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- Toon Tuesday: The curious case of Elizabeth Case - Jim Hill Media.com
Jim Hill Media.comToon Tuesday: The curious case of Elizabeth CaseJim Hill Media.com, NH - 22 minutes agoThe wonderful stylized poster featured Elizabeth Case Zwicker giving poetry readings at a local Beatnik hangout. That's right, kids. Back in the 1950s, ...
- Scratching the surface on Whistler - Boston Globe
WILLIAMSTOWN - "Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly," the Clark Art Institute's summer show examining ethereal, soft-focus effects in the paintings of James McNeill Whistler and his American followers, is a fine ...
- There is a Point to all This; it's a Semi-Colon. - Slate
Either everyone in the Fray went to the same school, or else those pesky English professors have a lot to answer for—a surprising number of posters say their teacher told them not to use the semi-colon, the punctuation mark fighting for its life in ...
- The 2008 Jackson Young Influentials (Jackson Free Press)
Jackson is the sort of place that has the potential for great change, a mid-sized city with both a rich cultural history and a fierce “up-and-coming†attitude. Given its size and accessibility, it’s also the sort of place that begs its citizens to become actively involved in the development process.
- Alameda Journal - San Jose Mercury News
Alameda JournalSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 43 minutes agoFrank Bette Center for the Arts — Second Saturday Poetry and Prose Reading, 7-9 pm June 14. Featured poets: Judy Juanita and Grace Grafton, followed by open ...
- Keep reading this post - The Corner on National Review Online
Government spokesman Elham says he does not expect further changes in the composition of the government. Mehdi Hashemi, acting minister of interior , upon taking over the ministry: "I praise God. I don't know what good deeds I have done, and whose ...
- Karadzic became one of world's most wanted men (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
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.
- A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named poet ... - Newsday
NEW YORK (AP) _ Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry ...
- Mary Queen of Scots - Music From the Movies
Music From the MoviesMary Queen of ScotsMusic From the Movies, UK - 2 hours ago... ‘Death At Kirk O’ Fields’. However, the listener might be pleasantly surprised at the extent to which Mary Queen Of Scots is sweet, melancholy poetry. ...
- James Earl Jones' Acting Resonates (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
His problem was that he stuttered, and he shut his mouth out of shame.
- Summer's bliss: Our picks for reading that will carry you away - Cleveland Plain Dealer
As summer reaches its peak, our pores open and -- if we're lucky -- our days become more languid, our minds and bodies moving a bit more adventurously in the humid air. Our choices of perch also expand -- the porch swing, the lawn chair, the Erie ...
- Carnival set for a day of family fun - Basingstoke Gazette
Carnival set for a day of family funBasingstoke Gazette, UK - 7 hours agoAfter awards have been presented on stage in the High Street the entertainment continues with poetry reading by Razbecks, singing duo Andy and Sean, ...
- Fest shakes up the Shakespeare - Pantagraph
For the first time since the Illinois Shakespeare Festival began 31 summers ago, the regime at the top is starting from scratch in their roles. They include: John Poole, festival manager; Debbie Alley, a festival veteran in her first term as full ...
- The Herald-Dispatch - Herald-Dispatch
BARBOURSVILLE -- Barboursville Volunteer firefighters responded to a fire on Palm Drive in Island Estates early Sunday morning. "The house sustained major damage," said Keith Huffman, a Barboursville volunteer firefighter who was on the crew ...
- First-grader’s poem to be published nationwide - Summit Daily News
SILVERTHORNE — A poem by Silverthorne Elementary first-grader Madison Lytle, 7, will be published nationally this fall in “Young American Poetry Digest.†“She just has a flow of words that is just incredible,†Pat Hale, Madison’s teacher ...
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