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- Liwa Date Festival gets under way - Gulf News
Abu Dhabi: The Fourth Liwa Festival kicked off in Mazirah in the Western Region on Thursday to the rhythms of Ayala (traditional dance). Shaikh Mohammad Bin Buti Al Hamed, the Ruler's representative in the Western Region, opened the main exhibition ...
- 'Only room for so many' (Post-Tribune)
Ulysses Chew bowed his head, absorbed booming bass tones into his body and penned his poetry. "I'm back in the building, back in the booth," Chew begins, "Who Dat? Mr. No Love, and this is the truth."
- Hometown homage - Guardian Unlimited
There's a wonderful line from Guy Maddin's tragicomic 2003 film The Saddest Music In The World, which states, "Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass." If Maddin were to use this to describe his latest film, the autobiographical My Winnipeg, let ...
- If Mama was president - TransWorldNews (press release)
If Mama was presidentTransWorldNews (press release), GA - 1 hour ago“Poets are born and they start writing poetry when they are two years old.†That was the first time my mother hurt my feelings. And for better or for worse, ...
- Baker Books announces winners of poetry contest (The Standard-Times)
DARTMOUTH — In honor of National Poetry Month, independent bookseller Baker Books hosted their 11th Annual Poetry-Writing Contest for children in kindergarten through eighth grade.
- Schoolboy hangs himself after row over Nintendo Wii - Daily Telegraph
Jake Roberts, 13, stormed upstairs and fastened the tie around his neck and then to his bed. He was found by his father a short while later. His parents said he could have got the idea by watching a young person hanging themselves on the television ...
- Poetry please - Hereford Times
Poetry pleaseHereford Times, UK - 23 hours agoThe invitation has gone out to poets both new and established to mark the publisher’s approaching 20th anniversary, and poems selected will be published ...
- Probing the inner life and legend of R. Buckminster Fuller - International Herald Tribune
Probing the inner life and legend of R. Buckminster FullerInternational Herald Tribune, France - 43 minutes agoThe two exchanged letters almost daily, with Fuller writing that their relationship was "completely my realization of the ideal of love. ...
- Literary Events - Washington Post
Literary EventsWashington Post, United States - 5 hours ago10:30 AM Joan Bauer reads from and discusses Peeled, her new YA novel featuring a savvy student newspaper reporter, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, ...
- Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist - Wall Street Journal
On a sunny May morning, six plainclothes police officers, two uniformed policemen and a trio of functionaries from the state prosecutor's office closed in on a small apartment in Amsterdam. Their quarry: a skinny Dutch cartoonist with a rude sense of ...
- Jimi Hendrix Guitar Set to Sell for $1million - Urban Planet
Jimi Hendrix Guitar Set to Sell for $1millionUrban Planet, UK - 14 hours agoWhile Hendrix was taken to hospital roadies passed on the guitar to friend and press officer Tony Garland. The guitar reached the hands of Hendrix’s bass ...
- Joliet library hosting events - Billings Gazette
• June 19-July 31: Summer Reading Olympics for students of all ages. Crafts and story time 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays. Reading Olympics opening ceremonies 1 p.m. Thursday. • July 19: A chat and chew featuring "Beans, Franks & Cowboy Poets," with ...
- Book Review: Literary memoir is believable (The Oklahoman)
"My Sister, My Love†by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95). Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss†Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is ...
- School remembers 'gifted' teenager - St. Albans Observer
HUNDREDS of students today paid their respects to a teenager who died unexpectedly at the weekend. Fourteen-year-old Rupert Marson died at his home in Boundary Road in St Albans on Sunday morning. The 'popular and bright' boy was remembered at a ...
- Read the best of Grantham's young writers - Grantham Today
Read the best of Grantham's young writersGrantham Today, UK - 11 hours agoYOUNG writers from schools all over Grantham competed to win a coveted poetry and prose competition. The Rotary Young Writer of the Year 2008 competition ...
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