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- The Great Silence - Common Dreams
Google "second Gilded Age" and you will get ferried to 7,000 possible sites where you can learn more about what you already instinctively know. That we are living through a gilded age has become a journalistic commonplace. The unmistakable drift of ...
- Latitude, Leonard and the mob mind (The New Statesman)
Get out of my country! shouts a young man. A tidal swell of assent and applause fills the comedy tent. I feel nauseous, unnerved by how quickly and completely the crowd has turned
- Sets, dance and rock'n'roll (Guardian Unlimited)
Culture: Latitude is just over two years old, but already people have been hailing it as the new Glastonbury
- Lost in translation! - Salisbury Journal
Lost in translation!Salisbury Journal, UK - 2 hours agoThe first book published in 2006 was a collection of poetry dedicated to Nelson Mandela. The book - Halala Madiba: Nelson Mandela in Poetry was edited by ...
- Poetry: Find encounters of the sacred kind (The Evening Sun)
Who would be crazy enough to pick the last weekend in unofficial summer to come to the most toured town in our area to see the very popular, recently reconstructed visitor center? Yep, that's me.
- Robert Bly: The best poetry is always religious - Today's Zaman
Today's ZamanRobert Bly: The best poetry is always religiousToday's Zaman, Turkey - 1 hour agoYou gathered together poems written in opposition to the war in Iraq in an anthology. In this age, what is the role of poetry in terms of pacifism against ...
- Arts Calendar: 8/28-8/31 - Daily News Transcript
AMAZING THINGS ARTS CENTER, 55 Nicholas Road, Framingham. Tonight at 7:30, Dan Cloutier hosts a Folk Open Mike featuring Ed Joseph. Admission is $6/$5 for members. Call 508-405-2787 or visit amazingthings.org. SHOWCASE LIVE, 23 Patriot Place ...
- A life less precarious for Beverly Hills homeless (The New Zealand Herald)
BEVERLY HILLS - Being homeless in this upper crust enclave is not exactly like living on the street in other places.
- Shaky narrator in 'tabloid hell' (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable. It's also only the ...
- SF Symphony pays homage to Bernstein - San Francisco Chronicle
SF Symphony pays homage to BernsteinSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoHe wrote symphonies and concertos on deeply intellectual themes - the poetry of WH Auden, the philosophy of Plato - and some of those works still play a ...
- It's time to take this veteran's mementos home - Louisville Courier-Journal
It's time to take this veteran's mementos homeLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 2 hours agoIt was filled with anger, fury, profanity, disillusionment, pride, caring, insanity, ragged poetry and an acceptance -- the expectation -- of death; ...
- Another mind-blowing win for Jamaica's Usain Bolt - Miami Herald
BEIJING - Once you blow away the world, simply running wondrously isn't enough. The question becomes: When will you blow us away again? Usain Bolt on Wednesday nipped two-hundredths off Michael Johnson's 19.32 mark in the 200 meters set at the 1996 ...
- Obituaries in the news - Washington Post
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y.(AP) _ Hayden Carruth, an award-winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont, died Monday. He was 87. Carruth, who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 70s, died at his home in Munnsville, N.Y. after suffering a ...
- Poetry professor Paul Muldoon's rock band plays Bread Loaf on August 4 - Middlebury College News and Events
Poetry professor Paul Muldoon's rock band plays Bread Loaf on August 4Middlebury College News and Events, USA - 6 hours agoWhere: The Barn, Bread Loaf Mountain Campus, Ripton, Vt. Paul Muldoon—celebrated poet, poetry editor at The New Yorker, and Princeton professor—teaches ...
- Is a fetus a person? Anti-abortion groups split - Rocky Mountain News Blogs
Some people who oppose abortion rights aren't on board with Colorado's proposed "Personhood" amendment, which define a fertilized egg as a person. David Montero reports: While those who predictably support abortion rights line up against the measure ...
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