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- City neighborhood's fair has lots of French flair - Courier-Post
The Fairmount neighborhood that houses Eastern State Penitentiary celebrates Bastille Day -- when French peasants stormed the Bastille and dissolved the monarchy in a most, ahem, decisive manner -- this weekend. Today, Fairmount restaurants ...
- Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserve - The Independent
Arresting headlines all last week. "Police arrest Batman" caught the eye. "Police arrest Balls" would have been better, but Ballsing up the education of thousands is not yet considered a crime in this country. Unlike ballsing up your own ...
- Message from the grave: 'Don't make the mistakes that I did - Oldham Advertiser
Message from the grave: 'Don't make the mistakes that I didOldham Advertiser, UK - 1 hour agoArnold said: "Drugs devastated our family. If Kevin’s poems can save one person from making the same mistakes he did, all the pain will be worth it. ...
- Dozens dive in to Dan Davin contest - Southland Times
Dozens dive in to Dan Davin contestSouthland Times, New Zealand - 11 hours agoFoundation administrator Becs Amunsden said 50 short stories and 114 poetry entries were received and judged. While Year 12 and 13 pupils contest the short ...
- Landmark Case Returns to NY Seeking Millions From Corporations ... - Democracy Now
Landmark Case Returns to NY Seeking Millions From Corporations ...Democracy Now, NY - 9 minutes agoBrutus was banned from teaching, writing, and publishing in South Africa. His first collection of poetry, “Sirens, Knuckles and Boots” was published in ...
- Gene Harris Jazz Festival • Weinstein Talks • Music Fills the Air ... - Boise Weekly
Gene Harris Jazz Festival • Weinstein Talks • Music Fills the Air ...Boise Weekly, USA - 5 hours agoNorman Weinstein, poet, jazz-music critic, professor and architecture writer, is holding a poetry reading with a decades-long retrospective from his various ...
- Khaled, Philharmonic Hall - Liverpool Echo
Khaled, Philharmonic HallLiverpool Echo, UK - 3 hours agoRai music developed in Western Algeria, its origins a mixture of Arabic love poetry and Bedouin folk songs. Khaled brings his own unique interpretation to ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - International Herald Tribune
HONOLULU : At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Five Questions: Pasha Malla - Walrus Magazine
Walrus MagazineFive Questions: Pasha MallaWalrus Magazine, Canada - Aug 12, 2008I wrote them, obviously, trying to be funny, but other people finding my stuff funny—or not—is up to them. That’s the thing about humour: it’s completely ...
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, July 31st - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Dwight D. Eisenhower who said, "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political ...
- NEW IN THE NORTHWEST - Nature verse, animal stories: Robert Pack ... - Missoulian
“Still Here, Still Now” by Robert Pack, University of Chicago Press, hardbound, $22. In this, his 19th volume of verse, University of Montana professor Robert Pack reaffirms - and embellishes - his reputation as one of America’s pre-eminent ...
- Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of OpEdNews - OpEdNews.com
This started out as a conversation among senior level editors at OEN and I believe it would be good to open the conversation to all members. On this anniversary of the birth of democracy, I hope you'll take this opportunity to participate in ...
- ‘Can You Imagine’: Author Shares His Life Stories Through New ... - eReleases (press release)
‘Can You Imagine’: Author Shares His Life Stories Through New ...eReleases (press release), MD - Jul 15, 2008SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, July 15, 2008 — Short stories and poems encourage the reader to imagine the possibilities for their life in Kelly K. Owens’ new book ...
- 2b or not 2b? - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk2b or not 2b?guardian.co.uk, UK - 44 minutes agoTo celebrate World Poetry day in 2007, T-Mobile tried to find the UK's first "Txt laureate" in a competition for the best romantic poem in SMS. ...
- Undaunted by her disorder - Hampton Roads Daily Press
WACO, Texas - The ulcers on her gums and lips were so painful that Sanya Richards stopped eating. But she kept running. She fashioned a mouthpiece from a cardboard tape roll, bit down on it like a bullet, sprinted around the track and tried to focus ...
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