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- Africa: Futampaf 2008 A Living Cultural Experience (AllAfrica.com)
The world-famous Gambian cultural extravaganza known as the Futampaf (initiation) took place on Thursday at President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh's home village of Kanilai.
- Local actors find out what's 'Happening' - Delaware Online
Acting is as much about hustle as it is about talent. At least, it seems that way when you're trying to find steady work. "It takes time and money to be able to survive," said Keith Bullard of Newark, one of several Delaware actors who briefly ...
- Copenhagen: A seasonal guide (CNN.com)
Roskilde Festival (July) The Danes love the outdoors and they love rock music; the Roskilde Festival is where they combine these passions for a weekend of drunken revelry.
- Budding Blackpool poet wins animal charity praise - Blackpool Citizen
Budding Blackpool poet wins animal charity praiseBlackpool Citizen, UK - 4 hours agoJack’s poem was shortlisted in its age category (11-13) for its imagination, technique and understanding of the issue. Animal Aid’s Competition Organiser, ...
- Mingling craft with art - The Daily Star
The Daily StarMingling craft with artThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 4 hours agoIn "Poetry of Wood-02" we see the figures of a couple, looking away from one another. A pink lotus and a head of a cow are included in the composition. ...
- A short-hand guide to the Printers Row Book Fair - Chicago Journal
A short-hand guide to the Printers Row Book FairChicago Journal, IL - 1 hour agoYCA teaches youth how to write poetry and prose, and how to perform their works with intensity and feeling. The warning about this event is that it might ...
- Yeats meets the digital age, full of passionate intensity (International Herald Tribune)
A digital resurrection allows Yeats to stride again along the hinge of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Open for viewing - Hebdenbridge Today
Open for viewingHebdenbridge Today, UK - 36 minutes agoSarah’s first collection, The Red Wardrobe, was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry award and the TS Eliot prize. The full article contains 147 words and ...
- Review: Renny Russell self-publishes sequel to his outdoor classic ... - Daily Camera
Review: Renny Russell self-publishes sequel to his outdoor classic ...Daily Camera, CO - 1 hour agoIf you're an outdoor type with an appreciation for the innate poetry of wilderness, chances are you've read the quirky classic "On the Loose," by brothers ...
- Event bears repeating - News & Star
Event bears repeatingNews & Star, UK - 4 hours ago... for the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry. Nicola Black has played with Quirkus, Damsel Jam and Ian Bruce, and graced some of Britain’s best music festivals, ...
- Greek court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the ...
- Axis of Friendship: Light a Candle for Peace on September 12 (Payvand Iran News)
On September 12, we will reignite the remaining embers of good will by creating an Axis of Friendship. Iranians, Americans, and people around the world are invited to light a candle for peace and place this candle in their window for the entire day. Join us in celebrating and honoring the humanity that connects us all.
- Michael X: A Life In Black And White, by John Williams (Independent)
Sometimes reading makes one feel old. As the fag end of the swinging Sixties merged into the sobering Seventies, John Williams was "a little white kid growing up in South Wales", seeing the Angry Brigade, the IRA and Black Power as distant spectres from the adult world. By contrast, I was newly married to a jazz musician and living in affordable Notting Hill, crossing paths with many of the ...
- Poetry about absence reflects mature growth - Kansas City Star
Poetry about absence reflects mature growthKansas City Star, MO - 25 minutes agoThe notion of light subtracting itself — a metaphor for death, as we learn in the second poem, “All the Time Running,†about a coyote hit by a car — appears ...
- Sometimes I Wonder What I'm Gonna Do! (cmi valparaÃso)
The Who wrote the best version of Summertime Blues, but the final verse needed work, so I wrote a new final verse. This should be folk music by now. Wouldn't you like to honor the last of the Jesus Freak Kid's clan? Well here's a third verse that The Who or you might want to do!
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