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- Raw: Draft goes Smackdown's way (Slam! Sports)
It’s that time of the year, again, the WWE Draft, although if the brand split was dissolved, we could avoid all this. Oh, and Vince is still giving money away, this time from San Antonio, Texas. All three announce teams are at ringside for this three hour event.
- Jamming around the world - Corvallis Gazette Times
Jamming around the worldCorvallis Gazette Times, OR - 2 hours agoOn Sunday, the action will move to the Central Park Stage with the da Vinci Poetry Slam. But every day will also feature a variety of entertainment, ...
- The voice of Bengal - The Daily Star
The Daily StarThe voice of BengalThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 2 hours agoHe read the Bengali poets at an early age and began writing poetry himself by the age of eight. Tagore did have a brief spell at the St Xavier's Jesuit ...
- German Scholars Reject Claim of Goethe's Secret Romance - Deutsche Welle
Allegations of a secret love affair between a dowager duchess and Germany's greatest writer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, have been hotly rejected this week by German literary scholars. The claims were advanced in a 2003 book by literary sleuth Ettore ...
- Mysteries (Washington Post)
There's a lot of foreboding in Thomas H. Cook's new novel. Some afterboding, too: Parts of the story are told in flashbacks.
- So how many ways to love an MP? One backbencher's raunchy Shakespeare sonnets cause a stir (Daily Mail: World News)
Watching Gordon Brown's ratings tumble ever lower is enough to depress any Labour MP. But veteran backbencher Harry Cohen has found a novel way to restore his spirits: penning raunchy poetry.
- Street Scene, Young Vic, London (Independent)
Kurt Weill called Street Scene "a Broadway opera", but there aren't too many operas with a wild jitterbug that segues into a slutty blues or a children's chorus who chant, "My father's name is Rockefeller./He shovels diamonds in the cellar." Into his 1947 musical version of Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Weill emptied a cornucopia of influences – Wagner, Puccini, folk song, jazz, operetta, and his ...
- Actress Alanna Ubach makes her N.Y. debut in 'Patriotic Bitch' - New York Daily News
Alanna Ubach stars in the one-woman show “Patriotic Bitch.†Glen Wexler Studio The show's promo poster. Alanna Ubach found inspiration for Yolanda RodrÃguez , the narrator of her ongoing one-woman show, “Patriotic Bitch,†in an interaction ...
- Dulcimer Orchestra hammers away in the mountains; plays at the YMCA August 1 (Estes Park Trail Gazette)
Bonnie Carol is a flowered child of the 1960s. You can see it in the bloom of her dress, feel it sprout in her spirit, hear it released in her spirited music.
- A musical masterpiece - Newark Star-Ledger
A pipe organ is like a living creature; its bellows are "lungs" that breathe with each performance. If the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium organ -- one of the nation's largest -- were to celebrate its long life with a birthday cake this week, it would ...
- Teens to get new space at club (Berkshire Eagle)
PITTSFIELD — Back to the future. The Boys and Girls Club of Pittsfield will use part of a recent $13.9 million gift to revitalize a dance hall-like room known as The Lighthouse, once considered "the place to be" for area teens.
- 2008 'Florida Book Awards' competition begins with call for entries - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
2008 'Florida Book Awards' competition begins with call for entriesSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 1 hour agoThe contest categories include General Fiction, Young Adult Literature, Children’s Literature, Florida Nonfiction, Poetry, Popular Fiction, Spanish-Language ...
- Revealing the Wonder in the Why (New York Times)
To the Editor:.
- Short takes: 'Heaven' is a study of life on Earth - San Jose Mercury News
Short takes: 'Heaven' is a study of life on EarthSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 1 hour ago... violence) but engages them so honestly, with such sophistication, that what in "Babel" was a fuzzy-headed tract becomes sheer poetry. ...
- H. Brandt Ayers: How was your Fourth? - Anniston Star (subscription)
H. Brandt Ayers: How was your Fourth?Anniston Star (subscription), AL - 1 hour agoAs good as that match was, the Nadal-Federer contest of muscle and speed versus poetry and grace was a classic of such beauty that it brought tears to the ...
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