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- Franz Ferdinand set for Latitude - BBC News
The Latitude Festival has officially opened its doors to festival-goers who are descending on the event for its third year running. Franz Ferdinand headline the first night of the three-day festival, while both Sigur Ros and Interpol will top the ...
- A Two-Bit, And Fine, Idea - Newsweek
A Two-Bit, And Fine, IdeaNewsweek - 3 hours agoNew Jersey: Great poets can find the stuff of poetry anywhere. William Carlos Williams found it in Paterson. New Mexico: An American original, ...
- Western Pennsylvania Road Trip: Washington and Jefferson College (US News & World Report)
You're about to spend four years of your life on a college campus; you need to make sure it feels right. So hit the road—we did! We took three typical road trips : East Coast, West Coast, and in between. By the way, college visits don't have to mean hours on the interstate.
- Arboretum to NYS Legislature: “The RACE is on! Catch us if you can….” - ReadMedia (press release)
Arboretum to NYS Legislature: “The RACE is on! Catch us if you can….”ReadMedia (press release), NY - 50 minutes agoThe Arboretum encourages creative individuals and those who support them to bring their music, poetry, prose, artwork, and crafts to share with others ...
- Melbourne hooks the books - The Age
Melbourne hooks the booksThe Age, Australia - 3 hours ago... including the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Victorian Writers Centre, the Emerging Writers Festival and the Australian Poetry Centre. Continued...
- Film reviews: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Hellboy II: The ... - Daily Telegraph
It's never been easy being a governess in an English novel: from Jane Eyre onwards, such a heroine is traditionally as drab as a sparrow and only a sacking away from penury. In Miss Pettrigrew Lives for a Day (PG) , adapted from Winifred Watson's ...
- Literary Happenings: Oz quote offers confidence for transitions (Ventura County Star)
Whether it's a graduation, wedding or vacation, June is filled with new beginnings. This quotation from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum offers confidence for those sometimes daunting transitions in life. "You have plenty of courage, I am sure,' answered Oz. All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is ...
- Now is Our TIme -- An End, and a Beginning - Oregonian
Take a moment and think about it: An African-American man is going to be the Democratic nominee for president. This is astonishing, given the U.S.'s troubled, and not so distant, racial and cultural chasms. The politics of the moment pale in ...
- A very deep well of magical escapes (Toronto Star)
One is apt to become jaded reading new fantasy. There's something about the wordiness hallowed by the Harry Potter books, the waiver of originality in The Lord of the Rings imitations, that might well destroy brain cells.
- Princeton tots get a 'Teddy Bear Picnic' - Princeton Packet
Princeton tots get a 'Teddy Bear Picnic'Princeton Packet, NJ - 10 hours agoThey then listened attentively as Ms. Groves read books and poetry about teddy bears. One book’s title, “The Boy Who Thought He was a Teddy Bear,” drew a ...
- Third Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina brings new wave of books - New Orleans Times-Picayune
For most of us, summer is a time for easy reading, catching up on that best-seller or that long overdue classic. But for those of us in Louisiana, summer also brings the season of hurricane books. On this third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and ...
- More to Juneteenth than jubilee - New Pittsburgh Courier
More to Juneteenth than jubileeNew Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh - 3 hours agoJuneteenth today, celebrates African-American freedom while encouraging self-development and respect for all cultures. As it takes on a more national and ...
- Claire shows a way with words - Auckland stuff.co.nz
Claire shows a way with wordsAuckland stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 3 hours agoTakapuna Grammar?s head girl is a finalist in the New Zealand Post national schools poetry awards. Claire Sorrenson’s poem Fooling Around conveys the ...
- Humble beginnings, curiosity drive Pastides (The State)
If he had come from a more privileged background, the University of South Carolina’s newest president might have studied poetry. Instead Harris Pastides, son of Greek immigrants from Cyprus, said he needed to find something to pay the bills. So he took up medicine. And just as his father worked his way up from washing dishes to owning his own restaurant, Pastides has climbed the academic ladder ...
- ‘People of Berlin’ - Newsweek
‘People of Berlin’Newsweek - 1 hour agoIn politics, a picture like that is worth a thousand words or, in this case, tens of millions of dollars worth of free campaign advertising. ...
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