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- Stand-out shows this week: Talib Kweli, Santogold, Sigur Ros - Oregonian
Who? Pronounced just like his name looks, even if it doesn't exactly roll off everyone's tongues. What? Hip-hop that turns on pull-no-punches social observation, sharply expressed. Why should you care? Kweli's constantly been on the verge of breaking ...
- Park Plaza, 2 leading city clubs penalised - Tribune
The Excise and Taxation Department of the state has imposed penalty, entertainment duty and interest on city’s leading hotel Park Plaza and two renowned clubs, Club Nirvana and Lodhi Club, for evading tax on earnings during the New Year eve. While ...
- 'Left-wing' writer denies applying for travel grant - Globe and Mail
Canadian Abroad from Belgrade, Canada writes: Strange as it may seem, Canada and her artists are well respected in the the world. Having lived in three other countries, and visited many, I can testify that Canada, Canadian culture and values are ...
- Rambert Dance Company at The Lowry, Salford - Times Online
Rambert Dance Company at The Lowry, SalfordTimes Online, UK - 18 minutes agoThis mournful, earth-bound bird is - I'm guessing - meant to symbolise precious, precarious life and/or the environment. Goodall's music, sung by a ...
- Italian singer adds new facet to Rabindra Sangeet (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's music transcends geography and culture. For Italian singer Francesca Cassio, a blue-blooded Roman, it is both a passion and vocation.
- Jul 13 - Jul 19 (176) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
July 6, 2008 - July 12, 2008 | Main Thursday, July 17, 2008 Poetry News 17 Jul 2008 04:27 pm Kay Ryan, an openly lesbian poet, has been named the new poet laureate.
- Glebside Community Week attacked: Claim - Ballymoney Times
Glebside Community Week attacked: ClaimBallymoney Times, UK - Aug 28, 2008"The Community Funday this year alone had a number of Ulster Scots based projects such as Ulster Scots language, poetry, cookery and music. ...
- Thousands expected at funeral for - The Age
Thousands expected at funeral forThe Age, Australia - Aug 12, 2008He penned over two dozen books of poetry and prose in a career spanning nearly a half-century that captured the Palestinian experience of war, exile, ...
- In the footsteps of a trailblazer: First woman to scale Pikes Peak - Colorado Springs Gazette
In the footsteps of a trailblazer: First woman to scale Pikes PeakColorado Springs Gazette, CO - 1 hour agoSure, rugged men had climbed it, but she read transcendentalist poetry aloud at the top, wrote letters using a summit rock as a desk and donned a radical ...
- Profile: Leonard Cohen - Times Online
Leonard Cohen’s habit of going into every concert with a prayer on his lips is hardly surprising. He believes that someone took a shot at him long ago at a concert in France that was attended by rowdy Maoists. As he reflected later: “They’re ...
- Author Ha Jin still waiting for the right time to visit his native China (The Kansas City Star)
On a trip that has put him the closest he has been to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books.
- 'Man on Wire' scales the heights of acrobatic feat (The Tennessean)
Atop the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the high-wire walker Philippe Petit is an epic poem in motion. In Man on Wire, the site of his accomplishment — he walked back and forth between the towers eight times in his 1974 acrobatic feat — registers, in its own balletic way, as potently as King Kong climbing to the top of the Empire State Building.
- Photo courtesy of Tulane University Publications - The Nation.
The Nation.Photo courtesy of Tulane University PublicationsThe Nation., NY - 5 hours agoAt Tulane, such courses range from English students teaching after-school poetry programs, to architecture students surveying communities and homes still ...
- EIPHD schedules flu clinics (The Challis Messenger)
Flu season is right around the corner and Eastern Idaho Public Health District (EIPHD) has scheduled flu shot clinics in Challis and Mackay. It is estimated that approximately 36,000 people die in the U.S. every year due ro complications from the flu.
- EXPRESS FEATURES SERVICE - Chandigarh Newsline
EXPRESS FEATURES SERVICEChandigarh Newsline, India - 38 minutes ago... Samaj College for women, had as many as 90 students from ten colleges participated in poetry writing, prose, short story, play-writing, competitions. ...
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