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- Calgary Highland Games feature Robbie Burns recital, competition - Canada East
CALGARY - Fans of the Scottish poet Robbie Burns can get their fill of his verse at Calgary's Highland Games. A total of $3,000 in prize money will be handed out in a Burns recital and competition, which will feature both poetry and song. Competitors ...
- I'll take the Manhattan: Ode to a cocktail classic - Bridgeton News
JULIA EWAN/WASHINGTON POST The Manhattan is a drink that encourages experimentation. Mix up a classic or try the Black Manhattan, background. H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet ...
- 30th Anniversary Quarter Horse News Poetry Contest - Equestrianmag.com
30th Anniversary Quarter Horse News Poetry ContestEquestrianmag.com, FL - 2 hours agoPoems may either be in meter and rhyme or in free verse, and no more than 40 lines. For an example, see the poem “Men in Green,†which appeared in the June ...
- Senior Scene (The Standard-Times)
All senior centers and council on aging offices will be closed Monday to observe Labor Day.
- New memoir from Juliana Hatfield - Monsters and Critics
According to the NYT: “Ms. Hatfield reveals the troubled person behind the skinny rocker who came across as aloof, scowling and mysterious. She had been suffering from anorexia and extreme bouts of anxiety and depression since her late teens, which ...
- KRAVIS CENTER 2008-2009 SEASON CALENDAR - Palm Beach Daily News
When Elmo and his Sesame Street Live friends think about growing up, it's a musical show-and-tell! Bert dreams of becoming a forest ranger, Telly longs to be a cowboy and their newest friend, Abby Cadabby, wants to be a fairy godmother just like her ...
- The Cost of NATO's Good Intentions - TIME
The Cost of NATO's Good IntentionsTIME - 4 hours agoIn their new book America Between the Wars,, Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, two former Clinton Administration officials, recount a conversation about ...
- A Day with Trey McIntyre - Boise Weekly
A Day with Trey McIntyreBoise Weekly, USA - 42 minutes ago4:00 pm—The dancers break again and McIntyre sits down to explain that both "Surrender" and "Leatherwing Bat" deal with recent important changes in his life ...
- New U of M boss wants more men on campus (Winnipeg Free Press)
There is a motherlode of potential students for Canadian universities despite declining birthrates -- which is why the University of Manitoba is "looking for men," new president David Barnard said Wednesday. Look at any Canadian campus, Barnard said three hours into starting work as U of M's 11th president: "There are three women undergraduates to every two men.
- Declan Bennett (RainbowNetwork.com)
Declan Bennett's album, An Innocent Evening of Drinking , is a stunningly fresh, honest and mature offering, both thought-provoking and emotive, commercial in appeal, yet uncompromisingly different in approach.
- Cultural Life: Wendy Cope, Poet - The Independent
Books In recent months, I've read two outstanding books: Evening in the Palace of Reason by James Gaines (about J S Bach and Frederick the Great); and John Armstrong's Love, Life, Goethe, which is both a biography and superior self-help book.
- Seeing sunshine in poll defeat too - Times of India
Seeing sunshine in poll defeat tooTimes of India, India - 16 minutes agoIt includes Leftist literature, Maxim Gorky's novels, Rahul Sankratayan's From Volga to Ganga and, of course, Urdu poetry. He listens to ghazals and film ...
- First Pakistani student obtains MBA degree from prestigious Peking ... - Associated Press of Pakistan
First Pakistani student obtains MBA degree from prestigious Peking ...Associated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - Jul 8, 2008Prof Alam himself has written several books on Pakistan as well as on Urdu poetry. Alam said Peking University which was established in 1898 was recognized ...
- Artist twins are double the talent - Blueridgenow.com
"The Bringle Sisters" sounds like it might have been a popular 1960s singing duo, but it is not. While twin sisters Cynthia and Edwina Bringle are of an appropriate age to have been featured in the jukeboxes of the 1960s, their artistry lies ...
- Ron Sexsmith: Exit Strategy of the Soul (Toronto Star)
Despite the weighty matter Ron Sexsmith deals with on his 11th – and arguably his best – album, no one will walk away from it bereft or downhearted.
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