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- Ex-Cornet Donald Lunn dies at 77 - Hawick Today
Ex-Cornet Donald Lunn dies at 77Hawick Today, UK - 10 hours ago"He will be such a sad loss to the community." Donald is survived by his wife Eileen, daughter Vivienne and was a grandfather to Aimee. ...
- Hip-hop emcee Tou Saiko Lee takes his message to the streets as he mentors young poets (Pioneer Press)
Tou Saiko Lee isn't the kind of emcee who spits rhymes like nails, hunched over the mic like he's holding off an attack.
- Morning yet on Independence Day - The Punch
Morning yet on Independence DayThe Punch, Nigeria - 1 hour agoAs if the book was published just yesterday, it is currently swaying the market like a juvenile wind. Just last week, the book that has sold in excess of ...
- Negligence Led To China's Milk Scandal - Hartford Courant
The note posted in July on the website of China's food safety inspection agency came from a doctor: There had been a sudden rise in infants turning up at his hospital with kidney stones after drinking the same brand of formula. The warning, which ...
- Writer recounts post-war mystery - Daytona Beach News-Journal
Writer recounts post-war mysteryDaytona Beach News-Journal, FL - 45 minutes agoSvoboda, a writer of four books of poetry, several novels ("Tin God," "Cannibal") and short stories, was dragged into that mystery when her uncle began to ...
- Novel featuring Falls a riveting read - Niagara Review
Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart just released this year a novel set primarily in Niagara Falls. The title is "Falling" by Anne Simpson. Simpson's book "Loop" was the winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Governor General's ...
- Pray silence for Bin Laden the wedding poet (Times Online)
POETRY by Osama Bin Laden is to be published next week by an Oxford-educated academic, who has discovered that the world’s most hated terrorist was once in great demand as an after-dinner speaker.
- Fine Arts Festival set for Saturday - Elk Grove Citizen
Fine Arts Festival set for SaturdayElk Grove Citizen, CA - 2 hours agoShe self-published two poetry books, “A License to Fly†and “Uninhibited and Still Holding Back.†Although this is not a children’s event, there will be ...
- Rochester high school reunion hopes to bridge gap between graduating ... - Democrat and Chronicle
Hundreds of Franklin alumni will head to the Clarion Riverside Hotel on Saturday for a reunion that organizers hope will be as much about the future as the past. All alumni of Benjamin Franklin High School are invited to the evening dinner event that ...
- GMTV Weather Presenter Quits - Waveguide
Weather presenter Andrea McLean is to quit GMTV after 11 years to appear on ITV's lunchtime show Loose Women. Mclean has a year-long contract to appear on the programme and plans to pursue other broadcasting opportunities. "I've been thinking about ...
- Books: "The Good Thief" (The New Yorker)
This striking début novel is an homage to old-fashioned boy’s-own adventure stories, and unfolds like a Robert Louis Stevenson tale retold amid the hardscrabble squalor of Colonial New England. The sheer strangeness of the story is beguiling: a one-handed boy, tainted by his upbringing in a Catholic . . .
- German Scholars Reject Claim of Goethe's Secret Romance - Deutsche Welle
German Scholars Reject Claim of Goethe's Secret RomanceDeutsche Welle, Germany - 2 hours agoAll German children are obliged to learn some Goethe poetry at school and Germans are taught that Goethe had a long platonic love affair with Charlotte von ...
- Street Scene, Young Vic, London (Independent)
Kurt Weill called Street Scene "a Broadway opera", but there aren't too many operas with a wild jitterbug that segues into a slutty blues or a children's chorus who chant, "My father's name is Rockefeller./He shovels diamonds in the cellar." Into his 1947 musical version of Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Weill emptied a cornucopia of influences – Wagner, Puccini, folk song, jazz, operetta, and his ...
- Cadenza Fall TV Schedule (Student Life)
Cast members, from left, Rex Lee, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Dillon, Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Perrey Reeves and Jeremy Piven arrive for the fifth season premiere of HBO's “Entourage†at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City on September 3, 2008.
- Bad Times, Good Prices (New York Times)
In belt-tightening times, the cost of enjoying the arts in New York might seem particularly daunting. Here?s how to get the most for your cultural dollar.
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