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- Iraqis celebrate culture at festival (Mississauga News)
For many members of the Iraqi community taking part in the fifth annual Mesopotamian Festival, it was a lot like coming home. “We miss our family we had to leave behind,” says artist Ahmad Nasir, whose many paintings inspired by his home country were on display Saturday at the Iraqi Canadian Society of Ontario's event at St. Joseph Secondary School.
- Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. - Politico.com
Joe Biden has been know to put his foot into his mouth -- and Republicans are already trotting out the "gaffe machine" line -- but he can also deliver stemwinder. He also represents a connection to an earlier era in American politics, having been ...
- Nothing but Blue Skies (Nashville Scene)
If life really did imitate art, the southeast corner of Fatherland and South Seventh Street would exist in black and white, because the quaint sidewalk-cafe tableau—neighbors stopping in to chat, cops dropping by for lunch, dogs lounging while their owners sip coffee—looks like an out...
- COULD BE GOOD: September 3-8 - McGill Tribune (subscription)
COULD BE GOOD: September 3-8McGill Tribune (subscription), Canada - 9 hours ago... tour for his poetry than his music, so see it while you can. Hallelujah the Hills opens. Thursday: Film. Summer Palace. An erotic, political film about ...
- Edinburgh Art Festival 2008 Builds on Previous Years - EdinburghGuide.com
Edinburgh Art Festival 2008 Builds on Previous YearsEdinburghGuide.com, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoAlongside the exhibitions there will be over 120 associated events including artists' talks, screenings, debates, tours and family projects - with ...
- American Poets Added to British Archive - New York Times
American Poets Added to British ArchiveNew York Times, United States - 4 hours ago... are among the 14 influential 20th-century American poets whose recordings have been added to Britain’s free online poetry archive, the BBC reported. ...
- Finer things in life help the homeless reconnect - News & Observer
Finer things in life help the homeless reconnectNews & Observer, NC - 6 hours agoShe simply sees poetry in the broken and understands the power of escaping time and place -- if only for an hour of songs and prayers and painting on a ...
- Disabled artists show works - Berkshire Eagle
GREAT BARRINGTON — To be acknowledged and celebrated for their artistic talent can feel like an unreachable dream for disabled people, who have often been stigmatized and silent. For that reason, Sandra Newman founded Community Access to the Arts ...
- Keeping body and soul in tune - Guardian Unlimited
'The only thing better than singing is more singing," said Ella Fitzgerald. Perhaps such a statement is to be expected from a world-famous artist with an era-defining voice, but she wasn't the only one to wax lyrical on the benefits of a good vocal ...
- Mayor's Message - Floral Park Dispatch
Mayor's MessageFloral Park Dispatch, NY - 1 hour agoThe tranquil mood of Centennial Gardens is best communicated in the morning hush or in the silence of a sunlit afternoon where the poetry of nature spills ...
- Lady's night at the beckoning microphone - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldLady's night at the beckoning microphoneSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoI said the songs were stilted and over-thought and that the lyrics were 'sixth-form poetry'," he says. So who should turn up that night but Conway. ...
- NORM: Restaurateur tells his side of 'setup' - Las Vegas Review Journal
Restaurateur Freddie Glusman was on the telephone from California, angry with the coverage of his arrest in an assault case. So angry, he said, that he was going to go public before the district attorney decides whether to go forward with Jennifer ...
- Putting Antigone's World in Context - Wall Street Journal
Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, is making his opera directing debut in London with "Burial at Thebes," which is the Antigone story retold by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney -- who himself won the Nobel prize in 1995. The ...
- Popsters find they can hang with twang - Scripps News
Popsters find they can hang with twangScripps News, DC - Sep 19, 2008And the juiciest story of the week might be bubbleheaded blond Jessica Simpson, who figured that since she dates a Dallas Cowboy and looks hot in cowboy ...
- Why Danielle Steel is 'critic-proof' (CNN.com)
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning.
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