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- Melbourne to be world 'City of Literature' (The Age)
The timing could hardly have been better had it appeared in the final chapters of a best-selling thriller. Three days before the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival, UNESCO has named Melbourne as its second City of Literature. Edinburgh became the first in 2004.
- Fear of 60 - Slate
Fear o f 60: If there's a good chance that the Dems will achieve a theoretically filibuster-proof majority of 60 in the Senate, shouldn't that change the dynamic of the race? It certainly changes the nature of the prospective Obama presidency. It ...
- Trivia contest highlights city knowledge (Portage Daily Register)
Susan Gorsuch of Pardeeville spent the past week researching the history of Portage in anticipation of Thursday's Portage Trivia Contest. Unfortunately for Gorsuch, no one showed up to participate.
- Pregnant Sculptures, Whirling Dervishes and the First Ever Poet Take Out Australia's Top Award for Art and Faith (Art Daily)
Peter Daverington. SYDNEY.- The Blake Prize of A$20,000 has been awarded to artist David Tucker for a sculptural work that depicts a procession of pregnant women and symbols of Egyptian, Christian and Hindu traditions.
- Michelle Kennedy - WXII 12
Meteorologist Michelle Kennedy, a native of Syracuse, N.Y., joined the WXII 12 team in the summer of 2001. Michelle is not new to the Carolinas, before moving to the Triad she spent several years forecasting in other parts of North and South Carolina ...
- Granddaddy heaven (not for the queasy) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - When i was much younger, a feature writer asked me what kind of a funeral I would like for myself. I was game enough to answer a horrible question like that so I said I fancied a burial like those of ancient Filipinos— yes, wrapped in a mat!
- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt seeing double; Josh Brolin has a mug shot ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have their own Brady Bunch-sized brood with the arrival of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Saturday, delivered by Caesarian section at Lenval Hospital in Nice, France. An "emotional" Pitt was on hand for the ...
- ‘Moving tributes’ to the words of national bard (The Herald)
The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will be commemorated at transport hubs across the west of Scotland, while a carriage on Glasgow's Subway system will also be dedicated to the national bard.
- A man with talent out of this world - The News International
A man with talent out of this worldThe News International, Pakistan - 1 hour agoBy By Zabe Azkar Hussain Qamar Afzal Qamar, a poet, short story writer and educationist whose Urdu poetry collection titled ‘Sang Sitara’ appeared a few ...
- British scholar of Urdu literature on death bed - - Associated Press of Pakistan
British scholar of Urdu literature on death bed -Associated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - Sep 8, 2008He has been famous for his translation of Mirza Ghalib poetry into English and is considered as an authority on the 18 th century sub-continent poet.
- Brian Wilson, Joan Baez, Lindsey Buckingham Chill on Mellow CDs - Bloomberg
Brian Wilson, Joan Baez, Lindsey Buckingham Chill on Mellow CDsBloomberg - 2 hours agoTheir 10th-grade poetry, written by long-time Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks, romantically paints LA as a ``star-spangled city. ...
- Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Aussie premiere - The Australian
Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Aussie premiereThe Australian, Australia - 6 hours agoDisgrace tells the story of a self-absorbed romantic poetry professor in Cape Town who visits his daughter following his resignation over an affair with a ...
- 'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel' by Victor Pelevin - Los Angeles Times
'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel' by Victor PelevinLos Angeles Times, CA - 29 minutes agoThe lines she quotes are fake-Auden, written by the American satirist Ian Frazier in a 2002 parody for the New Yorker called "The New Poetry. ...
- Could Michael Jackson do justice to Robert Burns' poetry? - Daily Telegraph Blogs
I was pleased to hear that Radiohead did their cover of Neil Young's After The Gold Rush at the Hollywood Bowl this week (and equally pleased to see Thom Yorke wearing those excellent tight red jeans he wore at Victoria Park earlier this 'summer ...
- Seven years later, survivors still search for normalcy in lives (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
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