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- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power (AP via Yahoo! News)
Pervez Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant nation into the U.S.-led war on terror — an alliance that won him plaudits in the West but fueled anger at home.
- Bookstore facing partner’s departure - The Register-Guard
Bookstore facing partner’s departureThe Register-Guard, OR - 39 minutes agoRhodes said he will miss the book signings, poetry readings, folk music performances and meetings for which Tsunami and its book-lined stage have become ...
- Lita Interview Recap: Talks Disappointment with WWE, Luchagors, Matt/Edge, more (Lords of Pain)
From 1999 through 2006, a female dominated the professional wrestling scene and reinvented female wrestling as we knew it. She was poetry in motion with high flying moves that excited audiences world-wide.
- In memory of Will - Times-West Virginian
In memory of WillTimes-West Virginian, WV - 15 minutes agoHe also loved to write poetry. Copies of his book “Misery Loves Company,” a compilation of his poetry, will be for sale at the show. ...
- Copenhagen: A seasonal guide (CNN.com)
Roskilde Festival (July) The Danes love the outdoors and they love rock music; the Roskilde Festival is where they combine these passions for a weekend of drunken revelry.
- Griffin Poetry Prize judges announced - Nationalpost.com
The job of judging the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize has gone to a Canadian, an American and an Irishman. Judge Saskia Hamilton of New York most recently edited a book of correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Dennis O’Driscoll has ...
- Leisure news in brief (Holmen Courier)
Here are a selection of brief news items pertaining to arts, entertainment, culture and other fun things to do in your spare time:
- New children's book captures sisters' special bond (Gazette.Net)
Germantown resident Tamika Jackson works as a professional photographer when she's not at her day job at a biotech company. She caught her nieces Lainey and Lauren Brooks on camera one day in a loving embrace, and the idea for her new book "Sisters Are from Heaven" was born.
- Second Sunday Poetry Reading to feature Ken Hada - Norman Transcript
Second Sunday Poetry Reading to feature Ken HadaNorman Transcript, OK - 32 minutes ago... Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, among others. His new book collection,?"The Way of the Wind,"?is available from Village Books Press. ...
- Spoken word poet Jon Goode: A man of his word - CNN
Spoken word poet Jon Goode: A man of his wordCNN - 54 minutes ago... performed on Def Poetry Jam, says spoken word has given an intellectual voice to urban culture and poetry a new accessibility to an American audience. ...Commentary: Me and my brother and black America CNNall 2 news articles
- Twelfth Night at Tricycle, NW6 - Times Online
Twelfth Night at Tricycle, NW6Times Online, UK - 5 hours agoAt times you feel the loss of Shakespeare’s poetry, but the company give the play a frenetic modern rhythm and a pungent flavour of love’s timeless ...
- She Relishes Covers, Arias and ?70s R&B (New York Times)
The singer-songwriter Joan Osborne shares what she?s listening to now: the Ting Tings, Natalie Dessay, Cat Power, Gnarls Barkley and Al Green.
- Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st century (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Nothing says love, or goodbye, like custom-blended tunes, and it's easier than ever to assemble the perfect compilation.
- A prize misjudgment - Guardian Unlimited
Horace Engdahl has stuck his little stick of dynamite into the fundament of the literary world with his declaration that American literature is "too isolated and insular", too much up its own fundament, that is, to win the world's premier literary ...
- Kathleen Norris battles 'the demon of acedia' - Los Angeles Times
We have a vast palette of words that attempt to express our downcast moods -- "a funk," "the blues," "the doldrums." All of them abstractions, euphemisms we employ in an effort to pinpoint something elusive -- a sensation that might be a shade less ...
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