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- Writing a haiku in German - often a tight squeeze - TopNews
Writing a haiku in German - often a tight squeezeTopNews, India - 3 hours agoCologne, Germany - The ladies who meet regularly in a museum cafe in Cologne skip the gossip and get straight down to haiku, an ultra-brief poetry style ...
- Reporter's Notebook: Brenda Norrell (The Narco News Bulletin)
TUCSON – Retired Army Col. Ann Wright and El Salvadoran torture survivor Carlos Mauricio said it is time to hold President Bush and his top advisors accountable for torture in Abu-Ghraib and Guantanamo and for secret renditions.
- What happens when actors wax lyrical - Guardian Blogs
Mark Rylance is a great actor whose distinctive presence and delicate, introspective, musical speaking voice have made him unique. Despite many outstanding film roles, he has made his name on the stage more than the screen, which is a pity as far as ...
- Entertainment calendar - Kane County Chronicle
• ART FOR ALL: Through June 1, Campbell House Gallery, Kane County Events Center, off Kirk Road between Route 38 and Fabyan Parkway. Seventeen artists present works in metal and glass sculpture, silver jewelry, oils and pastels, mixed media and ...
- Christian-inspired art, music are living treasures, pope says - Catholic News
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christian-inspired art, architecture and music are not dead artifacts from the past, but are living treasures reflecting the beauty of God and the joy of being a child of God, Pope Benedict XVI said. The Christian culture is ...
- Renowned poet/activist says she's accomplished a lot, but there's ... - Toronto Star
Two months after her 80th birthday, grace is foremost in Maya Angelou's mind. "How blessed I am and how blessed I've been," she says, on the phone from her home in North Carolina. The celebrations have been magnificent for this woman, revered for her ...
- Doughnut-ology: Will Bush-Wah convert? (WorldNetDaily)
I'm trying to wrap my mind around the possibility of our putative Presi-Dunce as a later-life convert to Catholicism , perhaps following the example of his diplomatic mentor/erstwhile poodle Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, but it doesn't quite compute.
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- Valley Briefing - Beacon News
Alden sets cook-out for military families Alden Gardens of Waterford , 1955 Randi Drive, will host a cook-out at 1:30 p.m. on Memorial Day, May 26, for its residents and the families of local military personnel serving in Iraq. East Aurora JROTC ...
- SUNDAY ARTS CALENDAR (The Wichita Eagle)
EVENTS Operation Celebration: The 1940s, salute to veterans, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Mon. downtown Peabody. Today: community church service, luncheon and live music, "Faces From War" play. Mon.: memorial service (10 a.m.), Memorial Day Dinner (11 a.m.). Cost $4 commemorative lapel pin. Information, Peabody Main Street Association, 620-381-3499, online at ...
- Paralyzed Achebe Mourns Nigeria 50 Years After Seminal Novel - Bloomberg
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Chinua Achebe , Nigeria's most famous writer, lives in a modest ranch house with beige siding at the end of a quiet road on the campus of Bard College in New York's Hudson Valley region. He has been teaching literature and ...
- Isabella de' Medici. party animal - Telegraph.co.uk
Isabella de' Medici. party animalTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - May 24, 2008Wealth and privilege allowed Isabella to devote herself to the pursuit of pleasure, indulging her passions for hunting, music and poetry, partying hard, ...
- Are there any politically engaged poets out there? - OpEdNews.com
It is true that many poets were born out of necessity, from the trouble times they were living in. Poetry was then the only acceptable way to fight, because it could be less evident about what it really meant. It was often an indirect attack leaving ...
- Cleveland Museum of Art OKs second phase of expansion, says it's ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The old Indoor Garden Court in the Cleveland Museum of Art's 1916 building has been renovated to become a light-filled Baroque paintings gallery. The Cleveland Museum of Art blew past a major milestone Monday on a 10-year, $350 million expansion and ...
- LAist Interview: Ed Park, founding editor of The Believer and author of Personal Days (LAist)
Ed Park is in town this week to read from and sign Personal Days , his funny, frightening & frighteningly spot-on novel about modern-day office life in this time of mergers, acquisitions, and business books full of empty platitudes that encourage workers to "do whatever it takes" and "put the customer first." Employees go missing without reason and a rogue element shakes things up, all ...
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