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- Gaia Online Gives Teens the Chance to Take Home "Olympic Gold" (Centre Daily Times)
For those of us who have dreamt of Olympic glory, but prefer thumb wrestling and hot dog eating to swimming and hurdles, Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 5 million teens, today announced it will host the Olympics Games for the rest of us...the Rejected Olympics. From the nearly 100 new off-beat games (that didn't quite make the cut for Beijing) and Olympic themed avatar ...
- Books on the South squeeze Appalachia (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Whenever I pick up a book on Southern culture, I check to see how much of the mountain South is represented.
- Art: Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity - New York Times
DUBLIN SO here, under airtight, light-shielding glass, is a notebook given to William Butler Yeats in 1908 by Maud Gonne, the beautiful, brainy feminist Irish revolutionary and object of Yeats’s infatuation across five decades, the muse — well ...
- PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Mark Rylance (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Given his pedigree, one would expect that actor Mark Rylance's long-awaited Broadway debut would be in a high-minded production of some work of the Bard's.
- CDs out today (Denver Post)
John Mellencamp, "Life Death Love and Freedom" (Hear Music) Chevy ad soundtrack "Our Country" soured Mellencamp's otherwise impeccable folk-rock credentials a couple of years ago, but his new album returns him to the gritty, spare ruminations for which he's known.
- Literary calendar for June 29-July 5 - Charlotte Observer
Literary calendar for June 29-July 5Charlotte Observer, NC - 18 hours agoNC WRITER'S NETWORK SUMMER RESIDENCY: Spend a weekend with master writing instructors in fiction, nonfiction and poetry, July 25-27 at Queens University of ...
- Waltzing Maltida a little ditty, historians say - ABC Online
Waltzing Maltida a little ditty, historians sayABC Online, Australia - 1 hour agoHe says people have always extracted their own meanings from poetry but believes Paterson could have been pursuing two goals. "It'd be almost impossible for ...
- Jay Parini: A case of poetic justice -- literally - The Capital Times
Jay Parini: A case of poetic justice -- literallyThe Capital Times, WI - Jul 2, 2008As it happened, I had just finished a book called "Why Poetry Matters," a study on the role poetry can play in our daily lives that deals extensively with ...
- Cocktail girl - guardian.co.uk
Cocktail girlguardian.co.uk, UK - 22 minutes ago... whimsical pink-haired young things of nonspecific alternative-classification, who played silent chess, and contemplated death and poetry. ...
- University anticipates over 3,000 graduating - Daily Reflector
East Carolina University will hold its annual commencement exercises at 10 a.m. Saturday at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. Thomas J. Spaulding Jr., head of the nonprofit organization Up With People, and an East Carolina alum, will deliver the keynote address ...
- 99 problems but my pitch ain't one - guardian.co.uk
99 problems but my pitch ain't oneguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThree of my crew went up to the poetry field 36 hours ago and I never saw them again. 34. Jo Whiley still all up in my shit. 35. ...
- Patti Smith & Kevin Shields: The Coral Sea (Pitchfork)
The new album from Patti Smith (that's good!) is two discs long (that's bad), and it's a collaboration with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields (that's good!!) built around live performances of her 1996 book-length poem (that's ba...actually it turns out to be pretty good). read more
- Valerie A. Bump Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who Executive ... - 24-7PressRelease.com
The Cambridge mission is to deliver its members the recognition and competitive edge needed to network and do business effectively. /Cambridge Who's Who/ - St. Paul, MN, July 13, 2008, Valerie A. Bump, Author and Lyricist, has been recognized by ...
- Attorney's rape case makes steamy fiction - Mansfield News Journal
MANSFIELD -- Local attorney Marcus Wolf had plenty of time to reflect on his shattered life as he sat in a jail cell. Accused of rape, Wolf was looking at 25 years in prison. Everything -- his marriage, career, reputation -- was up in the air. It was ...
- Around the towns - Scranton Times-Tribune
Around the townsScranton Times-Tribune, USA - 26 minutes ago“With poetry, I enjoy the surprise in the process,†Mr. Walker, 50, said. “I start with an idea and I never know where it will take me.†Mr. Walker’s wife, ...
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