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- 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 ...
- Arts community feels snub as council picks Gloucester's new poet ... - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeArts community feels snub as council picks Gloucester's new poet ...Boston Globe, United States - 1 hour ago"The poetry scene in Gloucester has been dominated by men as long as I can remember." The committee found its treatment by the council demeaning, ...
- Taking stock of Tao Lin - Guardian Blogs
Unfortunately I've missed my chance to buy shares in Tao Lin's new novel . Tao, who decided to sell the shares to tide him over after he quit his job, writes on his blog that they are no longer available - although there is a waiting list in case any ...
- Destination: Ireland - Salon
Put aside stories of a freezing, exotic locale full of igloos and kooks in favor of these portraits of the hardscrabble -- and magical -- Northern state. The most serendipitous literary experience I have had was when I found myself, very many years ...
- Poetry prize awarded at festival (BBC News)
One of the largest-ever prizes for a literary competition in Scotland is awarded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
- At the library (West Roxbury Transcript)
Check out what's happening at the West Roxbury and Roslindale branch libraries:
- Bronx teens audition for roles in remake of 1980 film 'Fame' - New York Daily News
New York Daily NewsBronx teens audition for roles in remake of 1980 film 'Fame'New York Daily News, NY - 4 hours agoSome of the men were "very skeptical" about a role that requires belting out poetry, Williams said. The girls vied to play parts like the one of Alice, ...
- Karadzic became one of world's most wanted men (Reuters via Yahoo! India News)
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested on Monday, saw himself as a defender of Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war but ended up a fugitive wanted on genocide charges.
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life - Radar Online
Patti Smith: Dream of LifeRadar Online, NY - 1 hour agoThe film opens with a blurry shot of running horses (a reference to her debut album) and Smith dishing hard-knuckled wisdom in spoken-word poetry. ...
- North Beach old-timer lands in hospital - San Francisco Gate
On June 5, an elderly man named Jerry Kulek was evicted from his North Beach apartment for falling two months behind in the rent. He lived on the streets for three weeks before he collapsed on the sidewalk in front of Washington Square. He had ...
- Trinity professor writes gripping bio of Ringelblum (Connecticut Jewish Ledger)
“Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive,†by Samuel D. Kassow, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2007. $34.95, 523 pages
- Stagecoach Days return June 14 (Navasota Examiner)
Start your summer vacation with a visit to Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas! On Saturday, June 14, we will celebrate Stagecoach Days with an all-around family event.
- SeedQuest - Central information website for the global seed industry (SeedQuest)
The Harlan II International Symposium , the successor to a program held 11 years ago in Syria, is dedicated to the late crop evolutionist Jack R. Harlan. It will focus on the importance of using and conserving not just a diversity of species, but also genetic diversity within species.
- Sanford High teacher headed to DC for Holocaust symposium - Foster's Daily Democrat
Sanford High teacher headed to DC for Holocaust symposiumFoster's Daily Democrat, NH - 39 minutes agoNear the end of the 20-week course, the students fulfill a presentation of 10 components, which includes creating a collage; writing poetry; ...
- Travelling with Norman Lewis - Telegraph.co.uk
Travelling with Norman LewisTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 4 hours agoVoices of the Old Sea, the record of the three years he spent in a Catalan fishing village after the war, is pure poetry but painful to read now as this ...
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