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- Frank Gehry: pavilion of delight - Daily Telegraph
Whether it is a tribute to life in the Californian sun, or the weekly ice hockey matches that he started playing 20 years ago, Frank Gehry looks pretty spectacular for a man a year shy of his 80th birthday. Eight pavilions on, is it still possible to ...
- Poets Speak out for Parkinson’s (Scoop.co.nz)
In a show of support for Parkinson’s, six of New Zealand’s most well known and awarded poets will read a selection of their work at ‘Poetry for Parkinson’s’, to be held in Wellington in June.
- Pak Youth Society celebrates jubilee - Gulf Times
Pak Youth Society celebrates jubileeGulf Times, Qatar - 20 minutes agoPakistani envoy Mohamed Asghar Afridi presided over the function that included the launch of the silver jubilee magazine, a poetry book and a poetic session ...
- Wickwire students win writing awards (The Advance)
This year's Dorothy Wickwire writing contest entries impressed the judges and saw 18 students take home an award on June 5 at the Dr...
- Mabini as pragmatist (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
One fight remained to be fought in America. Two competing proposals, one by the ruling Republicans, the other by the opposition Democrats, were voted on. The Republicans won by a hair.
- 2008 Philadelphia Book Festival Blends Books, Music, High-Tech Games, Barbara Walters Tops List of Celebrity Authors (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
More than 60 of the nation's top writers, including celebrity author Barbara Walters, will gather in Philadelphia for the second Philadelphia Book Festival, the Free Library's annual celebration of reading and literacy.
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies - Pantagraph
LOS ANGELES -- 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 died ...
- Poetry for the eye - Aucklander
Poetry for the eyeAucklander, New Zealand - 26 minutes agoSeventy artists and writers have enthusiastically tackled an idea dreamt up by artist Hannah- May Thompson and poet Christian Jensen. ...
- Upstream or downstream? (London Free Press)
A seasonal series about the waterway that defines us. One river rushes in from the north and another river rushes in from the south, heading to the heart of the city with the promise of rising.
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' - International Herald Tribune
Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell'International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoThe 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 ...
- Oxygen for dying scripts - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphOxygen for dying scriptsCalcutta Telegraph, India - 6 hours agoEven if the scripts survive, the songs and poetry will be extinct in less than a decade, linguists feel. To save these language communities from extinction, ...
- Writers to unleash creativity in Pittsford - Democrat and Chronicle
Write the Night Away, a creative writing forum led by Dee Hogan, will be held Friday in Pittsford. The forum will be from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Golisano Gateway at St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave., Pittsford. The featured reader will be Claire ...
- A sprightly elegy (Al-Ahram Weekly)
I never thought funerals could be such fun. But then, not every funeral has Khalid Galal as director. He has a keen eye for the ludicrous and an eerie knack for squeezing laughter out of the most lugubrious situations and gruesome events.
- President Musharraf isn’t the most pressing ‘problem’ - The News - International
President Musharraf isn’t the most pressing ‘problem’The News - International, Pakistan - 2 hours agoAt his address at Aiwan-e-Iqbal in Lahore, on the occasion of Yaum-e-Takbeer, Sharif charged his audience with his speech which contained poetry as well as ...
- Composer Stephen Foster's life in city helped shape music (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Stephen Collins Foster's young years in Pittsburgh in the 1800s helped shaped the music he would write later in his life.
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