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- Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guests - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. -- At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- Bill would allow mixed martial arts contests in SC - Myrtle Beach Online
South Carolina could join its neighbors in allowing mixed martial arts contests under legislation up for discussion next week by a Senate panel. Proponents say the increasingly popular combative sport, which combines elements of karate, judo, jujitsu ...
- Britain's Got Talent star Andrew Muir vows to win it for ill cousin - Glasgow Sunday Mail
BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Andrew Muir shares a tender, heartbreaking moment with his six-year-old cousin Lori, who is dying of cancer. Last night, Scots plumber Andrew, 24, earned a standing ovation for his performance of Paolo Nutini's Rewind. But ...
- Could Violence Slow Geneva's Momentum (R News)
The City of Geneva recently picked up more than $40-million in state funds to live up to its name, “Gateway to the Finger Lakes.” But some longtime residents worry a recent violent streak could slow the city's momentum.
- Fun for everyone - Ontario Argus Observer
Fun for everyoneOntario Argus Observer, OR - 4 minutes agoLooselip’s performance was one of “organized bs,” as he calls cowboy poetry. After all, “the way to write a sonnet is to lay some bs on it,” he told the ...
- Wisconsin Bookstore Appearances by Author Laura Chester Will Attract Mothers and Daughters Who Love Horses (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wisconsin bookstores will host writer and editor Laura Chester for readings and signings in July to celebrate the publication of her new children's fantasy novel, Marvel the Marvelous.
- Face Time Jonathan James - SunJournal.com (subscription)
Face Time Jonathan JamesSunJournal.com (subscription), ME - 3 hours agoI wrote poetry until a few years ago. I create my own absurd commercials that I post via YouTube and MySpace, and do the video editing on them myself. ...
- Sculpture of poet Al Purdy ready after six-year delay - CBC News
Al Purdy near his home in B.C. The poet died in 2000. A sculpture of Al Purdy, often referred to as Canada's greatest poet, is finally ready and will be unveiled Tuesday at Queen's Park in Toronto, just steps from the Ontario Legislature. Purdy, who ...
- On the march - Journal Inquirer
Andover’s Memorial Day parade and service will be held Monday, May 26. The parade starts at 8:45 a.m. at Andover Elementary School on School Road. It follows School Road to Hebron Road (Route 316), to Memorial Park (Route 66), and Center Cemetery ...
- Boardwalk - June 3, 2008 - Tonight
Boardwalk - June 3, 2008Tonight, South Africa - 3 hours agoCelebrates Cape Town through poetry, song and dance.Tel: 083-270-5592. Odidiva runs at Friendly Society, Greenpoint, every Saturday night. ...
- The Brother Unconnected: A Tribute to Sun City Girls (Phoenix New Times)
For many, punk rock was/is an end in itself, an opportunity to rock fast 'n' loud and/or dress up funny. For others, punk was a door to limitless cultural possibilities, a way of denying obstacles to artistic expression. The UK's Pop Group and the Raincoats embraced, to varying degrees, the avant-ga ...
- Love is a battlefield - Time Out New York
Time Out New YorkLove is a battlefieldTime Out New York, NY - 58 minutes agoEnsiferum draws inspiration from Finland’s epic poetry and mythology, while Turisas dug deep to make 2007’s The Varangian Way, a wildly imaginative concept ...
- REM's Peter Buck talks about the passion - and - San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay GuardianREM's Peter Buck talks about the passion - andSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 25 minutes agoHis translation of Rumi is the biggest-selling poetry book in the history of the United States. What else? Me and Scott McCoy and Steve Wynn made a ...
- Niyaz Music: Nine Heavens to be released on 6.24.2008 (Payvand Iran News)
"Arise and prepare to rejoice. Let the wine take root in our cups as would a flower in the soil. Let us become intoxicated with bliss. For till when shall we dwell in sadness? Those drunk with love. Will break this unending wheel of sorrow. For the treasures of the beloved belong to those celebrating with us."
- Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' (International Herald Tribune)
Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' is a formidable consideration of the British landscape, by a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence — poetry, really — with the breathless ease of a master angler, a writer whose ideas and reach far transcend the physical region he explores.
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