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- War of words (BBC News)
Poet and bookseller fall out over cancelled launch
- The Art of Participation at SF MOMA - San Francisco Examiner
Some deem art to be an elitist practice with success reserved to those who are fortunate enough to have leisure time, money, or friends in high places. Art based upon the concept of participation, which flourished in the late 50's through the sixties ...
- A week of red ribbons (Pawtucket Times)
PAWTUCKET--It was Halloween, but the students, many dressed in costume, were at City Hall on Friday to highlight something much scarier: underage drinking.
- School briefs – Sept. 17 - Gresham Outlook
School briefs – Sept. 17Gresham Outlook, OR - 1 hour agoOrganizers hope to offer foreign languages, book club, poetry, art, drama, but are interested in any other ideas as well. ...
- Books: An Appreciation of Machado - Newsweek
By the time the Brazilian novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis died in 1908, he had authored nine novels, four volumes of poetry, eight short story collections, more than a dozen plays and numerous essays. He had been named an official of the ...
- Tolstoy changes cigar workers’ lives in Cap Rep play - Daily Gazette
There isn’t much about the Capital Repertory Theatre production of “Anna in the Tropics” that doesn’t strongly resonate with Clea Rivera, and that includes wardrobe. “We’re in Florida and it’s set during the summer, so we get to use ...
- Parting Words: Studs Terkel On Hope - NPR
Parting Words: Studs Terkel On HopeNPR - 1 hour agoHis title was not host, but free spirit as he wove interviews, music and poetry together. But just as with his books, he offered history from the bottom up, ...Video: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Terkel Dies at 96 AssociatedPressAn Ear for the Lyrical Voice of Everyman Washington PostStuds Terkel, Pulitzer Prize winner and activist, dies at 96 Ventura County Starall 705 news articles
- On and letters, laughs and lingerie - Macon Telegraph
On and letters, laughs and lingerieMacon Telegraph, GA - 4 minutes agoThe book is a compilation of essays, photos and poetry. If all this is a well-veiled secret in the West, it just reveals how little we know about each other ...
- Fort Hare celebrating Madiba's birthday in style (SABC News)
The University of Fort Hare's jamboree in honour of Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday continues at Alice in the Eastern Cape today. The University is celebrating Mandela's 90th birthday in style. The varsity is holding a two day festival of ideas.
- Expect spontaneous groove at Sunburned Hand of the Man show - MLive.com
Courtesy photo Expect plenty of improvisation when Sunburned Hand of the Man takes the stage Wednesday at the Crofoot in Pontiac. Musically speaking, anything goes at a Sunburned Hand of the Man show. Eschewing standard song structure, the Boston ...
- Boardwalk in Durban - October 14, 2008 - Tonight
Boardwalk in Durban - October 14, 2008Tonight, South Africa - Oct 14, 2008The production entertains with a mix of newly composed wedding songs, dance and poetry. October 18 at 7.30pm. Tickets, R30, from Computicket. ...
- Harlow marks Black History Month - Harlow Herald 24
Harlow marks Black History MonthHarlow Herald 24, UK - 3 hours agoThe three days of celebrations began at the Civic Centre on Wednesday with a talk on racial equality and cultural diversity in Harlow, followed by poetry ...
- Burmese democracy activist: 'I don't know how I kept my sanity' - The Independent
He spoke against a noisy background of friends celebrating his release, but the Burmese journalist Win Tin – freed after spending more than 19 years in one of the world's most notorious jails – said he was thinking of those he left behind. "I am ...
- Teachers expressed concern over Cho (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
When he finally took off his mirrored sunglasses, Seung-Hui Cho's empty gaze shook his teachers, who had just asked police to be on hand the next time he showed up for poetry class.
- Toni Morrison's operatic tragic story, lavishly told (Chicago Sun-Times)
The tale couldn't be more gut-wrenching or the underlying issue more compelling. A young slave, fleeing captivity in the South in the 1850s, is cornered by U.S. marshals and a posse, including her owner. She slays her 2-year-old daughter, choosing to see the child dead rather than enslaved.
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