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- Nov 6, 6:50 PM EST - Wired News
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Mos Def was being sought by police on an arrest warrant stemming from a scuffle with a photographer at a fashion trade show last August, authorities and the alleged victim said Thursday. "I had no idea who the man was," said Volker ...
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- Book review: Jim Harrison's “The English Major” goes on an amusing road trip (The Kansas City Star)
As the novelist John Gardner identified them, there are but two universal plots in literature: either you go on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
- 'The Closer' recap: Lending a helping hand - Popwatch
There was a certain symmetrical poetry in last night's episode of The Close r: The juxtaposition of silence and incessant chatter, the competing tones of goofy comedy and jarring violence, the sudden and unexpected shifts in power in the ongoing ...
- Frank Mundus, likely 'Jaws' inspiration, dies at 82 (Pioneer Press)
Frank Mundus, the hulking Long Island shark fisherman who was widely considered the inspiration for Captain Quint, the steely-eyed, grimly obsessed shark hunter in "Jaws," died Sept. 10 in Honolulu. He was 82 and lived on a small lemon-tree farm in Naalehu, on the southern tip of the Big Island of Hawaii, 2,000 feet above shark level.
- The woman Qazi - Hindustan Times
From a lecturer in Lady Shri Ram College to member of Planning Commission, Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, is every inch a leader. She recently donned the role of a woman maulvi and performed a nikah. Formerly a member of National Commission for Women ...
- Why I never want to hear Roger McGough Talk Talk again - guardian.co.uk
Why I never want to hear Roger McGough Talk Talk againguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoNo, instead of cheesy muzac, my ISP is playing a CD of Roger's poetry, read by the man himself. Why? I have no idea. What I do know is that hanging on the ...
- With luxury condos above, hunger museum is set to open - Downtown Express
Downtown ExpressWith luxury condos above, hunger museum is set to openDowntown Express - 10 hours agoThe Poets House, a poetry library and literary center, will move in next year, and a branch of the New York Public Library is slated to open in 2010. ...
- Theater director and professor sets the stage at teen center - Monadnock Ledger Transcript
Theater director and professor sets the stage at teen centerMonadnock Ledger Transcript, NH - 3 hours agoHe also organized free guitar lessons through Franklin Pierce University and a poetry, music and art night for every other first Friday. ...
- Picasso's verbal artistry - Guardian Unlimited
Pablo Picasso was, we know, the most influential artist of the 20th century. His innovations in perspective and technique dazzled (and sometimes baffled) the art world for decades, while paving the way for many of the important artistic movements of ...
- Poem of the week: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau - guardian.co.uk
Poem of the week: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseauguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoFor the visionary American poet, Hart Crane (1899-1925), Blake is asking us to see "through" the eye as opposed to "with" the eye. ...
- Auction Nov. 1 will benefit library (Portsmouth Herald)
ELIOT, Maine and#8212; The first Great Expectations Auction will be held on Saturday, Nov. 1, at the Regatta Banquet andamp; Conference Center on Route 236. The auction benefits the endowment campaign of the William Fogg Library, Eliot's public library.
- MONUC and UN agencies mark UN Day - MONUC.org (press release)
MONUC and UN agencies mark UN DayMONUC.org (press release), Democratic Republic of the Congo - 23 hours agoThe event was highlighted by military parade, speeches, poetry declamation, theater performance on the themes of Peace and Security. ...
- The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldThe Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular EthicsSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 14 hours agoThis world, however, cannot be grasped by ordinary human consciousness but only by way of "non-sensible intuition" (this is where Wordsworth's poetry comes ...
- Kicking a Dead Horse: mounting tedium of a dead-horse drama - Daily Telegraph
In real time, this new play from the American dramatist Sam Shepard lasts only 70 minutes, but it feels immeasurably longer than that. Indeed, I began to wonder whether I'd get out of the theatre alive or succumb to death by chronic tedium. Going ...
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