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- Stand-out shows this week: Talib Kweli, Santogold, Sigur Ros - Oregonian
Who? Pronounced just like his name looks, even if it doesn't exactly roll off everyone's tongues. What? Hip-hop that turns on pull-no-punches social observation, sharply expressed. Why should you care? Kweli's constantly been on the verge of breaking ...
- PAL announces literary awards - Daily Times
PAL announces literary awardsDaily Times, Pakistan - 4 hours agoAccording to the jury, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal Award in Urdu poetry was given to Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi on his book “Arz-o-Samaâ€Â, Baba-i-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq ...Muhammad Ajmal Khattak gets ‘Kamal-e-Funn Award’ The News - InternationalPAL announces literary awards for 2007 Pakistan Daily MailAjmal Khattak nominated for The Nation, Pakistanall 6 news articles
- Patti Smith and Philip Glass Front Melbourne International Arts ... - Undercover Music News
The return of Patti Smith to Australian shores has been announced as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Smith’s tour is hot on the heels of a new film about her life by Stephen Serbing called ‘Dream of Life’. The festival will ...
- Metro briefs - Montgomery Advertiser
The Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum will receive two shadow boxes that contain the motorcycle jacket, badge, desk name plate and Life magazine photos of Montgomery County Sheriff's Capt. John Frank Kennedy. Kennedy was a motorcycle patrol officer ...
- In the driver's seat - Globe and Mail
In the driver's seatGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThere is no melodrama in her tone; death is what she wants, has wanted for some time. The kids ask what their mother said. Hattie spontaneously replies that ...
- Palestinian poet Darwish passes away (Dawn)
RAMALLAH, Aug 10: Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday --- an honour only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. President Mahmoud Abbas has declared three days of national mourning.
- Mary Treinen-Moslen - Daily News - Galveston County
Mary Treinen-MoslenDaily News - Galveston County, TX - 18 hours agoWe poets get no dollars, but can often make a lot of sense to the listeners at our poetry readings. We also get little or no respect as members of the arts ...
- On Poetry: Politics a strange bedfellow (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
While we're all neck-deep in politics, I'll offer a few thoughts about the "political" poem.
- How One Stock Changes Everything - MSNBC
I wasn't. I sure wasn't gambling $1,800 on a company I'd never heard of. But somebody was, and he was about to make a lot of money. I know this for two reasons. First, that one trade made this guy a celebrity around here. Second, the crazy Fool ...
- Heart of the Hills - Boston Globe
VALPARAÃÂSO - Pablo Neruda would be proud. Mere moments after arriving in the city the poet and Nobelist once called home, we set out to track down a mysterious lead and find the heart of this place by starting with its stomach. Though ostensibly ...
- Obituaries in the news - Washington Post
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y.(AP) _ Hayden Carruth, an award-winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont, died Monday. He was 87. Carruth, who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 70s, died at his home in Munnsville, N.Y. after suffering a ...
- Co-op students introduce each other - Owen Sound Sun Times
Kelsey Starr has had a lifelong "thirst for writing," but was strongly cautioned by friends, family and people in the business about making it a career. They warned that journalism is not an easy career and advised trying it first to make sure it is ...
- Around Town - Juneau Empire
Boys & Girls Club of Juneau, 2:30 p.m. every Monday, 8825 Mallard St., behind the Nugget Mall. Open noon-7 p.m. on days school is closed or dismissed earlier. Details: 790-4534, 790-4535. Alaska Youth Choir auditions, 5-7 p.m., Northern Light United ...
- A new voice aims to evangelize, inform (Miami Herald)
For years, as he celebrated Mass at St. James Catholic Church in North Miami or tended to the special needs of his Haitian-American congregants, Father Patrick Charles envisioned a newspaper that would chronicle the important ecclesiastical events for the Creole-speaking faithful.
- Colleges lead the way (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
Worcester State College nursing students and faculty will shine a spotlight on homelessness and the lack of affordable housing by creating a cardboard village on the lawn of the Student Center beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday.
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