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- High school students get taste of college life - Kane County Chronicle
AURORA – Waubonsie Valley student Brea Sims didn’t know what to expect as she gingerly touched the liver of the dissected fetal pig. “It feels so fake,” Sims said. Sims was among 24 students from several high schools, including Waubonsie ...
- The Art of Assimilation - Brooklyn Rail
The Art of AssimilationBrooklyn Rail, NY - 14 minutes ago“Everywhere I went, I had a knapsack full of texts—philosophy, Jewish texts, poetry, fiction,” Seidman explains, which he began terming “my traveling ...
- Column: Back to Beirut (The Daily Review)
My heart started thumping when my parents told us we were going to Lebanon. They were beaming with excitement — my dad hasn't gone back to his homeland in nearly 20 years and it has been 14 years since my mom and I went there.
- ‘The History Boys’ is a smartly staged production at the Calderwood - Enterprise News
‘The History Boys’ is a smartly staged production at the CalderwoodEnterprise News, MA - 6 hours agoColonna is outrageous but never foolish as he imbues his students with the love of WH Auden’s poetry, as well as the music hall songs of Gracie Fields, ...
- Ron Sexsmith: Exit Strategy of the Soul (Toronto Star)
Despite the weighty matter Ron Sexsmith deals with on his 11th – and arguably his best – album, no one will walk away from it bereft or downhearted.
- St. Charles author pens sports book - The Courier News
St. Charles author pens sports bookThe Courier News, IL - 11 minutes agoWorks from the previous year are judged in categories of adult fiction, nonfiction, biography and poetry, and children's fiction and nonfiction. ...
- Massive theater event, and it's all free! - Examiner.com
Examiner.comMassive theater event, and it's all free!Examiner.com - 2 hours ago... absurd theater, inter-species love. relationships, conservation, jug band, folk tales, poetry, Asian identity, God & man, magic, illusion, clowning. ...
- Ciara McKnight - a photographer who lets the horses tell their stories (Orangeville Citizen)
Ciara McKnight thinks, breathes, lives for and takes pictures of horses. By her own reckoning, she started riding rather late in life, compared, as she says, to the other riders at the stables: she started riding at the age of 10.
- Just Plain Neighbors: Wendell Center World War II memorial gets ... - Recorder
There's a new look on the wide common in Wendell Center. It all happened on Memorial Day this year. According to Anna-Jean Marsh, there are four monuments in a semi-circle -- two for World War I and World War II veterans -- that were moved from a ...
- Their Bad War, &c. - Article.nationalreview.com
T here came a time when liberal Democrats decided Afghanistan was the Good War and Iraq was the Bad War. This was about the time the Afghan effort appeared successful and the Iraq effort not. So the big word became “distraction”: The Afghan War ...
- First-time novelist finds 'Salvation' - Island Packet Online
"My daddy always said that if the good Lord can take the time to care for something as small as a baby sparrow nesting in a tree, then surely He could take the time to listen to a little girl in Ringgold, Ga. So every night before I went to bed, I ...
- From poetry assignment to national finalist West Valley sophomore BreAnna Jones just wanted to get a good grade; she ... (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Sitting in the computer lab last winter, 16-year-old BreAnna Jones, a sophomore at West Valley High School, indifferently searched through hundreds of poems -- from William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" to Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Recuerdo."
- Headline Not Found (The Times-News)
The Rev. Leo Booth will be the featured speaker for a lecture and workshop to celebrate hope, healing and health in recovery today in the Continental Room in the convention center at the Sun Valley Inn.
- Lord Renton: 'The best epitaph he could have had' - Daily Telegraph
Playing cricket until he was 66, hunting at 75, riding at 82, on the grouse moors - with a replacement heart valve - at 91, driving till he was 96. The ever-cheerful late Lord Renton The late Lord Renton, the ever-cheerful and longest-serving ...
- Karns City High School Senior Dies In Crash (KDKA Pittsburgh)
A high school student who was killed in a car crash only about a week before graduation is being remembered. Friends, family and classmates are mourning the death of 18-year-old Alia Hackbarth of Chicora.
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