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- George Garrett, Southern novelist - Charlotte.com
George Garrett, a highly regarded Southern novelist who never received the wide literary renown that his decades of glowing reviews would suggest, died on Monday at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 78. The cause was cancer, his wife, Susan ...
- The 5-minute Interview: Alina Ibragimova, Musician - Independent
The 5-minute Interview: Alina Ibragimova, MusicianIndependent, UK - 45 minutes agoYou know me as a musician, but in another life I'd have been ... Probably something to do with art. Or poetry. Directions. I can never find a place where I ...
- Charles Moskos, 74 Passed Away - Greek News
Charles Moskos, 74 Passed AwayGreek News, New York - 18 hours agoThat sentence is a kind of poetry, evoking whole aspects of his life in a few words. ‘Formerly of Evanston’ recalls his four decades as a popular and ...
- Free parking isn’t the answer - La Crosse Tribune
I agree that La Crosse has a wonderful downtown, and I welcome LHI headquarters and all the jobs that are in its forecast. But to suggest, as one recent letter writer did, that all we need downtown is more free parking is incorrect. We do not need to ...
- Quiet chronicler is lost - Delmarva Now
Quiet chronicler is lostDelmarva Now, MD - 3 hours agoMegargee expressed himself to most through the written word, his journalistic pieces, his poetry and his paintings. Fortunately, his voice will be preserved ...
- Artspace: Theatre helps youth bridge cultural gap - Morden Times
Artspace: Theatre helps youth bridge cultural gapMorden Times, Canada - 6 hours agoThe production was a mix of visual art and slam poetry by 15 teenagers and four adults. A student from Winnipeg painted an original piece during each show ...
- Pen stroke of genius: recalling Reed's Lloyd Reynolds - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Pen stroke of genius: recalling Reed's Lloyd ReynoldsThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 1 hour agoBits of Lloyd Reynolds are in the poetry we read, the art we admire, even the look of what we write on our computers. His way of looking at life, ...
- Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' - CNET News
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as time-sucking procrastination tools, but a new study from the University of Minnesota says au contraire . Social networks build beneficial technological, creative, and communication skills ...
- Snaps for the Kerouac Opener - indy.com
Snaps for the Kerouac Openerindy.com, IN - 2 hours agoThe whole soul-quenching experience ended up as a series of firsts for me: *First beat poetry reading experience. *First introduction to dreamer Amram, ...
- Shall I compare thee to a Poetry Idol novice? - Aucklander
Shall I compare thee to a Poetry Idol novice?Aucklander, New Zealand - 23 minutes agoYou ve heard of NZ Idol now make way for Poetry Idol. A wide range of poetry can be heard at an open-mic night at The London Bar in town. ...
- What's the worst song cover of all time? - Popwatch
Total Guitar magazine recently named Celine Dion and Anastacia's rendition of AC/CD's "You Shook Me All Night Long" (from 2002's Divas Las Vegas concert on VH1) as the worst song cover of all time. (Thanks to Popeater for the heads up.) As a rabid ...
- Robin Williams to play World's Greatest Dad - Paste Magazine
When not dispelling the notion of any involvement with the forthcoming Donnie Darko sequel, S. Darko , Richard Kelly and Co. have been brewing new material over at Darko Entertainment HQ. Darko folks Sean McKittrick, Ted Hamm and Kelly himself are ...
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant and a rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- Mohsen Allam/Egypt Today - Egypt Today
THERE ARE TWO kinds of people in this world: those who give up and those who don’t. A blend of perseverance and creativity sets them apart and yes, there’s always a little bit more of God inside them. Inas Taher (Noussa) is one of the latter. As ...
- Independent Reader: Hummingbirds, heists and lost loves - Independent News Online
DREAM YOUR WAY back in time to 1882--the summer of love, when Venus "passed like a beauty spot across the sun's face." After the Civil War, "like so many Rip Van Winkles, Americans awoke to a new world... and rubbed their eyes in disbelief." So ...
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