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- Parker: Candidates play el panderosa - Austin American-Statesman
Juan y Baracko have been busy lately wooing los que hablan español. That is, people who speak Spanish. With an estimated 9.2 million Hispanic votes in play this November, the stakes are high. And the pandering is in high gear. Both men have put out ...
- Bathinda, April 12 - Tribune
The ongoing tussle between the Congress factions owing loyalty to Capt. Amarinder Singh and PPCC chief Rajinder Kaur Bhattal is generating much speculation ahead of the Baisakhi conference here. Supporters of party MLAS, Jeet Mohinder Singh and ...
- China's 'ultimate place to relax' (BBC News)
As part of a series of features following the route of the Olympic torch around China, the BBC looks at the mountainous Huangshan.
- Memorial Day II - Swampland
Memorial Day IISwampland - 3 hours agoThanks to the commenters for all the wonderful poetry below. It really is the best way to remember the obscenity of war and to honor the dead. ...
- Big secrets - Age
Smooth operator ... Chris Noth has made a career out of playing alpha males. Chris Noth is not a morning man. he missed his first round-table at the press junket today. Yesterday was worse: according to one anxious publicist, he sat through a series ...
- People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term 'Lesbian' - San Francisco Gate
A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay ...
- Kids get off on write foot - Glasgow Evening Times
Kids get off on write footGlasgow Evening Times, UK - 2 hours agoHis brief is to engage over 3000 young people in poetry, as well as promoting reading and writing. Jasmine Fassl, of tour organisers the Scottish Book Trust ...
- The veil vs. French values (Salon.com)
A Muslim woman is denied citizenship -- some say because she wears the niqab.
- Update on homelessness discussions (York Daily Record)
Representatives of local congregations, social-service agencies and faith-based groups continue to discuss ways to help the homeless and transient populations in York County.
- Dylan Thomas Prize Finalists Announced (The New York Sun)
The 14 finalists for the Dylan Thomas literary prize were announced yesterday, the BBC reported. The award honors English-language works by authors under 30, and is one of the largest literary purses an author can receive. At a press conference in Swansea, Wales, the late poet's hometown, actor Michael Sheen read the names of works of fiction and poetry that will vie for the $115,000 prize, to ...
- Freelance Writer - Winnipeg Free Press
My mom used to tell me a story once in awhile, about how she considered giving me up for adoption. She was 17, unmarried and a small-town girl when she got pregnant with me. At the time, it was a major sin. You might as well have branded her or sewn ...
- Street Scene, Young Vic, London (Independent)
Kurt Weill called Street Scene "a Broadway opera", but there aren't too many operas with a wild jitterbug that segues into a slutty blues or a children's chorus who chant, "My father's name is Rockefeller./He shovels diamonds in the cellar." Into his 1947 musical version of Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Weill emptied a cornucopia of influences – Wagner, Puccini, folk song, jazz, operetta, and his ...
- Poetry's promoter - Indianapolis Star
Poetry's promoterIndianapolis Star, United States - 13 hours agoAs poet laureate Joyce Brinkman's term winds to a close, she looks back over her three years as the state's poetry's pioneer ambassador. ...
- County library - Charleston Post Courier
County libraryCharleston Post Courier, SC - 2 hours agoThe Main Branch Poetry Series: June 24, 7-8 pm The Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts, and the Charleston ...
- Poets honour fallen friend - Barbados Advocate
The Green Readings at the Cloister Book-store on Saturday offered mixed feelings for the local literary community. The 2nd Green Reading was to feature a reading by Voices co-ordinator, Deborah "Debbie" Callender, but her sudden death on Monday, June ...
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