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- Calendar: Saturday, Sept. 13 (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
SPECIAL EVENTS Festa Italiana Rivertown, in Kenner. The ninth annual festival celebrates Italian culture, cuisine and music with Italian food and drink from local restaurants, cooking demonstrations, crafts, child´ren's activities, and music by Gumbo , 2, Louis Prima Jr. , 5, and...
- Lincoln Lovelies (The Reader)
Lincoln’s Emmy & Ivy accessory line is, in a sense, named after its ideal customer. Co-owner Jackie Ostrowicki said a little friend of hers, Ava, used to always notice the more peculiar details of Ostrowicki’s clothing when she came to visit — a strip of lace, perhaps, or a row of pleats.
- Reading, writing, and more discipline - Killeen Daily Herald
Toni Brown's new book, "From a Child's Mind; to an Adult's Heart," reflects on her upbringing and confronts the lackadaisical attitude that parents have taken to raise their children. Brown, of Harker Heights, worked as a special education instructor ...
- Subscriber Log In - Wall Street Journal
Remember me Forgot your password? NEW YORK -- The banquet hall of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in mid-town Manhattan had the feel of an extravagant Persian wedding on Wednesday night. A crowd of over one thousand guests, dressed in formal attire, sat around ...
- October Diary - National Review Online
October DiaryNational Review Online, NY - 8 hours agoI shall be 63, my birthday, and retire with Social Security and a very secure pension along with a medical care supplement. Let us be blunt, there shall be ...
- Nobody Wants Bush's Memoirs - Gawker
You know what's next for any lame duck president: the inevitable post-presidency memoir. Only problem, other than the fact that he struggles with basic grammar and syntax: Bush is a hugely unpopular outgoing president, and most of the country hates ...
- David Miller, superteacher - Times Online
Times OnlineDavid Miller, superteacherTimes Online, UK - 44 minutes agoMiller uses film, music, and the work of famous painters to broaden the impact of literature and poetry on his pupils. In one class, the use of photographs ...
- Memorial Sat. for poet Paula Gunn Allen - Bay Area Reporter
Bay Area ReporterMemorial Sat. for poet Paula Gunn AllenBay Area Reporter, CA - 5 hours agoA prolific writer, Ms. Allen published six volumes of poetry, including Life is a Fatal Disease; Collected Poems 1962-1995 (1997, West End Press) and Skin ...
- Obituary: John Matshikiza’s independent voice will be remembered (The Natal Witness Group)
John Matshikiza, actor, director, writer and poet, died suddenly in Johannesburg on Monday night from a heart attack. He was 54.
- Bulletin board: Sept. 11, 2008 (The Charleston Gazette)
Charleston Poetry Group will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Dunbar Public Library, 12th Street and Myers Avenue, Dunbar. The program will focus on the ode as a form of poetry. Dues are payable at this meeting. Bring an ode.
- They May Give Away, But Oregon Artists Still Need Support - OPB News
They May Give Away, But Oregon Artists Still Need SupportOPB News, OR - 10 hours agoWednesday, free arts and cultural events will be staged in towns from Lincoln City to Hood River to Pendleton. Organized by the Oregon Cultural Trust, ...
- 'Bees,' a tale about acceptance, is warm and wholesome (Ventura County Star)
It's a writerly coming-of-age piece set in the civil rights summer in South Carolina. But it's also precious, self-conscious, a hug that you give at arm's length.
- Students, teachers compile own textbook (The Herald News)
When Ally Mahoney, 16, reads her American literature book for class, she's quite familiar with some of the excerpts because she typed them. Ally, a junior at Joliet West High School is one of a handful of students, who helped with the typing and editing of the school district's new textbook "Selections in American Letters: What is the American Dream?" In spring of 2007, English teachers were ...
- Literary festival to celebrate the written word - Foster's Daily Democrat
Literary festival to celebrate the written wordFoster's Daily Democrat, NH - 1 hour ago"You may not grasp the technicality that went into a beautiful poem, but you will know that the words move you." There is something about New Hampshire that ...
- Poetry Contest This Weekend - Westcoaster
Poetry Contest This WeekendWestcoaster, Canada - 37 minutes agoTOFINO — Pick up your pens because the Clayoquot Writers Group and the Westcoaster.ca are sponsoring their Second Annual Poetry Contest. ...
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