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- The Big Gigs (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Cedar Cultural Center's 10th and final Nordic Roots Festival features several heroes of fests past. Sounds of Sweden dominate, with sets by traditional music trio Väsen (8 p.m. today), hard-hitting electro-folkies Hedningarna (8 p.m. Sat.), energy-packed quintet Hoven Droven (8 p.m. Sun.), the sometimes stark and haunting Triakel with vocalist extraordinaire Emma Hardelin (2 p.m. Sat.) and the ...
- 'The Men in My Life' by Vivian Gornick - Los Angeles Times
'The Men in My Life' by Vivian GornickLos Angeles Times, CA - 6 hours agoEvery woman who ever immersed herself in Beat poetry and grew up mimicking Philip Roth has had to struggle with a culture that regarded her as at least ...
- China's minority language translators exceed 100,000 - Xinhua News Agency
SHANGHAI, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- China has made new advances in minority language protection, as more than 100,000 professionals and amateurs are now translating between Mandarin Chinese and minority languages. "Compared with the past, China's minority ...
- Searching for a quiet, enlightening getaway? - MSNBC
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- Monday, September 29, 2008 (Erie Times-News)
On a clear day, you can almost see forever from the 75-foot observation tower at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, 301 Peninsula Drive. Open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the center offers educational programs and interactive exhibits on the history of Presque Isle State Park, as well as movies.
- The problem with common scents - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The problem with common scentsMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 7 hours ago... Department after a dinner at D'Amico that lasted for hours. The two discussed essential oils, Shiozawa's passion for German poetry and all things French.
- Literary Calendar: September 13-19 - The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette (Montreal)Literary Calendar: September 13-19The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 5 hours agoMaxianne Berger and Peter Dale Scott read poetry as part of the Atwater Poetry Project, 7 pm at Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Ave. ...
- Cerveris, de Haas and Woods to Sing Lyrics By W. Shakespeare Sept. 15 - Playbill.com
Cerveris, de Haas and Woods to Sing Lyrics By W. Shakespeare Sept. 15Playbill.com, NY - 22 hours agoBy Adam Hetrick Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris, Darius de Haas and Carol Woods will perform Lyrics By W. Shakespeare on Sept. 15 at the Kaye Playhouse. ...
- "WTF" of the day: Wii sex game (Salon.com)
Nintendo's popular party console simulates the ultimate party activity.
- Literary journal moves to Ark. university - Maryland Daily Record
Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters & Life, a 25-year-old journal that has been available only on the Internet for the past decade, will publish an annual edition through the Conway campus. The Corpse is edited by author Andrei Codrescu. UCA ...
- Robert Redford Fights Global Warming With Poetry - NPR
Robert Redford Fights Global Warming With PoetryNPR - 3 hours agoThese days, he has a new venue for environmental activism: slam poetry. Sponsored by Redford's Sundance Preserve, in collaboration with Youth Speaks, ...
- Palestinians mourn passing of Mahmud Darwish - Al Arab Online
Palestinians mourned the passing of Mahmud Darwish, who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets. In a televised address after Darwish died on Saturday in a US hospital from ...
- The Cobain effect and other stories... - Drowned In Sound
I am a passionate person. I'm not the only one. Music is full of many things, passion I believe one of its most sacred products. It could well be the reason that we crave it so, because of the passion it appears to create… I don't read much. Some ...
- Alice McDowell wins Dan Davin Award - Southland Times
Southland TimesAlice McDowell wins Dan Davin AwardSouthland Times, New Zealand - 10 minutes agoMarion McLean won the poetry competition with her poem A Pantoum for Autumn 1964. The short story award for school-aged aspiring writers has run since 1995, ...
- Unity party going on right now (The Examiner)
The first of many acts scheduled to rouse audiences into a vibe of unity are already on the stage at the Port Arthur Pavilion.
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