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- Star power meets philanthropy with celeb charities - Miami Herald
NEW YORK -- Bono battles the AIDS epidemic. Leonardo tries to make the world a greener place, and Martha has a soft spot for animals. For today's celebs, charity work is almost as much a part of the job as walking the red carpet. Famous names have ...
- On the weekend: Entertainment listings - Kalamazoo Gazette
Mark Colby -- Jazz saxophonist, workshop, 4-6 p.m. Oct. 9, free and open to the public. 337-7070 or www.kzoo.edu/music . Poet Steve Orlen will read at 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at The Little Theater. Gwen Frostic Reading Series: Poetry reading by Steve Orlen ...
- There's Something Salvageable In Rick Reilly's Craft - Deadspin
There's Something Salvageable In Rick Reilly's CraftDeadspin, NY - Jul 20, 2008Having said all that, Rick Reilly's slam poetry session on the British Open had moments of brilliance, and other times moments of anguish. ...
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Your purchases from the NPR Store support WAMU 88.5WAMU, Washington DC - Oct 7, 2008Donald Hall, US Poet Laureate 2006-2007. He has received several national poetry prizes and published more than 15 books of poetry.
- War over how to thin herds rages in mustang country - San Francisco Gate
(07-20) 04:00 PDT Gerlach, Nev. -- Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape to the wind. Pursued by a helicopter, they ran into a corral - unwilling recruits in an emotional debate over whether ...
- Coming Attractions: Madison team's dates, locations set for National ... - Wisconsin State Journal
NATIONAL POETRY SLAM, Tuesday, Aug. 5 to Saturday, Aug. 9, various downtown Madison venues, www.nps2008.com . Madison team competes at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 and 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 at the Brink Lounge. Twenty-five teams compete in the semi ...
- Literary Reviews: Exceptional work emerges here at special events - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteLiterary Reviews: Exceptional work emerges here at special eventsPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 4 hours agoBy Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oliver Lake and his jazz band perform at the Jazz Poetry Concert 2008 sponsored by the City of Asylum/Pittsburgh on ...
- Patsy L. Gilchrist - Parkersburg News & Sentinel
She was born July 16, 1951 in Parkersburg, a daughter of the late James E. and Ruby Byers Gilchrist. She was an Administrative Assistant at DuPont for 35 years and was a member of New Hope Baptist Church. She enjoyed writing poetry and was a member ...
- Concert Review: Dinosaur Annex, Cantata Singers, and Collage New ... - Bostonist
Concert Review: Dinosaur Annex, Cantata Singers, and Collage New ...Bostonist, MA - 12 minutes agoVocal embellishments and the forced repetition of lines seemed to work against that back-of-a-napkin brevity that puts Williams' poetry at the opposite end ...
- Taliban using text messages, ring tones - MSNBC
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia’s views through songs available as ring tones, according to a ...
- Woman Sentenced For Witness Tampering - The Bulletin
Philadelphia - A woman convicted of witness intimidation was sentenced to two and half years in prison yesterday. During her trial, Adero Mahia Miwo, 25, of Jenkintown, confessed to intimidating a government witness in a federal drug case. She was ...
- Ursula K. Le Guin reading will likely pack the library - Albany Democrat Herald
Ursula K. Le Guin reading will likely pack the libraryAlbany Democrat Herald, OR - 28 minutes agoLe Guin’s latest novel is an imagining of the life of Lavinia, who gets only a brief mention as the second wife of Aeneas in Virgil’s epic poem the Aeneid. ...
- The race to succeed Gordon Brown - Economist
EconomistThe race to succeed Gordon BrownEconomist, UK - 11 hours agoTHE poetry of Alfred Tennyson is the kind of thing Gordon Brown, perhaps Britain’s most literate prime minister since Winston Churchill, takes with him on ...
- Canadian's first novel brings a $1.25-million advance - Daily Gleaner
Canadian's first novel brings a $1.25-million advanceDaily Gleaner, Canada - 1 hour agoHe has been writing seriously since age 16, penning screenplays, stage plays, short stories and poetry. Prior to The Gargoyle, a few of his poems had been ...
- Jeff Biggers: Iran: Reading Tehran With Lolita (Time to Publish Iranian Writers) (HuffingtonPost)
While Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, chronicled her efforts to teach forbidden Western literature, most Americans would be hard pressed to recall a single novel from Nafisi's native country.
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