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- Peace vigil draws crowd on anniversary of attack; ‘Eye-for-an-eye mentality doesn’t work.’ (Columbia Daily Tribune)
Lily Tinker Fortel was in her high school calculus class the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into a field in Pennsylvania and buildings in New York City and Washington, D.C.
- So much to do, so little time - The State
Walk for Life: Thousands will hit the streets today for the First Ladies’ Walk for Life ... Steps Against Breast Cancer. The three-mile walk begins at 9 a.m. at Finlay Park and winds through Columbia. It’s not too late to participate; just arrive ...
- The world's 50 best walks - Times Online
All great pub walks should involve a quick hit of scenery, then a slow sup by the fire - and the Clachaig Inn, buried among the man-sized mountains of Glencoe, has a cracker. A mile’s clamber on a pinewood trail brings you to Signal Rock, where, in ...
- Pencil This In...Monday (LAist)
Check out the film happenings around town tonight. / Photo of Hollywood and Vine Red Line station by GarySe7en via LAist's flickr pool. FILM : The ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood is screening a restored and digitally remastered 35mm print of The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II until September 25. Tonight Part I screens at 7:30 pm and Part II screens at 11:15 pm. ...
- Five questions for Zena Edwards - Metro
MetroFive questions for Zena EdwardsMetro, UK - 25 minutes agoby ANDRZEJ LUKOWSKI - Monday, October 13, 2008 Security is a one-woman, poetry-based play about knife crime in London, centred on four people who meet in a ...
- Fairness, equality and opportunity (The Herald)
A BELIEVER in fate might have foreseen that one day Eunice Lancaster would find herself in this most unlikely of professions - banker to the unbankable. But Lancaster never refers to fate; she talks instead about fairness and equality of opportunity.
- INDONESIA ENACTS WIDE-RANGING PORNOGRAPHY LAW - Contactmusic.com
Indonesia today (Thursday) was expected to pass what some regarded as the most wide-ranging anti-pornography bill ever enacted. According to the Jakarta Post , the bill defines pornography as "man-made sexual materials either in the forms of drawings ...
- Lincoln's Home Away From The White House - NPR News
The atrium of the Lincoln Cottage visitor education center features a mural of the 16th president. Weekend Edition Sunday , August 31, 2008 · For nearly a quarter of his presidency, Abraham Lincoln lived not in the White House, but rather three ...
- Black Arts & Cultural Center to screen 'Akeelah and the Bee' - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- The Black Arts & Cultural Center will present the film "Akeelah and the Bee" at 1 p.m. Saturday Nov. 15. The film, starring Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett and Keke Palmer, is the true story of an 11-year-old black girl from Los ...
- Michael Redhill to judge 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize - CBC News
A trio of esteemed poets and editors have been selected to judge the upcoming Griffin Poetry Prize, organizers announced Monday. Award-winning Canadian writer Michael Redhill, who also publishes and co-edits the literary journal Brick, will be joined ...
- Zombies have taste for haiku - Cincinnati.com
Ryan Mecum's family Christmas card didn't go over so well last year. The photo of him and his wife and their young daughter drove at least one relative to tears, and not in a good way. Lesson learned: Photoshopping your baby into a flesh-eating ...
- PlayMakers polish rough 'Pericles' (The News & Observer)
'Pericles" probably isn't on anyone's top 10 Shakespeare list. Much of it wasn't even written by Shakespeare, and what's there is nearly devoid of the bard's usual poetry, character and philosophy. Its constant reversals of fortune and miraculous recoveries make it more fairy tale than absorbing drama.
- Runner-up: Mitzpah - Rocky Mountain News
Runner-up: MitzpahRocky Mountain News, CO - 4 hours agoLinda Berry has written poetry and short stories for children and adults, which have been published in magazines such as Highlights for Children, ...
- Trace the steps of the tumultuous Dylan Thomas (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Going on the trail of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas easily could turn into a pub crawl. But you'll find far more than bars when tracing the steps of this tumultuous bard - though admittedly the only writer who chalked up more favorite drinking holes was Ernest Hemingway.
- St. Petersburg-raised Angela Bassett begins stint on NBC's 'ER' - St. Petersburg Times
Bassett in her senior year photo in 1976. She graduated from Boca Ciega High School in Gulfport. When film actor Angela Bassett was considering a substantial role on NBC's long-running medical drama, ER , she particularly remembers one actor ...
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