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- Well-loved English teacher retires after almost 20 years (Westchester Suburban Life)
Over the past two decades, an endless number of students have sat at their desks, shooting dagger eyes at Lucille Perry while scrawling out her infamous punishment — a lengthy written apology dubbed “The Sentence.â€
- Langhorne Slim loves those love songs - Asheville Citizen-Times
Decked out in a fedora and a thrift store suit, Langhorne Slim delivers an edgy mix of alt-folk and urban new school blues as he croons through witty heart-on-the-sleeve love songs. Slim originally hails from rural Pennsylvania, but he eventually ...
- Celebrate the monsoon - Hindu
HinduCelebrate the monsoonHindu, India - 45 minutes agoIt’s there in everything about the people here — in the songs and the music, in their poetry and literature, in the paintings of the masters, in the stories ...
- Sanya Richards clinches Olympic berth (Miami Herald)
Sanya Richards has her eyes locked on a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. But that didn't prevent her from looking past the first step toward being best in the world, which was to confirm that she is best in the nation in the 400-meter sprint. Slicing through a headwind on the backstretch and gaining momentum with a tailwind on the homestretch, Richards won her race by three strides at the ...
- Cultural Center of Cape Cod - Barnstable - Register
Cultural Center of Cape CodBarnstable - Register, MA - 2 hours agoCreative Writing: July 14-18, kids will write both poetry and prose, revise, and present their work. Visual Arts: July 28-Aug. 1, kids will be engaged in ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, July 11th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Friday, July 11thOpEdNews, PA - 3 hours agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- ‘Carnival of the Animals’ frames arts extravaganza - Marblehead Reporter
‘Carnival of the Animals’ frames arts extravaganzaMarblehead Reporter, MA - 5 hours agoDisplayed on free-standing partitions colorful drawings complemented explanations of particular music vocabulary and poetry like that of second-grader ...
- Outdoorsman Ed Rogers lives life on the ‘fly’ - Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Filled with bright daylight, Ed Rogers’s den reflects his love for both the outdoors and literature: book-laden shelves line the walls, topped off with salmon and trout fly displays, duck decoys and photos of wild streams, landscapes, a mounted 7.5 ...
- Namibia: Warner Releases Debut Album (AllAfrica.com)
Namibian R&B singer/songwriter, Christi Warner, last week released her debut album entitled I Found My Rhythm to local Windhoek-based music shops such as Universal Sounds & Mono Music, it was announced in a press statement.
- NEWS: Erickson '09 establishes First Voices newspaper (The Dartmouth)
Feeling marginalized after last fall's debates surrounding the College's use of a Native American mascot, Agatha Erickson '09 created First Voices, a publication for members of Dartmouth's indigenous communities to express themselves and educate others.
- Mary Whitehouse is the real monster (Times Online)
One of the least pressing problems of the 21st century is that we don’t have a postmodern Mary Whitehouse. Ann Widdecombe was almost it, but the peroxide hair ruined it. Edwina Currie showed early promise, but then kissed and told and told and told.
- Something about Mary (Stuff)
This story begins at its end, in the nook of a North Sydney chapel where an elderly woman in black kneels on a cushion crocheted with Sturt desert peas, crosses herself and prays with one hand on a white marble tomb.
- Reclaiming an ancient wedding ritual - News Today Online
News Today OnlineReclaiming an ancient wedding ritualNews Today Online, Philippines - 3 hours agoNow at 47, she's anxious to once again see the beauty of the ritual and to hear the lavish poetry of the ceremony. It was 37 years ago, long forgotten but ...
- Simic stepping aside as U.S. poet laureate (UPI)
WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- A lecture on poetry translation will be the final time Charles Simic speaks as U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress said.
- Book festival receives grants (Casper Star-Tribune)
The Casper College/ARTCORE "Equality State Book Festival" recently received grants totaling more than $48,722 from outside funders, according to a release from the college.
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