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- A strange career - Daily Pioneer
Its time to write a political requiem for General Pervez Mushrraf. Seven years back, who would have thought such a day would come? Saturday Special's Indo--centric view of the strange successes and astonishing failures of a man a whole generation of ...
- Where for arts now? - Daily Telegraph
There’s an art to commissioning high-brow television at the BBC. It has to satisfy politicians and journalists who are on the lookout for dumbing down. Sir Michael Lyons and his BBC Trust are watching, particularly in the annual report, whether the ...
- Choirs not hitting the right notes - WalesOnline
Choirs not hitting the right notesWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 37 minutes agoSimilarly those staging the 2010 Ryder Cup in Newport have a marvellous opportunity to present the true Wales, full of beauty, poetry and that choral ...
- Award-winning Poet to Speak at KU on African-American Literature (Kansas City InfoZine)
Keith Gilyard, an award-winning poet, biographer and distinguished scholar in English studies at Penn State University, will deliver the 2008-09 John F. Eberhardt Lecture at the University of Kansas.
- Goodnight and Good Sales - Newsweek
President Bush's approval rating is mired in the high 20s, and his presidency is nearing its end-making this an ideal moment for a requiem for the Bush presidency, albeit an unconventional, and slightly controversial one. "Goodnight Bush," an ...
- First Love - Variety
First LoveVariety, CA - 1 hour agoOriginally mounted for the 2006 Beckett Centenary Festival, the solo shows and prose and poetry readings were extracted from every creative area of ...
- Anguish, action follow teen's death - New Britain Herald
WETHERSFIELD - Ian Wells may be gone, but residents, friends and family are determined to make something good come from his passing. The 18-year-old died Aug. 18 of a likely heroin overdose at the home of a 70-year-old neighbor. Since his death ...
- Remembering Steve Blackwell - ScienceBlogs
Remembering Steve BlackwellScienceBlogs - 44 minutes agoBut the grandson of a vaudeville performer never lost the love of music instilled in him from an early age. That love morphed with his passions for poetry ...
- Subway appointment is set to be poetry in motion - The Herald
Subway appointment is set to be poetry in motionThe Herald, UK - 4 hours ago"I'm very keen to encourage anyone to take an interest in poetry and writing." It is hoped the project, funded by the Scottish Arts Council, will mimic the ...
- Poetry Corner: With age comes wisdom, and cinquains - Providence Journal
Poetry Corner: With age comes wisdom, and cinquainsProvidence Journal, RI - 55 minutes agoHis love of literature and his desire to bring that joy to students can be heard as he tells me of teaching his seventh- and eighth-grade students the art ...
- W. Bloomfield native premieres film, assists local charity - Observer & Eccentric
Sam Logan Khaleghi spent two years of his life crafting the crime drama Love is a Thieves Game. The West Bloomfield resident will premiere his independent film next week in Farmington Hills. "I wrote it, directed it, produced it and, I did not intend ...
- Performance and classical music listings - Philadelphia Inquirer
All Shook Up Combines favorite Elvis hits with a new story. Closes 8/10. Surflight Theatre, Beach & Engleside Ave., Beach Haven; 609-492-9477. www.surflight.org . $29; $19 children. All The Things You Are: The Music of Jerome Kern Musical revue ...
- Mutual admiration radiates from the pages of 'White Heat' (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The French writer, Émile Zola, in an essay on Édouard Manet from 1868, ecstatically proclaimed that “beauty is now no longer absolute.†He was referring to the artist's then-radical painting, “Dejeuner sur l'Herbe,†and crowed that beauty had now become but a “preposterous universal standard,†untenable and unreliable.
- Text tattoos gaining popularity - San Francisco Chronicle
Text tattoos gaining popularitySan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoBefore her 18th birthday, she got her own first tattoo - the name of her favorite band, the ska band No Doubt - on her upper back. Since then, she's gotten ...
- Battling a rare ailment (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WOODSTOCK - Jasmin Floyd says she likes to think of herself as a typical 15-year-old girl.
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