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- First mid-autumn festival holiday helps revive tradition (People's Daily)
With the first mid-autumn festival holiday nearly upon China, many people are asking 'what is it for?' An online survey by the website Sohu.com saw 55.7 percent of the 1,313 respondents saying they would spend the holiday with their families. The festival, similar to the Spring Festival or the dragon boat festival, has been a time for family reunion since ancient China. Li Kang, from Pingxiang ...
- A look at WonderfulGraffiti.com - Blast
A look at WonderfulGraffiti.comBlast, MA - 8 minutes agoPoetry. Inside jokes. Motherly advice. Political statements. Even holiday greetings. McPhail points to endless examples of how beautifully designed text can ...
- Paint names shade toward poetry (Burlington Times-News)
I bought a gallon of paint recently. If this current trend in naming paints continues, hardware stores will need to bring in upholstered chairs and designer coffee bars. You can't be sure if you're reading paint chips or free verse.
- My hero, the great Russian writer Alexander Sergevitch Pushkin ... - guardian.co.uk
My hero, the great Russian writer Alexander Sergevitch Pushkin ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoWhen I first encountered Pushkin I knew vaguely about his African ancestry, but I was not at the time interested in much outside of his poetry, ...
- PODCAST: When KalamaBrew talks about beer, the sun comes out - MLive.com
A thirst for beer triumphs in Ottawa County, big beers from Arcadia Brewing Company and a special shout out from Uncle John - these are just a few of our favorite things to talk about this week as KalamaBrew bloggers John Liberty and Anne Holcomb ...
- Price provides 'Clear Pictures' - Durham Herald Sun
Price provides 'Clear Pictures'Durham Herald Sun, NC - 3 minutes agoBY GLENN CRAVEN : The [Henderson] Daily Dispatch HENDERSON -- Reynolds Price must've known his stories would strike a chord in his audience Saturday. ...
- "Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel" dives into a madcap life cut short (Seattle Times)
Edmund White's short biography "Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel," looks at the man behind the legend of the short-lived, anything-goes French poet.
- McCain's Spanish-Only Pitch - Slate
Attention Ms. Coulter: John McCain is running an ad in Spanish attacking Obama for allegedly failing to support the "comprehensive immigration reform" bill that McCain himself has said he no longer supports . ... I guess McCain got the "message" but ...
- 'South London's Woodstock' unites art lovers - Streatham Guardian
Poetry reading and literature appreciation used to be confined to arts theatres and smoky pub backrooms, but on Sunday it took centre stage at a festival in Brockwell Park. The Pipe and Slippers festival - united local arts lovers for an afternoon of ...
- “Doctor Atomic” and powerful jazz sax man are a riveting weekend combo (The Kansas City Star)
I frequently subscribe to the wild-hair school of weekend time-management. That’s as good an explanation as any for why last Saturday I found myself revisiting our nation’s atomic history at an opera in Kansas City and Sunday afternoon contemplating the future of jazz in Columbia.
- Jockstrip: The world as we know it. (UPI)
Bin Laden's prowess as poet examined ... Deputies nab nude bartender ... Firm invents board game for sacked bankers ... Judge: Restore beer ad over Wrigley ... The world as we know it from UPI.
- How 'Genius' Bill Walsh brought brains to a brute-force game - Alameda Times-Star
For decades, the consensus held that the thinking fan's game was baseball. In its leisurely rhythms were the textures, subtleties and nuances of life itself. Football, by contrast, was the brute sport, a conflict of power and mayhem. That was before ...
- An English of pomegranates and nightlights - New Times SLO
An English of pomegranates and nightlightsNew Times SLO, CA - 12 minutes agoThe recently published book of poetry features six local poets—self-titled “plein air poets.” Reading the poems vertically rather than horizontally, ...
- Artist of the week: Christine Irving - The Union of Grass Valley
Artist of the week: Christine IrvingThe Union of Grass Valley, CA - 6 hours agoAll my work, whether art or poetry tells stories; although I often don't know what tale is being told until after the piece is finished. ...
- That's Entertainment - Leader-Telegram
That's EntertainmentLeader-Telegram, WI - 37 minutes agoWhite Pine open microphone for music, poetry and stories, 7 pm, The Creamery Restaurant, E4620 Highway C, Downsville. $2. 715-309-2084. ...
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