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- NEA grants $2.8 million for 'The Big Read' (San Francisco Chronicle)
The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host "The Big Read," an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture. In 2004, the NEA released a...
- Local authors may broaden your horizons (Rapid City Journal)
The following 10 books may never reach the New York Times’ best-sellers list, but these local writers have created stories that may broaden your horizons or carry you away to another time and place.
- The Listings - Downtown Express
Downtown ExpressThe ListingsDowntown Express - Jul 31, 2008NUYORICAN POETS CAFÉ, 236 East 3rd St. (Bet. Aves B &C) 212-505-8183; nuyorican.org. Vito Acconci A show by the legendary installation, performance, ...
- Govt needs partners to protect children rights - Malawi's Daily Times
Govt needs partners to protect children rightsMalawi's Daily Times, Malawi - 15 hours agoThe children performed various activities that included band music, drama, poetry recitals, acrobatics and traditional dances, which had messages designated ...
- The cruelest month (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work day.
- The Wild Places - Monsters and Critics
Robert Macfarlane has a new book called The Wild Places . It is a follow up to his earlier work, Mountains of the Mind, which is actually quite a good book. The NYT praised The Wild Places, calling it: “anything but twee. It is a formidable ...
- Old 97's Murry Solo (antiMUSIC)
On August 18, 2008, Old 97's bass player and cofrontman Murry Hammond will celebrate the national release of his first full-length album outside of the Old 97's.
- Wednesday's Agenda, July 2 - Miami Herald
Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. To submit items online, go to MiamiHerald.com, click on Calendar of Events and click Add ...
- Celebrating thge Cuban Revolution - Green Left Weekly
Celebrating thge Cuban RevolutionGreen Left Weekly, Australia - 9 minutes agoLater on July 26, 35 people were inspired by Cuban poetry and Latin American music at a celebration of the revolution organised by the Australia-Cuba ...
- Special to The Oregonian - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Special to The OregonianThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 45 minutes agoEleven years later, her first poetry collection, "The Wild Awake," was published by Confluence Press in 2002. It was quickly followed by "Blood-Silk" (Quiet ...
- Short Stories (Colorado Springs Independent)
Gossip of the Starlings Nina de Gramont Algonquin Books, $22.95/hardcover The cover of Gossip of the Starlings quotes Jacquelyn Mitchard: "I inhaled this novel in one breath." Impressive words from an equally impressive writer. And in some ways, Nina de Gramont's debut novel is hard to put down.
- VIEW A LIST OF SOME AREA EVENTS ON-LINE. - Brunswick Times Record
VIEW A LIST OF SOME AREA EVENTS ON-LINE.Brunswick Times Record, United States - Jun 26, 2008LEWISTON — Monday evenings from 7-11 pm, The Maple Room at 22 Park St. hosts a free Summer Jazz Jam Improv Night, featuring The Snowmonks, who fuse poetry ...
- Portsmouth to revisit plan for nightclub in Old Towne - HamptonRoads.com
The city's planning commission split this week over whether to allow a venue with late-night entertainment to open in Olde Towne. Restaurateurs and club owners Terry Webb and Kelli Davis said they envision young professionals sampling tapas and ...
- Historicist: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Vice-Principal's Vacation (But Were Afraid to Ask) (Torontoist)
Every Saturday morning, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today.
- Tracey was here - Guardian Unlimited
Why are you telling us all this stuff, I found myself thinking a few minutes into Tracey Emin's retrospective. Here are 20 years of self-revelation, self-dramatisation, self-this and self-that. Step into the first room and you're knee-deep in raw ...
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