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- Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mix - Gloucester Daily Times
Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mixGloucester Daily Times, USA - 7 hours agoAnd the fact that poets could only submit pieces of a limited length goes against the grain of what free poetry is all about. Now, there is debate over who ...
- United we stand, divided we fall (Coeur d'Alene Press)
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and more than 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system reaching down hundreds of feet into the Earth. Not true.
- Molestation suspect in N.H. after Mexico arrest (The Charlotte Observer)
A sex offender who lived with a family after prison, then fled after being accused of molesting their 5-year-old son, appeared in court Friday following his return from Mexico, where he apparently spent a decade on the lam. The FBI had put Jon Savarino Schillaci (shuh-LACK-ee) on its list of most-wanted fugitives in September. Agents with the help of Mexican authorities arrested him in San Jose ...
- Super Kid: Maggie Wicken, 17, senior, Darrington High School - Everett Herald
Drama queen: Acted in seven or eight plays during high school, including three lead roles. Most memorable part was playing Juliet in the comedy "Romeo, You Idiot." Dream role is Annie in "Annie," partly because she likes Annie's spunk, and partly ...
- Last night's TV: A very British rocket launch (Guardian Unlimited)
Michelle Hodgson: A very British rocket launch
- In brief: City of God director tackles Shakespeare (Guardian Unlimited)
Plus: Will Ferrell takes on 2-Face, comic bookdom's Lucky Luke begins journey to big screen, and trailer for Ridley Scott's Body of Lies goes online
- Watch Captain Corelli author in action - Evening News Norwich
He's best known for writing about Captain Corelli's Mandolin - but yesterday the best-selling novel's author delighted fans by playing the instrument himself in a Norfolk village A performance by novelist Louis de Bernieres and the Antonius Players ...
- 'It is a grand new beginning for this country' - Chicago Tribune
'It is a grand new beginning for this country'Chicago Tribune, United States - 2 hours agoThere's a lot of symbolism and poetry in Obama's victory. "I couldn't anticipate this night, but I knew it was possible. . . . More Americans are going to ...
- Frost 'unplugged' in '47 lecture (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
HANOVER, N.H. - Sixty years after he sat down with Dartmouth College students for an off-the-record lecture, poet Robert Frost's words to them are about to be published for the first time.
- Kenya: Iddi's CD Launch Party Turns Out to Be a Major Social Event (AllAfrica.com)
It was supposed to be just another DVD/VCD launch. At least that is what the people at Alliance Francaise had in mind when they allocated singer Iddi Achieng a small but strategic corridor for last week's function. That turned out to be a big miscalculation.
- Road Trip Radio - New West
Road Trip RadioNew West, MT - 2 hours agoThe banal poetry of commerce lulled me into a peaceful trance. “Misses’ tops, twenty nine ninety nine.†“The drive-in is open during our renovations. ...
- Cheers & Jeers - Delmarva Daily Times
WSCL-FM was recently recognized by the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasting Agency with three awards. The awards went to the public radio station for use of sound in "Rising Gas Prices," a story that documented the sounds of older cars from the ...
- Bitch Session - Washington Blade
Bitch SessionWashington Blade, DC - 2 hours agoButt ugly, right off the ranch and quoting bad poetry. Some clueless guy actually titled his post “Desperately Seeking Susan.†Ha! ...
- Canadian poet and playwright James Reaney dies at 81 - CBC News
James Reaney, a poet, author and dramatist of three famous plays about Ontario's feuding Donnelly family, has died. He was 81. Reaney died Wednesday in London, Ont., after a long illness. Reaney won the Governor General's Award for poetry three times ...
- Spice vendor finds niche in New York City, selling wares to upscale ... - Canada East
NEW YORK - With his flowing black hair, bushy beard and slight paunch, Behroush Sharifi hops off his bicycle and bounds into an expensive restaurant on the Upper West Side. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Tina Fineberg Behroush Sharifi, left, stands by as chef ...
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