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- Asia's hottest new spaces - Sydney Morning Herald
Standing out from the crown in Tokyo Midtown. WHAT IS IT? It was New York that first transformed its meatpacking district into a style hub, and now Shanghai has been applying finishing touches to its own former slaughterhouse locale. Together the ...
- Lives Remembered: Gerry Sanderson (Independent)
Gerry Sanderson, who has died aged 55, was the classic English eccentric, whose talent was as deep as his love of life. His frequent balls and bashes, he declared, were the perfect antidote to the often clinical, calculating world of architecture in which he made his name. The party venues were his own country homes – Bucklebury Place in Berkshire and The Manor House at Petty France, ...
- The Bible takes an Eastern influence - Bellingen Shire Courier Sun
The Bible takes an Eastern influenceBellingen Shire Courier Sun, Australia - 11 minutes agoThe teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, Asia's first Nobel laureate, are also referred to in the commentary. ...
- Azmi on stage, for Azamgarh’s sake - Hindustan Times
Azmi on stage, for Azamgarh’s sakeHindustan Times, India - 1 hour agoKaifi, a native of Mijwan in Azamgarh, wrote stirring Urdu poetry for social change. After moving back to Azamgarh from Mumbai, he fought for a train link ...
- Nigeria: The Poet And the City a Full Dissection Denja Abdullahi's Abuja Nunyi (AllAfrica.com)
What is it that makes a great writer remembered, quoted and sung for all times like that classical piece "The nutcracker suite" by Peter Illich Tchaikovsky? Undying. Unfading.
- Ideas, energy kick off Fringe Fest - Calgary Herald
Ideas, energy kick off Fringe FestCalgary Herald, Canada - 2 hours agoRolls is part of a micro-trend at this year's smaller, more old-school Calgary Fringe: performance poetry as theatre. For Sheri-D Wilson, director of the ...
- Editorial Roundup - The Ledger
Many people hoped that holding this year's Olympic Games in Beijing would serve as a lever to induce China to act more as a mature member of the international community. The Chinese government has relented on a few issues it didn't veto a U.N ...
- Not invited to the party - Globe and Mail
BARRIERE LAKE RESERVE, QUE. -- Samuel de Champlain wrote fondly of his adventures with the Algonquins, the native allies who helped the founder of Quebec navigate the dangerous white-water rapids of the New World and fought at his side against the ...
- An uplifting start - Daily Review & Sunday Review
WYALUSING — A jazz song cascaded through the air as Brian Keeler instructed some men and women in a Lindy dance lesson. "One, two, three, four, five, six ... nicely done," he said. It was the opening night of the 15th Annual North Branch Arts and ...
- North Texas Events, September 12 - Times Record News
North Texas Events, September 12Times Record News, TX - 27 minutes agoCAMPSITE TALK ON COWBOY POETRY Saturday, as well as Sept. 20, Oct. 4 and Oct. 11, Copper Breaks State Park, 13 miles south of Quanah and 8 miles north of ...
- Port Arthur woman reaches out to boost leadership qualities in youth - Beaumont Enterprise
Robinne Alexander, 25, has learned leadership skills from her parents but she also believes she was born to lead. "It took external situations to bring that out in me. No matter how far you get in life, it still can be cultivated. And I learned ...
- Legislative action needed to help mentally ill - Lake County Record Bee
The expression "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" came to mind following a thoughtful and intelligent e-mail I received last week from a prominent Lake County citizen in response to my column about picking up hitchhikers. The following ...
- Acclaimed SA playwright dies - Independent Online
Acclaimed SA playwright diesIndependent Online, South Africa - 2 hours agoIn October 2007 year he organised the 10th annual Poetry Africa festival in Johannesburg. He said of his career as an actor, director, journalist and poet: ...
- Cafe Visitors See Acting in Full Bloom - RedOrbit
Cafe Visitors See Acting in Full BloomRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoAn adaptation of work by early 20th Century Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovski, it is the tale of unrequited love which fuses music, poetry and transvestism. ...
- Leading article: A triumph for all of Europe (Independent)
The arrest of Radovan Karadzic has caused rejoicing in the streets of Bosnia and Croatia, where his brand of violent nationalism resulted in tens of thousands of dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. It should also be the cause of some congratulation in Brussels and Western Europe. It was the Serbs who, under a new pro-Western government, who finally and belatedly arrested the man so ...
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