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- Danielle Steel - the invisible observer (Otago Daily Times)
It's only 9:33 am, but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked.
- A turn in the spotlight (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Who knew that Abdo Sayegh is still a virtuosic dancer of tremendous grace, kinetic articulation and emotional complexity? In Minnesota Dance Theater, he's largely sidelined when he's not encased in the "Nutcracker" costume and choreography.
- Lesbian Activist Del Martin Dies at 87 (Time Magazine)
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died
- Mesa State professor heals pain through poetry - Grand Junction Free Press
Mesa State professor heals pain through poetryGrand Junction Free Press, CO - 1 hour agoThe book’s cover photo is one of Moorman as a child wearing leg braces. Although he had cerebral palsy, not polio, Moorman was the 1961 March of Dimes ...
- Poetry book of the week: The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah (Independent)
Admirers of Birthmarks, the debut by Mick Imlah, have waited 20 years for a second book, an unusual hiatus. But The Lost Leader is also remarkable for its size — at 124 pages, it is a big book of poems — and for a tonal and technical range which makes most new collections seem like one-note performances.
- No comments (LA Weekly)
GO AMERICAN DEAD Brett Neveu’s play, first commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago — where the playwright earned his wunderkind reputation before immigrating to the film and TV biz out here — recalls an early stage work by Lanford Wilson, Rimers of Eldritch . Both works place their focus on the subtleties and vagaries of plain talk by plain folk, Midwesterners whose cities are ...
- Phelps now has company as the Games' poster guy - San Francisco Gate
Thursday, August 21, 2008 Then came a Bolt out of the gray, or whatever chemically enhanced color describes the stuff hanging mist-like and heavy over the Bird's Nest. I'm not saying Michael Phelps should step off the podium and hand over his ...
- Vacations for the soul - Cecil Whig
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- On Poetry: Writers gain strength in co-op (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
It's a thrill for me, too, to discover a writer I admire. It's nice to think that she just sprang full-grown from the head of Zeus, but, like all good things, a writer grows slowly and needs good soil. Writers are the least demanding of artists: they use such primitive tools -- paper, pen (a computer would be nice) and books. They like solitude and silence.
- Margaret A. ‘Peggy’ Pembrook - Sierra Vista Herald
A funeral Mass will be held at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sierra Vista, Ariz., for Margaret Pembrook, 80, of Hobbs, N.M., Father Gregory Adolf will officiate. Interment will follow at the Southern Arizona ...
- On the outside - Age
TIMES change. It's difficult to remember this, when you're waiting at the interminable lights on the corner of Hoddle and Brunton, gazing at the slowly revolving men's club billboard featuring airbrushed slappers draped over each other like the all ...
- Angel of Grozny - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science MonitorAngel of GroznyChristian Science Monitor, MA - 40 minutes agoEnamored of Russian poetry, the Norwegian Seierstad learned to speak the language fluently and then became a Moscow-based reporter, eagerly canvassing ...
- THE LIST: Sept. 12 to 18 - Kitsap Sun
THE LIST: Sept. 12 to 18Kitsap Sun, United States - 51 minutes agoCOURTESY PHOTO Wright Stuff | Poet and author Carolyne Wright leads a discussion on "How to Move from Poetry to Prose (and Back Again)" for a Field's End ...
- Hypocrisy, human rights and the Beijing games - Green Left Weekly
Hypocrisy, human rights and the Beijing gamesGreen Left Weekly, Australia - 5 hours agoUyrghur poets have even been charged with “spiritual terrorism” for their work. These charges can bring the death sentence. East Turkestan is the only place ...
- AP Entertainment NewsBrief at 1:35 pm EDT - TMCnet
AP Entertainment NewsBrief at 1:35 pm EDTTMCnet - 19 hours agoPalestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) _ Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his ...
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