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- November 2008 (69) - Sacramento Bee
There's just no getting away from the state's money woes. Case in point: CalPERS' board of administration meets this week. You may recall that the big pension fund recently disclosed a $3.2 billion decline in its housing portfolio. CalPERS has ...
- Joanne S. Lawton - Washington Business Journal
Joanne S. LawtonWashington Business Journal, DC - 29 minutes agoThe project that has been benefiting from fundraisers such as a poetry festival at Carter Barron Ampitheater and a September lecture by Julian Bond, ...
- Shop honors ghosts of Asbury Park's past (Asbury Park Press)
Kathleen Kelly, a 39-year-old aspiring author from Bradley Beach and owner of the new Cookman Avenue store Paranormal Books & Curiosities, says that the echoes of a once-thriving city can be heard now, during Asbury Park's rebirth.
- What's on (and off) Broadway this season - MiamiHerald.com
What's on (and off) Broadway this seasonMiamiHerald.com, FL - 2 hours agoAnd the Public Theater's hit revival of Hair (the ''love-rock'' musical that debuted at the Public in 1967) will move from Central Park to a ...
- Hundreds turn out for Black Family Day (The Record)
STOCKTON - Aside from live music, craft booths and bounce houses, visitors to Stockton's 31st annual Black Family Day on Monday had a chance to come face to face with elite black writers of Northern California.
- Review: 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson - Chicago Sun-Times
What some folks are calling a once-in-a-decade sci-fi classic is, in fact, a best-ever genre-crushing power-script that defies simple classification. Neal Stephenson's Anathem is a 900-page world-building exercise. It takes the long view, and creates ...
- Poetry needs to move out of the garret for good - Guardian Unlimited
Stop being so wet ... Detail from Henry Wallis's portrait of Chatterton (1856) Henry Wallis has a lot to answer for . On exhibition in 1856, his deliciously necrophilic painting of the 17-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton –lolling in a garret ...
- Lost capital of Khazars could lie here - San Francisco Gate
Sunday, September 28, 2008 Dmitry Vasilyev, a professor at Astrakhan State University, said his nine-year excavation near the Caspian Sea has finally unearthed the foundations of a triangular fortress of flamed brick, along with modest yurt-shaped ...
- Gibby director wants to bring in noisier arts - Delaware Online
MIDDLETOWN -- Tom Trietley's longtime connection with the Everett Theater is partly behind his effort to expand the associated Gibby Center into the performing arts. "Growing up in Middletown, I spent time on the Everett stage working as an actor and ...
- The Politics of Love vs. The Politics of Courtesy - Culture11
The Politics of Love vs. The Politics of CourtesyCulture11, VA - 10 hours agoOne item on mine used to be "Love of your fellow man is nice poetry, but, when it comes to how to behave, far better to trust good manners. ...
- Amy Ephron: Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Putin's Door (HuffingtonPost)
Mama, take the tanning lights off me, I can't take it anymore. It's getting dark, too dark for me to see Russia from my front door.
- Publisher's focus on exiles benefits Cuban poet (Miami Herald)
In the mid 19th century, the story goes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow could not walk the streets of Boston without being recognized.
- Burn Down the Museum - London Review of Books (subscription)
Burn Down the MuseumLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 3 hours agoFrank Bidart first became famous in America (famous, that is, as American poets go) for the grisly violence of his dramatic monologues, for his poems’ ...
- The Space Cowboys - Mirror.co.uk
Mirror.co.ukThe Space CowboysMirror.co.uk, UK - 9 minutes agoThe flour they use probably comes from Guenther's Mill, set up by a German family, as yet another wave of immigrants hit Texas. The family home is an ...
- Poem of the week: The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew - Guardian Blogs
"Shy as a leveret" ... Mew's life and work was also evasive, fragile and slender. Photograph: Lynda Richardson/Corbis Charlotte Mew's work had already attracted the interest of Ezra Pound when, in 1912, Alida Monro spotted the poem, "The Farmer's ...
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