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- Free Will Astrology 08/27/2008 (Nuvo)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): My Aries friend David’s acupuncturist diagnosed his current condition as an “encroachment of phlegm in his triple heater.†That’s also an apt metaphorical description of what’s going on in your psyche.
- Book fair, parade highlight Dominican Independence Day - Eagle-Tribune
LAWRENCE — It's going to be a bittersweet Independence Day celebration for Dominicans after Jose Balbuena, who they were going to honor, died last week after battling cancer. "We don't want this to be a sad posthumous moment because we were going ...
- Trips & Tours - Sacramento Bee
Trips & ToursSacramento Bee, USA - 2 hours agoThe National Cowboy Poetry Gathering celebrates its 25th anniversary Oct. 28 with a one-night show in Reno by Polish hobo and rodeo poet Paul Zarzyski and ...
- A special responsibility (Brown Daily Herald)
In the midst of a financial crisis, journalists are being more careful with language. A recent New York Times article writes that journalists -- often accused of "hyperbole and sowing alarm,"-- are now choosing their words carefully. By using the word 'panic,' to describe the current market situation, journalists are in danger of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Why Elbow winning the Mercury is reassuring, if unexciting, news - Guardian Unlimited
Elbow ... giving the lie to the idea that bands burn out after two albums. Photograph: PR There's something about Elbow winning the Mercury prize that is reassuring. Comfortable. Safe. It wasn't predictable – I was with the bookies in assuming it ...
- American books, Arabic readers: Translation project aims to bridge the gap (Contra Costa Times)
How would you like to help build literary bridges between the Arab-speaking world and our own?Getting works by American authors translated into Arabic and plopped into the hands of Arabic-speaking readers is a good way to start, because apparently, there are darned few great works of literature by
- Road trip makes geography, nature more real (The Olympian)
Cuba was rattling nerves in the summer of 1962. Everybody was fretting about missile attacks. Which had me wondering why my parents would send me suddenly to Cuba with our neighbors at that particular time in history.
- Poetic License (The Art Of Writing About Music) (Arts Journal)
"The past century has taught us that good writing can appear in unexpected forms: film scripts, Sopranos-type series, the storytelling of R. Crumb or Art Spiegelman, for instance. And writing about poetry, particularly praising contemporary poetry, is a fine but extremely difficult art."
- Poetry prize shortlist revealed - BBC News
Simon Barraclough, Andrew Forster, Frances Leviston, Allison McVety, Stephanie Norgate and Kathryn Simmonds are shortlisted for the best first collection, which has a prize of £5,000. And there are six nominees for the £1,000 award for best single ...
- Visual arts notes: Obama exhibit in SLC; monumental murals at Art ... - Salt Lake Tribune
Kurt Weiser's Semi Conscious, 2002, of cast porcelain and china paint, is on exhibit with other Weiser works at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. No, it's not the latest big box store to hit the U.S. It's a phenomenon ...
- Children's Books for Fall: G - H - Publishers Weekly
Children's Books for Fall: G - HPublishers Weekly, NY - 2 hours agoThe Winter Book ($25) by Rotraut Susanne Berner compiles stories, poetry, songs and pictures celebrating winter. (All ages) The Sleeping Porch ($18.95) by ...Children's Books for Fall: A - C Publishers Weeklyall 3 news articles
- A life laid out in coffee spoons... or just a service station - WalesOnline
A life laid out in coffee spoons... or just a service stationWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 35 minutes agoHighlights include poetry collective Aisle 16, who will take audiences on a literary tour of the UK’s motorway service stations during a special event at ...Forecasters warn of more flooding WalesOnlineall 3 news articles
- Poetic licence: dead writer gets TV demand - Guardian Unlimited
He may have been dead for over two centuries but that did not stop Germany's tenacious TV licence-collecting agency from sending two reminders to one of the nation's favourite poets and playwrights telling him he had failed to pay his fee. Friedrich ...
- Striking a British note - Daily Telegraph
Identifying a national sound in any genre of contemporary music is getting harder and harder these days, and I certainly didn't expect to come away from this two-day survey of British pianists with a firm sense of what creates a British sound in jazz ...
- Lee Seok Hwai in Singapore - The Island (subscription)
Lee Seok Hwai in SingaporeThe Island (subscription), Sri Lanka - 5 hours ago... writing prose, he said, referring to his book Uncommonwealth. The book is a collection of whimsical—if not exactly patriotic—poetry and illustrations. ...
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