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- Idaho History: Joaquin Miller's imagination led to a colorful career - Idaho Statesman
Joaquin Miller claimed to know what the name Idaho meant.Generations of Idahoans believed that Idaho was an Indian word, and that it meant something like "light shining down on the mountains" or "gem of the mountains." Nearly all of these fanciful ...
- The Week In Radio: A tribute to the power of love (Independent)
Across the nation, throughout Between Ourselves (BBC Radio 4, Thursday), you could hear the gentle thud of jaws dropping to the floor. In the first of a new run, the common experience uniting Olivia O'Leary's guests was that they were married to people who underwent a change of sex, and the marriage had survived the alteration: Daphne's husband was now a woman; Chris's wife a man. Just that ...
- Shocker! CW uses sex to sell `Gossip Girls,' plus Fiddy's 99-cent Taco ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The CW is promoting the return of its racy teen drama, "Gossip Girls," with a series of racy print ads, paired ironically with real-world parental-advisory lines from TV critics. Comic-Con 2008 is underway in San Diego. Entertainment Weekly has the ...
- Andrew Bird at the Music Hall; blues bash at the Ioka; Cheech and ... - Wire
Andrew Bird at the Music Hall; blues bash at the Ioka; Cheech and ...Wire, NH - 28 minutes agoAfter a lifelong career in music, she started writing poetry about two years ago, adding the pen to her arsenal of instruments. Written in flowing prose and ...
- Richard Ingrams Week': Jobs for Americans and Australians, but not ... - Independent
Richard Ingrams Week': Jobs for Americans and Australians, but not ...Independent, UK - 3 hours agoHadrian, I had been brought up to believe, was one of the more civilised of the Roman emperors, who, like Karadzic, wrote poetry in his spare time. ...
- Get Thee to a Pool, Girlfriend (New York Times)
?Twelve Ophelias,? a free summer show outdoors at the McCarren Park Pool, is too fragmentary to be much more than a curiosity.
- 2008 Best Books of Indiana named - Banner-Graphic
The 2008 Best Books of Indiana were named recently at an awards ceremony at the Indiana State Library. Started in 2005 by the Indiana Center for the Book, the state book award contest is designed to strengthen interest in Indiana's strong literary ...
- 'This Was Nothing' - The Bulletin
New?Orleans - A weaker-than-expected Hurricane Gustav swirled into the fishing villages and oil-and-gas towns of Louisiana's Cajun country yesterday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that did little more than send water sloshing ...
- Literary Happenings: Focus also on writers' rights in China (Ventura County Star)
With the Olympic Games opening in Beijing this week, the eyes of the world are focused on China. But athletics isn't the only topic under discussion. There are literary concerns, too.
- Cellist Robert deMaine to perform Schumann concerto at Orchestra Hall - MLive.com
Robert deMaine , the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's principal cellist, performs one of Schumann's boldest works, the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, at 10:45 a.m. Sept. 19; 8:30 p.m. Sept. 20 and 3 p.m. Sept. 21 at Orchestra Hall, 3711 ...
- Jimmy D. Robinson Unleashes MIND JUICE Poetry CD and Dance Remix Project (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
American poet Jimmy D. Robinson to distribute MIND JUICE, a collection of modern poems set to music, through Best Buy and additional national retailers. Jimmy D. Robinson enlists DJ Tracy Young, Josh Harris and Bruno Linares to craft international dance mixes for lead poetry track on MIND JUICE titled 'A Tiny Shoe.'
- Where the books world ends - Guardian Blogs
Early on in Byron Rogers' The Last Englishman, a biography of JL Carr, the author of A Month In The Country , I came across the following: "When the writer AN Wilson published his Penfriends from Porlock, a collection of the journalism which, in ...
- Author writes about rock 'n' roll lifestyle she envies - Des Plaines Times
For her first published novel, Forest Park author Stephanie Kuehnert decided to write about what she loves in I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone. "Music is one of my biggest passions, so I know it pretty well," said Kuehnert, 29, who will be reading ...
- Nightlife: Party like it's OKTOBER (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The Germans are coming! Or at least their annual fall festival -- Oktoberfest -- is here. Get an early start at these sites.
- Karadzic's self-image: Intellectual and poet (International Herald Tribune)
In his own mind, at least until he vanished from view in 1996 and became one of the most hunted men in Europe's history, Radovan Karadzic was a sophisticated intellectual, a psychiatrist and a poet.
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