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- Westlake sophomore to take stage in national poetry contest - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Westlake sophomore to take stage in national poetry contestAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 8 minutes agoHe aims to bring the trophy back home — not to mention the $20000 scholarship that goes with it — and get some love for a state that hasn't yet made it past ...
- 'Fear Itself' (Calendarlive.com)
There is no arguing with horror. People like to be scared and will pay good money for it, and though it is common enough to regard the more egregious products of the genre as potentially the end of civilization -- I often do myself -- it has been not ending civilization for quite some time now.
- ‘Bachelorette’ recap: DeAnna sends Sean back to his tanning booth (Portsmouth Herald)
Thank you, Sean. The Carrie Bradshaw-sized closet. The five-bedroom house for one. The giant black Hummer. The sauna to lose water weight. The tanning booth. “I have to tan. ... The darker you are, the thinner you look.”
- Nigeria: Another Salvo From the Stable of a Critical Pathologist - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Another Salvo From the Stable of a Critical PathologistAllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour agoThis view, in his own words, 'is a serious proposition if we are to restore the prestige of poetry in our national and cultural life. ...
- Crossing the Sea, at Wilton's Music Hall, E1 - Times Online
To come across a new work that's carefully conceived for a mixture of different media - film, dance, theatre, a singer and a string quartet - is a rare and rewarding thing. With her husband, the theatre director Lou Stein, the Belfast-born composer ...
- Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. and Other Top Black Book Publishers to Receive The Wheatley ... (BlackNews.com)
National (BlackNews.com) - Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. and Executive Director/Co-Founder of the African American Pavilion at BookExpo America has been selected to receive the prestigious Wheatley Book Award.
- Father of Negritude - East African
Father of NegritudeEast African, Kenya - 42 minutes agoBut it is his friendship with a fellow student, Léopold Senghor, the poet and later president of Senegal, his writing of the epic poem Cahier d’un retour au ...
- THE LISTENER - Washington Post
(Illustration By Viktor Koen) Bill Watson might play a four-hour piece by Bach, and then slap it on again, just because he felt like it. Or he might interrupt a Mahler symphony mid-spin, deciding instead to recite poetry or blend news bulletins with ...
- Your Calendar - West Lake County edition (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Find out about events going on in your community, and plan your week’s activities with The Times.
- The short and unusual (The New Straits Times)
Winners for BMW Shorties 2008... Lesly Lee on behalf of Edmund Yeo of Chicken Rice Mystery, Mohd Izwan Kamal of Goat, Nazim Esa, Mahaletchumi Tavamany of Sing in the Rain and Best Actor, Kimmy Kiew of Chicken Rice Mystery.
- Amy Varner enjoys time with family - Keokuk Gate City Daily
Amy Varner enjoys time with familyKeokuk Gate City Daily, IA - 50 minutes agoCrossword puzzles, writing poetry and crocheting. Do you have a favorite pet (present or past)? Angel (Yorkie). Where would you go if you won a trip ...
- Festival of Books was last weekend’s best-seller - Downey Patriot
Downey PatriotFestival of Books was last weekend’s best-sellerDowney Patriot, CA - 4 hours agoIt was also there that the audience was treated to book readings by Ben Barnes (“Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”); Marlee Matlin and co-author Doug ...
- It’s pouring books and translations - Newindpress on Sunday
It’s pouring books and translationsNewindpress on Sunday, India - 1 hour agoAt a poetry evening, sometime ago, I had heard MM Sachindran recite from his own poem. The beautiful lines of the verse went something like this: Have you ...
- Poetic and turbulent look at 'Yangtze' - Boston Globe
In his masterful and haunting documentary "Up the Yangtze," Yung Chang shows the old China drowning helplessly under the weight of the new. Looming over the film, physically and metaphorically, is the nearly complete Three Gorges Dam in the interior ...
- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 - Chicago Tribune
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
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