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- Wow: We live in Music City, USA (Orlando Sentinel)
Have you heard? Orlando will be the fourth city in an international list of major music cities to become a "Gibson GuitarTown." Yes, Orlando is a major music city! Remember all the "boy bands," matchbox twenty, Creed? They all originated here, or their recording/management/production companies are based in Orlando. Music is still a huge business here. This community project unites celebrities ...
- Jane's poetry wins prize - Linlithgow Journal & Gazette
Jane's poetry wins prizeLinlithgow Journal & Gazette, UK - 56 minutes agoJane McKie's collection of poetry, Morocco Rococo, published by Cinnamon Press in 2007, won the first book category in the Sundial Scottish Arts Council ...
- Flush with opportunity, bathroom bards perform - Business Gazette
Flush with opportunity, bathroom bards performBusiness Gazette, MD - 1 hour agoIt was a bizarre setting for a poetry reading, an art form usually associated with a sophisticated night club or poetry slam, but for Bathroom Poetry ...
- Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington.
- Community Briefs - BlueRidgeNow.com
Community BriefsBlueRidgeNow.com, NC - 1 hour agoAt 10 am, John Akers will be playing classical guitar reciting Sandburg's poetry. At 11 am, Jon Shain, a traveling professional musician, graces the stage ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search - Seattle Times
Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is sure to be ...
- Poetry column: Being first is all it's cracked up to be - Evening Sun
Little did I anticipate when I accepted an invitation by Janet Lohr to read and talk about my poetry to the Poet's Corner at Cross Keys Village this past Monday that the evening would include several "firsts." This was the first time in my tenure to ...
- Column: ‘Absurd blurbs’ offer hope to hopeless - U-Wire.com
The beginnings of almost any lifetime passion are defined by the confidence it offers you as a child. The kids in my neighborhood couldn’t afford a real musical instrument, let alone lessons. The local schools touted paltry art budgets that had us ...
- Sekolah Sinaran Mas holds poetry competition - Borneo Bulletin
Borneo BulletinSekolah Sinaran Mas holds poetry competitionBorneo Bulletin, Brunei Darussalam - 2 hours agoBy RDN Sekolah Sinaran Mas recently held a poetry competition, which was one of the annual activities organised by the school. The winner in the Primary Two ...
- Don't overlook 'Readings Over Coffee' - Packet Online
I’d like to remind everyone of a wonderful monthly event at the Princeton Public Library. For many years, I have been attending “Readings over Coffee†at which a variety of readers and performers entertain the audience with stories, essays ...
- Polling, and how people pick their party - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Today's poll story showing Barack Obama with a 12-point lead over John McCain drew almost as much reaction from readers for what it had to say about voters' party affiliation as for what it said about the candidates' popularity. The questions ...
- Latitude set for 25000 sell-out - Ipswich Evening Star
Latitude set for 25000 sell-outIpswich Evening Star, UK - 2 hours agoHeld at Henham Park on July 17 to 20, the festival is headlined this year by Franz Ferdinand and includes comedy, poetry, theatre and bands. ...
- Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers to Simultaneously Publish Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton Picture ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
On September 2, 2008, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers will simultaneously publish inspirational picture book biographies of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The exceptional accomplishments of these larger-than-life politicians will be highlighted in their individual illustrated biographies: Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Bryan ...
- Local writer releases book and hosts poetry night - Islands Weekly
Local writer releases book and hosts poetry nightIslands Weekly, WA - 3 hours agoBut after publishing his work in a broad spectrum of literary magazines, online publications, and winning the Jack Straw award, Sangster has published a new ...
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