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- Paperback Row (New York Times)
Paperback books of particular interest.
- Theatre Review: One Red Flower (Santa Monica Mirror)
One Red Flower , produced and created by Emmy-award winning director Paris Barclay, was presented as a staged reading at the Brentwood Theatre last weekend only as a special benefit supporting New Directions and Rubicon Theatre’s Innovation Fund.
- Mamma Mia, it's Meryl! (Creative Loafing Tampa)
Short reviews of new and recent releases... OPENING THIS WEEK THE DARK KNIGHT (PG-13) Read Lance Goldenberg's review. FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (NR) Read Lance Goldenberg's review. MAMMA MIA! (PG-13) Based on the Broadway musical so beloved by aging boomers and their familiars, Mamma Mia! relies on the hits of '70s uber-group Abba to tell the story of a young bride-to-be (Amanda Seyfried) trying ...
- Swords fly off the shelves as wedding season sets in (The Peninsula)
Doha • Shops in Doha are witnessing a high demand for swords (saif in Arabic) because of the wedding season. "Our daily sales vary and so do our customers.
- Celebrities with reader's block - Telegraph.co.uk
Celebrities with reader's blockTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoMaude Hillingdon, hostess and fundraiser: "I will always treasure my Anthology of New Zealand Love Poetry. I used it to beat out the forest fire that ...
- Kenya: - Distributing Peace Flags (AllAfrica.com)
The National Symposium on Post Election Peace Building was convened under the strong conviction that Kenya as a nation had not attained the healing it needed. A lot of disabling hurt and division among groups and communities are still quite evident to this moment.
- Central Valley briefs - Lemoore Advance
Central Valley briefsLemoore Advance, CA - 36 minutes agoSacramento Rainbow Poets is offering a $1000 grand prize in a new poetry contest. The deadline is Sept. 20. There are 50 prizes totaling $5000. ...
- Editorial Roundup - The Ledger
Many people hoped that holding this year's Olympic Games in Beijing would serve as a lever to induce China to act more as a mature member of the international community. The Chinese government has relented on a few issues it didn't veto a U.N ...
- Stolen $30M Shakespeare book found - CNBC
A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued $30 million has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated. Police in Durham, northeast England, said Friday they ...
- 40 years later - Ha'aretz
40 years laterHa'aretz, Israel - Aug 7, 2008I am driven out of my mind by the people who don't stop staring at the screen of their mobile phones in order to find out, in the dark, what time it is or ...
- Poets tackle death and dying for hospice - Scoop
Moonlight, a book of New Zealand poems on death and dying, is being launched at Mercy Hospice Auckland, on 18 July. The anthology, edited by poet Andrew Johnston, is being launched on Montana Poetry Day. Johnston, who is one of New Zealand’s most ...
- Music, folk tales mark Juneteenth in Leesburg (Orlando Sentinel)
When the Southern slaves were freed, historical accounts say they danced and sang in the streets.
- Like The Virgins - Radar Online
Radar OnlineLike The VirginsRadar Online, NY - 3 hours agoSo, by the time we actually start the Black Kids tour we'll probably be playing a pretty different set than what we've been playing. ...
- The image at center of presidential race (The Record)
We seem to be at the classic moment: One generation of stars directly confronts the next generation, each with entirely different traditions.
- Physicist with a passion for storytelling - Science Centric
Peter Freund packed his book, A Passion for Discovery, with stories about important 20th-century physicists and mathematicians. The story of Emmy Noether is one that Freund, Professor Emeritus in Physics at the University of Chicago, liked to share ...
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