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- Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserve (Independent)
Arresting headlines all last week. "Police arrest Batman" caught the eye. "Police arrest Balls" would have been better, but Ballsing up the education of thousands is not yet considered a crime in this country. Unlike ballsing up your own disappearance which in any decent society would not be considered an offence.
- First Friday a homecoming celebration (Mount Vernon News)
MOUNT VERNON -- The Heritage Centre Association is planning the final First Friday of the season for Oct. 3. Knox Community Hospital and Warehouse Music are the event sponsors.
- Zultys et al Ring in Wireless Telephony at Eisteddfod - PR Web (press release)
Zultys et al Ring in Wireless Telephony at EisteddfodPR Web (press release), WA - 2 hours agoThe National Eisteddfod of Wales, one of the world's greatest festivals dating back to the year 1176, will kick off with Celtic folk music, bardic poetry ...
- Go! The St. Louis Weekend Calendar, August 22-24, 2008 - Riverfront Times
Go! The St. Louis Weekend Calendar, August 22-24, 2008Riverfront Times, MO - 5 hours agoThen get your inspiration on at 9:30 pm when the Spoken Word Groove open mic poetry reading begins, $5 cover. Call 314-361-2015 or 314-995-9570 for more ...
- Nothing small about nano (Hindustan Times)
Truckers’ graffiti standing in for bumper sticker. What used to be a child’s lisping farewell is now deadly serious business. This week, Tata’s threat to withdraw the Nano from West Bengal made as many headlines as Bihar’s sorrow and the violence in Orissa.
- Street life on Kwame Nkrumah (ZWNEWS.com)
Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, is full of buildings that look like giant matchboxes at night. Dusk was falling when, after attending a poetry session at the Book Café - an artist's hangout at the edge of the city centre - I decided to take a walk through the streets.
- Pakistani writer regales audience - Gulf Times
WELL-KNOWN Pakistani writer and orator Mohamed Kabir Khan entertained the audience at a seminar on ‘humour and satire’ organised by the Pakistan Cultural Forum (PCF) at the embassy auditorium to mark Pakistan’s Independence Day. UAE-based Khan ...
- Community calendar EVENTS - Daily Comet
Community calendar EVENTSDaily Comet, LA - 55 minutes agoThe Louisiana State Poetry Society’s Bayou Chapter meets from 7 to 8:30 pm the first Thursday of each month at the Terrebonne Parish Library, ...
- Morrison Library Revives Graphic Arts Loan Program - Art Daily
Morrison Library Revives Graphic Arts Loan ProgramArt Daily - 2 hours agoSchaefer called the removal of some prints from circulation "sad but inevitable." During the program's hiatus, Warren said Internet and computer programming ...
- Pumpkin party in Blackwood (Courier-Post)
The 17th annual Blackwood Pumpkin Festival comes to Harwan Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
- The Iliad and The Odyssey remain awesomely true - TheChronicleHerald.ca
The Iliad and The Odyssey remain awesomely trueTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoIn prose that is always lucid, magisterial, and touched with its own poetry as well as that of the sundry authors he cites, Manguel’s history of the success ...
- Poetry marathon cancelled - Newsdurhamregion.com
Poetry marathon cancelledNewsdurhamregion.com, Canada - 1 hour agoThe Pickering Public Library was all set to host the writing marathon from Tuesday, Aug. 19 to Wednesday, Aug. 20 to raise funds for the legendary Al ...
- Bostonist Book Review: Figures and Figurations (Bostonist)
Figures and Figurations is the second most recent husband/wife book published by New Directions (the other being Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop), and it's a worthwhile read: Marie Jose Paz made Cornell-styled collages for little over a decade, and then Octavio Paz wrote poems to, about, and for them, twelve in all. The result is this book, which is coming ...
- 'Beauty and war' paintings by Barış Sarıbaş at Dirimart - Today's Zaman
Today's Zaman'Beauty and war' paintings by Barış Sarıbaş at DirimartToday's Zaman, Turkey - 14 minutes agoOne work in the previous exhibit depicted a landscape in warm ochre tones punctuated with cypress trees, tropes for beauty and tranquility in Ottoman poetry ...
- Clubs, concerts, comedy and more (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
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