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- Never Before Seen Ohr History Unveiled - WLOX
Never Before Seen Ohr History UnveiledWLOX, MS - 48 minutes agoOCEAN SPRINGS (WLOX) - Photos, pottery and family documents are the pieces of George Ohr's life frozen in time. "It's been in safety deposit boxes all over ...
- Who Won the Week Day? - Washington Post Blog
It's hard not to hand a victory this week to Barack Obama . Wall-to-wall press coverage -- most of it highly positive regarding his trip to the Middle East and Europe -- followed by a scheduled appearance on " Meet the Press " this Sunday. John ...
- Sunday at the Skin Launderette, By Kathryn Simmonds (Independent)
Rather than giving in to dolefulness — the default mode of poetry past and present — Kathryn Simmonds opts for ebullience and optimism. Borrowing from Ian Dury, she lists "Reasons to Be Cheerful" in a piece entitled "Against Melancholy". Her poems are engaging, witty ideas skilfully executed in a range of forms and she has a good eye, seeing varnished floorboards split water into glassy ...
- Top picks: Banjo band Banjorama keeps plunking away - MLive.com
Courtesy photo Flint Banjo Club in 2008. After 19 years with the Flint Banjo Club, Joe Sweet has learned that there are some advantages to working with a group of 40-plus members. Especially when audiences yell out for songs you've never rehearsed ...
- The Week In Books: A feast of rich and dark materials (Independent)
Monoculture threatens literature just as much as landscape. If featureless plains of soya beans or oilseed rape can ruin not just the charm but the resilience of an eco-system, then a reading culture built around a narrow band of middle-of-the-road fiction and biography runs the risk of wrecking its fertility. From tutors on creative-writing courses I hear the complaint that their students ...
- Asian language classes to start soon - Texas Cable News
Asian language classes to start soonTexas Cable News, TX - Aug 14, 2008In addition to teaching reading and writing in Bengali, the school provided instructions on the reciting of Bengali poetry, singing of Bengali songs and ...
- Artist Biography - Alicia Keys - Billboard
Alicia Keys helped redefine the term "overnight sensation" when her 2001 debut effort, Songs in A Minor, sold more than 50,000 copies during its first day of release. Mixing R&B songcraft with a sultry dose of neo-soul, the album went on to move more ...
- Matthew Bell: The IoS diary - Independent
Matthew Bell: The IoS diaryIndependent, UK - 3 hours agoThe legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor made a rare public appearance last week at a poetry-reading of works by Sophia Tarnowska Moss. ...
- Family Digest - HometownAnnapolis.com
Counselors will be available to enroll new students at Arundel High School from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday. In addition, an orientation session will be held from 8 to 10 a.m. Aug. 26 for parents who have students entering Arundel High School for the ...
- Between the Gila River and Gila monster: Baxter Black performs Sept ... - Elko Daily Free Press
ELKO - Baxter Black, described by the New York Times as “...probably the nation's most successful living poet,” is performing a rare non-Cowboy Poetry Gathering event. Baxter will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Elko Convention Center. Tickets ...
- Momento Mori - Baltimore City Paper
Poetry about the "nature of death, our reverence for the departed, and the legacies we entrust" with Rick Royer, Elisa Urtiaga, Barbara Diehl, Tom Swiss, and Elgaroo Brenza. Open mic follows. Greenmount Ave. and East Oliver St
- BRIEFS: NEWS NEAR YOU (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
This daily column features short news items from the 20 localities that make up the greater Richmond area.
- Observations: A joyful day in the company of the Great Gatsby - The Independent
At 3pm an actor enters a stage that is fastidiously designed like a 1980s office and sits at a desk. When his computer won't start, he rifles around the cluttered desk and happens across a copy of The Great Gatsby. He begins reading it aloud, in a ...
- Accused bomber writes poems - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Accused bomber writes poemsMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 9 hours agoRead "Story of a Convict" at poetry.com by Malcolm Ward Richards II. Richards, 26, does not have a criminal history in Wisconsin, according to CCAP. ...
- Out & About - Press-Enterprise
Out & AboutPress-Enterprise, CA - 2 hours agoBIG BEAR COWBOY POETRY AND MUSIC GATHERING, today-Sunday, Big Bear Lake Performing Arts Center and on the grounds of City Hall, for information on events, ...
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