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- 'Post Consumed' at the Center for Land Use Interpretation - Los Angeles Times
One of the best things about exhibitions at the Center for Land Use Interpretation is that they present visitors with loads of information without telling them what to think. "Post Consumed: The Landscape of Waste in Los Angeles" is vintage C.L.U.I ...
- Radovan Karadzic: the master of life and death - Daily Telegraph
The Father Christmas beard, the knotted ponytail and the smeared glasses have gone. Radovan Karadzic, freshly clean-shaven, now sits in his cell, reading the Bible obsessively. In the past week, the two lives he managed to keep separate for 12 years ...
- What’s going on | Kitsap County Events Calendar for Aug. 16 - Bothell Reporter
THE f67 CAMERA CLUB: Will be meeting at 7 p.m. Aug. 18 in room 106 of the art building at Olympic College Bremerton for a special monochrome only print night and workshop. Visitors welcome. Info: www.f67cameraclub.org or call (360) 275-3019. CULTURAL ...
- From A to Zyxt (New York Times)
Ammon Shea spends a year plowing through the entire Oxford English Dictionary – and lives to write about it.
- The Philly Fringe in full gear - News of Delaware County
The Philly Fringe in full gearNews of Delaware County, PA - 4 hours agofrom Wallingford's Theatre for Transformation (about Ben Franklin's African-American contemporaries) and the dance-theatre-poetry fusion work "Poet-tress EN ...
- RACE RELATIONS: Civil rights monument unveiled on Va. Capitol lawn - Delmarva Daily Times
RICHMOND — For the first time Monday, statues of black children and civil rights leaders were placed alongside statues of some men who had worked to deny racial equality on the lawn of what was once the Confederate Capitol. Thousands of people ...
- Writing Outside The Margins hits Toronto's streets (North York Mirror)
Canada's Festival of Queer Literary Arts returns to the city on Sunday, Aug. 24. The all-day festival, Writing Outside The Margins, features an array of activities for everyone, including panel discussions, an open-mic stage, a poetry slam, children's area and exclusive readings.
- What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling - Variety
VarietyWhat's That Smell: The Music of Jacob SterlingVariety, CA - 51 minutes agoInsights into Jacob's personal life; his identity as a gay, Jewish man; his lucklessness in love; his sexual addiction; and fraught relationship with his ...
- Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 - Forbes
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights ...
- Sheffield writer shortlisted for poetry prize - Sheffield Telegraph
Sheffield writer shortlisted for poetry prizeSheffield Telegraph, UK - 6 minutes agoA WRITER from Sheffield has made the shortlist for the 2008 Forward Poetry Prize, Britain's most valuable poetry prize. Frances Leviston's Public Dream is ...
- Yard Dogs hop the train to fame (Asbury Park Press)
The Yard Dogs Road Show is a modern-day living patchwork of carnival-inspired road show entertainment. Inspired by American road culture of the 1800s, show performances are complete with hobo poetry, cabaret, vaudeville and rock 'n' roll.
- The parking lot at night (Rocky Mountain News via Yahoo! News)
FREE SPEECH ZONE - It's like a scout camp. But it's unlike any scout camp that's ever existed before.
- Sweet, sassy 'Sisters' reopens Ruby's - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Sweet, sassy 'Sisters' reopens Ruby'sMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoTheir sweet singing is part of "Sisters," a terrific revue with music, poetry and mature comedy. It all hits such warm spots that even someone with only one ...
- Jeremy Paxman ridicules Robert Burns as king - Times Online
Times OnlineJeremy Paxman ridicules Robert Burns as kingTimes Online, UK - 20 hours ago... explosive vernacular and insipid English, vigorous bawdry and pietistic moralising, who was prevented from writing sustained poetry of the very highest ...
- No fencing in L-W East's Thompson (The Lincoln-Way Sun)
As a poet, Ezra Pound was credited with playing a crucial part in the modernist movement of 20th century literature. As a safety, Lincoln-Way East's Ezra Thompson has been the epitome of Ezra Pound as in "Ezra pounds the running back" or "Ezra pounds the wide receiver."
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