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- 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 ...
- Military man, educator did everything ‘extra’ - St. Joseph News-Press
Military man, educator did everything ‘extra’St. Joseph News-Press, MO - 4 hours agoHe loved to read poetry as well as hear and dance the waltzes of Johann Strauss, both sisters said. In the fall of 1966, he became a teacher at Central ...
- Princess Soraya’s Hollywood Temptations - Persian Mirror
Princess Soraya’s Hollywood TemptationsPersian Mirror - 14 hours agoSoraya the “princess with sad eyes†as she was to be known in the Western Press, after her tragic divorce to the Shah of Iran in the late 1950’s, ...
- Macmillan takes hat-trick at book awards - PrintWeek
Macmillan takes hat-trick at book awardsPrintWeek, UK - 5 hours agoMacmillan Publishing took home three trophies to be crowned the big winner of last night's British Book Design and Production Awards 2008. ...
- Van Morrison discusses 'Astral Weeks,' which he'll perform at the ... - Los Angeles Times
If necessity is the mother of invention, it might follow that desperation is the father of inspiration. That was certainly the case 40 years ago, when Belfast-bred blue-eyed soul singer Van Morrison found himself broke and stranded on the East Coast ...
- '10,000 B.C.' (Woolly mammoth of a story has a hunk, a babe, a heart) - Chicago Tribune
Evolet (Camilla Belle), fresh from the prehistoric spa, spends a moment with her hero, D'Leh (Steven Strait), in the epic adventure "10,000 B.C." () How to explain the agreeably bone-headed "10,000 B.C"? "Ice Age 2" may be more historically accurate ...
- Readers will visit The Lost World for free - The Herald
Readers will visit The Lost World for freeThe Herald, UK - 13 hours agoIn previous "city reads", Glasgow has distributed Small Island by Andrea Levy and a collection of poetry, From Saturn to Glasgow, by the nation's Makar, ...
- BR area for Nov. 7-13, 2008 - 2TheAdvocate
BR area for Nov. 7-13, 20082TheAdvocate, LA - 10 hours agoOPEN MIC POETRY SHOW: 8 pm, In-somkneeacks, 9895 Florida Blvd., Suite B, upstairs next to the Broad-moor Theater. (225) 935-2824.
- Extra, Extra - Gothamist
GothamistExtra, ExtraGothamist, NY - 6 hours agoNY1 visits the Poetry Brothel, with poetry madam Stephanie Berger explaining, "I am the madam of the poetry brothel. It's a place for the poets to give the ...
- Beyond Bogotá - Guardian Unlimited
The Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez had been struggling with a story set in the second world war for three years when it struck him that the thing which had been holding him back from writing was in fact the best reason for trying to tell the ...
- Club Notes - Salt Lake Tribune
Distinctive singer/songwriter John Hiatt headlines, but Joan Osborne could handle headlining duties on her own. Best known for singing "(If God Was) One of Us" in the 1990s, Osborne is a bluesy singer who has sung with The Dead and is touring to ...
- The best-loved man in Hamilton County - Suwannee Democrat
"It must be a wonderful feeling to be the most-loved man in Hamilton County." Circuit Judge John W. Peach was speaking of Dr. Fred Mickler. Tall, lanky and soft-spoken, Dr. Fred has practiced in Jasper for 48 years. Three times he was the only doctor ...
- Matshikiza's fans say goodbye (Independent Online)
He was one of a rare breed, but John Matshikiza probably died not knowing how many people admired, respected and loved him.
- More from the realm of the coin - Daily Telegraph Blogs
I've been falling behind on the new-coin-spotting front. So far, I've only come across the 1p and the 5p; the eagle-eyed Diamond Geezer has also had the 2p and the 20p . But the 5p is very nice - and it's the one I had most doubts about from the ...
- Reining champion - South Coast Today
Reining championSouth Coast Today, MA - 1 hour agoWhen a rider and a horse have a connection like this, it is like poetry in motion," said Mrs. Miranda, an occupational therapist at Taunton State Hospital. ...
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