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- Technologicology: The IgnitePhilly Highlight Reel - Philebrity.com
I knew good things were in store for IgnitePhilly when I went to Johnny Brenda’s last week and had trouble finding a parking spot—for my bike. Inside, as bartenders poured drafts in a seemingly endless conveyor of what-will-be-drunkenness ...
- Writing Workshop - The Coast.ca
Writing WorkshopThe Coast.ca, Canada - 22 minutes agoMs. Wesley is the author of To My Someday Child (1975), the first book of poetry published by a Black poet in Nova Scotia. ...
- Activist Del Martin Remembered At SF City Hall (KRXI-TV Reno)
The life of human rights pioneer Del Martin was richly eulogized Wednesday at a ceremony in San Francisco that filled the main floor and each tier of City Hall's Rotunda with invited guests, politicians, officers in fancy dress and well-wishers wiping away tears.
- Scholars reject allegations of Goethe love affair - China Post
Scholars reject allegations of Goethe love affairChina Post, Taiwan - 8 hours agoAll German children are obliged to learn some Goethe poetry at school and Germans are taught that Goethe had a long platonic love affair with Charlotte von ...
- Aug 10 - Aug 16 (257) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Mr. Churchill is one of the diminishing number of those who genuinely believe in a specific world order: the desire to give it life and strength is the most powerful single influence upon everything which he thinks and imagines, does and is. When ...
- Just Asking . . . Rose Tremain - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalJust Asking . . . Rose TremainWall Street Journal - 3 hours agoI did start writing as a child, doing picture stories. Then I progressed to hysterically bad poetry. Many contemporary critics sneer at the idea of ...
- Mourning and Melancholia: Pierre Michon's 'Small Lives' - New York Sun
From an Anglo-American viewpoint, where translations from France are predominated first by Michel Houellebecq, anti-saint, and second by a nimbus of metaphysical detective novels, Pierre Michon at first appears to be a delicious throwback, writing ...
- Slain daughter lives on in text messages to mother - New York Daily News
New York Daily NewsSlain daughter lives on in text messages to motherNew York Daily News, NY - 16 minutes agoLast month, Tumi's family gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, to celebrate what would have been her 21st birthday. It was a muted affair, punctuated by ...
- Obituary: Ronnie Drew - lead singer of the Dubliners - Belfast Telegraph
With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the Dubliners, whose charismatic stage presence and ...
- No Name Poetry finds niche in Lincoln (Daily Nebraskan)
The No Name Reading Series kicked into gear last Friday at Sur Tango, in downtown Lincoln. The bimonthly event will be back next Friday and every other Friday after that. The poets are not as anonymous as their name suggests, but are in fact young literary Ph.
- A belated celebration of poetry (Berkshire Eagle)
The first-ever Massachusetts Poetry Festival is taking place in a couple of weeks. You might be saying to yourself, "What do I care? I'm not a poet." I am probably biased, but I think everyone should care about poetry.
- African-American series character is a role model for black girls - Miami Herald
KANSAS CITY, Mo. In his mind, Derrick Barnes is already casting the film version of his new children's books. Will Smith's daughter, Willow, currently appearing in "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," would play the lead, Ruby Marigold Booker. (But ...
- Save the date: Social activities abound - Lincoln Journal Star
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Nebraska Wesleyan University offer a variety of activities throughout the school year — some are free, some are fundraisers and many involve food. Here’s a look at some already set for the year. Nebraska ...
- Belleville: A corner of Paris that was Edith Piaf's home - Jakarta Post
PIAF PIAF:: A sculpture of singer Edith Piaf is seen on the Edith Piaf place in Paris on Aug. 25.( AP/Jacques Brinon ) Tourists looking for old Paris charm and a taste of "La Vie en Rose" should head to Belleville, a largely overlooked part of the ...
- Sunday, July 20, 2008 (Times of Malta)
Church has lost control over feast celebrations (1) - Joseph M. Calleja, San Ġwann It was not the anger present in the words of Vince Azzopardi, president of Għaqda Melita Banda San Ġużepp, that shocked me, but the arrogant...
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