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- Shen Family funds new musicals - Variety
More Articles: The Shen Family Foundation will donate $300,000 to the Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., to help support the creation of new works for musical theater from emerging composers. Composers Matt Conner, Adam Gwon and Gabriel Kahane will ...
- Mary Goodwin Dies At Age 91 - Hartford Courant
Mary Goodwin Dies At Age 91Hartford Courant, United States - 35 minutes agoA direct descendant of a 19th-century Hartford Courant printer and publisher, she reported on the 1944 Hartford circus fire, and was involved with local ...
- Money Can't Buy Culture - Newsweek
Money Can't Buy CultureNewsweek - 11 hours agoThe recent founding of liberal-arts oriented American University of Sharjah (affiliated with American University in Washington, DC) bodes well for these ...
- You write the reviews: Roger Lloyd Pack, The Maltings, Wells-Next-The-Sea (Independent)
This was a good choice for the opening night of the 11th Poetry-next-the-Sea festival in Norfolk. Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, commands a good audience even when poetry is the main topic. He was talking to Dame Gillian Beer, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in a Desert Island Discs-style format about his 10 favourite poems.
- 'Welcome Home Project' honors returning vets - Ashland Daily Tidings
About 30 American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will celebrate Memorial Day a little differently this year. Through The Welcome Home Project, the veterans and their families will attend a five-day retreat starting May 22 at Buckhorn ...
- Without a Trace - Egypt Today
MA HMOUD AHMED MOHAMED and Omm Ahmed live in Warraq, a low-income district near Mohandiseen packed with families, each with its own little joys and miseries. But Abu Ahmed’s home has seen little joy since Ahmed went missing almost four years ago ...
- Oh, what Simon says - Waterloo Record
Waterloo RecordOh, what Simon saysWaterloo Record, Canada - 29 minutes agoThe teen was indifferent to women and uninterested in sex and sonnet after sonnet failed to stir him, until finally it was suggested Shakespeare introduce ...
- From the shadows to the sun: Second generation survivors react to family histories (Queens Courier)
The Queens Courier, a local Queens NY Newspaper offers breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinions, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, cars & more. We publish the only Queens community newspaper in Spanish El Correo de Queens, Queens Business Today, Queensborough magazine, HealthWise magazine, North Shore Towers Courier and a tourist magazine Key to Queens.
- Students Compete in Poetry Recitation Contest (NPR)
Each year, high school students from all over the United States come together to compete in a poetry recitation contest — standing center stage with only a microphone and their memory.
- Arts & Entertainment Briefs - Lompoc Record
Arts & Entertainment BriefsLompoc Record, CA - 5 hours agoThis free event will feature poems about nature by four well-known poets from Santa Barbara County. A short concert will precede the poetry reading at 3 pm ...
- Proposed copyright law puts squeeze on downloads (CTV.ca)
The federal government tabled legislation on Thursday that it claims will see individuals fined a maximum of $500 if they are caught downloading copyrighted files. However, some users could potentially face millions in fines.
- 2008 Detroit Festival of the Arts - WWJ Newsradio 950
WWJ is proud to help sponsor the 22nd annual Detroit Festival of the Arts. This event will be taking place from Friday, June 6th through Sunday June 8th, 2008 in midtown's university cultural center. There will be events and exhibits for the whole ...
- PBS struggles to survive (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
''Is PBS Still Necessary'" read a New York Times headline a few weeks ago above a story about public TV's struggles. PBS is again imperiled by threatened severe funding cuts, tired-looking shows, competition from cable and, not surprisingly, lower ratings.
- Mark your calendar: Farmworker families' art on display (The Salinas Californian)
Six artists in different media worked with California farmworker families to explore feelings of place and home, visions and values. The artwork from those workshops is showing this month at the Greenfield Public Library.
- What's On This Week - New Zealand Herald
The celebration of Kiwi poetry, Montana Poetry Day, is back tomorrow. Aucklanders can enjoy Poetry Central at the Auckland Central Library from 4.30pm. Poet Laureate Michele Leggott (pictured) will MC and there'll be readings by poets Bob Orr, Chris ...
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