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- In search of a buffalo's head? John Wayne? Soy candles? Street Faire ... - Lodi News-Sentinel
Sunday's Lodi Street Faire drew one of the biggest turnouts in quite some time. So says Pat Patrick, president and CEO of the Lodi Chamber of Commerce, about the twice-a-year Street Faire, where several Downtown Lodi streets are closed to traffic ...
- Mother Folk! - Style Weekly
Style WeeklyMother Folk!Style Weekly, VA - 12 minutes agoWith her own label, Righteous Babe Records, 19 original albums, the release of a book of poetry and paintings (“Verses,” September 2007) and the release of ...
- Litchfield Student's Poem Wins IMPAC Award - Litchfield Enquirer
Litchfield Student's Poem Wins IMPAC AwardLitchfield Enquirer, CT - 2 hours agoStudents from Litchfield County were awarded the top statewide prizes in prose and poetry last Sunday in the 11th annual IMPAC-Connecticut State University ...
- Establish a goal, follow the dream - Indianapolis Star
Establish a goal, follow the dreamIndianapolis Star, United States - 15 minutes agoBy Andy Gammill Nisshay Brocks wishes she had the chance to read the now-lost poetry and autobiographical sketches her dad wrote before he died of cancer in ...
- Andras Mezei: Many-sided poet and editor (Independent)
András Mezei was a many-sided and accomplished Hungarian writer and poet. One of the defining experiences of his life was the period of Nazi terror in German-occupied Hungary during 1944. His father perished in Auschwitz and although Mezei himself survived, the suffering he and hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews underwent left an emotional scar on him for life.
- An Outlaw's Odyssey, Remembered 'Gonzo' Style - NPR News
Journalist Hunter S. Thompson created colorful portraits of corrupt politicians and the Hell's Angels gang. Magnolia Pictures Thompson was a fan of "very fast cars with no tops," as he writes in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . Magnolia Pictures NPR ...
- Moodie's old home sheds its rough image - Nationalpost.com
Brianna Goldberg visits the Douro Dummer, Ont. home of 19th-century author Susanna Moodie. Brianna Goldberg, National Post DOURO DUMMER, ONT. - He yanked back the rotting wood that covered the mouth of the old stone well, and let go of a head-sized ...
- LIBRARY: Book sale this weekend offers 25,000 volumes (Ridgefield Press)
More than 25,000 books will be for sale Friday through Monday, May 16 to 19, at a book sale sponsored by the Friends of the Ridgefield Library at the library.
- Derakhshandeh preparing for Parvin Etesami biopic - Tehran Times
Parvin Etesami (1907-1940) was born in Tabriz. Her father was Mirza Yusef Etesami (Etesamolmolk) and she had three brothers. She moved from Tabriz to Tehran with her family in 1912, and made some limited trips within Iran as well as to foreign ...
- Making music heals Morissette's wounds - MSNBC
Making music heals Morissette's woundsMSNBC - May 21, 2008Peter Nurman, 29, says he was a bit of a loner in high school and suffered from a healthy dose of teen angst. Morissette’s music helped get him through the ...
- Fair-season fantasias (Toronto Star)
For those assembling a pile of kids' books in preparation for summer, here's some good reading. Written by Bonny Becker and illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton, A Visitor for Bear (Candlewick, 32 pages, $18.50, ages 2 to 4) addresses that seasonal topic of unwanted guests.
- Book written in '30s is still revelant (Louisville Courier-Journal)
"The chances are that at some time in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence," wrote Vogue scribe Marjorie Hillis in the 1936 book "Live Alone and Like It."
- Calendar Events - Windy City Times
Calendar EventsWindy City Times, IL - 1 hour ago312-243-1143, avenue-m.com Women & Children First Bookstore Susanna Lang: Even Now; Jac Jemc: poetry reading. 7:30 pm, 5233 N. Clark St., 773-742-1284, ...
- News from the Sawyer Free Library (The Cape Ann Beacon)
Sawyer Free Library patrons and the community at large look forward to the annual Friends of the Library Book and Bake Sale, an event vital to the library’s support toward its role as information access center and contributer of cultural programs encompassing not only Gloucester but the wider Cape Ann area as well.
- Rock the mic - La Voz Weekly
Rock the micLa Voz Weekly, CA - 8 hours agoThree of the performers performed spoken word poetry, and one more put on an incredible show with his electric guitar and rock and roll dance routine. ...
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