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- Artist describes work as 'my life on canvas' - Roanoke Times
Gallery owner Beverly Bishop talks with customers and family members at the grand opening of her gallery, Studio 325, in Radford. The building started as a theater about 1915 and remained a performance space until about 1953, Bishop said. "Once I ...
- A scary time (Goulburn Post)
THERE'S a new book out that claims the Japanese never intended invading Australia. Now they tell us! It might be true that the Japanese supply lines would have been too long to maintain a force in Australia - but nobody told us that in the 1940s.
- Book Review - Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat edited by Nikki Giovanni (Blogcritics.org)
A marvelous book and CD set. Stories in Rhythm. Operatic vernacular. Poetry with a beat. Call and Response. One part story and one part rhythm. These are some of the terms the poet Nikki Giovanni uses to describe Hip Hop in her marvelous introduction to this astounding and beautiful book, Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Really? Opera? Read on, because Giovanni enlightens,...
- Bailout Flameout Fallout - Slate
The L.A. Daily News on its city's seeming unshrinkable downtown education bureaucracy : [A] Daily News review of salaries and staffing shows LAUSD's bureaucracy ballooned by nearly 20 percent from 2001 to 2007. Over the same period, 500 teaching ...
- Diane Ronayne: Idaho Nonprofit Center plans October conference - IdahoStatesman.com
Diane Ronayne: Idaho Nonprofit Center plans October conferenceIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 5 hours agoHe invites anyone who wants to support this cause to donate online at www.expeditioninspiration.org. Ahsahta Press will release seven new books of poetry in ...
- Express Lane: Titanic rhymes; Tomato tasting; Wine School Class 101 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Titanic rhymesThe sinking of the Titanic is the stuff of legend. But is it the stuff of poetry? All Milwaukee students in grades three through 12 can decide for themselves through a student poetry competition being held by th...
- 6th-round pick impressing 49ers coaches (San Mateo County Times)
The 49ers have had more than their share of high-maintenance wide receivers. Terrell Owens, Antonio Bryant and Brandon Lloyd spring to mind. More 49ers
- Local poet writes 10th book (The Daily Item)
SELINSGROVE -- Local poet Gary Fincke has a talent for making the unfamiliar feel like home. Fincke tunes all of his keen senses on and doesn't ever shut them off in his newly-released full-length book of poetry, "The Fire Landscape."
- Intrepid English editor leads kids to land of Ology in fictional ... - Ventura County Star
Intrepid English editor leads kids to land of Ology in fictional ...Ventura County Star, CA - 9 hours agoHe studied English literature and philosophy at Bristol University, where he wrote poetry. He trained as an English teacher and spent five years living in ...
- Short Comings - Shawnee News-Star
Individual Artists of Oklahoma will sponsor an open-mike poetry reading at 7 p.m. at Benedict Street Marketplace. Jennifer Kidney, Ph.D., director of literature for the Oklahoma Humanities Council, will be the featured reader. Overeaters Anonymous ...
- My Secret Life: Peter Serafinowicz, Actor and comedian, age 36 - The Independent
The home I grew up in... Not many people know that Liverpool has a big sign on a hill, much like the one in Hollywood. Our house was behind one of the big "O"s. The moment that changed me for ever... was when I discovered that I could hear people's ...
- First Christmas by Alastair Macdonald -- a classic is born - renewamerica.us
First Christmas by Alastair Macdonald -- a classic is bornrenewamerica.us, DC - 52 minutes agoHaving never written poetry before Alastair labored in vain for a few years and never moved beyond the first verse. But the nudging of God persisted and ...
- A new understanding of peace (The Naperville Sun)
Visits by the eldest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the father of actress Uma Thurman will highlight ThinkGlobal Arts Foundation's second annual Celebration of Peace month in Naperville.
- Perfume guide causes a stink (Independent Online)
A critical survey of perfumes written by two maverick experts is creating irritation in the perfume industry, where up till now criticism has been non-existent.
- Poet palely loitering - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldPoet palely loiteringSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 15 minutes agoGray's path was set, both in his character - detached, observant - and as a writer, renowned for the imagery of his poetry. "I settled onto a place where ...
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