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- Welcome to the EcoMosque (The New Statesman)
A new mosque will be opening this month in Levenshulme, Manchester. Nothing unusual in that, except that al-Markaz al-Najmi Mosque is eco-friendly. It is built with recycled materials and generates part of its energy from solar panels.
- A macabre little treat - Globe and Mail
A macabre little treatGlobe and Mail, Canada - 29 minutes ago... to remake Giovanni Boccaccio's sexual-shenanigans classic The Decameron as an adrenalin-driven teen flick clad in period costumes and set in Tuscany. ...
- How 'Butcher of Bosnia' used bearded medicine man disguise to evade ... - Daily Mail
This is the extraordinary disguise which allowed one of the world’s most wanted men to escape justice for years. Behind a bushy white beard, grandfatherly spectacles and with his infamous bouffant hair dragged into a ponytail, Radovan Karadzic ...
- The Olympics Demonstrate China’s “Soft Power”: on Baloney and ... - Fool's Mountain
The Olympics Demonstrate China’s “Soft Power”: on Baloney and ...Fool's Mountain, San Francisco - 4 hours agoBefore I started posting stuff on the internet about the Olympics exactly a year ago, my literary pursuit was Chinese poetry. I posted teasers of my virgin ...
- SHAKESPEARE STUDY TO TEACH KIDS NEW WORDS FOR COCK - Daily Mash (satire)
SHAKESPEARE STUDY TO TEACH KIDS NEW WORDS FOR COCKDaily Mash (satire), UK - 1 hour agoPRIMARY school children as young as five are to study the works of Shakespeare as part of a government initiative to teach them hundreds of 17th century ...
- Speaking Shakespeare - Arts Journal
I've been engaged in a lively email discussion over the last few days with Robert Hurwitt, theatre critic at the San Francisco Chronicle , about how actors approach Shakespeare's verse. The debate was sparked by our very different reactions to ...
- Francis Quamina Farrier’s play set to open Guyana Cultural ... - Stabroek News
Francis Quamina Farrier’s play set to open Guyana Cultural ...Stabroek News, Guyana - 1 hour agoA colourful blend of live Caribbean music, pageantry, dance, drama and poetry, in addition to tasty Guyanese cuisine, will end the Carifesta X Folk Festival ...
- Today, July 3 - St. John's Telegram
Today, July 3St. John's Telegram, Canada - 22 minutes agoThe Newfoundland Historic Trust presents an evening of poetry and jazz with Herb Hopkins and the Jimmy Thomson Trio at the Newman Wine Vaults, 436 Water St. ...
- Her Own Society (The New Yorker)
In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, thirty-eight, was a man of letters, a clergyman, a fitness enthusiast, a celebrated abolitionist, and a champion of . . .
- Kapil Syllable - Chandigarh Newsline
Kapil SyllableChandigarh Newsline, India - 7 hours ago... reading out his poem “Political Opportunism”. No one’s comparing his verse with Milton and Sibal seems wholly unperturbed about opinions on his poetry. ...
- Focus on poetry at Brisbane festival - Courier Mail
Focus on poetry at Brisbane festivalCourier Mail, Australia - 4 hours agoAS FAR as Julie Beveridge is concerned, poetry is the rock 'n' roll of literature. "Something clicks in my brain when I read good poetry or hear good poetry ...
- Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival at Hill-Stead Museum - Stamford Plus Magazine
Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival at Hill-Stead MuseumStamford Plus Magazine, CT - 10 hours agoAttendance is free to the public. On-site parking is $10 per vehicle. Location is Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, 06032, rain or shine. ...
- Angelou, Lear named for 2008 Marian Anderson Award - Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA - TV producer Norman Lear and author Maya Angelou will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity. Lear and Angelou were chosen because of their ability to "change society ...
- Andrew Turnbull's Great Fitzgerald (Washington Post)
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.
- Little things mean a lot (The Telegraph)
Little magazines, a forum for experimental and alternative literature in the vernacular that may or may not have much commercial value, prove that popular phrases like “Less is more” and “small is beautiful” do contain a grain of truth.
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