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- Lesbian Activist Del Martin Dies at 87 - AOL
SAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 27) - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the ...
- Exhibitions at National Arts Festival - ArtslinkNews
Exhibitions at National Arts FestivalArtslinkNews, South Africa - 1 hour agoEach has drawn from her or his own linguistic memory bank Setswana, Xhosa and North American poetry are among the words that are entwined in the work. ...
- Wednesday's Agenda, July 9 - Miami Herald
Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. To submit items online, go to MiamiHerald.com, click on Calendar of Events and click Add ...
- Business in a bind - Mansfield News
Business in a bindMansfield News, MA - 4 hours agoBoland, who gives poetry readings from Dylan Thomas and William Butler Yeats, frets that growing numbers of non-readers are “enamored by their computers†...
- Nigeria: The Nollywood Revolution (AllAfrica.com)
The Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, was in 2005 having a pulsating match with the Zimbabwean national team in Harare, and the Zimbabwean supporters had one big banner in the stands on which was written in bold red: "Nigeria - Good only for Films!"
- I've had 30 lovers, Carla Bruni tells world - and it's music to Sarkozy's ears (Times Online)
Carla Bruni, the chanteuse wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, is to release a new album on which she sings of 30 past lovers and compares one of them to taking hard drugs. But rather than embarrass her husband, her work is likely to give him a boost.
- Whittier poetry reading set for Sunday - Abington Mariner
The Whittier Home Association and Tapestry of Voices present the 10th annual collaborative readings from the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier on Sunday, Aug. 10 from 3-4:30 p.m. Renowned poet Rhina P. Espaillat will be on hand to read a descriptive ...
- Mutual respect for the land - Cumberland News
Cumberland NewsMutual respect for the landCumberland News, UK - 14 minutes agoBrian later dabbled in some personal illustrations for his own poetry, which he is hoping to publish soon. The creative pair felt it was time to exhibit ...
- Also in Lifestyle - Herald.ie
Herald.ieAlso in LifestyleHerald.ie, Ireland - 2 hours agoStill, don't expect Kafka-like prose; likewise, references to the family are disappointingly kept to a minimum. It's a blandly-written chronicle of his ...
- Famed Authors to Participate in Eighth Annual National Book Festival (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The 2008 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, rain or shine, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 3rd and 7th streets.
- Never too late to paint - Morris County Daily Record
The painting wasn't finished. A still life of fruit baskets on a bureau with a scarf draped over the side, it had hung on Helen Kolanich's wall for two years, but it wasn't quite right. She took it down and brought it to her weekly art class at ...
- IN AND OUT - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphIN AND OUTCalcutta Telegraph, India - 5 minutes agoVikram Seth discovers that he has forgotten what had sparked off the composition of his hauntingly sad poem, “Soonâ€, written in the voice of a person dying ...
- Events for July 27, 2008 (Las Vegas Sun)
IMAX Theatre: Luxor's over-digitized 3D film theatre. at Luxor , 10 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. ($9.99 - $12)
- Sean Connery on being a Scot and Scotland's influence on Hollywood - Times Online
Times OnlineSean Connery on being a Scot and Scotland's influence on HollywoodTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoAnd as the film ends over shots of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Grierson concludes in his rolling prose: “Thousands are still asleep dreaming of ...
- Go fishin' with Dad (The York Weekly)
As Father's Day approaches this year, I find myself thinking of my own dad and his love of fishing. He was completely at home angling in the ocean, on lakes or in streams, and in the course of his life, he caught fishes, big ones like sailfish and tarpon...
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