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- Katie Parks, champion of Lubbock community, dies at 87 - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Katie Parks, a celebrated Lubbock community activist and author, died of lung cancer Tuesday. She was 87. Widely known for her efforts to improve the quality of life for blacks across the city, Parks was recognized with more than 200 awards in her ...
- Juneteenth celebrates freedom - The Herald-Times (subscription)
Juneteenth celebrates freedomThe Herald-Times (subscription), IN - 4 hours agoEvery little child there, it seemed, had a red or blue balloon to play with. The scent of burning wood from Smokin’ Jack’s Rib Shack’s grill occasionally ...
- Inmate-actors find purpose in jail theater performance (Post-Tribune)
Female inmates clapped, stomped and jumped up and down Sunday to rally the audience. Female inmates clapped, stomped and jumped up and down Sunday to rally the audience.
- Jean C. Soule, 89, children's author, educator - Philadelphia Inquirer
Jean Conder Soule, 89, formerly of Springfield, Delaware County, a children's book author, poet, and educator, died of heart failure Sunday at Riddle Village, a retirement community in Media. While raising a family in Springfield, Mrs. Soule wrote ...
- Tuesday August 26th 2008 - Guardian Weekly
Tuesday August 26th 2008Guardian Weekly, UK - 2 minutes agoThere was Sadtsaev’s collection of Ossetian national poetry. Best of all was a historical booklet that showed the Ossetian land claim ebbing and flowing ...
- Technologicology: The IgnitePhilly Highlight Reel - Philebrity.com
Technologicology: The IgnitePhilly Highlight ReelPhilebrity.com, PA - 4 hours agoThey sometimes weren’t prepared at all, explaining beautiful photographs taken in abandoned homes with a beer in hand, or read poetry while talking about ...
- Obama should emulate FDR - New York Daily News
Obama should emulate FDRNew York Daily News, NY - 5 hours agoAnd, remember, it is poetry, not policy, that brings voters to the polls on Election Day. Cohen, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, ...
- The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival is still everybody's favourite fringe fest (Uptown Magazine)
The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival turns 21 this week - and it's celebrating Vegas-style. The annual alt theatre festival kicked off on July 16, and 141 local, national and international companies will draw over 100,000 Fringers to 22 venues in the Exchange District over the next 11 days.
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Miami Herald
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the ...
- Plato's Greek Taverna , Ponsonby Rd (The New Zealand Herald)
Greek cuisine gets a bad rap. AA Gill reckons it's "unremittingly ghastly. Greek food is best eaten drunk, but even that they don't make easy".
- Stopped In My Tracks, It's A New World - NPR News
I live and breathe sports. My television career started in the sports department. I've covered five different Olympics. Leroy and I were hooked on watching the Beijing Games. In fact, his oncologist was over for the Opening Ceremonies and we had fish ...
- Mary Peccolo; original owner of Blue Door Bookstore, arts supporter (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Hillcrest wasn't Hillcrest yet when Mary Peccolo and her husband opened the Blue Door Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in 1961. The tiny shop came to be known as a literary center for Bohemians, intellectuals, artists and activists.
- Community remembers local activist - Gay and Lesbian Times
Community remembers local activistGay and Lesbian Times, CA - 41 minutes agoWaiters wrote poetry, children’s books and stage scripts. Her published works include two books, The Woman Under the Hat, and Right Place, Right Time. ...
- Promising poets at Manor Court - Chard & Ilminster News
Promising poets at Manor CourtChard & Ilminster News, UK - 1 hour ago... Chard, have been trying their hand at writing an acrostic poem. The youngsters tackled the tricky poetry - where the first letter of each line spells ...
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Sign up for our Email NewsletterCoffee Time Romance, GA - 1 hour agoGrowing up, I wrote poetry and short stories for the most part, and in my early twenties I decided to try my hand a writing 'for real'. ...
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