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- Palestinians mourn national poet (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Palestinians on Sunday mourned the death of Mahmud Darwish, who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - USA Today
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67USA Today - Aug 9, 2008By Pool, Getty Images GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Mahmoud Darwish, the world's most recognized Palestinian poet, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian ...
- Funds for the runner-up - Daily Pilot
Friends and family of Spencer Wood, a Newport Beach native who died two years ago at age 22, have created a scholarship fund in his honor to be awarded to one or more Newport Harbor High School students every year. They raised $4,000 at a benefit in ...
- Olympic celebration of arts in the capital - This is London
This is LondonOlympic celebration of arts in the capitalThis is London, UK - 1 hour agoThere will be poetry in Docklands, bell-ringing in Bexleyheath and free ballet classes for adults with the English National Ballet. ...
- Lindsay Kemp's Virgin Queen comes to Japan (The Japan Times)
It was a scorching day in July and the air in Tokyo's concrete jungle was shimmering in the heat. But on a visit here prior to next month's opening of his voluptuous production "Elizabeth I: the Last Dance" at Theatre Cocoon, avant-garde performance-art icon Lindsay Kemp — a self-described "stranger in a strange land" back home in England — appeared quite at ease, as perhaps befits a longtime ...
- Collection of Rilke's letters has pride of place beside bed - South Coast Today
New Bedford police officers wade through sewage drain to arrest suspect Heroin overdoses raising concerns among local drug treatment centers Burns remembered as sensitive star Punch lines Recent arrests from Fairhaven, New Bedford With more West Nile ...
- Did Batman smack his mum? Plus Kid Rock's Waffle House comeupance ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Kid Rock has been sentenced to a year's probation and fined $1,000 for his role in a fight at a suburban Atlanta Waffle House last fall. The very dapper Mick Jones. Foreigner's Mick Jones says the band's new career retrospective "No End in Sight: The ...
- Festival commemorates 1912 strike with play, music, food - Eagle Tribune
Festival commemorates 1912 strike with play, music, foodEagle Tribune, MA - 1 hour ago"It's really great to see it because it brings closure to the family," said Steven Ramey of Lawrence. "We really appreciate it." Another highlight was the ...
- Debtor's Prism - Wall Street Journal
Without memory, there is no debt. Put another way: Without story, there is no debt. The story of debt reached a historic moment this week. An outsized bubble of interlocking debt burst, leading to the downfalls of prominent companies. Loans by and to ...
- New book recounts Catawba County baseball history - Hickory Daily Record
New book recounts Catawba County baseball historyHickory Daily Record, NC - 3 hours agoThe first two books in the series echoed the poetry of the national pastime. Peeler's first effort, "Touching All the Bases," was a finalist for baseball ...
- New books showcase talents of local authors (West County Journal)
Books aplenty are being released by busy West County authors.
- Fountain working to revamp its image - Colorado Springs Gazette
Fountain does. It's not the sort of thing many associate with the bedroom community 10 miles southeast of Colorado Springs. But it's part of the new Fountain that boosters are pushing to overcome the town's image as the low-rent freight yard in ...
- Puerto Rican Bill Cosby’ to perform - Gillette News Record
Latin storyteller and poet David Gonzalez is performing in a multi-cultural event Thursday aimed to engage local students and adults in the Hispanic culture. Gonzalez, a multi-talented artist from New York and described as the “Puerto Rican Bill ...
- Tom Perrotta to headline first Portsmouth Literary Festival (Portsmouth Herald)
PORTSMOUTH — This October, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project kicks off its 20th anniversary celebrations by bringing a three-day literary festival to Portsmouth as part of the New Hampshire Writers’ Trail.
- outdoor extremes Scaling The Skillet - Denver Post
outdoor extremes Scaling The SkilletDenver Post, CO - 17 minutes agoThe first one is for his 1-year-old son, Kai, and was chosen because there are many easy holds for a child-sized body, and the pitch of the rock is not too ...
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