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- Honorees Fill Days With Study, Service - Washington Post
Washington PostHonorees Fill Days With Study, ServiceWashington Post, United States - 2 hours agoShe is a member of the track and field team and the Kanopal Poetry Club. Benson was the Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2006-07 and the school's Most ...
- On landscape painting: reflections of an art teacher - Open Democracy
When art students first learn to draw, their drawings are approximations, rumours of the thing seen. This is not simply because they lack the skill to translate their subject on to a two-dimensional page, it is because they are not yet willing to see ...
- The poet of the poor - Guardian Unlimited
Ebenezer Elliott, ironmonger of Rotherham, cherished a modest hope that his verse would make him immortal: "Then let me write for immortality / One honest song, uncramp'd by forms or creeds, / That men unborn may read my times and me, / Taught by my ...
- Poetry slam: Councilor to challenge Gloucester laureate nomination (Gloucester Daily Times)
Before the Committee for the Arts' choice for the city's next poet laureate, Ruthanne "Rufus" Collinson, starts penning any acceptance speeches, her appointment will have to survive a challenge by a city councilor on Tuesday.
- As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons, depicting the former president as a corrupt leader who stifles free speech, got him in trouble with authorities and forced him to leave Moscow last year for neighboring Ukraine. "Ukraine is just great," said the ...
- Fathers and sons: The last martini (WorldNetDaily)
In the spirit of Father's Day, let's celebrate dads. Mine, for taking me fishing, even though I threw everything back.
- Congo-Kinshasa: Church Embarks On Activities for the Year of St Paul - AllAfrica.com
Congo-Kinshasa: Church Embarks On Activities for the Year of St PaulAllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour agoOn October 26, there will be a poetry and music contest on St. Paul's hymn on charity ('Love is patient...'). On January 24, 2009, the Parish of Saint Paul ...
- A prize worth cracking a beer over (Toronto Star)
An Ottawa artist who uses beer caps, auto parts and old toys to create works has won a Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Ron Noganosh will receive $35,000 and be asked to identify an emerging artist of the year, who will get $15,000. Publishing house Coach House Books gets $50,000 as the winner in the arts organization category.
- Prime Time Calendar the week of June 18, 2008 (Independent Press)
Auditions, will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 24 and Friday, June 27, at the Summit Playhouse, 10 New England Ave., Summit, for the musical, "Baby" by Maltby and Shire. Bring an up-tempo ballad. Production dates for this show are Oct. 24 to Nov. 8. Call 908-578-6882.
- Baker makes his case on the field - New York Daily News
This almost feels like training camp, with two practices today. In practice 2 of Day 1, the star was … TE Chris Baker. Four hours after ripping the organization for refusing to renegotiate his contract, Baker went out and made two diving catches in ...
- China torch relay: Huangshan - BBC News
Immortalised in Chinese poetry and paintings, and regarded as one of the most beautiful areas of China, the mountains of Huangshan are also one of the most visited by tourists. The traditional view of the area is of proud emperors on sedan chairs ...
- Media News Stories and Articles - Atlanta Journal Constitution
HD enthusiasts crying foul over cable TV's crunched signals MINNEAPOLIS — In Brent Swanson's basement home theater, there should be nothing drab about "Battlestar Galactica." He's got a high-end projector that beams the picture onto a wall painted ...
- Lately unfashionable: AE Housman - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukLately unfashionable: AE Housmanguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoTouching on a number of issues, such as Housman's classical scholarship, repressed homosexuality and of course his poetry, Dexter and Parris nevertheless ...
- What makes moms so special? Listen to kids - Green Bay Press-Gazette
Mom. She tops the list as role model, brownie baker and tear-wiper-awayer for most of us. Since today's her special day, the Green Bay Press-Gazette talked to schoolchildren about what makes mom special to them. First- graders at Pioneer Elementary ...
- A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy world - Olympian
It should be. Beeps and buzzers tell you when to jump and screaming pundits tell you what to think. Then, there are the leaf blowers, the ring-tones and that new front-loader you call a washing machine whose spin cycle needs a launching pad. Some ...
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