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- Trio of jockey greats to visit Northlands - Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - Three of the most successful jockeys in racing history will be in Edmonton for the Canadian Derby in August. Pat Day, Laffit Pincay Jr., and Jorge Velasquez, all Kentucky Derby winners, will make a stop at Northlands as part of its ...
- Global Warming Headline Of The Day, With Robert Redford - Anorak
These days, he has a new venue for environmental activism: slam poetry. Sponsored by Redford’s Sundance Preserve, in collaboration with Youth Speaks, a nonprofit that presents spoken-word performances, the Academy Award-winning actor is getting his ...
- Two inducted into NHS at ICS - VillageSoup Belfast
Two inducted into NHS at ICSVillageSoup Belfast, USA - 5 hours agoBoucher likes photography and writing poetry. She enjoys singing in the chorus and recently appeared in the school play. A conscientious student and an ...
- Will Farrell make John Fante famous? (March 2006) - MSNBC
If you never read or even heard of John Fante don’t fret: you’re far from alone. If you’re lucky one of his books will somehow find its way to you, which is exactly what happened to me. My friend J lent me his copy of “Ask the Dust†a few ...
- Poetry column: Father muses over couple to be - The Evening Sun
Poetry column: Father muses over couple to beThe Evening Sun, PA - 3 hours agoI wanted to learn how he saw the young woman in his life. I wanted to know what his expectations had been to have had my daughter fulfill them. ...
- The longtime teacher who wrote poetry was her church’s historian - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Ruby Peters starting writing poetry as a teenager. It was a practice she would continue throughout her life. At her funeral Friday, mourners received copies of some of Ms. Peters’ poems, including some of her earliest, a reminder of her imagination ...
- Russell Banks: Class warrior in a club tie (Independent)
Spend some time with the American novelist Russell Banks, and the phrase "lived memory" will likely come up. Sitting in a back booth of the Princeton Club in New York City, a throwback to the time when men drank only with men and university ties were worn with pride, the tall, barrel-chested, white-bearded author of Affliction and 10 other novels drops the phrase several times. He is talking ...
- Will Elder; zany cartoonist for Mad and Playboy; 86 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Will Elder, an early cartoonist for Mad magazine who spent 25 years illustrating Playboy's “Little Annie Fanny†strip, which parodied the magazine's fetish for buxom women, died of Parkinson's disease Thursday at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, N.J. He was 86.
- Heroes of literacy at reading fest (The Desert Sun)
Chris Johnson believes in the power of books.
- Visit Ireland, learn about family - Myrtle Beach Sun News
Visit Ireland, learn about familyMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 1 hour agoHe won the 2007 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize for his book, "The Boatloads;" the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition for "Charon's ...
- Benjamin Bratt instills a love of work into his kids - Celebrity Baby Blog
New For Baby co-creator and designer Lyn Huffman welcomed her own new baby , Grant Michael , on June 23. To help mark the occasion her website is offering your baby some sweet duds at a sweet discount! Now through August 1, enjoy 20% off your entire ...
- The Freedom to Offend - Atlantic Free Press
The Freedom to OffendAtlantic Free Press, Netherlands - 56 minutes agoNotably, too, in the 1920's, the greatest novel of the English language, James Joyce's "Ulysses," was banned by the Tariff Act , and confiscated at American ...
- Synthia Saint James' Circle of Promise to be Unveiled (2008-06-06 - 2008-06-06) (Absolutearts.com)
Synthia SAINT JAMES will unveil her 40x30†original acrylic on canvas painting “Circle of Promise†at a very special luncheon to be held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Friday, June 6, 2008. The painting was commissioned by Susan G. Komen for the Cure in celebration of Circle of Promise, the Cure program dedicated to re-writing the story on breast cancer in the African American community. ...
- Milford to host festivals, pet parade this weekend (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
MILFORD, Pa. — Milford is the place to be this weekend if you want to listen to some music, show off your pet, hear some poetry or shop.
- The Wood Brothers play Woodstock tonight - Times Herald-Record
The Wood Brothers play Woodstock tonightTimes Herald-Record, NY - 1 hour agoOur mother was a poet, actually, so it's sort of us coming full circle, through the music, and trying our hand at the poetry in this kind of format. ...
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