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- Leonard Cohen - LiveDaily
One of the most fascinating and enigmatic -- if not the most successful -- singer/songwriters of the late '60s, Leonard Cohen has retained an audience across four decades of music-making interrupted by various digressions into personal and creative ...
- County Dorset: Far from stress of modern life (San Francisco Chronicle)
The unwavering gaze of Thomas Hardy looks out from a hilltop, affording the Victorian writer - or, rather, a statue of him - a sweeping view of the town he immortalized as Casterbridge and the rustic county he called Wessex. It is a beautiful place to behold....
- Christina Patterson: The discreet charm of the new politicos - Independent
Christina Patterson: The discreet charm of the new politicosIndependent, UK - 22 hours agoThe speaker is Anthony Blanche, pouting, plover-egg eating, poetry-spouting aesthete in Brideshead Revisited. He is recounting his experiences at the hands ...
- 'If only I could give up my mind' - Telegraph.co.uk
'If only I could give up my mind'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoWe see Benna as a lounge singer, a "geriatric aerobics" instructor, an art historian and a poetry teacher. The book shuffles plot, character and language, ...
- Pictures of the floating world - Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Daily TribunePictures of the floating worldColumbia Daily Tribune, MO - 1 hour ago"Frank Lloyd Wright," the famous American architect, "owned more than 6000 prints," Mehrhoff said. "It changed his view of nature, and he changed ours. ...
- Young artist collects her prize - Salisbury Journal
Young artist collects her prizeSalisbury Journal, UK - 15 hours agoThe 11-year-old, a pupil at South Wilts Grammar School, entered an art and poetry competition run by Animal Aid on the theme of factory farming. ...
- Sorted for rhymes and lines: the secret of great lyrics - The Independent
I don't know what Jarvis Cocker will conclude in his lecture at the Brighton Festival next week, but many of our songwriters would have us believe that their great songs flowed through them, as if from a divine force On a recent trip to Brazil, I ...
- Poetry slam stirs the 'soul' - Huntington Herald Dispatch
Poetry slam stirs the 'soul'Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - Apr 30, 2008But local poet and Christian hip hop artist Byron Holmes has cranked up the mic again once a month for Soul Slam, a poetry and spoken word night every first ...
- The power of a smile - Malaysia Star
Malaysia StarThe power of a smileMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 1 hour ago“The yoga techniques have already improved and changed people’s lives in powerful, subtle and unexpected ways,†he said after conducting a free yoga session ...
- Top Urdu poets honoured (Gulf Times)
OVER 20 Urdu poets, writers and scholars from India and Pakistan attended the annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab awards ceremony and Aalmi Mushaira (international poetry symposium) over the weekend.
- Morgan Nick among 800,000 children organization tracks - Harrison Daily Times
Harrison Rotarians heard about the epidemic of missing children during its meeting Thursday. Some are runaway children, others are throwaway children and many are abducted children. Sheila Barry of Los Gatos, Calif., said the Vanished Children’s ...
- Enjoy organ music with your lunch; - Orillia Packet & Times
Enjoy organ music with your lunch;Orillia Packet & Times, Canada - 2 hours agoSubmission dates for the writing and poetry contest have passed, but there is still time to get selected for the reading series. The reading series is not a ...
- Cowboys ride into town for festival events - Antelope Valley Press
SANTA CLARITA - Western music, cowboy poetry, cowboy gear and food are part of the 15th annual Cowboy Festival, which runs through the weekend. The main festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday at Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio, a working ...
- Comic books 'can get boys in the habit of reading' - Times Online
Comic books 'can get boys in the habit of reading'Times Online, UK - 2 hours agoIn a separate initiative, also backed by government cash, the charity Booktrust will send a list of poetry books to schools. Michael Rosen, the Children's ...
- Bulgarian native lives in two different worlds - Martinsville Reporter-Times
A little girl from Bulgaria, Biliana Marcheva, not only moved to the United States at six years old, she also had to learn the English language. But she learned it well. The second-grade Newby Elementary student recently won first place in a ...
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