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- Wind of change at Tolethorpe - Peterborough Evening Telegraph
TOLETHORPE Hall, near Stamford, is world-famous for putting on three plays each year. This year, it is treating audiences to Romeo and Juliet, Richard III – and The Wind in the Willows. The beauty of Tolethorpe is that all the actors are amateurs ...
- Egypt: Videotaping of Two Episodes of 'Eye On Democracy' Television Programme Ordered Halted By Authorities (AllAfrica.com)
The Egyptian authorities recently ordered the cancellation, without justification, of the videotaping of two programmes for an American satellite television channel, Al-Hura, just hours before their shooting, and in spite of the authorities' four-week-old agreement with the company to allow the videotaping.
- London On The Cheap - Londonist
LondonistLondon On The CheapLondonist, UK - 34 minutes agoWednesday: A free mid-week jazzy/world music/poetry/acoustica party in Dalston that goes by the name of the Last Mango in Paris? Sold. Er, free. ...
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale - Popmatters.com
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India’s Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away. Here, guides spin questionable tales ...
- New twists for Warped tour (The Star-Ledger)
Charlotte Sometimes isn't just playing the Warped Tour for the first time this summer. She's attending Warped shows for the first time. "I was more of a coffeehouse kind of girl," says the singer/songwriter/guitarist, who is fronting a five-piece band on the tour.
- Laments & longings: WNC poets are well-represented in Southern Appalachian anthology (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Many of the poets in "Southern Appalachian Poetry," Marita Garin's new anthology, talk like ghosts. Their laments and longings view life as if from under a TVA lake.
- DH Lawrence (Guardian Unlimited)
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
- Westie wins top poetry award - Newstalk ZB
A West Auckland mother who writes poems which weave stories has won the nation's major poetry prize. Former schoolteacher Janet Charman has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards poetry category, for her collection Cold Snack. The award has ...
- O'Shaughnessy: Prisoners' last words haunt writer (New York Daily News)
James McSherry vaguely remembers his stepgrandfather pushing him on the swings in the playground 40 years ago. That was his image of the old man, Michael O'Rourke, who had come from County Cork to the Bronx after the Irish warred with the British and then with each other in the 1920s.
- Indian River County community connection: July 7 (Vero Press Journal)
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- Flower Fest supports service groups - Lompoc Record
Flower Fest supports service groupsLompoc Record, CA - 1 hour agoVillage Library Poetry Group: The next meeting is at 6:30 pm July 24. New members are welcome. The poetry group was saddened to hear of the passing of one ...
- Literary writing in the North of Nigeria: The task before critics? - Vanguard
Literary writing in the North of Nigeria: The task before critics?Vanguard, Nigeria - 6 minutes agoHausa novels, poetry and plays of the 1930s have no place in Nigerian literature. Similarly, The Wheel, The Descendants , Fire in My Backyard and A Possible ...
- Beat Poetry Festival Underway Around The State - Hartford Courant
Beat Poetry Festival Underway Around The StateHartford Courant, United States - 3 hours agoSend contributions to his weekly arts column by writing to him at The Courant, 373 E. Main St., Middletown, CT 06457 or at richard_b_kamins@snet.net.
- Scarlett: The truth about my threesome - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentScarlett: The truth about my threesomeIrish Independent, Ireland - 4 minutes ago"There's a poetry in that scene. People are obsessed with discovering the secret of everything and uncovering the code. It's sad." From Lost in Translation ...
- Senior students opting out of mainstream English - Courier Mail
Senior students opting out of mainstream EnglishCourier Mail, Australia - 16 hours agoThey fear the English curriculum, with its emphasis on "deconstructing" texts and poetry, is creating a generation of students "burnt out" and capable of ...
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