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- 'Two Rivers' Blends Iraqi Music, American Jazz - Hartford Courant
The confluence of Iraq's two major rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, is known as the "cradle of civilization" and the birthplace of writing. Trumpeter-composer Amir ElSaffar has created the "Two Rivers" project, which blends traditional Iraqi ...
- Theater Listings - New York Times
Theater ListingsNew York Times, United States - 43 minutes agoFiercely funny and bitingly sad, it somehow finds fresh sources of insight in that classic staple of the stage, the disintegrating American family. ...
- I Walked Through History (Santa Monica Mirror)
During the years I’ve lived in Santa Monica, I’ve never seen much of its northern end. But recently I had a chance to visit some of the historic homes on Adelaide Drive, a street that runs along the northern edge of the city above Santa Monica Canyon.
- ‘The things I aspire to are infinite’ - Patti Smith interview - Scotsman
‘The things I aspire to are infinite’ - Patti Smith interviewScotsman, United Kingdom - 29 minutes ago“I fell in love with his face, and I thought he would make a very good boyfriend,” she chuckles. “I read the book, and I loved his poetry even more. ...
- Still have time to spare?: Gallop out to the rodeo, ride in an ... - San Francisco Chronicle
Still have time to spare?: Gallop out to the rodeo, ride in an ...San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 43 minutes agoEB Honors the work of Northern California authors in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and children's literature. 1 pm Sun. ...
- Barack Obama seizes his moment in history - Times Online
Barack Obama today passes through the gateway of history as a black man carrying his party’s standard into battle in November’s presidential election. After a wave of pledges from super-delegates pushed him up to the “magic number” of ...
- Raleigh County Students Celebrate in Spanish - WVNT-TV
BECKLEY -- Kids in Kindergarten through fifth grades celebrated their Fine Arts Fair and fiesta today. It's Greater Beckley Christian School's fourth annual event. Students performed songs in Spanish and English, played piano and recited poetry for ...
- Sounds of final partings fill Schultz’s verse - Kansas City Star
Sounds of final partings fill Schultz’s verseKansas City Star, MO - 3 hours agoThis is the second collection of verse for Schultz, who turned to poetry after retiring from the University of Kansas in 2001, where she was the ...
- When Hemingway turned to verse (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Poems - unpublishable at the time - were scribbled at end of American author's story collection
- Book giveaway at the library (Whitby This Week)
WHITBY -- Don't just sign out books from the library, enter to win one too. Enter a draw to win one of several free books of poetry from the library. One book will be given away to mark each...
- Athenaeum frames travel in the 1800s (Boston Globe)
In the early 1800s, leisure was a concept more commonly viewed in New England as wasting God's precious time. Here we were more familiar with the practice of taking the cure at a mineral spring, or attending church camp in order to refresh the mind and body - for more work.
- Teens sought in student's stabbing (Toronto Star)
In what may have begun as a dispute over a new cellphone, police said, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed at his high school locker this afternoon while his girlfriend stood next to him.
- The kosher cowboy - Jewish Chronicle
The kosher cowboyJewish Chronicle, UK - 32 minutes ago“They’re also both gypsies, wandering in the raw poetry of time. And they’re both disappearing, whether they know it or not.” He compares and contrasts ...
- Chicago's Finest (The Beacon News)
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- Katy Guest: A Week in Books - Independent
Katy Guest: A Week in BooksIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoOthers say we're not getting enough poetry, as if poems contained vital roughage and we ought to aim for five a day. And what are these pages for, ...
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