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- Self-published author is the real deal - Des Plaines Times
Deerfield resident Robert M. Katzman has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15 when he opened a newsstand in Hyde Park. Through the years, he has run a kosher delicatessen, a world travel foreign language bookstore and, for the past 18 years, a ...
- Between Yourself and Me - VUE Weekly
Between Yourself and MeVUE Weekly, Canada - 44 minutes agoShe especially nails the disconnected cadences of the beatnik’s stuttered beat poetry.) Ross is wonderfully cast as Steven. Rather than merely playing up ...
- Recently recommended books for tweens - guardian.co.uk
Recently recommended books for tweensguardian.co.uk, UK - 28 minutes agoLike poetry, short stories tend to fall out of fashion with older children and they are often rather dully produced. But this collection is a real cracker ...
- 2008 Great Adirondack Young People’s Poetry Contest winners announced (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
The Lake Placid Curling Club held its annual meeting and pot luck supper on April 20. Its new board of directors and officers were elected under recently revised bylaws, which expanded the board to from 5 to 9 members.
- Neto's Tucson by Ernesto Portillo Jr. : Measuring life one ... - Arizona Daily Star
Neto's Tucson by Ernesto Portillo Jr. : Measuring life one ...Arizona Daily Star, AZ - 1 hour agoThursday evening, the sun's last shafts enter a second-floor room at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. A small knot of writers sits at a table to ...
- Laughing and learning the traditional way - Times of India
Laughing and learning the traditional wayTimes of India, India - 2 hours agoWith the minimum of Sanskrit prose and poetry the vidushaka expands each word to weave the story fabric in Malayalam, which is understood by every one in ...
- Opportunity, luck help OU professor, poet (The Ohio University Post)
Being uncertain about one's future vocation is not necessarily a calamity, one Ohio University assistant professor said.
- DVD: Great writing of 'Mad Men' captures era, cool vibe of ad agency - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The men are cads, the women compliant in the retro cool "Mad Men." The confounding AMC cable drama, set in 1960 in New York City, has a strange but powerful allure. The first season saunters out on DVD Tuesday. The slick account executives at a top ...
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies - Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has ...
- Kids will love these two wonderful stories - and so will you (Concord Monitor)
One day, as Kathy Brodsky walked her dog along a familiar route, she noticed a crooked pine tree. And it got her thinking.
- Goose was one bad mother - but she helps kids read (Montreal Gazette)
In the age of This Little Piggy Went to Prada, it's easy to get misty-eyed over the diminishing appeal of traditional nursery rhymes. But when Mother Goose is fêted nationally today for her contributions to literacy and storytelling, let's remember that despite the sentimental memories her name evokes, the icon of childhood poetry was one bad mother.
- Tongue? Tonge? Toung? Tung? For and Against Simplified Spelling - Wall Street Journal
Over the past eight centuries, spelling reformers and their opponents, from Mark Twain to Theodore Roosevelt, have explained their goals in both poems and prose. Below, review some of the most famous. (See related article.) "And for ther is so gret ...
- Chestnut Street Books is a book-lovers' feast (Pioneer Press)
Cecilia Loome, 23, has spent much of her life surrounded by good books.
- Craigslist romance: How I met my wife with a sofabed - Times Online
It's astonishing how many things you can find to sell on Craigslist, even in a zero-capital home such as my own. So far I've managed to get rid of an old wall mirror (not strictly mine), a couple of foldup chairs, an outdoor barbecue, a coffee table ...
- the-solitary-vice-you-can-always-watch-the-movie-instead - PopMatters
PopMattersthe-solitary-vice-you-can-always-watch-the-movie-insteadPopMatters, IL - 1 hour agoWhile Shakespeare’s poetry is the best of its kind, I know a lot of people find the archaic language difficult to understand, and this often prevents them ...
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