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- Hey, so what's up for this weekend? - McAllen Monitor
What's Happening?: Artist Carl Vestweber will present his perfectly-titled show "New Stuff By Carl Vestweber." The artist will be on hand to speak about his work. The reception marks the launch of the exhibit, which stays on display until Aug. 1. The ...
- Just Asking . . . Rose Tremain - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalJust Asking . . . Rose TremainWall Street Journal - 3 hours agoI did start writing as a child, doing picture stories. Then I progressed to hysterically bad poetry. Many contemporary critics sneer at the idea of ...
- ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ - Gresham Outlook
Gresham Outlook‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’Gresham Outlook, OR - 3 hours agoEspecially when you’re trying to express the nuances of Shakespeare in a public park, where those unappreciative of the bard’s peerless poetry–like, say, ...
- At home with the past - Boston Globe
LEXINGTON - People make stuff. That much we know. Why they make stuff is much harder to say. The kind of "culture" that routinely gets written up in newspapers and is taught in school - I'm talking about fiction and poetry, fine art, the movies ...
- High Expectations for Obama Acceptance Speech - FOXNews
Washington PostHigh Expectations for Obama Acceptance SpeechFOXNews - 7 hours agoHoward Wolfson, former Hillary Clinton spokesman and FOX News contributor, said Obama has to “do a mixture of poetry and prose.” “Barack Obama is the best ...Video: Crowds Arrive at Invesco for Obama Speech AssociatedPressall 1,257 news articles
- AIMS test may have no future in schools - Arizona Daily Star
Arizona had a precursor to the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards. Former state schools Superintendent C. Diane Bishop pushed for the Arizona Student Assessment Program, which she said boosted student achievement, while opponents contended that ...
- Partying in Honor of a Glamorous Locale's Local Library - New York Sun
Partying in Honor of a Glamorous Locale's Local LibraryNew York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoThe poet laureate of Suffolk County, David Axelrod, offered not only his poems but also assistance as a poetry doctor. Architect Robert AM Stern had a ...
- Fort Bragg - Mendocino Coast Calendar of Events - Fort Bragg Advocate-News
thursday, aug. 7 - Advisory Council for the Area Agency on Aging, 1:30 p.m., Redwood Coast Senior Center, 490 N. Harold St., Fort Bragg. 463-7923. - Summer Reading Program Grand Finale, "Catch the Reading Bug Puppet Show," by Christe Smith and the ...
- Darwish: 'Identity and humanity' - BBC News
BBC NewsDarwish: 'Identity and humanity'BBC News, UK - Aug 13, 2008You rarely find a poet that can bring out thousands of people to his poetry readings. His lyrics were set to music, people sang his poems, ...
- Mitchell’s Cahnah party will raise money for Nahant Education Foundation Aug. 31 (The Daily Item)
NAHANT - It’s an adults-only party, but it’s all about the kids. The fifth annual “Mitchell’s Cahnah” Block Party will raise money for the Nahant Education Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that raises money for the schools.
- Computer opens door to communication for woman with ALS - Lower Hudson Journal news
Computer opens door to communication for woman with ALSLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 3 hours agoThe 63-year-old Katonah resident then engages in a favorite pastime: poetry. "The cracks in my father's hands come out in winter. Rivulets of blood stream ...
- Silver Jews' latest album mostly loses its way - Chicago Tribune
David Berman, frontman for the Silver Jews, never had much of a voice. "Like a message broadcast on an overpass / all my favorite singers couldn't sing," he intoned on the band's 1998 masterpiece "American Water," aligning himself squarely in the ...
- GoodReads shows that people still read and love their books - Venturebeat.com
Forgive Otis Chandler if he still believes people read paper artifacts like books. His grandfather and namesake, after all, was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times. But this 30-year-old Chandler knows that books are still close to our hearts ...
- Arundel Town Column — April 10 - Portsmouth Herald
When I typed in the date for the printing of this column, I realized the day was of some significance to me. I turn a year older today, but probably not a year wiser, as fortunate as that would be. Forty-something years of learning seems like it ...
- Long may you run - Guardian Unlimited
David Boyd Haycock can remember "crying at the tragedy of death" at the age of five or six. His mother consoled him by saying that when he grew up everyone would live to be at least 120. And now he has written a book on the subject, covering 400 ...
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