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- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of national mourning to honor ...
- A Van Cliburn anniversary: From musician to folk hero - Star-ecentral.com
If cultural gods tell us more about us than about themselves, Van Cliburn holds a particularly warped and smoky mirror up to the classical-music world he intermittently dominated over the last half-century - one that shows much about the strange ...
- BY: STEVE BANKHEAD - Register Pajaronian
BY: STEVE BANKHEADRegister Pajaronian, CA - Sep 19, 2008I was glad to see my cowboy poetry judge Nick Bulaich win blue ribbons in baked goods for his almond cookies and yeast breads. Nick inherits his talent from ...
- Jessye Norman, Still a Diva Beyond the Classical Canon - Washington Post
Washington PostJessye Norman, Still a Diva Beyond the Classical CanonWashington Post, United States - 49 minutes agoAmong her least was a valiant commission in 2000 of a song cycle celebrating women, with music by Judith Weir and poetry by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and ...
- Rosemarie DeWitt on 'Rachel Getting Married' - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesRosemarie DeWitt on 'Rachel Getting Married'Los Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours agoBy Michael Ordoña, Special to The Times "THE VIBE was like a good poetry slam or something," said Rosemarie DeWitt of working on the set of Jonathan Demme's ...
- Sikander Abu Zafar remembered - The Daily Star
Sikander Abu Zafar rememberedThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 2 hours agoSyed Mohammad Shahed said, “In the '40s, poetry tended to be mostly romantic, very few spoke of the common people. Sikander Abu Zafar's poems were an ...
- Bill Ayers' motive for penning memoir - WorldNetDaily
Editor's note: This is Part 1 of a three-part analysis of Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father." "I picture the street coming alive, awakening from the fury of winter, stirred from the chilly spring night by cold glimmers of sunlight angling through ...
- Dan Fainaru in Locarno - Screendaily.com (subscription)
Dan Fainaru in LocarnoScreendaily.com (subscription), UK - 3 hours agoAmong them is a French student preparing his Ph.D. thesis on Anna's poetry, a rap singer working on his very own weed commercial, a surgeon on his way to ...
- The 'grouchy' Dubliner who never lost his sense of humour - Irish Independent
The 'grouchy' Dubliner who never lost his sense of humourIrish Independent, Ireland - 9 minutes agoBut in those early days there was a whiff of Guinness and poetry and other dangerous things about The Dubliners. There were the beards and probably what was ...
- Famed Palestinian poet critical after surgery (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mahmud Darwish, widely considered the greatest living Palestinian poet, is in critical condition in a US hospital following open-heart surgery, hospital officials said Saturday.
- Local writer wins Atlantic award (The Yarmouth County Vanguard)
By Eric Bourque THE VANGUARD NovaNewsNow Brenda Tate wasn't expecting the good news she received recently regarding her participation in the Atlantic Writing Competition. The Pleasant Valley resident was informed she was among the winners in the annual competition for Nightingales Don't Cry, the manuscript she had submitted. Interviewed about it last week, she recalled sending the story but ...
- The House Is Clean, But The Laundry Is Dirty - Hoya
In the small dark theater on the first floor of Walsh, a pristine, white couch sits on a pristine, white rug in sharp contrast to the black walls that surround it. Everything is in order; everything is in its proper place. Two hours later, this same ...
- A Letter to True - Guardian Unlimited
If Virginia Woolf could write Flush, a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, and that doyenne of British film critics Dilys Powell could publish Coco, a biography of her pet poodle, then the photographer and documentary film-maker ...
- Honest Engines are full steam ahead - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
According to Honest Engines' official creed (i.e. their online band bio); Marcus Maloney is the group's "final and youngest addition," the guitarist who capped off the outfit's still-blooming quintet with jazz-aficionado style. Over the phone ...
- Release parties for final 'Twilight' book haunt Madison tonight - The Capital Times
Release parties for final 'Twilight' book haunt Madison tonightThe Capital Times, WI - 4 hours agoThe east side Barnes & Noble is playing host to a masquerade ball, a dance and a costume contest. There will be an open mic for fans to read poetry, ...
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