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- 'Laugh-In' comic Dick Martin dead at 86 - CNN
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it ...
- Evening of poetry with pros (The Union)
Five expert poets who are on the staff of this summer's Squaw Valley Community of Writers will read from their published and unpublished work July 24, 8:15 p.m., at Olympic Village Lodge in Squaw Valley between Truckee and Lake Tahoe.
- News in brief: Center's Pride party Sat. - Bay Area Reporter
Bay Area ReporterNews in brief: Center's Pride party Sat.Bay Area Reporter, CA - 53 minutes agoSome of the activities will include the Center Women Present's LesboBingo with Sister Dinah Might; a mini-match-up speed dating event; and a poetry and ...
- Black Infiniti (Baltimore City Paper)
Adele V. Holden painted the Eastern Shore town where she grew up with these words in the poem "Patchworks of our lives." The poem, in its entirety, opened her memoir, Down on the Shore: The Family and Place That Forged a Poet's Voice , which I published in 2000.
- 10 movie picks from the director of the festival - The Daily Planet
10 movie picks from the director of the festivalThe Daily Planet, CO - 23 minutes ago“As a filmmaker, [Scher] manages to transform everyday phenomena such as winter and water, things we tend to take for granted, into visual poetry,†...
- At Theatre Ariel, A 60th Celebration - Jewish Theatre
At Theatre Ariel, A 60th CelebrationJewish Theatre, Israel - 56 minutes agoSixty readers from various walks of life will read poetry about Israel by Israeli poets, all in English. The presentation is also a nod to Philadelphia's ...
- [Best Bets] Saturday, May 24 (Jackson Free Press)
The Greater Belhaven Market opens today at 9 a.m., with local artists, craft-makers and food magicians selling their best items until 1 p.m. in the Belhaven McDade’s parking lot.
- Book Review: The Last Of The Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Blogcritics.org)
A beautiful book that does the seemingly impossible of holding humans up to ridicule while exalting their potential simultaneously. Satire is a delicate matter, or at least it should be. Far too often satire seems to be confused with farce for some reason, which is sort of like confusing a chain saw with the delicate touch of a surgeon's scalpel. It's true that both will cut close to the bone, ...
- You Oughta Be in Pictures Monday: Austin young poets head to national ... - Austin American-Statesman
Two students from the Austin school district will be part of a four-student poetry team that will compete in the 2008 Brave New Voices Under-21 Poetry Slam Nationals in Washington, D.C. next week. LBJ High School student Ruby Willmann , shown above ...
- National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Books for the Big Read - Kansas City infoZine
National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Books for the Big ReadKansas City infoZine, MO - 58 minutes agoA special collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short fiction and poetry will acquaint cities and towns with this titan of American literature who pioneered both ...
- Poetry with je ne sais quoi - Guardian Blogs
"The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written," declared Doctor Johnson. This was motivation enough, in his view, to "learn the language". It would be charming to think that, prior to ...
- As freedoms roll back in the ex-Soviet world, Ukraine becomes an island of freedom (KYIV Post)
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower.
- Teamwork enables greater success - Times Union
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and more than 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system reaching down hundreds of ...
- Latitude Festival 2008: Saturday - Clickmusic
Latitude Festival 2008: SaturdayClickmusic, UK - 50 minutes agoPoetry, the often derided younger brother of literature, is further insulted through Teen Angst, a half hour of really bad poetry. ...
- Simon Holt and "a table of noises" performed by the City of ... - Times Online
Simon Holt and "a table of noises" performed by the City of ...Times Online, UK - 6 hours agoThis presentation was all about love and war and the violent beauty of the Orpheus myth, and included poetry readings (with discreet musical background) as ...
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