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- Brave Turkey finally downed by luck and Lahm - Guardian Blogs
If ever a team has proven it should never be underestimated or second-guessed, it is Turkey in this tournament. And yet tonight Germany inexcusably did both. And, tragically, got away with it. Perhaps Germany were duped by the Turks' inexplicable ...
- Religion Briefs for August 22, 2008 (Ada Evening News)
ADA — Jeff Johnson will lead worship services at 9:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday at Trinity Baptist Church, located at 10th and Mississippi. He will perform in concert at 6 p.m. Sunday.
- World writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meet (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bangladeshi novelist-in-hiding Taslima Nasreen joined international writers gathered at a literary conference in Stockholm Tuesday to deplore how censorship and persecution affect their work.
- Kilcher games keep homesteading skills alive, fund museum (Homer News)
[Think you've got what it takes to be a self-reliant, tough-as-nails Alaska homesteader? Put it to the test at the Kilcher Family Homestead Games from noon- 8 p.m. Aug. 2.
- His performance will not be televised (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
Gil Scott-Heron intrigues with poetry, music... By Grant Britt.Revolution has long been a favorite theme for musicians. John Lennon weighed in on the subject, as did The Clash. But no musical composition to date had the impact that musician/street poet Gil Scott-Heron's did when he told a complacent middle-class American audience in 1970 that the revolution would not be televised. "You will not ...
- Animal whisperers come out of the shadows - Times and Transcript
Animal whisperers come out of the shadowsTimes and Transcript, Canada - 12 hours ago... "Species Link: The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication," offering training opportunities, "plus prose and poetry transcribed directly from ...
- The love stories are gone - Tehran Times
The love stories are goneTehran Times, Iran - 1 hour agoThis is the kind of love story Iraqis tell nowadays. “The country of the Arabian Nights and of wonderful poetry is no longer good for love,” Maki al-Nazzal, ...
- Arts Commission awards annual medals - WRAL
Raleigh, N.C. — The Raleigh Arts Commission named six winners of the annual medal of arts Friday. The Raleigh Medal of Arts honors individuals and organizations for long-term achievement in and support of local arts. The program is in its 24th year ...
- Juneteenth to be celebrated Saturday - Yuma Sun
Juneteenth to be celebrated SaturdayYuma Sun, AZ - 31 minutes agoBencer Abraham, a freshman at Yuma High School his fall, will read poetry by the late Langston Hughes, known as on of the most important members of the ...
- Kay Ryan named US poet laureate (Guardian Unlimited)
News: A quiet writer of compressed poetry has been given America's top honour for poets
- Ben Jelloun joins the Goncourt (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, a well-known figure in both Moroccan and French cultural circles, took a step closer to the heart of the French literary establishment early last month when he was elected a member of the jury of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize and one of Europe's oldest.
- Edinburgh Festival 2008: return to the Fringe - Daily Telegraph
Clive James is convinced that one of the many sketches he directed for the Cambridge Footlights revue at the Edinburgh Fringe 40 years ago was at least the equal of Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch. 'I learnt a lot, usually by failure,' says Clive ...
- Readers’ newsprint plus pen equals poetry - Tacoma News Tribune
Poetry is everywhere. It’s in the clouds, in the park, in the walk to the corner store. It’s in your morning paper. It’s newspaper blackout poetry, an emerging art form that relies on poets using text on newsprint as their inspiration. Creating ...
- To the camera born - Tribune
She is a beautiful 20-something living in Mumbai. Her mother tongue is Tamil but her roots are in Kerala. She began her acting career with a Bengali film and is, at present, the diva in demand in Bollywood. Her name is Vidya Balan. She has the most ...
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - FOX News
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some ...
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