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- Who Is the Donna Reed of This Election? - Slate
It's no secret that Slate has actively cultivated a reputation for contrarianism . Our headline piece over the weekend, in which Jack Shafer took down the clichés of Slate 's "green journalism," raises our institutional antagonism to Whitmanesque ...
- Comedy preview: May 10-16 - Guardian Unlimited
Mention comedy and charity in the same sentence, and most people think of worthy, overblown events like Comic Relief. Yet, away from the self-aggrandising glare of the television cameras, countless comedians toil away in relative obscurity raising ...
- Glances at Undervalued Classics: Waking The Dead (2000) - Amplifier
Glances at Undervalued Classics: Waking The Dead (2000)Amplifier, KY - 57 minutes agoThis isn’ta work that ever panders…compared to most productions from the decade it is like an exceptional piece of poetry that has a rhyme that needs to be ...
- Fourth of July: Annual festival celebrates heritage - Sterling Journal-Advocate
The annual Heritage Festival Auction always draws a crowd of people, who bid on the Western-themed items donated by businesses and individuals in the community. An attendee over the antique cars on display at the 2007 Heritage Festival. Each year ...
- Staffroom superheros - Times Online
Sandra works in a customer services call centre by day, and directs plays for her local Amateur Dramatics group in her spare time. Thanks to this hobby Sandra has become a clear, confident public speaker, is adept at directing people and ...
- Dangling man - Haaretz.com
A book of poems by Mahmoud Darwish lies on a table in the living room. Next to it is an ashtray stuffed with cigarette butts. It's evening in Jaffa, and the street is visible through the half-open blinds. Hanging on one wall is a small portrait of ...
- Dornac: Unmasking a photographer of Parisian society - International Herald Tribune
PARIS : This could only happen in secretive France, full of untapped art caches. Around 1887, a photographer who used the pseudonym Dornac started doing the rounds of Paris society, explaining to his sitters that he planned to build up a photographic ...
- words 2008 will take place at The Mitchell Library in Glasgow from 9-13 September 2008 (The Herald)
words 2008 is an interactive exhibition based on new work from the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing at Glasgow University. The exhibition is unique in that it takes the normally solitary process of writing out into the public domain.
- Entertainment Calendar for July 10- July 19 - NRToday.com
Entertainment Calendar for July 10- July 19NRToday.com, OR - 7 hours agoPOETRY SLAM — 6 pm, Granger Book Co., 111 Second Ave., Myrtle Creek. Read your own poetry or bring your favorite poem to read. Free public event. 793-5599. ...
- Katie Couric shows her 'nerd' side - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesKatie Couric shows her 'nerd' sideLos Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours ago... of her singing a duet with Bette Midler for an environmental fundraiser, reading poetry with Meryl Streep and attending a lively Manhattan book party. ...
- Hot tips for modern living from our readers - Slate
Slate readers are tireless and generous: they read our articles and give us their advice and predictions. It's been a busy time for these dedicated commentators, what with (among other items) the final of American Idol , the return of Indiana Jones ...
- Channeling Shakespeare - The Phoenix
The PhoenixChanneling ShakespeareThe Phoenix, MA - 16 minutes agoBut this new Cardenio is tedious, meandering, and bereft of the poetry and rueful human insight Shakespeare wraps into his comedies. ...
- Arts listings - Austin 360 (subscription)
Arts listingsAustin 360 (subscription), TX - Apr 9, 2008'The Austin International Poetry Festival.'The world's largest non-juried poetry festival with venues all over town and a choice of poets and slams. ...
- A life of fractured memories (Denver Post)
Anne Michael's 1997 "Fugitive Pieces" tells the story of Jakob as both a child who survives the murder of his family by Nazis in Poland but also as a writer wrestling with the ghosts of that lost family.
- Thursday, May 01, 2008 (Marion Chronicle-Tribune)
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