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- Weekend Entertainment Guide - Scranton Times
APPLEBEE’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL & BAR, Viewmont Mall, Dickson City: Wednesdays, Tony Vergnetti. AUGUSTINE’S CLUB 17, 518 N. Main St., Old Forge: Thursdays, Millennium. BLUE PELICAN, Dalton Road, Lake Winola: today, Traverse. BLUES STREET, Ritz ...
- Storybook career path - Daily Press
Storybook career pathDaily Press, VA - 1 hour agoShel Silverstein: I used to sit and read his poems over and over as a kid and then write my own poems and doodles to go with them. One of his simplest poems ...
- Ellyce Field: Fun family picks for the week (Detroit News)
Have some live culture, kiddie-style this week. Check out the all-kid cast in Stagecrafters' take on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at the Baldwin Theatre, singer, poet and storyteller Bill Harley at For Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum or downtown Birmingham's Summer in the City performance.
- What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party - American Thinker
American voters must make up their minds about what Barack Obama really believes in, if anything. His recent rhetorical concessions to the center further muddy the waters. So we must look to his past teachers and associates for help in understanding ...
- "Getting it Write" theme of 2008 JRW conference - Richmond Times Dispatch
"Getting it Write" theme of 2008 JRW conferenceRichmond Times Dispatch, VA - 1 hour agoClaudia Emerson's "Late Wife" won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Adriana Trigiani is best known for her "Big Stone Gap" series. ...
- Writer Bill Holm's ship comes in - Minneapolis Star Tribune
W hen Bill Holm was coming of age in Minneota, his Icelandic uncles admonished him to quit reading and writing poems and prepare to take up the mantle of his father's farm. The real money, they told him, was in cattle and pigs. If uncles Abo and ...
- Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Gavin Esler, Newsnight presenter and novelist (Independent)
Gavin Esler, 55, is a presenter on BBC2's Newsnight and also on BBC News24. His fourth novel, A Scandalous Man, is just out, and he is one of the BBC Radio 4 contributors to More From Our Own Correspondent, also out now
- Canadian Centennial Choir pleases a packed house - Ottawa Citizen
The Canadian Centennial Choir is something of an anomaly. As its name implies, it has been around since 1967, and it has a decent following. Rightly or wrongly it was considered an "also ran" on the Ottawa choral scene for many years. Things improved ...
- A Choice of Kipling's Verse - T S Eliot - Tonight South Africa
In 1941 Anglo-American poet T S Eliot undertook this work "with the aim of restoring (Kipling's verse) to its place" which, he thought, was far from "secondary" to the writer's prose fiction. Eliot admitted "Kipling is the most elusive of subjects ...
- Cannes-o-rama, Day eleven: L’esprit d’escalier - Time Out Chicago
Time Out ChicagoCannes-o-rama, Day eleven: L’esprit d’escalierTime Out Chicago, IL - 17 hours agoHe could use a Spike Jonze (less so a Michel Gondry) to rein in his indulgences, but this is a funny, self-lacerating film; think of it as Kaufman’s 8 1/2. ...
- 'Xanadu' skimps on extras, not fun - Los Angeles Times
'Xanadu' skimps on extras, not funLos Angeles Times, CA - Jun 28, 2008I love that the movie allows Olivia Newton-John to roller-skate, wear leg warmers, quote poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and sing that "you have to ...
- Mingling craft with art - The Daily Star
The Daily StarMingling craft with artThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 4 hours agoIn "Poetry of Wood-02" we see the figures of a couple, looking away from one another. A pink lotus and a head of a cow are included in the composition. ...
- Teacher remembers the hard work of one-room schools in the 1930s - LeRoy Independent
Teacher remembers the hard work of one-room schools in the 1930sLeRoy Independent, MN - 4 hours agoLike poetry, the Gettysburg Address, and the like. We had a strict curriculum, and I consider we had a pretty good education in grade school," she says. ...
- 48 poets to be selected for Million's Poet - Khaleej Times
ABU DHABI - From thousands of applicants, 48 poets will be selected for the final competition of the Million's Poet. The Dh77-million show, under the patronage of Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme ...
- Any volunteers? - Time Out Chicago
Time Out ChicagoAny volunteers?Time Out Chicago, IL - 5 hours ago... dance, music and poetry. To get involved, call 773-506-7474. A nonprofit child welfare org serving the west suburban Berwyn area, Youth Crossroads’ ...
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