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- Cowboy culture remembered with music, ranch tours - Planet Jackson Hole
Cowboy culture remembered with music, ranch toursPlanet Jackson Hole, WY - 1 hour agoFinally, the Music and Poetry Roundup at 7 pm, Sept. 11, will drive cowboy culture back into the valley with The Sons of San Joaquin, the Upper Valley ...
- Shasta County man convicted of stabbing stepfather (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (5:42 p.m.) A Shasta County jury has convicted a man of stabbing his stepfather to death during an argument.
- Marco Ferreri: The Collection - GreenCine
Marco Ferreri: The CollectionGreenCine, CA - 14 minutes agoHalf soused, with a 2 am shadow and street urchin rags, Serking waltzes through the scummiest neighborhoods of the City of Angels, soaking up booze, poetry, ...
- Peek at the Week - Arlington Heights Post
Christian Fine Arts Society seeks Christian poets from Arlington Heights. $1,000 grand prize;. 50 prizes in all totaling $4,000. To enter, send one poem of 21 lines or less to Free Poetry Contest, 7308 Heritage Drive., Mount Vernon, IN 47620, or ...
- Homeless 90210: Slumming time and the livin's easy - The Associated Press
The Associated PressHomeless 90210: Slumming time and the livin's easyThe Associated Press - 52 minutes agoYoung, who cannot read or write but composes poetry in his head and performs it, has six more months in his Benedict Canyon abode. ...
- Schofield guilty of double murder in Des Moines (The Des Moines Register)
Today is the first day of the rest of Dennis "D.J." Schofield’s three lifetime sentences behind bars.
- 'I am an Arab' - MWC News
MWC News'I am an Arab'MWC News, Canada - Aug 16, 2008The Darwish family fled just before the arrival of the troops, taking 7-year old Mahmoud with them. Somehow, the family made their way back into what was by ...
- Medieval literary treasures to go online - The Independent
Manchester University's John Rylands Library will be digitising much of its renowned collection of medieval manuscripts, including parts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The project, funded by the the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), will ...
- Hearst teacher-poet Duguay now a published prizewinner - Kapuskasing Northern Times (subscription)
Hearst teacher-poet Duguay now a published prizewinnerKapuskasing Northern Times (subscription), Canada - 14 hours agoHeeding a fellow English teacher’s suggestion that she enter her poetry in Northern Ontario competitions, Hearst bard Melanie Baschiera-Duguay has won first ...
- Una Noche Idishe (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
In the timbre of the clarinet, you can hear stories tell themselves: boisterous, spirited, painful and proud. Yiddish klezmer is a sound full of color and poetry, laden with history and sung by knowing voices; voices of memory, full of struggle, full of family.
- War of the Words - Idaho Press-Tribune
Poets throughout the Treasure Valley showed how versatile words could be at the Poetry Slam DeLux, hosted by local poetry organization Big Tree Arts, in downtown Boise Monday. “A poetry slam is the competitive sport of performance poetry ...
- Paisley sets the tone for a big-tent party (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Saturday between political conventions was full of charged rhetoric, but at the Susquehanna Bank Center, Brad Paisley was having none of it. "Republican Party, Democratic Party, you can forget about it," he told the crowd. "The only party that matters is the Brad Paisley party."
- Vikings came in search of dirhams - The National
Vikings came in search of dirhamsThe National, United Arab Emirates - 15 hours agoIn a new book to be published later this year, Dr Hussain contends that this previously little known trade relationship was based on the silver used to make ...
- Unshelved comic guys, Yahoo! answers, kids' jokes on the Web - School Library Journal
We're packing for New Orleans. I'm taking my linen shirts and leaving my ties at home. If you are at ALA later this week, stop by booth 1840 and say hello. On Saturday, you'll find Rick Margolis and Daryl Grabarek (9 to 10 a.m.), Phyllis Mandell (10 ...
- Hear This Hammer Ring - Common Dreams
Stand by my side. - Langston Hughes When we first began organizing the Split This Rock Poetry Festival about a year and a half ago, I told people that we'd chosen the date to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I can't ...
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