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- Recent movie releases - Detroit Free Press
Nicolas Cage plays a hit man in Bangkok who is in town to do four hits, get paid and vanish. Then something makes him discover his conscience, and he begins dating a deaf pharmacist (Charlie Young). Cage manages some nice moments with Young, but in ...
- Mortensen delves into cowboy mentality - Saskatoon Star Phoenix
TORONTO - Just how fearless is Viggo Mortensen? Forget his naked fight scene in the movie Eastern Promises. The man is wearing a Habs T-shirt in the middle of Leaf Nation. "Yeah. I've been booed on the street," says the man with the now-famous ...
- A deluge of haiku in our political poetry contest (Inside Bay Area)
"Dirt, slime, mud and muck. National election time. Everybody duck." Hundreds of haiku pour in from politically-inspired poets and readers.
- Club reports September 19 - Buckingham Today
Club reports September 19Buckingham Today, UK - 7 hours agoThe subject of the talk by Susannah Marshall was Poetry/Prose with Dolls. The talk was researched information about Georgina Spencer who was born in 1757 ...
- From desert to cultural oasis, complete with Louvre, Guggenheim and Ferrari (Guardian Unlimited)
When it comes to cultural icons, few would mention Manchester City in the same breath as the Louvre. But to Abu Dhabi's royal family the football club is the latest in a string of multibillion-dollar acquisitions designed to rebrand the nation as a oasis of western culture in the Gulf.
- Ryan’s hope - Washington Blade
Ryan’s hopeWashington Blade, DC - 33 minutes agoRyan’s spare, elegant poetry is often compared to that of Emily Dickinson, a poet also known for her sometimes humorous reflections on everyday life. ...
- Poet inspires seniors at Williams convocation (North Adams Transcript)
WILLIAMSTOWN -- Several hundred attendees of the Williams College convocation ceremony, the formal start of senior year for the Class of 2009, got all the tradition one might expect for such an important observance.
- Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish - Al-Ahram Weekly
It is five years today -- Thursday 25 September -- since the death of the Palestinian public intellectual and political activist Edward Said, "the most brilliantly eloquent emissary of Palestine to the outside world" in the words of an equally ...
- Readers review 'Pineapple Express,' more (Chicago Tribune)
- From two-cent stamps to MLB.TV - MLB.com
From two-cent stamps to MLB.TVMLB.com - 4 hours agoIn 1923, Irish poet William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives ...
- Paul Auster on ‘Man in the Dark’ and Seceding From the Union - Nymag.com
In Brooklyn author Paul Auster’s new novel, Man in the Dark (out this week), a book critic named Brill battles insomnia, grief over the recent death of his wife, and a deep dissatisfaction with the state of America, all by telling himself a bedtime ...
- Today's events - The Huntsville Times - al.com
Today's eventsThe Huntsville Times - al.com, AL - 26 minutes agoIndian artifacts show, sponsored by Hillabee Archeological Society, Jaycees Building, 2180 Airport Road, 8 am to 3 pm, free, 534-7384 or 880-3999. Poetry ...
- Toronto writer's The Outlander wins First Novel Award (CBC)
A debut novel about a 19-year-old widow fleeing her ruthless brothers-in-law through the Rockies in the winter of 1903 has won the $7,500 First Novel Award.
- Palestinians bury poet in emotional funeral - International Herald Tribune
RAMALLAH, West Bank : Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish what amounted to a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, mourning a man who articulated their sense of loss, exile and defiance. Around 10,000 people ...
- Danielle Ward In Glorious Technicolor, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh - Independent
Danielle Ward In Glorious Technicolor, Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIndependent, UK - 7 hours agoUnlike Long, who relies on the poetry of the situation to provide humour, Ward crafts actual jokes. She's the "Nicolas Anelka of lovemaking", apparently, ...
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