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- Author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens dies (WAVY 10)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina woman who became well-known for her book on her biracial heritage has died at age 95. Funeral officials said a memorial service for author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens will be held Tuesday in Columbia. Nickens died Friday.
- 60th anniversary of historic boat journey to Britain - BirminghamMail.net
60th anniversary of historic boat journey to BritainBirminghamMail.net, UK - 19 minutes agoTHE 60th anniversary of an historic day when hundreds of immigrants from the Caribbean arrived in Britain in a bid to start a new life is to be remembered ...
- The Last Republican - American Conservative Magazine
The Last RepublicanAmerican Conservative Magazine, VA - 36 minutes agoAs they sat on Garfield’s veranda, young Howells began to talk about poetry and about the poets that he had met in Boston and New York. ...
- Hot town, summer in the city - Downtown Express
Hot town, summer in the cityDowntown Express - 2 hours agoNow in her fifties, Ian recorded her biggest hit in 1964 while she was still in her early teens, though Ian’s poetry, as well as her wit, ...
- REM roars back to fighting form at the Bowl - OCRegister
REM roars back to fighting form at the BowlOCRegister, CA - 1 hour agoBut here, clad in a black suit and tie and more deliberate than usual about his body movements, Stipe achieved and sustained an Alienated Everyman persona ...
- Art of the Bluff - Washington Post
Washington PostArt of the BluffWashington Post, United States - 1 hour agoSandra Beasley's first book, "Theories of Falling," won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. (Courtesy Author) Comments that include profanity or personal ...Let's talk (ancient) Turkey San Francisco ChronicleOverseas iPhone 3G Review: Great But Not Perfect PC WorldHealth Tip: Alleviating Rheumatoid Arthritis ForbesU.S. News & World Report - Atlanta Journal Constitutionall 494 news articles
- Anne of Green Gables grows old and gets her due. - Slate
Back in June, this viewer laughed until she cried at Judd Apatow's goofy comedy Knocked Up , but she also left the theater feeling … disconcerted. An informal poll of female friends revealed the same: They went, they laughed, they felt squeamish ...
- Scouting Report: Jihad - Baller Status
Hip-hop is a genre that reaches all races and cultures. It's international influence has made it popular among youth around the globe and among all cultures. One culture who has yet spawned a huge star within the U.S. is the Middle East. Sure, there ...
- William Brown: Painter and printmaker - The Independent
The painter and printmaker William Brown triumphantly achieved Picasso's ambition of drawing like a child. "I steal ideas, usually from children, because they're smaller," he freely confessed. But his pictures are more serious than they look. Brown ...
- Madison finishes third in second bout at National Poetry Slam 2008 (Isthmus)
Poets on the Oakland team triumphed at the Brink Lounge Thursday night in a qualifying bout of the 2008 National Poetry Slam. Throughout a raucous evening that saw the Brink's back room crowded with boisterous spectators, Oakland fought off competition from San Francisco's City Slam, which placed second, followed by hometown favorites Madison Spoken Word Collective and Amarillo, Texas' ...
- People's Hall of Fame - MiamiHerald.com
People's Hall of FameMiamiHerald.com, FL - 3 hours ago''There probably won't be more than a handful of people at the ceremony who have ever been to a poetry slam or encountered a performance poet, so it's great ...
- 'WALL∙E': Pixar is Back - PopMatters
PopMatters'WALL∙E': Pixar is BackPopMatters, IL - 10 minutes ago... in mind—to recover the plant that proves earth can again sustain life—it is the robot who provides the film with poetry and uncanny elegance. ...
- Area 61 - Miami New Times
Every Thursday, in a hidden corner of Aventura, freaky fans of poetry venture to urban playground, Area 61. The converted warehouse is a decked-out venue and studio complete with couches, a stage, a small bar, surround sound, and A.C
- Going from mud to verse at Glastonbury - Whitehaven News and Star
MUD, sun, queues and sheer brilliance; Glastonbury 2008. I’d always wanted to experience the Mother of all Festivals, in the past I’d looked on enviously when university friends had flashed their “Golden Tickets†after spending what seemed ...
- 'All my relations' - Medford Mail Tribune
Richard Brown has attended Southern Oregon University's Native American Youth Academy so often that many people know him by his family nickname, "Peanut," instead of his given name. Students at this year's Native American Youth Academy will present ...
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