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- Today in History - Aug. 4 (Washington Post)
-- Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year.
- 'Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast' a great summer read; - Owen Sound Sun Times
'Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast' a great summer read;Owen Sound Sun Times, Canada - 6 hours agoHe says, "I love the phrase 'learning by heart,' especially when it is applied to poetry, because it seems such a perfect description of the process of ...
- Akron Youth Receive Art of Green Space Awards - Lawn & Landscape
Akron Youth Receive Art of Green Space AwardsLawn & Landscape, OH - 7 hours agoPatricia Boh, Nicholas Hobbs and Evie Nyerges answered that question through poetry, painting and mixed media artwork and won their age categories in ...
- Fundraiser makes kids 'stars for the day' (The Courier News)
When the Chicagoland Ride for Kids started in 1984, organizers didn't offer college scholarships; they did not need to. Children with pediatric brain tumors almost never lived long enough to use them. All that has changed thanks to research and modern medicine.
- Darwin's Belated American Birthday Present - Common Dreams
Today is the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth (the 199th, as it happens) and, as usual, scientists around the world will hold ceremonies honoring the man responsible for the foundational insight of modern science - the theory of evolution by ...
- Theater Giants Head Up North For Shakespeare Festival (NY1 News)
Two acting giants who worked together last year on Broadway are both north of the border this summer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following report.
- Joyce Carol Oates' 'My Sister, My Love': mesmerizing, long - Austin American-Statesman
Joyce Carol Oates' 'My Sister, My Love': mesmerizing, longAustin American-Statesman, TX - Aug 2, 2008The way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Andrew Motion: Noises Off - Independent
Andrew Motion: Noises OffIndependent, UK - 54 minutes agoOne million pages were read on the online poetry archive – poetryarchive.org – last month, an amazing figure. The appetite for poetry is there, ...
- Singer Wins Prize For Emerging Writers (Rockbridge Weekly)
LEXINGTON, VA – Margot Singer of Granville, Ohio has been named recipient of the 2008 Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, awarded annually by Shenandoah and Washington and Lee University, for her book The Pale of Settlement from the University of Georgia Press (2007). The book is also winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
- Music Review: New Johnson CD 'That Lonesome Song' takes the point ... - Chicago Tribune
Music Review: New Johnson CD 'That Lonesome Song' takes the point ...Chicago Tribune, United States - Aug 4, 2008His bare-knuckled, barroom poetry takes the point of view of hard-bitten losers and boozers, and it's shot with blue-collar authenticity. ...
- A beautiful noise in the neighborhood - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
A beautiful noise in the neighborhoodThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 4 hours agoThe neighborhood youngsters, my kids included, gather wide-eyed out on the sidewalk, craning their necks to catch sight of the source of the musical poetry ...
- School Rallies Around Dismissed Watts Teacher (KTLA-TV Los Angeles)
Students and fellow educators are rallying behind a fired Jordan High School teacher they say was sacked for encouraging political activism among her students.
- Duo's 'Koana' captures D.C. audience (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
James Kass, founder and executive director of Youth Speaks, is particularly proud of what the Hawaii team did to win the nonprofit organization's Brave New Voices international competition.
- LAST CHANCE: Playbill.com's Reminder of NYC Shows Closing (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The devil's sexy assistant, a long-running Off-Broadway revue, and a tale of a family milestone all disappear July 27. What follows is Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway and Off-Broadway productions before they close.
- Time for Media and Feminists to Penetrate Prostitution: On The Issues ... - PR Newswire
NEW YORK, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Prostitution penetrated the news in a major way in recent months -- from ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of New York and his paid binges with women to the suicide of DC madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey and the ...
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