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- Coming Attractions: Madison team's dates, locations set for National Poetry Slam here; Motorhead coming to Orpheum ... (Wisconsin State Journal)
NEW SHOWS/UPDATES NATIONAL POETRY SLAM, Tuesday, Aug. 5 to Saturday, Aug. 9, various downtown Madison venues, www.nps2008.com. Madison team competes at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 and 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 at the Brink Lounge. Twenty-five teams compete in the semi-finals at Overture Center, 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8. Four teams compete in the finals at Overture Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9. JOE ...
- Serbia's arresting development - Los Angeles Times
After 13 years of fulsome denials, false starts and broken promises, Serbia's new leaders have finally taken the step they said was impossible. On Monday, police arrested Radovan Karadzic, one of the remaining marquee fugitives indicted for war ...
- Encore Offers New Mini-Courses For Fall - Chattanoogan
Lee University's Encore program, which offers people 60 and over the opportunity to take university courses for credit for a $50 fee, will be offering eight new mini-courses designed specifically for program participants. The Play's the Thing will be ...
- Exhibit traces the nation's culinary history (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Food is about more than chewing and swallowing. It's about cooking and culture, mom and memories. This has all been said many times, of course, in everything from cookbooks to poetry, but now the idea takes physical form with the imprimatur of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Norman Lear, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman - International Herald Tribune
Norman Lear, Maya Angelou, Morgan FreemanInternational Herald Tribune, France - 33 minutes agoThe surgery "lasted approximately four and a half hours including recovery and he is in good spirits and was visiting with family members this morning," ...
- Legacy of peace - South Bergenite
South BergeniteLegacy of peaceSouth Bergenite, NJ - 58 minutes agoShe spoke at length about her son’s deep connection with his poetry, which he began composing aloud at the age of three. "He called his poetry ‘heartsongs ...
- Book learning (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said, “I’ve seen the Promised Land,” in a speech on the eve of his assassination, he was referring to the Exodus story from the Bible.
- Cameroon: Book Review - Dance of Scorpions (AllAfrica.com)
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- Leonard Cohen - Canada.com
Leonard CohenCanada.com, Canada - 1 hour agoIt was his mother who encouraged Cohen as a writer, especially of poetry, during his childhood. This fit in with the progressive intellectual environment in ...
- Watch Generation Kill , read the review - Slate
Prized Fray regular wmccomninel watched Generation Kill , read the review in "Culturebox", and started a great thread which led to his laying this thought on the line: My own life was negatively affected by serving in both wars in Iraq, that much is ...
- All citizens must be equal - Daily News Egypt
All citizens must be equalDaily News Egypt, Egypt - 7 hours agoTestimonies of residents who lived in Yafo during the War of Independence in 1948 were pinned to large boards alongside poetry, photography and cartoons ...
- DVD releases - Scotland on Sunday
DVD releasesScotland on Sunday, UK - 37 minutes agoBy FIONA LEITH The majestical poetry of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling book about growing up in Afghanistan is transferred to screen with intelligent ...
- Poems That Will Make You Think Deeply About Making Dreams Come True -- New Book Talks About Life Experiences on Many ... (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
EDISON, N.J., June 2, 2008 -- To make our dreams come true, we need to fully understand the many threads and meanings of our lives. An engaging talk about life is all set to begin with the release of the new book Dreams Come True, authored by Cath.
- Stratford Theater season in review 07/20/08 (The News-Herald)
If you're going to insert the name Shakespeare into your Theatre Festival after 50 years, you may as well kick off the season with "Hamlet." Ontario's re-dubbed Stratford Shakespeare Festival has done just that. It's their eighth "Hamlet" since 1957, and we couldn't imagine a better one.
- Some Good Amid The Bombs? - CounterCurrents.org
Some Good Amid The Bombs?CounterCurrents.org, India - 10 hours agoSince the devastating riots of 2002, all of us who hail from the soil of Gujarat have pointed at its forbearing past, towards the poetry of Narmada and the ...
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