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- A few things to Go & Do this week - Portsmouth Herald
Wednesday is Reptile Night at Great Bay It's another family night at the Great Bay Discovery Center on Aug. 6 — and this time it is Reptile Night. Wildlife Encounters of Rochester will be bringing live reptiles to the Hugh Gregg Center for a 6:30 p ...
- Chatham native named poet laureate - Madison Messenger
Chatham native named poet laureateMadison Messenger, VA - 53 minutes agoPoet laureate is an honorary position that promotes greater appreciation for the writing and reading of poetry throughout the state. ...
- Zimbabwe: Poet Gwariwa Set to Scale Loftier Heights - AllAfrica.com
Zimbabwe: Poet Gwariwa Set to Scale Loftier HeightsAllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour ago"This kind of poetry was first triggered by the death of Simon Chimbetu. "I decided to name the poem Ndarangarira Gamba after one of his (Chimbetu's) songs ...
- Palestinians mourn national poet Darwish - Middle East Online
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinians on Sunday mourned the passing of Mahmud Darwish, who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets. Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry ...
- Dutrow Pleased with Big Brown's Work - BloodHorse
BloodHorseDutrow Pleased with Big Brown's WorkBloodHorse, KY - 18 hours agoBefore the work commenced, Desormeaux watched Big Brown gallop by him on the backstretch, and said, “Poetry. This horse is a happy horse. ...
- Sun City senior recognized for her poetry by Mensa (The Press-Enterprise)
Versatility is a word that describes Edie Schmoll. She is an accomplished musician who plays piano, organ and accordion and writes music and lyrics for her Music Songs custom song company.
- James Tate's poems are about something and everything else (The Kansas City Star)
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You’ll remember “Seinfeld,” the sitcom dubbed “a show about nothing.” Here’s part of Charles Simic’s blurb for Tate’s new collection, The Ghost Soldiers: “To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate’s genius. Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry, and that is ...
- Final bloodless bullfight draws crowd - Monitor
Final bloodless bullfight draws crowdMonitor, TX - 13 hours ago"That's poetry in motion." Charlie was one of roughly 60 people who watched this year's final bloodless bullfight Sunday afternoon which also raised $2500 ...
- Flying Monkey hosts fundraiser to reform beer law - Everything Alabama
Beers, bands and 'Bama laws are the focus of Saturday's second annual Flying Monktoberfest. The event featuring bands Johnny Black and the JBirds, Damascus and Shametown, is a fundraiser to help reform Alabama's beer and brewery laws. The music ...
- Marching to their own drummer (Cape Cod Times)
While children who think outside of the box may go through an uncomfortable time when they are young, by the time they are older - in high school, say - they see the benefits of independent thought.
- A Tribute to the Poet Philip Lamantia - San Francisco Weekly
Less well known than some of the Beat poets, Philip Lamantia nevertheless embodied the spirit of his times so thoroughly that his life story now seems iconic. Born in San Francisco in 1927 to Sicilian immigrants and raised in the Excelsior, he was ...
- Groups hold events to point out ignorance of banning books - Log Cabin Democrat
Groups hold events to point out ignorance of banning booksLog Cabin Democrat, AR - 4 hours agoThe top 10 banned books of 2007 will also be on display for visitors. She said there will be a prize for the winner of the poetry slam, which will be led by ...
- Pit & Balcony's "Some Like It Hot" sports an entire cast that is not ... - MLive.com
When it comes to comedies, the American Film Institute ranks 1959's "Some Like It Hot" as No. 1 of all time. That's the movie where musicians Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and, to hide from the gangsters seeking ...
- Backstreet Shuffle (MetroActive)
IN 1980, San Jose carved itself up into what's often lambasted as the "mini-mayor system," a fragmented balkanization of 10 jagged, haphazard regions represented by 10 councilmembers with their own individual fiefdoms.
- THAT PERSONALITY TOUCH (Bradenton Herald)
Laurie Crawford has always been arty but two years ago, she decided to apply her talents to a new business.
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