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- Jail Deputy Charged with Misdemeanor (R News)
A Seneca County corrections officer is facing misdemeanor charges after an alleged incident at the county's jail. Sheriff's deputies are looking into whether David Jensen of Ovid used excessive force against an inmate.
- The return of 'Lemmings,' the first 6 minutes of 'The Dark Knight' and ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thirty-seven years ago, when National Lampoon was still a magazine, it staged "Lemmings" -- a legendary off-Broadway sketch show that featured, among others, John Belushi, Christopher Guest, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray, and helped spawn ...
- Get Smart! Please! - MSN Entertainment
A supershamus like Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe negotiates incredibly tangled plotlines as well as mean streets. Along the way, colorful rogues mislead and every devious frail makes a play for the hawkshaw. Detoured down one blind alley after another ...
- Friends spell out their love for Hagy - Baltimore Sun
They showed up in waves, some wearing ragged orange softball jerseys and faded gray jeans, others dressed in expensive suits with silk blue ties. A few sported bushy gray beards, unkempt mustaches and Grateful Dead T-shirts. The sang, they laughed ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (The Charlotte Observer)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways - and the redemptive power of poetry. ...
- Broken voices from inside - The Times
Broken voices from insideThe Times, South Africa - 3 hours agoThe US writer, a guest at last year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival, had attended a poetry competition awards ceremony at the prison and was struck by the ...
- Singing the Blues in the Valley - Times of India
Singing the Blues in the ValleyTimes of India, India - 3 hours ago"We have been through so much that we’re incapable of writing flowery poetry," says the chubby, smiling Bilal Ahmed, the classical vocalist of the band and ...
- Playhouse, Liverpool - guardian.co.uk
Playhouse, Liverpoolguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoMcGough's approach is to wring maximum fun from Molière's 17th-century poetry, and introduce a 21st-century conversational ease to the text. ...
- Latitude festival under way - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Latitude festival under wayNorfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK - 4 hours agoYesterday Just A Minute and Stories With Latitude were recorded, with another episode of both to come over the weekend, as well as Poetry Please and Loose ...
- What's the story? - Guardian Unlimited
Michael Frayn's new play, Afterlife, like Democracy and Copenhagen, takes a real historical incident as its starting point. Like Copenhagen it cycles deftly through the years, each cycle getting at something new, some different layer of meaning, like ...
- Billy Bragg Working Class Hero - Exclaim!
Exclaim!Billy Bragg Working Class HeroExclaim!, Canada - 2 hours agoThe ensuing attention leads into the release of the single “Levi Stubbs’ Tears†in June, followed by his next album Talking With The Taxman About Poetry. ...
- The Hold Steady: The best classic rock band you never heard of would ... - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
When bands like Hinder, Buckcherry or 3 Doors Down are heralded by pop culture pundits as being saviors of rock, returning the genre to prominence after a dominant run of pop starlets and hip-hop acts, you can’t help but wonder if the pundits ever ...
- The Hollow Man - New York Times
THESE days, as I watch Robert Mugabe tighten his 28-year-old stranglehold on Zimbabwe while the forces of opposition try to pry away his fingers, I can’t help thinking back to a conversation he and I once tried to have about T. S. Eliot, poetry and ...
- Would you like to review the New Film on Spoken Word: GV7 RANDOM ... - Artvoice
Would you like to review the New Film on Spoken Word: GV7 RANDOM ...Artvoice, NY - 42 minutes agoReleased under his BRYAN WORLD PRODUCTIONS indie label, GV7 returns to the enigmatic world of Poetry. This time around he retrieves the perspectives of ...
- First Fridays on Fourth of July - AZ Central.com
AZ Central.comFirst Fridays on Fourth of JulyAZ Central.com, AZ - 2 hours agoIt's a mix of sing-song poetry and surreal imagery that tells the story of a middle-age woodworker's existential angst. First line: "Henry thinks crows are ...
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