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- Emptying budget reserves to fill tanks in Wilco (News 8 Austin)
WILLIAMSON COUNTY No one is immune to the pain at the pump these days. Williamson County takes measures to keep the county's emergency vehicles running.
- A Case of Poetic Justice. Literally. - Washington Post
A Case of Poetic Justice. Literally.Washington Post, United States - 48 minutes agoThis is life itself, which Frost puts at stake in his poem. The students were unprepared for the sudden death of the boy, the shocking finality of it, ...
- Xmas around the corner - iAfrica.com
iAfrica.comXmas around the corneriAfrica.com, South Africa - 43 minutes agoCricket as poetry? Browning would be delighted. There’s also work on a series of rather risqué inflatable Matt Dunning dolls, potentially a huge hit with ...
- John Lundberg: Jack White's Poetic Apology (HuffingtonPost)
This wasn't your everyday means of damage control -- trying to appease angry denizens of Detroit with a poem seems doomed to failure -- but it earned White Stripes rocker Jack White a lot of local press.
- Roger Rees on Shakespeare in one-man show - San Francisco Gate
"That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am," Roger Rees says, perhaps only half in earnest. "I was 36 when I played Nicholas Nickleby," he continues, referring to his breakthrough, Olivier and Tony award ...
- Fred and Roberta Fessenbecker - Cape Gazette
On the surface, they seem like any other retired couple, quietly living in a ranch-style house off Route 24 in one of the many subdivisions in the area. But beneath Fred and Roberta Fessenbecker’s friendly and accommodating demeanor are two ...
- Qantas slashes 1500 jobs, blaming fuel costs - Scoop
The terminator is back, but it's not Arnold Schwarzenegger. This time the plot centres on John Connor and a decommissioned terminator called Marcus Wright whose last memory is of being on death row. Ex-teacher takes out top poetry prize in Montana ...
- Mohammed orders setting up centre for arabic poetry - Khaleej Times
DUBAI — His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday directed the establishment of the House of Poetry, a centre for researching and documenting Arabic poetry and ...
- Hear terrific jazz free all weekend - Detroit Free Press
Summer is jazz festival season. Of course, the big daddy of them all is the four-day 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend. But there's lots of action in the meantime, starting with the 14th annual Michigan Jazz ...
- RESIDENTS DEMAND RELIEF ON TAXES - redbankgreen
RESIDENTS DEMAND RELIEF ON TAXESredbankgreen, NJ - 17 hours agoshow that's been called 'a rowdy, gutsy, free-for-all party' and a 'fusion of sport, poetry, and living-newspaper.' Guaranteeing '30 plays in 60 minutes,' ...
- The bard of Belfast - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe bard of Belfastguardian.co.uk, UK - 23 minutes agoIt was as a poet, though, that he first came to wider attention: two of his poems were included in the celebrated 1970 anthology British Poetry Since 1945, ...
- Concerts for freedom in Zimbabwe - The Zimbabwean
Concerts for freedom in ZimbabweThe Zimbabwean, Africa - 6 hours agoComrade Fatso has performed his rebel poetry across the world and has built up a following in South African poetry circles. He will be performing with his ...
- Relive the '70s at Lord Hall exhibit (Bangor Daily News)
It was, Laurie Hicks said, just a big coincidence. As she was compiling a list of works to be displayed in a new exhibition now on view at the University of Maine’s Lord Hall Galleries, Hicks pulled a 1977 color aquatint by Alex Katz called "Ann Lauterbach."
- Turning Summer Leaves (Gay City News)
Meena Alexander, "Quickly Changing River" (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, $14.95) Alexander's eighth book of poems quotes Whitman in its epigraph and in "Torn Grass" features five impressive triptych sequences (e.g., "Three for Summer").
- Poems spoke to Palestinians - Chicago Tribune
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more than 20 ...
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