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- Fires rip through historic Big Sur (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
BIG SUR - Like snowflakes, ash drifts across the elegant patio of the Ventana Inn & Spa. Smoke and fog veils vast Pacific views. Dense fog has slowed the spread of the Basin Complex Fire but it remains largely uncontained in this rugged Eden, the intellectual home of Beat poetry, gestalt therapy and modern photography. From poet Robinson Jeffers to photographer Edward Weston, its dramatic ...
- Youth Speaks Hawaii wins, attracts HBO (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
They came, they spoke -- and they won! Twice over, in fact.
- FOXSexpert: How to Be Sexier (FOX 11 News Los Angeles)
Get a glimpse and you want it. See others’ reactions and you need it. Whether it’s a devilish look, a suggestive gesture, or enticing innuendo, we all desire it at some point – that state of being sexy. There’s a lot to get turned on to in this world. Who doesn’t appreciate an impressive physique? Or get charged from catching a flash of femme fatale thigh-highs? Or feel flushed all over from the ...
- How Miley can get the best of both worlds (New York Daily News)
Lately, Miley Cyrus has been doing her damnedest to make the transition from imp to icon, with considerable help from the worldwide powerhouse that is the Disney empire. But her first move in this direction backfired big time.
- UConn program gives 7th-graders an early start (Stamford Advocate)
STAMFORD - Try solving this on an empty stomach: If there are six people in a room, how many different ways can they be lined up against a wall?
- 'Public Enemies' downtown shots could begin Tuesday (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Spring Green - For the first time since 1994, James DeVita will not be acting on the American Players Theatre's outdoor stage this summer. But the audience favorite is still closely involved in the company's 2008 season.
- WCAC programs give youths a second chance - Worcester Telegram
WCAC programs give youths a second chanceWorcester Telegram, MA - 1 hour agoThe Worcester County Poetry Association will celebrate the 92nd birthday of Gertrude Halstead, Worcester’s first poet laureate, on July 20. ...
- Black poet, journalist advised young Obama (Honolulu Advertiser)
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white.
- Not a book in sight - Games Asylum
Not a book in sightGames Asylum, UK - 7 hours agoOn the Alternative Stage, Chris Hicks and Ross Sutherland performed a piece (poetry, spoken word, rap - call it what you will) about dying in Time Crisis II ...
- Top Books for the Globally Enlightened Student - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just in case your summer reading list has wilted in the heat, my good friend John Nunes, president of Lutheran World Relief , recently posted a booklist of top books for the globally enlightened student . The list was in response to a college ...
- New features at this year’s Stan Rogers Folk Festival - Pictou Country Nova Scotia News
New features at this year’s Stan Rogers Folk FestivalPictou Country Nova Scotia News, Canada - 14 hours agoThe festival always offers a sampling of other performance arts, such as dance, poetry and theatre. One treat this year will be that some of the featured ...
- Christina Patterson: Where poetry still has power (Independent)
Mahmoud Darwish, who died at the weekend, was, according to the Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif, "the last poet who could fill a football stadium". In a country that regards poetry as a pastime for the lost and the lonely – like, say, knitting tea cosies, or making wicker baskets – this is quite hard to understand. Celine Dion fills football stadiums. So does Elton John. So does Simply Red. But ...
- Sault post-grad student proves herself 'best of the best' - Sault Star
Sault post-grad student proves herself 'best of the best'Sault Star, Canada - 1 hour agoAnd by her 11th birthday, she had poetry published in a US magazine. Needless to say, Burns ascended to the top of her class at an early age. ...
- Paul Morley's Guide to Musical Genres, Radio 2 - Independent
Paul Morley's Guide to Musical Genres, Radio 2Independent, UK - 12 hours agoAnd the subject is larger than you think – so perhaps Morley's rambling, free-associative style fitted it very well. It was an example of the very thing he ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 (Las Vegas Sun)
Sun, Aug 10, 2008 (12:06 a.m.) Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67.
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