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- Khalifa calls for better govt-public interaction - Khaleej Times
LIWA — The President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, yesterday called for increased engagement and interaction between government institutions and citizens. He was addressing a group of citizens on the third day of his tour of the ...
- Life's still a riot - Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER -- It has been 25 years since Billy Bragg topped the British indie chart with his debut mini-LP Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy - an album that included the classic A New England . He was an angry young man, schooled in the Clash. By the time ...
- Fourth of July: Annual festival celebrates heritage - Journal-Advocate
Fourth of July: Annual festival celebrates heritageJournal-Advocate, CO - 1 hour agoDennis has been a guest cowboy poet at the museum many times in the past and is loved for his poetry, which captures the thrill of cattle chases, ...
- Tradition flavors cuisine of La Rioja - MiamiHerald.com
Tradition flavors cuisine of La RiojaMiamiHerald.com, FL - 37 minutes agoNear San Millán is the birthplace of the monk Gonzalo de Berceo, who wrote what is believed to be the first devotional poetry in Castilian. ...
- Storybook career path - Hampton Roads Daily Press
R ebecca Kramer's bedtime story sessions with son Byron, now 10, launched her first children's book, one she wrote and illustrated. After reading a book together, Byron always wanted her to tell him a story — a simple kid trick to stay up later ...
- Cold snack tasty enough for poetry judges (Otago Daily Times)
The announcement was made today, Montana Poetry Day -- a nationwide celebration of events featuring some of the country's best and emerging poets. There were 26 books submitted in the poetry category of this year's awards up from 19 in 2007.
- Poetry saved man from drugs (Nanaimo Daily News)
Poetry is Daniel Rajala's therapy. The 53-year-old artist, who once lived in sleazy Vancouver hotels, selling his paintings to feed a cocaine habit, now keeps his addiction at bay by writing poetry.
- Obasanjo, Soyinka, Ulli Beier, Trade Words - Nigeria Guardian
C ONTROVERSY over the siting of the proposed UNESCO institute in Nigeria persists, with renowned arts archivist, editor, writer and scholar, Ulli Beier refusing attempts to locate his art collections anywhere else except Osogbo, where he lived and ...
- Pop and Rock Listings - New York Times
Pop and Rock ListingsNew York Times, United States - Jun 12, 2008With Kid Sister and Born Ruffians. Andrew WK will host. At 4 pm, Central Park SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street, (212) 360-2777, ...
- Coming Up (Mountain View Telegraph)
Mountain View Telegraph Events Celebrate Thorp Centennial The Williams Family Memorial Library is sponsoring the Jack Thorp Centennial June 20, 21 and 22 at the fairgrounds in Estancia to celebrate Thorp's “Songs of the Cowboys” published in Estancia in 1908.
- Literary Collaborations - Twin Cities Planet
Literary CollaborationsTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 1 hour agoIn addition, she is working with emerging prose and poetry writers as a mentor in The Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series. Erdrich read from her essay in ...
- DSS 2008 Signature Events begin with World of Stories - Al-Bawaba
DSS 2008 Signature Events begin with World of StoriesAl-Bawaba, Jordan - 18 hours agoAudiences of all ages can enjoy hilarious adaptations of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, with two shows organised daily between 5:30pm and ...
- Salman Rushdie: Knight of the Tall Tale (The New York Sun)
'The Enchantress of Florence" (Random House, 368 pages, $26) is a "Harry Potter"-ish restoration project of great intelligence and remarkable egoism, both of which are characteristic of its author. Although he sets his novel in the Florence of the Medicis and Machiavelli, in the Mughal court of Akbar the Great, and at the height of the Ottoman Empire, Salman Rushdie hasn't written just any ...
- Saleemi’s Irtafah launched - The Post
Saleemi’s Irtafah launchedThe Post, Pakistan - 3 hours agoSaleemi is among the most respectful poets of the '90s in Urdu poetry. Famous poet and critic Aftab Iqbal Shameem said this presiding over the launch of ...
- Political clash in Nandigram (Calcutta News)
Some houses were ransacked and a few rounds of firing took place in a political clash at Nandigram in West Bengal Sunday evening.
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