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- Globetrotting in the Bayou City - Houston Chronicle
Bird-shaped custard rice cakes at Fung's Kitchen will help customers think they've been whisked away for the summer. With cramped planes, screaming babies (even in first class) and sky-high fares, flying isn't much fun anymore. Nor are road trips ...
- Share your poems over a cup of coffee - Barnet & Potters Bar Times
A pair of lyrical Edgware ladies have set up a poetry society to encourage budding poets to share their musings with others. Judy Karbritz and Pattie Greenberg established the Jewish Poetry Society to organise poetry readings in coffee shops and ...
- Love in a Tsunami's Aftermath: Assarat's 'Wonderful Town' (The New York Sun)
'Wonderful Town," directed by Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat, takes place in a seaside town in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Though tourism has tanked, some rebuilding is in progress, and yet a certain malaise seems to have settled after the storm. This potent setting and mood is the backdrop for a fragile love story, but the stillness and vaguely drawn characters doom the movie to ...
- First Friday event to be downtown on June 6 (Mount Vernon News)
MOUNT VERNON — The Heritage Centre Association announces the next First Friday will be June 6. First-Knox National Bank is the event sponsor.
- Do not ignore vandalism that chips away at our civilization - Democrat and Chronicle
What is the origin of the word "vandalism"? In 455 A.D., the warlike Vandals plundered, raped, killed and conquered the decaying, politically rocky Roman Empire, leaving art and culture in shambles. Understandably, their show of force signaled a ...
- June 2008 - Kansas City Star Blogs
More and more I’m hearing self-congratulating liberals insinuate that anyone who is critical of Barack Obama or says he won’t vote for Obama is a racist. That, obviously, is a tactic liberals intend to use to help get this spectacularly ...
- Sherman Lee, who led the Cleveland Museum of Art to global renown ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sherman Lee, the Cleveland Museum of Art's director from 1958 to 1983, bought many of the most famous pieces in its collection and cemented its global reputation. Sherman Lee, who led the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1958 to 1983 and was hailed ...
- Discovery Channel's 'When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions' (Calendarlive.com)
For all but a few select humans, the way to outer space -- the real outer space, not the one where the Cylons live -- has been through a TV screen. You can climb to the top of Mt. Everest, or trek to the South Pole or go down under the sea and see it for yourself, but space is still the province of professionals: We know it only by the pictures they take.
- Follow the Dylan Thomas trail (Guardian Unlimited)
Travel: David Atkinson follows in his footsteps, from the pubs of Swansea to his home in Laugharne
- Pupils shine in festival to celebrate their talents - Journal Live
Pupils shine in festival to celebrate their talentsJournal Live, UK - 3 hours agoThere has been poetry and music recitals, painting with the art department, photography and the history department has also made up a time capsule to show ...
- Angelou tells grads to be courageous above all else (The Ithaca Journal)
ITHACA — The clouds over campus retreated and the sun warmed the backs of the audience Saturday as Maya Angelou reminded the Cornell University class of 2008 to be courageous as they look to the future.
- Juneteenth celebrated locally (The Daily Iberian)
Quick, what ended slavery for good in the United States? It might be tempting to answer “The Emancipation Proclamation,” but it wasn’t until two years later, when Union forces reached them in 1865 that slaves in Galveston, Texas, heard the news .
- Coleman Barks to read Iranian Mowlavi poetry - IranMania News
LONDON, June 21 (IranMania) - Renowned American writer and poet Coleman Barks is slated to read the poetry of Mowlavi at the Hill-Stead Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, PressTV reported. Accompanied by the award winning cellist and composer Eugene ...
- So much to do, so little summer - Cape Breton Post
So much to do, so little summerCape Breton Post, Canada - 6 hours agoHow about a poetry reading? Poetry With A View, an event sponsored by the Friends of Cape Breton University Library, returns to the Big Wave Cafe in ...
- Teacher wrote love poems for teen, trial told - Windsor Star
High school teacher Mark Baggio gave one of his students love poems, and his cellphone records showed 2,345 calls between the two during two years of their alleged affair, Superior Court heard Wednesday. Baggio also made or received 437 calls ...
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