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- Michael Swigart, ex-city manager, dead at age 63 (Desert Trail)
TWENTYNINE PALMS — Michael Swigart, who served the city of Twentynine Palms as city manager from 2002 to 2006, and who saw the city through some difficult financial times, has died.
- Time-warp tunes - Citizen Online
This year's Skaneateles Festival will take music lovers to the start of the 20th century to the depths of jazz throughout the month of August. “Music that will transport you†is the motto of the 2008 Skaneateles Festival in various locations ...
- Welsh Patagonia: Green were their valleys - Telegraph.co.uk
Welsh Patagonia: Green were their valleysTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 9 hours agoBut I had not travelled to Argentina’s Chubut province solely to ponder the poetry of empty places. On July 28, 1865, 153 men, women and children had ...
- Life lessons in song - Wicked Local Dennis
Life lessons in songWicked Local Dennis, MA - 3 hours agoStowe still works part-time and is a popular weekly entertainer at Child’s Wonderland in East Harwich. “I use a lot of poetry and stories, and everything ...
- Angus Calder - Telegraph.co.uk
Angus CalderTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoIn 1984 he helped to set up the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh and served as its first convener. As questions of Scottish national identity assumed ...
- Literary listings for August - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Literary listings for AugustPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 3 hours agoThe Battle of Homestead Foundation sponsors the free reading. Info: 412-363-5485 or 412-782-0171. The New Yinzers are back with poetry, fiction and music in ...
- Talk of the town - Pasadena Weekly
Pasadena WeeklyTalk of the townPasadena Weekly, CA - 18 hours ago... a pre-Christian Utopian vision, an indictment of the Athenian class system, a work of poetry, a political treatise, a recipe for disaster, ...
- Correspondence: On Slim Gaillard - All About Jazz
Correspondence: On Slim GaillardAll About Jazz, PA - 18 minutes ago... ranking scat singing and the African-American oral tradition thru hipster “jazz poetry" in the 50's, to the Last Poets and Gil Scot Heron in the 60's, ...
- Orange County Calendar - Los Angeles Times
Book signing: Author of "The Devil Wears Prada," Laura Weisberger discusses and signs her new book, "Chasing Harry Winston." Reservation recommended. 7 p.m. Free. Newport Beach Central Library, 1000 Avocado Ave. (949) 548-2411 or www.city.newport ...
- Shouting poetry from the rooftops (The New Zealand Herald)
From dance parties on the shores of the Thames to a temporary boating lake atop the Hayward Gallery, the South Bank - London's premiere cultural strip and home to the Tate Modern, the National Theatre and the British Film Institute - boasts some striking and unusual attractions.
- Fair-season fantasias (Toronto Star)
For those assembling a pile of kids' books in preparation for summer, here's some good reading. Written by Bonny Becker and illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton, A Visitor for Bear (Candlewick, 32 pages, $18.50, ages 2 to 4) addresses that seasonal topic of unwanted guests.
- Tantingco: The King and his Prince (Sun Star)
LAST week, an extraordinary encounter occurred between two great Kapampangan poets. It happened in Magalang and I wasn't there to witness it, but I saw the whole thing on video, and I'd like to share it with you.
- Chick Ball Song Birds (Jackson Free Press)
In June, the quintessential Jackson-area music festival Jubilee!JAM put on the best show in years, with top music acts like Three Six Mafia and ZZTop. Though generally the diversity was noteworthy, one key component was missing: female solo acts.
- Latitude 2008: DiS's festival picks - Drowned In Sound
Drowned In SoundLatitude 2008: DiS's festival picksDrowned In Sound, UK - 1 hour agoToday, he stitches his delicately crafted songs together with threads of poetry, whilst members of his band, The Sussex Wit, grant both sparse accompaniment ...
- National Junior Beta Club – living up to a legacy at Millsap - Mineral Wells Index
National Junior Beta Club – living up to a legacy at MillsapMineral Wells Index, TX - 7 hours agoIt was very inspirational – [typically about] doing your best, making life choices and being a leader,†she said. McCartney, who won first in state with her ...
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