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- Nude sculpture wins religious prize - Sydney Morning Herald
A provocative unravelling of an ancient Hindu goddess has won this year's Blake Prize - the first sculpture to take the top gong for religious art in the award's 57-year history. David Tucker's work, A Local Girl Comes Home , was awarded the prize ...
- 'Bottle Shock' is diluted and flat - Baltimore Sun
In a 1976 event that became known as "The Judgment of Paris," California wines beat French ones in a blind taste test. Bottle Shock wastes that intriguing bit of history and some seductive Napa Valley settings on a bland script that's part period ...
- Mas-salam Darwish : "History laughs at both victim and aggressor" (Malta Star)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. A hospital spokeswoman in Houston said the 67-year-old poet died after an operation but did not specify the exact cause.
- Review interview: Richard Dawkins - Times Online
Times OnlineReview interview: Richard DawkinsTimes Online, UK - 6 hours ago“Well, we devote our lives to writing books, composing music, creating poetry – all higher functions of the brain. If we were following Darwinian dictates, ...
- Taut african tale - Vancouver Sun
Taut african taleVancouver Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoHis brother has lent him the cabin in which to write poetry. Canning's wife, Baby, becomes his lover and muse. Canning, who was shunned by his father after ...He's 'soul of the country' The Gazette (Montreal)all 2 news articles
- Kutztown University professor named Berks poet laureate - Reading Eagle
Kutztown University professor named Berks poet laureateReading Eagle, PA - 5 minutes agoThe announcement was made at the opening ceremony of poetry readings for the monthlong Reading Reads: The Greater Reading Literary Festival at Reading Area ...
- Media Diary (Guardian Unlimited)
Davies in line to net new job | Sun raises eyebrows | A bit of a boob | What are the odds? | On the couch | Did I mention the advert? | TV loses its fizz
- We need more Sacred Defense books: official - Tehran Times
We need more Sacred Defense books: officialTehran Times, Iran - Sep 27, 2008Hossein Nasrollah Zanjani gave a briefing on the department’s activities in a ceremony reviewing books and poetry on Sacred Defense (1980-1988 Iran-Iraq ...
- Book reviews: '187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border' and 'Half of the World in Light' (International Herald Tribune)
Most of Juan Felipe Herrera's many books evoke at once the hardships that Mexican-Americans have undergone and the exhilarating space for self-reinvention that a New World art offers.
- Ben Okri on why teenagers are poets - Daily Telegraph
As the closing date of the Sunday Telegraph Poetry for Performance competition approaches, Booker-winning author Ben Okri explains why young people should put pen to paper. As a child, Ben Okri wrote more than a hundred poems There’s something ...
- Author Sir John recovers after ‘near death experience’ - Henley Standard
Author Sir John recovers after ‘near death experience’Henley Standard, UK - 1 hour agoNew this year is a festival café above the tourist information centre, free children’s events in Lovibonds and Greys Road car park tomorrow and free poetry ...
- Garrison Keillor wants ‘just enough success to keep working’ - Enterprise News
Garrison Keillor wants ‘just enough success to keep working’Enterprise News, MA - 2 hours agoI know you’re writing all the time, from poetry to columns, but do you have your next book project in the works? GK: I’ve started a new novel called ...
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Pervez Musharraf dominated Pakistan after taking power in a high-altitude coup nearly nine years ago and led a reluctant Islamic nation into the U.S.-led war on terror _ a step that earned him plaudits in the West but hatred at home.
- Columbia Festival of the Arts showcases Columbia's most creative (Maneater)
Visual and performing arts all had a place at the Columbia Festival of the Arts.
- Central students gets personal in 'Portrait' (The Doings Weekly)
To read poems is one thing. To bring them to life on stage is something else entirely.
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