Harare Tribune, Zimbabwe - 38 minutes agoPitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind ...
- • Rowing taskmaster has men's eight in ... - Hamilton Spectator
• Rowing taskmaster has men's eight in ...Hamilton Spectator, Canada - Aug 14, 2008One of his few diversions is writing poetry. "It gets my mind away from rowing," he said. "Otherwise, I just think rowing all the time. ...
- Uganda: Who is Esther? (AllAfrica.com)
Esther Nabaasa Mugizi, (21), the winner of the second edition of Tusker Project Fame (TPF) Academy, inspires many people. A poetry fanatic, Esther has a sweet tooth and constantly craves chocolate and sweets. Her weaknesses: Forgetfulness and being very serious about life.
- Theater review: A wistful double bill (San Jose Mercury News)
The road not taken beckons at the California Theatre Center, which has launched its Summer Rep with a double bill of short plays musing on life's dreams and regrets.
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