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- Cambridge students asked to compare Raleigh and Shakespeare with Amy Winehouse lyrics in final year exam (Daily Mail)
Baffled Cambridge University students were asked to compare a 15th century poem with lyrics by troubled singer Amy Winehouse in their final year exam paper.
- Jeune Lune recalled: Our theater scene will be darker when we can't bask in the Lune light (Pioneer Press)
Memory is the most potent legacy of live performance, so as Theatre de la Jeune Lune wanes, it seems apt to recall some of the company's best moments from its three decades of sometimes brilliant, sometimes turbulent life.
- George Carlin: An Appreciation (The Plain Dealer)
The first reactions varied Monday when people learned of comedian George Carlin's death: "George Carlin, really?" "How old was he?" "Oh, man, too bad."
- 'The Earl Sande Saga' chronicles legendary jockey - WMI Central
SPRINGERVILLE - Summer of 1916. Hot, dusty. The rough and rowdy town of Springerville is pursuing its favorite sport - matched horse racing. It's a chance for working cowboys and ranchers to put their money on the cow ponies they've been "bragging on ...
- Original look at 'Frankenstein' creator, friends - Akron Beacon Journal
I've never had a laudanum dream, but after seeing Frankenstein by the New World Performance Laboratory at the University of Akron's Sandefur Theatre on Saturday, I think I might be able to imagine one. Under the artful direction of James Slowiak, the ...
- Stage listings - San Francisco Guardian
*Stage listings are compiled by Deborah Giattina. Performance times may change; call venues to confirm. Reviewers are Robert Avila, Rita Felciano, Giattina, and Nicole Gluckstern. Avant GardARAMA! Exit on Taylor, 277 Taylor; www.theexit.org . $15-30 ...
- Foreign Diplomats, Ohio Officials Open Azerbaijani Cultural Garden in ... - Earthtimes
CLEVELAND , May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid rave reviews, Cleveland residents got their first look at the new, iconic sculpture that forms the centerpiece of the Azerbaijani Cultural Garden in the city's famed Cultural Gardens. Today's event was held in ...
- New second in command is ISU's highest-ranked woman ever - Pantagraph
NEW 11:45 a.m. NORMAL -- As Illinois State University’s new provost Sheri Noren Everts settles in to the job, she becomes the highest-ranked female administrator in the university’s history. She officially started July 1. The provost and vice ...
- Young Writers Award deadline looms - News.com.au
TIME is running out for Queensland's aspiring young authors to polish up their manuscripts for a chance to win the State Library of Queensland's 2008 Young Writers Award. Entries for the award, which comprises $2000, professional development courses ...
- Repertoire of Urdu poetry on display - Saudi Gazette
Certainly, it seems that the fresh motivation of the Mushaira is happening neither in Pakistan nor in India, but in the Middle East because of the Urdu loving communities. The 12th annual Indian Consulate General Mushaira organized at the ...
- Quirky science fiction writer - Chicago Tribune
Thomas Disch, who has been called one of the most important science fiction writers of his generation, died Saturday in New York. Friends said Mr. Disch, 68, was found dead inside his apartment. He had shot himself in the head, according to the city ...
- Imagination takes flight - Financial Times
Out of Breath By Julie Myerson Cape £12.99, 295 pages Myerson’s latest novel is narrated by a 13-year-old ingénue and follows a raggle-taggle group of children who run away from a sinister adult world. Something to Tell You By Hanif Kureishi ...
- Torture victims find strength (Arizona Daily Star)
They came to Tucson from all over the world. The youngest is an infant. The oldest is 80.
- Saddam Feared Getting AIDS in Prison - WXIA 11 Alive
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in ...
- Miles Kington: Why no one writes poems about spiders, and other ... - The Independent
Today, another helping of Albanian proverbs. If you haven't met them before, Albanian proverbs are very different from ours. Ours are dry and common-sense. Look before you leap. Don't count your eggs. But Albanian proverbs are both allusive and ...
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