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- Young Mugabe: The making of a despot - The Independent
Abandoned by his father, raised by his fanatically religious mother, and devastated by the death of his adored elder brother, Robert Mugabe's childhood left him lonely, bitter – and ruthless. Through a series of exclusive interviews with the ...
- Small Black Stilt coffee house survives big competition (Victoria Times Colonist)
He started a coffee house in the shadows of Starbucks and Tim Hortons nearly three years ago across from Hillside Centre, but Dave Crothall has emerged with nary a scratch.
- Best of Dallas Video Festival - Houston Press
The Best of Dallas Video Festival includes a wide mix of genres. Ranging from experimental film to documentaries to animation, the collection highlights the top films of the festival’s 20th year. Lewis Khlar’s animated Pony Glass is a portrait of ...
- Book Review: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (New Edition from ... - Blogcritics.org
Book Review: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (New Edition from ...Blogcritics.org, OH - 37 minutes agoThis book would be a good gift for any lover of poetry or Shakespeare. Even for someone who already has the Sonnets, either by themselves or in a Complete ...
- All Events for 22 May 2008 (My Village Balham)
Until 22 May 2008 Two strangers wake up together and discover they've married following a night of debauchery in Sin City. One of the newly married couple has won a huge jackpot after playing the other's quarter. The...
- Rhythm in His Hips, Technology on His Mind (New York Times)
Gilberto Gil?s set at the Nokia Theater on Tuesday was a deep fusion of pop and folk culture: he used lots of variations on samba and baião, two root elements of Brazilian popular music.
- A Welcome Retreat From Summer Excess (The New York Sun)
When summer gets to be too much work — battling traffic in the Hamptons, entertaining or being a houseguest, dealing with gardeners, cooks, and repairmen — it's a good time to book a few days at the Mayflower Spa in quiet Washington Depot, Conn. The destination spa, located on the grounds of the Mayflower Inn, offers the best of summer with none of the hassle. It operates year-round, but when ...
- Editorial: Try for this kind of verse - Albany Democrat-Herald
With rare exceptions we don’t run poetry in the letters column or anywhere else in the paper. But for the entertainment value alone, maybe we should. I have been thinking about this since Paul Pritchard of Albany handed me a folder last month at ...
- Who said, 'God grant me the serenity'? - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Who said, 'God grant me the serenity'?Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Jul 13, 2008Some of them refer to the prayer as if it were a proverb, while others appear to claim it as their own poetry. None of them attribute the prayer to a ...
- Valley Life by Penny Warner - Contra Costa Times
PLAY BALL! When I was a kid, I loved to play basketball. I was tall, so I was pretty good at it. I often beat the boy I had a crush on — Charles Morris — which my mother told me not to do. Back then, we girls were supposed to lose when we played ...
- Beware of ‘limiting beliefs,’ Tunxis grads told (The Bristol Press)
FARMINGTON — Among the more than 300 graduates of Tunxis Community College Sunday was a young Russian immigrant, who had many family members there to cheer him on.
- Overreacting to a Computer Beating Poker Pros - New York Times Blogs
Newspapers trumpeted a landmark event last week: a computer program beating professional poker players head-to-head at Limit Hold-Em. Parallels have been drawn to Big Blue ’s victory over Gary Kasparov roughly a decade ago. Those parallels are not ...
- Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection - Movie City News
Movie City NewsIndiana Jones: The Adventure CollectionMovie City News, CA - 47 minutes agoIn a 60 Minutes interview, he told Ed Bradley that he had no idea how the streams of poetry and torrents of transcendent imagery came to him in his ...
- Orkney’s St Magnus Festival: Sound of the summer (Independent)
Residents of Orkney do a good line in self-deprecation. When asked to pinpoint their island home, the traditional response appears to be: "The bit under the big black cloud on the BBC weather map." What they don't mention is that when the sun shines – and it does, frequently – this beautiful archipelago off the north coast of Scotland is a glorious place to visit. After all, if it were so ...
- Birders look forward to annual Shorebird Festival favorites (Homer News)
[If it's bird related or has something to do with shorebirds, at this weekend's 16th Annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival you can expect to find plenty to do. Celebrate birds in poetry and song with "On the Wing," a performance by various musicians and poets at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bunnell Street Gallery. Shop for carved birds, bird shirts, bird hats and bird everything from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ...
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