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- "Honus" cliched, but a home run to audiences (Denver Post)
For more than a century, nothing but nothing has brought out the shameless sentiment in writers like baseball. Most have missed.
- An Upstate Saga (The New Yorker)
From the first pages of Ethan Canin’s new novel, “America America” (Random House; $27), we feel in safe hands; the prospects are panoramic, and the prose, in the author’s preferred first-person mode (“It’s easier to write when you have a voice,” he has said), is ruminative, ominous, and . . .
- Entertainment In Brief: 05/30/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
PETOSKEY -- The Bear River Writers' Conference will host an evening of prose and poetry with Amy Hempel and Jim Daniels.
- Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook make a deal; Jennifer Lopez's ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Christie Brinkley has reason to smile. Our long, national nightmare is over. Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook have reached a settlement in their bitter divorce, ending the seamy spectacle of the public trial after days of hearing about Cook's ...
- Haunt the PHX in Style - Phoenix New Times
Terror. It's a sensation we know all too well, especially during Halloween. Whether it's getting caught by the po-pos smashing a few dozen pumpkins or waking up on November 1 next to a paramour with a case of coyote ugly worth chawin' your arm off ...
- Obituaries in the news - Philadelphia Inquirer
DALLAS (AP) , James A. Baker. a former Texas Supreme Court Justice known as a devoted scholar of appellate law, died Sunday. He was 77. He died in his sleep, the Texas Supreme Court said. Baker was diagnosed last year with cancer, which spread ...
- This mom fought fear with poetry (USA Today)
Frances Richey knows she is one of the fortunate ones. "I lived with the constant fear that my son would never come home," says Richey, 57, a poet in New York. "So I wrote all the time. I convinced myself if I wrote, he would come back to me."
- The Impostor, by Damon Galgut - The Independent
A ramshackle farmhouse in the hinterland of South Africa, a mysterious silent neighbour and a town where corruption has become a way of life. These ingredients go into making Damon Galgut's follow-up to The Good Doctor. It's a spine-chilling read ...
- Oh, Kanchenjunga - American Chronicle
Oh, KanchenjungaAmerican Chronicle, CA - 24 minutes agoAnd another lama with jet-black hair, suddenly came up, behind a mask of a Tibetan demon with ferocious-looking teeth, and springs in front of us to get ...
- Flint Youth Theatre takes on royal endeavor for season closer - MLive.com
Flint Youth Theatre Mike St. Cyr is Arthwyr (Arthur), Deidre S. Baker is Gwenhwyfar (Guinevere) and Nathan Peaseis Medraut (Mordred) in the Flint Youth Theatre production of "Arthur, King of Britain," which opens Friday. William P. Ward, executive ...
- Senior Olympics held - Pasadena Star-News
Senior Olympics heldPasadena Star-News, CA - 2 hours agoWho is going to change, the abortion protesters and counselors, the abusive spouses and boy friends, the gang bangers, the free-sex advocates? ...
- Numbers down, hopes high at immigrant rally - The Salinas Californian
Numbers down, hopes high at immigrant rallyThe Salinas Californian, CA - 7 hours agoThursday's rally had a family atmosphere with live music, face painting, poetry and several activities for children. Mothers sat in the grass with their ...
- Where Children Fight the Wars, Innocence Dies First - New York Times
New York TimesWhere Children Fight the Wars, Innocence Dies FirstNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoIt is, for one thing, beautifully shot, with an impressive feel for the poetry of faces and natural phenomena. Mr. Mundruczo’s deft use of sound — lapping ...
- Chopin: Genius or monster? (Independent)
Everyone knows Chopin, yet of all the great composers he's the least well-known. This is thanks partly to the myths that have accrued about him, and partly to the paradoxes in his music and character. The stock images are of the staunch Polish patriot, and of the hypersensitive aesthete coughing his heart out as he pens his romantic melodies. Yet in truth Chopin was a political ...
- Braden River Branch Library, 4915 53rd Ave. E., Bradenton; 727-6079: - Bradenton Herald
Braden River Branch Library, 4915 53rd Ave. E., Bradenton; 727-6079:Bradenton Herald, United States - 7 hours agoActivities include a book discussion about the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, a prize drawing, and a music and poetry contest. ...
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