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- Gaelic signs – trumped-up, airy-fairy load of rubbish (John O'Groat Journal)
SIR – It looks as if the Gaelic road signs question is almost never-ending. Personally, can I just put a bit of the record straight. At a meeting, months ago, of the Royal Burgh of Wick Community Council, I, along with my colleagues, came out against the imposition of Gaelic signs in Caithness.
- The Shame of Sacramento (Santa Barbara Independent)
This year’s California Legislature will be recorded as the lamest, most dysfunctional, dog-ass bunch since statehood.
- Thousands expected at knife march - BBC News
BBC NewsThousands expected at knife marchBBC News, UK - 12 minutes agoSinging and poetry readings have been organised along with a play on the dangers of knife crime. Organiser, Kendall Gregory, 17, said she and many others ...
- Collide-A-Scope festival highlights North Minneapolis arts - Twin Cities Planet
Collide-A-Scope festival highlights North Minneapolis artsTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 49 minutes ago“His poetry is beautiful, it is human, it’s rhythmic and it’s real,†says Mills of Dixon’s spoken word talent. “It puts life struggles in a form that all at ...
- Tai Murray, Imani Winds and Turtle Island String Quartet play ... - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Tai Murray, Imani Winds and Turtle Island String Quartet play ...Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 5 hours agoAs a female African-American classical musician, she's an anomaly in classical music. White males have typically dominated the field and a certain amount of ...
- Post rodeo becomes big draw - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Post gets back to its roots this weekend. In doing so it is expected to draw thousands of visitors from across the country. More than 300 competitors will saddle up for the 68th Annual Post Stampede Rodeo. The rodeo, which began Thursday night and ...
- Cabaret festival will be a big blast (Bayside Bulletin)
THE eighth HLB Mann Judd Brisbane Cabaret Festival is exploding out of its skin and will serve up a sumptuous array of dazzling performers in Brisbane's best venues from October 1-11.
- A FEAST FOR THE YEARS (New York Post)
We're so inundated with pictures that we sometimes forget what it's like to only imagine. To build in our head the moments described by a voice in the dark. I've been dreaming a lot of history lately, thanks to a five CD set out this week called...
- Rock review: Mogwai, The Hawk is Howling - Guardian Unlimited
Though devoid of lyrics, Mogwai's sixth album has an unspoken poetry. Whereas the music of acts such as Sigur Rós is evocative of majestic, impersonal icescapes, Mogwai release raw emotion in a remarkably precise way. Masters at building tension ...
- Vilhelm Hammershoi's show at the Royal Academy proves he should be better known (Independent)
An empty room. An open door, giving a glimpse of another empty room. Bare walls. Bare tables. Bare polished boards. A cold, clear light coming in, casting a slant of brightness on to a wall or floor. A woman in a long dark dress, standing alone and motionless. Her back turned. Whites, greys, blacks, browns so deep they're near-monochrome. A geometry of straight edges. The odd gleam. Stillness. ...
- New school year, new programs in Minneapolis, St. Paul - Twin Cities Planet
New school year, new programs in Minneapolis, St. PaulTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 8 hours agoBy and large, though, Cassellius said the district was moving to an “early college focus,†part of the “every child college ready by 2012†mandate from the ...
- Solzhenitsyn in Search of the Russia That Always Eluded Him - Sofia News Agency
In May 1974, three months after his dramatic expulsion from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn entered on a search for a place to live in North America. The search ended in Cavendish, Vt., but the first stop was at our summer place on a lake ...
- The Jade Goody Decade: The Ten-Year Plan And An Indian Take-Away - Anorak
“I FEAR MY CANCER’S SPREAD,†says the Jade Goody-inspired headline on the Mirror’s cover. This is not a metaphorical tabloid cancer, and right now millions of youths are not racially abusing Asians for our entertainment. This is real cancer ...
- 60th Highlands Festival set to begin in Abingdon - Johnson City Press
ABINGDON, Va. – Arts, crafts and live music are just a fraction of the fun of the 60th annual Virginia Highlands Festival, running Saturday through Aug. 10. Rock pioneer Chubby Checker & The Wildcats will perform Saturday at 8 p.m. on Main Street ...
- Carling Cup Third Round - Guardian Unlimited
Juande Ramos must have felt last night's trip to Tyneside was far more therapeutic than two weeks at a health farm. Tottenham's manager spoke enthusiastically of the "tranquillity" this Carling Cup win had engendered among his previously troubled ...
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