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- Activities throughout city to promote peace - Philadelphia Inquirer
Malik Johnson is fed up with the violence in Philadelphia, irked that senior citizens sometimes don't dare venture to the corner store, that too many young people do nothing but loiter, that the entire city is being victimized by handguns. "We don't ...
- Mare Bellatorius - TheDay
Mare BellatoriusTheDay, CT - 15 hours agoLike much that goes under-reported in New London, Conn., a poetry war has been alternating between simmer and boil for about a year. ...
- Student poets already impressive - Providence Journal
Providence JournalStudent poets already impressiveProvidence Journal, RI - 8 hours agoAfter my reading, I was taken to teacher Jim Bower’s class, where the assignment had been to write a poem based on one of mine, “So Much Depends Upon. ...
- Republicans Approve Party Platform - The Bulletin
Prior to drafting the 2008 Republican Party Platform - the party's thoughts about and plans for handling different issues - the party set up a Web site asking for input from the public. The Republican Party Platform is without an overarching title ...
- Scots wha' hae the Burns badge will make the best of a Bard job - Scotsman
AULD acquaintance is not the only thing to be forgotten when it comes to Scots' knowledge of Robert Burns. Tourism chiefs, aghast at widespread ignorance of the life and works of the Bard, are offering crash courses on the national poet in a bid to ...
- Edinburgh Comedy Festival kicks off - Crewe Guardian
The inaugural Edinburgh Comedy Festival gets under way kicking off the Scottish capital's annual arts bonanza. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the globe will flock to the city in the coming month for a massive array of entertainment ...
- Archives > Communities > Whitestone (Queens Courier)
Whitestone is a largely upper-middle-class neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens, located between the East River to the north and 25th Avenue to the south.
- Beloved poet, prof, playwright 'an artistic giant' (London Free Press)
James Reaney, a national literary icon who stayed close to his Southwestern Ontario roots during a celebrated, 50-year career as a playwright, poet and professor, has died.
- Story appeared in ELK GROVE LAGUNA section, Page F4 - Sacramento Bee
Story appeared in ELK GROVE LAGUNA section, Page F4Sacramento Bee, USA - 3 hours agoJan Soules of Elk Grove has had a quilt titled "Poetry in Motion" accepted in the Quilt Expo quilt contest. The 10-category juried and judged contest is ...
- Why Implausibility Sells - Slate
Joseph Cornell was like the simple son in the fairy tale who picks up odds and ends--a dead bird, a broken jug, perhaps a rusty nail--as he mooches toward the palace with his strong and handsome brothers, who mean to vie for the princess's hand. He ...
- Troubled waters of an Irish river - Canada.com
Canada.comTroubled waters of an Irish riverCanada.com, Canada - 7 hours ago... this area of County Leitrim and neighbouring County Sligo, and he wrote about many of the places, and the legends associated with them, in his poetry. ...
- On This Day in History: July 10 ‘Just an Average Guy’ - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
On This Day in History: July 10 ‘Just an Average Guy’Brooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - 17 minutes agoIn his early teens he began to write songs, and during his high school years he played with a folk/bluegrass band. Arlo was just past his teen years when in ...
- Nigeria: Inside Kano's Ancient Gurasa Neighbourhood (AllAfrica.com)
Virtually every house in Jakara Quarters in the ancient city of Kano is a small factory of staple food known in Hausa as gurasa, but in English as pita and in Arabic Khubz. A visit to this area gives an insight as to how gurasa is manufactured and sold.
- New York Press - Rottentomatoes.com
( a ) b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Other (1-8) of 8 280 Total Across the Universe (2007) " Across the Universe feels like something entombed on Broadway, made to instruct bored tourists while grasping after Importance. It’s an ...
- Wilmington on DVD: Scorsese exalts The Rolling Stones (Isthmus)
Anyone who loves movies or rock 'n' roll, or both, and doesn't get excited at the prospect of 'lt;i'gt;Shine a Light'lt;/i'gt; -- the new concert film with the Rolling Stones, directed by Martin Scorsese -- well, what can I say? They run the risk of cheating themselves out of an incandescent experience and a knockout show. This DVD is the vibrant record of a live 2006 concert at Manhattan's ...
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