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- MEET LEX: A uniquely gifted artist who calls his genre of music 'D ... - EURweb
*Honoring his native city of Detroit and its rich contribution to the history and evolution of Soul and R&B music, LEX originates a fresh new sound that resonates his experiences of having roots in the church, living the realities of life in the ...
- Teen reads as sight slips away (Abilene Reporter-News)
HALTOM CITY -- DeMarcus Jackson pulls a thick hardcover book from a shelf at the North Oaks Middle School library and flips through it with a sense of urgency.
- In brief: Crewe by-election; ‘Gay church’ film - Times Online
Gordon Brown has ordered scores of ministers to Crewe & Nantwich this weekend in a last-minute effort to stave off defeat in next week’s by-election (Francis Elliott writes). The scale of Labour’s effort belies claims that the party is resigned ...
- What's happening (The Daily News of Newburyport)
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- Heading South - Egypt Today
Om ar Abdel Dhaher looks like a character from his own paintings. Talking with a slight Upper Egyptian accent, the 41-year-old artist is right at home among the Nubians and Saeedis residing in his canvases. He feels so at home that he refers to the ...
- Winners Announced for First-Ever AFL-CIO Online Video Competition - istockAnalyst.com
Winners Announced for First-Ever AFL-CIO Online Video CompetitionistockAnalyst.com, OR - 2 hours agoParticipants were asked to submit online videos in any form that answered the question of how to turn around America. Entries included poetry, original ...
- Remembering the creativity of a young girl (Austin American-Statesman)
Madeline Anderson was ecstatic to discover that Santa Claus had given her a giant prehistoric shark tooth for her eighth Christmas, her father said.
- Commission to Analyze State Mandates (R News)
Monroe County's Republican administration continues to blame unfunded state mandates for high taxes and cuts to services. Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks announced Tuesday her county will try to do something about it.
- Sports world's elegant voice lives on - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
At the dawn of the electronic age of sports, when our world was so much smaller, slower and beamed to us with weekly snippets in grainy black and white, sports were not a volume business. In those ancient times when we pre-digital dinosaurs roamed ...
- Robarchek again at the forefront (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
By Matt Brunson.• The scribblings of longtime (and now retired) Charlotte Observer columnist -- and frequent Best of Charlotte CL award winner -- Doug Robarchek can be found in The Best of the World's Worst Poetry: 20 Very Odd Years of Outfrontery. The paperback, published by the local outfit Main Street Rag, is available for $14. For a sample poem from the book, see Quote This, below right....
- The opinion pages: mostly a man's world - San Francisco Chronicle
The opinion pages: mostly a man's worldSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 6 hours ago"It's not like writing the great American novel," Orenstein said, "it's not poetry. There are basic concepts that are pretty easy to share with people. ...
- Excerpts from the finalists of Seattle's Youth Speaks poetry ... - Seattle Times
"I want to fall in love with a carpenter, one with rough-hewn hands, and hair the color of new sawdust." — Clare Lilliston, 18, Ingram High School "There stood, the present, past, prospect and the soul, immersed within the 4 shadows of now, and the ...
- Text size (Malaysia Today)
The political system has become very corrupt; the crime rate has increased and environmental degradation has continued. Political dynasties proliferate. Few families are controlling the nation's economy – for their own political gains.
- Artists 'lift up name of Jesus' (The Herald News)
In December, when Sheila White of Joliet attended a free concert in Joliet featuring former members of the award-winning Christian rock band Petra, her thoughts as well as her soul took flight.
- Tooting his horn - San Francisco Chronicle
Tooting his hornSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 38 minutes agoSteven Winn San Francisco-born poet Gary Snyder, 78, has been awarded the 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Chicago-based Poetry ...
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