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- Haunted happenings - Sun Chronicle
Witch's Woods at Nashoba Valley, Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 2 through Nov. 1, Nashoba Valley Ski Area, Powers Road, Westford. $25 for adults and $23 for children under 12. $15 for groups of 15 or more on Thursday, $20 on Friday through Sunday ...
- Sunday Journal: Trip to the morgue scares teen silly - St. Petersburg Times
One of my varied outside duties while working as a 16-year-old copy boy at our local newspaper was the trip to the city morgue to collect the obits and return them to the city editor for the next day's page. I hated making this trip. The morgue was ...
- Claudia Roth Pierpont: The man who taught rulers how to rule. (The New Yorker)
One method of torture used in Florentine jails during the glorious days of the Renaissance was the strappado: a prisoner was hoisted into the air by a rope attached to his wrists, which had been tied behind his back, and then suddenly dropped toward the floor as many times as . . .
- The Greatest Manitobans: #25 Carol Shields (Winnipeg Free Press)
Today and every day for the next two weeks, we offer readers a sneak peek at the life stories of 12 of the Top 30 Greatest Manitobans ever, as chosen by Winnipeg Free Press readers in a collaborative process that lasted all summer. We’ve chosen seven profiles at random for you to enjoy, but the last five are that long-awaited countdown to the No. 1 greatest Manitoban ever. Watch for our book The ...
- Libby George: 'Trinidad,' monoprint - North Coast Journal
Libby George: 'Trinidad,' monoprintNorth Coast Journal, CA - 3 hours agoThere are photographs, prints, sculpture, a wall hanging made from ocean rock, pages from one of Jerry Martien's chapbooks of poetry. ...
- Going Our Way: Two-week family trip to Alaska carefully avoids the ... - Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem JournalGoing Our Way: Two-week family trip to Alaska carefully avoids the ...Winston-Salem Journal, NC - 5 hours agoMark, of Trails End Horse Adventures (he of no Web site, heck, no indoor toilet), entertained us with his dilapidated pickup truck, his poetry and songs, ...
- Winning Olympic gold just part of the battle - OCRegister
Winning Olympic gold just part of the battleOCRegister, CA - 3 hours agoThrough the poetry emerges a portrait of a man at times roiled by pain and even in fear of the end of life. Yet Bragg's words speak of challenging oneself ...
- Scenes From Buenos Aires - Slate
After a week here, we will happily proclaim Buenos Aires one of the best cities in the world. It's rare to visit a place and not be disappointed by one thing or another. But so far, just about everything we'd been promised about Buenos Aires has ...
- X-Files Ending Spoiled - Cinema Blend
Cinema BlendX-Files Ending SpoiledCinema Blend - 26 minutes agoBetter bring a date to this one gentlemen. You don’t want to be the creepy dude sitting alone at the back while Mulder’s reading badly written love poetry.
- Poem: White Moon by Wang Xiaoni - Guardian Unlimited
The midnight moon exposes every bone. I breathe ice-blue air. All the world's follies are falling like fireflies. The city is a carcass. No living thing can match this pure light. I open the curtains to watch earth hold such pouring silver until I ...
- Posted -4 sec ago - Brantford Expositor
Posted -4 sec agoBrantford Expositor, Canada - 4 hours agoHis greatest love was poetry, being able to quote 100 - 200 lines from major poets. Often he quoted the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam which he knew by heart. ...
- Carlos Alcalá: Gold-medal moment at the fair (The Sacramento Bee)
Gold medal at the fair: Roseville residents and authors Jennifer Martin and Bud Gardner – both have written for the "Chicken Soup" series – were signing books at the State Fair's local authors table when basketball star Ruthie Bolton showed up. They got to talking. "One thing led to another (especially since Bud used to coach basketball at American River College) and Ruthie pulled her Olympic ...
- City must heed poet's strategy for change - Seattle Post Intelligencer
City must heed poet's strategy for changeSeattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours agoOr the thousands of high school and college students she has lectured on the magic of poetry and music to spread messages about politics, environmentalism, ...
- A poet explores the language of collage - International Herald Tribune
A poet explores the language of collageInternational Herald Tribune, France - 18 minutes agoTibor de Nagy, which both exhibited art and published poetry, helped shape it. Ashbery's first slender volume, "Turandot and Other Poems," appeared under ...
- Weekend Events (Foster's Daily Democrat)
ROCHESTER — The next monthly Art Stroll will take place on Friday, Sept. 5, 5-7 p.m., and will feature work in the local galleries around town. At the Jenny Wren Gallery, 107 North Main St., fiber artist and gallery owner Jenny Stimac will be showcasing her new line of embellished clothing.
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