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- Senior college sweethearts (Bar Harbor Times)
MOUNT DESERT — Jim Clunan steps down as president of Acadia Senior College this week.
- Restaurant Row: New York chef adds flair to East Fourth Street dining - Cleveland Plain Dealer
By any measure, the buzz around downtown's East Fourth Street is upbeat. Stroll down the pedestrian corridor, where guests fill gated seating areas up and down the street, and the enthusiasm is understandable. Its voltage is about to jump, with the ...
- Law excels in bringing political system to kids (Galveston County Daily News)
Janice Law's book introduces our country’s political system and little-known facts to middle school-age children.
- Denver's homeless play inspiring role - Rocky Mountain News
Cast members in Curious Theatre Company's The Denver Project dress like people on Denver's streets. A young woman who goes by "Angel" was telling her story to Steve Sapp. She'd been a teenage prostitute and drug user, clean for one year and now ...
- Robarchek again at the forefront (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
By Matt Brunson.• The scribblings of longtime (and now retired) Charlotte Observer columnist -- and frequent Best of Charlotte CL award winner -- Doug Robarchek can be found in The Best of the World's Worst Poetry: 20 Very Odd Years of Outfrontery. The paperback, published by the local outfit Main Street Rag, is available for $14. For a sample poem from the book, see Quote This, below right....
- DVD: HBO's 'John Adams' brings a patriot's story to life - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"John Adams," a seven-part HBO mini-series, arrives Tuesday on DVD, starring Paul Giamatti as the second U.S. president and Laura Linney as his wife, Abigail. The stirring program offers a history lesson with a heavy dose of realism. It pulls our ...
- How the Richard & Judy Book Club has shaken publishing - Times Online
How the Richard & Judy Book Club has shaken publishingTimes Online, UK - 46 minutes agoShe admits she doesn’t really get on with poetry; language for the sake of it is not to her taste. Above all, she likes stories. The club chooses its Best ...
- Highest-ranking Shriner visits area (Pensacola News Journal)
Hadji Shrine welcomed Imperial Sir Douglas E. Maxwell to Pensacola last weekend. During the 2008 Imperial Council Session June 29 through July 3 in St. Louis, Maxwell, of Chesterfield, Mo., was elected the Imperial Potentate of the Shrine International, making him the highest-ranking Shriner in the world.
- Film Review: ‘Mongol’ brims with blood, but gets to the heart of ... - U-Wire.com
Is there hope for Kazakhstani cinema after “Borat?" Ever since the release of Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical sensation, any mention of the words “Kazakhstan†and “movie†in the same breath inevitably conjures up images of the eponymous ...
- Rabih Alameddine's 'The Hakawati' (International Herald Tribune)
If any work of fiction might be powerful enough to transcend the mountain of polemic, historical inquiry, policy analysis and reportage that stands between the Western reader and the Arab soul, it's this wonder of a book.
- Fort Bragg - Mendocino Calendar of Events (Mendocino Beacon)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha'Shoah) commemoration, 7 p.m., Caspar shul, 15071 Caspar Road. - Advisory Council for the Area Agency on Aging meeting, 2 to 4 p.m., county Dept. of Social Services, Big Sur Conference Room, 747 S. State St., Ukiah. 467-5868 or 463-7775.
- Juan Luis Guerra, now in a book - Dominican Today
Juan Luis Guerra, now in a bookDominican Today, Dominican Republic - 2 hours agoThe book "Juan Luis Guerra and 4-40: Merengue and Bachata to the rhythm of poetry and commitment" was introduced in a ceremony on Wednesday that brought ...
- EURO 2008: Croatia's Slaven Bilic is an out-of-the-ordinary soccer ... - International Herald Tribune
The 39-year-old Croatian has a law degree, writes poetry, is a lead singer and plays guitar in a rock band, and wears a silver earring. But his next, and possibly greatest, challenge will be trying to live up to expectations set for Croatia at this ...
- Auerbach’s lyrics disciplined; Rader’s Living Things thrives - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Auerbach’s lyrics disciplined; Rader’s Living Things thrivesTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 11 hours agoJOSHUA AUERBACH is the editor of Vallum, a Montreal-based poetry magazine for which I serve as an honorary patron. Having admitted that personal tie, ...
- Dog-inspired tale wins book prize - Age
WHEN Michelle de Kretser's dog went missing in the Gippsland bush for 13 days a few years ago, she didn't see the trauma as potential material for fiction. "Then, as time recedes, I guess you start to see a fictional shape to it." Last night the ...
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