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- Meet Miss Popcorn contestants before this Saturday's pageant - Marion Star
MARION - Twelve young women will vie for the honor of representing Marion as Miss Marion Popcorn Festival Queen this weekend. The pre-show begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9 at Marion Harding High School, and the pageant at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are ...
- Satchel’s Grill in Downtown Boise will close on Aug. 23 - IdahoStatesman.com
Satchel’s Grill in Downtown Boise will close on Aug. 23IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 17 hours agoIt also is a center for poetry readings, literary gatherings, benefits for The Cabin, art shows and Irish dancing. Emerson, who has spent many summer nights ...
- Historic find shows Samuel Hobbs was the Staples of his day (The Salem News)
MARBLEHEAD and mdash; It pays to be a good boss. Samuel Hobbs was so good that in 1932 workers gave him, posthumously, a silver loving cup. More than 75 years later he's still getting credit for it. Paul Crosby, director of the Marblehead Counseling Center, found the cup in his building. The Hobbs Memorial Building was donated to the town in the 1930s by widow Lina Hobbs.
- SetonnoteS: Foreign Affairs - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsSetonnoteS: Foreign AffairsOpEdNews, PA - 6 minutes agoIn addition he has published more than 1700 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Poetry Walk - Centralia Chronicle
Centralia ChroniclePoetry WalkCentralia Chronicle, WA - 2 hours agoBy The Chronicle It was a combination of verse and the great outdoors Saturday when residents took part in the Poetry Walk at the Seminary Hill Natural Area ...
- Arboretum honors founder - Times Union
ESPERANCE -- The Landis Arboretum will celebrate its founder's legacy Saturday with a day of family-friendly activities and a night of music by starlight. A renaissance man of his day, Arboretum founder Fred Lape was a poet, musician, English ...
- Making It Mainstream: The True Story of LDV - MarketWatch
Making It Mainstream: The True Story of LDVMarketWatch - 1 hour agoA Canadian songwriter and executive music producer with East Indian cultural roots, Bettencourt has won multiple awards for her poetry. ...
- How Ghadar Forged Patriotism Among Diasporic Desis - Indolink
The stories that books on South Asian immigration tell us are nearly all the same: the theme is of unmitigated, runaway success. Success, yes, but the price paid by some of the Indian immigrants of the early 1910s was with their lives: deportation ...
- Soul of the Boot: In Southern Italy, little-visited Puglia offers ... - Miami Herald
One of the many trulli houses dotting the olive fields. Travelers -- even Italians -- may tell you that the heel of the Italian boot is remote and unhospitable. They haven't been here. Those in-the-know might mention medieval towns spilling from ...
- Ghosts & Gangsters kayak tour has its share of thrills - Chicago Tribune
The toughest hurdle, this time of year, when the sun is lower but not quite low and the dusk is not quite full of grain, when the cement corners of downtown Chicago seem to soften in the middle of the day and autumn sneaks one leaf closer—the ...
- Why we like Lowell - MetroWest Daily News
Despite many detours, Beat Generation icon Jack Kerouac continues his never ending road trip thanks to a coterie of admirers who celebrate his life and legacy every year in his Lowell hometown. Once again, "Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!" is holding a ...
- A novel campus - EducationGuardian.co.uk
A novel campusEducationGuardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoDue to the size of the student body, smaller tutorial classes were something of a luxury, but there was something about being taught modern poetry by a ...
- To Hook Up, Be Hooked Up, and Hook Up With - Columbia Spectator
Young folk seem to love to hook-up. They certainly use the phrase often, perhaps more often than they perform the act. Weekly? Perhaps bi-monthly. Well, it’s often enough that the term describing the act merits discussion. Years ago, when nascent ...
- Ryan Adams to Publish Book (Soul Shine)
American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams has signed a deal with Akashic Books to release a book of poems, though no release date has been confirmed. The alternative country artist has released nine full-length records in his musical career so far, which began back in 1994.
- Wide range of food for the mind at our luncheon - Huddersfield Examiner
Wide range of food for the mind at our luncheonHuddersfield Examiner, UK - 1 hour agoIn fact, some of the anecdotes are so laugh-out-loud funny it makes the reader glad that he became a best-selling author and not a rock star. ...
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