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- Michael Swigart, ex-city manager, dead at age 63 (Desert Trail)
TWENTYNINE PALMS — Michael Swigart, who served the city of Twentynine Palms as city manager from 2002 to 2006, and who saw the city through some difficult financial times, has died.
- If you're living with AIDS, you are not alone An area agency is helping those who have it and educating those who don't (The Gainesville Times)
It was in the dark of winter in 1991 when a bright-eyed social worker gave Robin Hale the news that he had tested positive for HIV. The social worker told him to be wary of suicidal tendencies, to stay away from cat and bird feces and informed him that he could no longer eat raw seafood.
- Living through history - Winnipeg Sun
Living through historyWinnipeg Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoThere are vintage Chinese food stamps, and poetry recalling the era when camel caravans travelled the Silk Road. Tacked up at the stalls, ...
- Which poems best sum up teaching and academia? (Guardian Unlimited)
It's National Poetry Day and, while I don't usually hold much truck with "national days" that seem to pop up like molehills, this one is worthy of marking
- Feature: Mike Leigh and Happy Go Lucky - Artistdirect.com
Jean Genet once argued that poetry was not some divine, sensuous act, but rather that it was born "on Saturdays, when, to clean the rooms, housewives put the red velvet chairs, gilded mirrors, and mahogany tables outside, in the nearby meadow ...
- Perhaps Death Is Proud; More Reason to Savor Life - Dispatch
At my job, people die. Jeff Swensen for The New York Times ‘CONDITION A’ “I did the only thing I could do,†Theresa Brown said of trying to save a patient. That’s hardly our intention, but they die nonetheless. Usually it’s at the end of ...
- One Planet; Blood, Sweat, Tears and Poetry - Times Online
One Planet; Blood, Sweat, Tears and PoetryTimes Online, UK - 5 hours agoIn the last part of Animal Migration in a Climate of Change, Brett Westwood follows a group of tagged Greenland white-fronted geese as they travel from ...
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Launch.com
Few rock groups of the '80s broke down as many musical barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musical style by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show, to boot), the Chili ...
- Gotta fight for your right to party - Independent
Share It's been a tough week for the men of our household. Small boy started a new school last Thursday. It was the first time he had to wear a uniform and sit in a classroom without the comforting presence of his big sister. He was not impressed "My ...
- Books: "Capitol Men" (The New Yorker)
During Reconstruction, sixteen black men served as congressmen. They have been scorned as bumbling, corrupt, or ineffectual--former field hands in shiny suits--and even the growing recognition, in recent years, of the shamefulness of the North’s abandonment of Reconstruction has not entirely effaced that caricature. Dray’s book should do . . .
- The Verve - Forth - RTE.ie
The Verve - ForthRTE.ie, Ireland - 51 minutes agoLyrically it also finds Ashcroft returning to the well of William Blake's poetry. On 1995 single 'History' he based the lyrics on the opening verses to ...
- A scary time - Goulburn Post
A scary timeGoulburn Post, Australia - 2 hours agoI still have books of poetry by Longfellow, Keats and Shelley that survived the war in that hiding place and were resurrected after the war. ...
- WHOis: Hiawatha Bailey - MLive.com
Leisa Thompson | The Ann Arbor News Hiawatha Bailey, 60, has been rockin' as the frontman of the legendary The Cult Heroes for 30 years. Claim to Fame: Bailey is the lead singer of the Cult Heroes, an Ann Arbor-based rock and roll band formed in 1978 ...
- Honor Roll: Recognizing the accomplishments of Western New Yorkers - TMCnet
Honor Roll: Recognizing the accomplishments of Western New YorkersTMCnet - 1 hour agoFredonia State College English professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil has won the Pushcart Prize and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her poem "Love in the Orangery" won ...
- Glass artists plan a friendly contest (The Toledo Blade)
A Tumbler Party will include a glassblowing competition featuring local artists from 7 to 10 p.m. tomorrow in Firenation Glass Studio and Gallery, 7166 Front St., Holland. Information: 419-866-6288 and dan@firenation.com. • The Art of Framing features some of the intriguing work done over the last 19 years by the staff of Inside Angles, 909 South McCord Rd., Holland. Customers were invited ...
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