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- Seventeen, so sweet - Boston Globe
You're damn right it's okay to call them the Big Three now. (AP Photo) After the Boston Celtics' 131-92 public evisceration of the soft and soulless Los Angeles Lakers tonight to clinch their 17th world championship, let the record show that Paul ...
- Padma Lakshmi: The anti-Martha Stewart (Newsday)
Padma Lakshmi hosts 'Top Chef' and writes cookbooks. And she has more things cooking.
- Robert Rauschenberg: Restlessly experimental artist whose career was a celebration of change (Independent)
"I was the 'charlatan' of the art world. Then, when I had enough work amassed, I became a 'satirist' – a tricky word – of the art world, then 'fine artist', but who could live with it? And now, 'We like your old things better'," said Robert Rauschenberg in 1972.
- Get your story into print - This is Wiltshire.co.uk
Get your story into printThis is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK - 19 minutes agoThese will be combined with sessions on poetry reading and using the internet. It will be a great opportunity to meet up with other Carers in a relaxing ...
- Slam turns poetry into performance - Owen Sound Sun Times
Edgy, energetic, gutsy and invigorating were some of the words used to describe the poetry slam competition held in Durham on the weekend. “I’m getting goosebumps listening to it,†Dianne Ramsay, a poet from Owen Sound, said during a break in ...
- Memorable speech: An interview with David Yezzi - Enter Stage Right
David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include The Hidden Model and Sad Is Eros. His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...
- 10 top UK city breaks - Guardian Unlimited
The European Capital of Culture continues to boast a seemingly endless array of activities. Next week's Tall Ships' Races ( tallshipsliverpool.co.uk , July 18-21) should be an impressive spectacle with 70-odd international vessels. Quayside events ...
- Teachers are the pride of a nation! - Triumph
Teachers are the pride of a nation!Triumph, Nigeria - 11 minutes agoLiterature was split into drama, prose and poetry. I remember reading the mayor of Casterbridge, The lonely Londoner, and Shakespeare. ...
- Mannix is back! And he brought the rest of the '70s back with him. It ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Remember the '70s, when private eyes were private eyes? Jim Rockford, Frank Cannon, Harry O and the baddest of them all, Joe Mannix. The first season of "Mannix," which ran on CBS from 1967-75, is out on DVD. How tough was Mannix? When he got shot ...
- Rucker defends her right to be a poet - Metro
MetroRucker defends her right to be a poetMetro, UK - 11 hours agoRussell Simmons of hip-hop label Def Jam launched his stateside Def Poetry Jam and highlighted the links between contemporary prose and rap. ...
- FOL Book and Author Luncheon Featured Professional Readings (Port Washington News)
A very special feature of this year's Friends of the Library Richard D. Whittemore book and author luncheon was the reading of selected letters to and from Noel Coward.
- Contest includes short fiction and poetry writing - Summerland Review
Contest includes short fiction and poetry writingSummerland Review, Canada - 5 hours agoThe Penticton Writers and Publishers are hosting the 2008 Clem Battye Legacy Award Writing Contest opened to Short Fiction and Poetry. ...
- Poet Laureate to visit literary festival - Buckinhamshire Free Press
Poet Laureate to visit literary festivalBuckinhamshire Free Press, UK - 10 hours agoJust reading his poetry aloud is enough to grind people to a halt. "But there's no doubt that he is quite hard to access. Certainly university teachers and ...Literary festival celebrates life of Milton Buckinhamshire Free Pressall 2 news articles
- Nonprofit thinks big to recruit volunteers (Akron Beacon Journal)
Mary Ann Jackson spoke recently at an Akron Area Arts Alliance event about how to recruit and retain volunteers — a topic that's high on the list for a lot of nonprofits right now. With her talk still on my mind, I was interested to run across a news item about the RockCorps.
- BOOK REVIEW: On the dusty road to redemption (The Charlotte Observer)
In terms of literary chutzpah, writing your sophomore novel about a sophomore novelist is the kind of thing that tends to send eyebrows arching skyward. Maybe not as much as titling it "Winner of the National Book Award," as Jincy Willett once did, but still, it's a bold step. But with one move, Leif Enger defangs impending snarkiness with the deftness of a snake handler: He makes his character, ...
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