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- Dem. Party Chairman Killed - Log Cabin Democrat
Bill Gwatney, chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, was fatally shot this morning at party headquarters in downtown Little Rock. Gwatney died of his injuries in a Little Rock hospital this afternoon. The shooter was pursued by police from ...
- A call for young writers - Huntington Herald Dispatch
A call for young writersHuntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 2 hours agoCreative Communication is seeking young writers for the 2008 Essay and Poetry Contest. More than $3000 in prizes and awards will be awarded to poets, ...
- Gable gave a damn (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Clark Gable almost stalked off the set of "Gone With the Wind" when he discovered studio bathrooms were designated "White" and "Colored."
- Broadway-Bound 'Ace' Musical Takes Wing in VA; Noll, Scott, Skinner, Paice, Stanek, Lacey Star (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Wings aloft, Ace, the Broadway-aimed musical about a boy's flight through his own family history, opens Sept. 3 following previews from Aug. 27 at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA.
- Mythology lights the path to bliss - The Australian
Mythology lights the path to blissThe Australian, Australia - 4 hours ago... and sometimes conflictual nuances of writing poetry as poetry, and poetry as words and silences, to be sung in the voices of singers and instruments". ...
- All's fair in this poetry – even the livestock potty (The Sacramento Bee)
The State Fair, we like to say, is a fair to remember. Poets and versifiers from around the area gave us dozens of ways to remember the fair in response to our invitation.
- ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ (Gresham Outlook)
Sometimes it pays to be loudmouth. Especially when you’re trying to express the nuances of Shakespeare in a public park, where those unappreciative of the bard’s peerless poetry—like, say, dogs or children—tend to congregate.
- Ruby Lee Thompson (The Middlesboro Daily)
ROSE HILL, Va. — Ruby Lee Thompson, age 101, was born on January 29, 1907, in Rose Hill, Va. She grew up on the family farm as the fourth and youngest daughter of William Payton Thompson and Mary Elizabeth Robinson Thompson.
- France's 'red postman' spies opportunity in financial crisis (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The financial storm buffeting the world has put wind in the sails of a communist postman whose eloquent calls for revolution have made him one of the most popular figures on the French left and a darling of the media.
- UAE writers eulogise one of Arab world's greatest icons - GulfNews
UAE writers eulogise one of Arab world's greatest iconsGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - Aug 10, 2008"He survived clinical death once before and his life was controversial. He was a poet of the Palestinian resistance. His politically-charged poems made his ...
- All Events for 5 Oct 2008 (My Village Balham)
Until 09 Oct 2008 Comedy based on the namesake Toby Young novel about Sidney Young's descent from promising journalist to dismal failure at New York's most prestigious magazine. He cuts a swathe through Manhattan for...
- Bernardine Evaristo - Guardian Unlimited
Bernardine Evaristo: 'Writing? I just fell into it' What was your favourite book as a child and why? I have almost no memory of books before my teenage years. Isn't that strange? I think it's because all my books came from the library so there was no ...
- Heaney ‘catches the heart off guard’ - Harvard University Gazette
Heaney ‘catches the heart off guard’Harvard University Gazette, MA - 2 hours agoIntroducing him was poetry scholar Helen Vendler, Harvard’s A. Kingsley Porter University Professor. She called the Northern Ireland native “a poet of the ...
- Me and my superheroes - guardian.co.uk
Me and my superheroesguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoOriginally we were trying to do more with poetry, film and art and it would be great to find a way of getting more of that." There might also be more ...
- Jamey Johnson: That Lonesome Song (The Tennessean)
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