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- Lakeside homes on tour July 16 (Akron Beacon Journal)
The Akron Symphony Guild's popular Portage Lakes home tour returns July 16, but you need to order your tickets soon.
- Popularity punctuates poetry slam; Fans fill local brewery for energetic events (The Bulletin)
Don‘t go to the Bend Poetry Slam expecting to hear tender love sonnets or haikus about the beauty of flowers.Go expecting to hear a lot language that would get bleeped out on network television; go expecting to hear frank talk about the joys and awkwardness of sex; go expecting to hear about the potent powers of alcohol. But above all, go expecting to have fun and to listen (for the most part, ...
- Righteous Babes: Ani DiFranco & Kaki King - Get Underground
Get UndergroundRighteous Babes: Ani DiFranco & Kaki KingGet Underground, CA - 46 minutes agoYes, other musicians write poetry, or, shall we say, trite, vertically stacked word fragments (sorry Mr. Morrison, I bought your book but then I ran out of ...
- Singer, not saint - Chicago Tribune
I am a huge fan of R. Kelly —the artist not the acquitted. But that's just the problem these days: How does one balance one's respect for an artist with that artist's unsavory personal life? Figuring this out is especially hard in a society where ...
- From poetry assignment to national finalist West Valley sophomore BreAnna Jones just wanted to get a good grade; she ... (Yakima Herald-Republic)
Sitting in the computer lab last winter, 16-year-old BreAnna Jones, a sophomore at West Valley High School, indifferently searched through hundreds of poems -- from William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" to Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Recuerdo."
- Sixth-grader's essay takes top spot in nation - Sayreville Suburban
Sixth-grader's essay takes top spot in nationSayreville Suburban, USA - 1 hour agoNow, she works on the school newspaper, and enjoys writing poetry for Fazio's weekly "coffee house" events. "I love writing poems," Courtney said. ...
- Fairfax Woman Named Nation's Poet Laureate (KRXI-TV Reno)
FAIRFAX, Calif. -- Kay Ryan, a 62-year-old Fairfax resident, was appointed today by the Library of Congress as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
- Merdeka festivities - Star-ecentral.com
Get set to soak up the fun at the 2nd Rantai Merdeka 2008, a three-day festival of independent art, film and music. MUSIC and the arts make a move to the suburbs on Merdeka Day weekend with the 2nd Rantai Merdeka 2008 – a three-day festival of ...
- Guest column: New prize to tap richness of state's history - DesMoinesRegister.com
Guest column: New prize to tap richness of state's historyDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 17 hours agoThe Iowa History Prize follows the model of the Iowa Poet Laureate, a title that personalizes poetry by attaching a name and face to that powerful and broad ...
- Getting His Goat: Fun at the Mid-State Fair (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)
The biggest little fair in the state — the California Mid-State Fair — kicked off its 2008 “Country Days, Rockin’ Nights†run Wednesday at the Paso Robles Event Center, 2198 Riverside Ave.
- Cleveland's ambassador to the world adept at bridging cultures - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.comCleveland's ambassador to the world adept at bridging culturesThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 20 minutes agoHe read poetry to crowds on the streets of Sancti Spiritus, a colonial city in central Cuba. At 16, he was identified as gifted in math. ...
- Eateries energize hub - Youngstown Vindicator
Eateries energize hubYoungstown Vindicator, OH - 6 hours agoThe Lemon Grove will feature live acoustic music, poetry readings and even knitting sessions, Harver said. “I wouldn’t want to do this anywhere else but ...
- Ancient craft made new in hands of Murrieta bookbinder - Press-Enterprise
Ancient craft made new in hands of Murrieta bookbinderPress-Enterprise, CA - 3 hours agoSometimes families will all write a page for Grandmother or put together a poetry collection and have it bound into a book, she said. ...
- 'Fearless: Director's Cut,' 'Wire in the Blood' and 'Metropolis' among ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
This two-disc DVD set contains three versions of the 2006 martial arts hit. One is the 104-minute U.S. theatrical version, another is the 141-minute director's cut, and the third is the version released in theaters internationally. The first version ...
- Movies recall the good ol' days - Nashua Telegraph
Movies recall the good ol' daysNashua Telegraph, NH - 18 minutes ago“Boyz n the Hood.†2. “The Breakfast Club.†3. “Grease.â€4. “American Graffiti.†5. “Real Genius.†6. “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.†7. “Dead Poets Society. ...
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