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- A Funny Plant with a Painful Name - The Toothache Plant - San Francisco Examiner
The first time I saw this plant was in a Texas garden nursery. I heard a squeal of delight as someone exclaimed, “The Dr. Seuss Flower!” Indeed, it does look like something out of Horton Hears a Who! This funny little flower is also called ...
- Family of woman who died after being Tasered suing police - Miami Herald
The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental health crisis is suing the City of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old Emily Delafield ...
- ARTS IN THE CITY (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
THE PAPER PICKER PRESS: GALLERY RECEPTION WITH MASTER CLASS FOR CHILDREN — Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St. Includes instructions detailing games and activities for all to try on their own. For information, call 617-577-1400 or visit www.cmacusa.org.
- Cover Stories: Hamish Hamilton; Dannie Abse; Caroline Michel's ... - Independent
Cover Stories: Hamish Hamilton; Dannie Abse; Caroline Michel's ...Independent, UK - 31 minutes agoThe judges hailed Abse - a doctor with books on medicine, as well as poetry, plays and fiction to his name - as being "up there at the top of the Welsh ...
- Echoes of Kaifi - Daily News and Analysis
Actor Shabana Azmi, who along with husband Javed Akhtar, released father Kaifi Azmi’s album of poems titled Kaifiyat (recited by the late poet and includes 30 tracks) on May 10, said that she could relate every situation in her life to his poems ...
- Silver Jews Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea - Paste Magazine
Though chief semite David Berman sounds less electrified—and more gentrified—than usual on Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea , he’s the rare songwriter who’s better for it. Relying on elliptical truisms (“What is Not But Could Be If ...
- 2008 Poetry Winners (Dayton Daily News)
Today we begin publishing the winners of the 12th annual Dayton Daily News Short Story and Poetry Contest. This is the fourth year in which we've sought poetry as part of the competition. The winners are presented here today. This selection is from all three age categories: youth, teen and adult. Monday through Wednesday in Life, we'll publish the first-place short stories. They also can be ...
- Putting A Face To The Disease - Argus Leader
Cure one disease, and hundreds of thousands of lives are changed for the better. Maybe millions. That's the promise behind Sanford Health's goal. This week, the health system will announce which of the four diseases chosen as finalists - lupus ...
- Pres. Lee Expresses His Agony to Inner Circle - Donga.com
President Lee Myung-bak has reportedly confessed his agony to his inner circle, as mass protests against American beef forced him to fire all of his presidential secretaries and back off from his key policies. A key confidante who wished to remain ...
- Book Review—Boys of Steel - Firefox News
Book Review—Boys of SteelFirefox News, AZ - 14 minutes agoBy Peter Gutiérrez Over the past fifteen years, Peter's work in horror and other genres, in the form of short fiction, poetry, criticism, and comics, ...
- Writers are sought for retreat (Portsmouth Herald)
RYE — This year's Writers in the Round Retreat on Star, hosted by Deidre Randall, will take place from Sept. 4 to 7.
- Miss Northampton aiming for national glory - Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Miss Northampton aiming for national gloryNorthampton Chronicle & Echo, UK - 1 hour agoHer other achievements include winning a Stars in their Eyes-style contest in 2006 and she has also had poetry published and is a singer and dancer. ...
- The Sorrows of an American (The New Yorker)
I’m lost,” a patient tells her psychiatrist in Hustvedt’s fourth novel. “I’m cold. I’m all alone.” She might be speaking for all the characters in this sombre meditation on the isolation of urban professionals, in which daily routines are nothing but “pillars in an architecture of need,” erotic love is . . .
- Author has Frost down cold in novelized biography - Daily Press
Author has Frost down cold in novelized biographyDaily Press, VA - 12 minutes agoThe poet is seen as a neurotic, difficult man, who deeply loved his wife and children and was tormented by what he termed the "family curse. ...
- A very grown-up book club - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukA very grown-up book clubguardian.co.uk, UK - 44 minutes agoMusic and poetry have a part to play, too, not least with those who have dementia or Alzheimer's, as two-thirds of those in the Nightingale do. ...
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