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- Kenton County school briefs - Cincinnati Enquirer
Kenton County school briefsCincinnati Enquirer, OH - 3 hours agoBeechwood High School sophomore Ellen Murphy won first place in the Kentucky Council for Economic Education's poetry contest. ...
- Treasure Coast weekend events: June 26-29 (TCPalm.com)
We’re officially in the summer weather pattern that long-time Floridians know so well: Scan the sky at 3 p.m. for possible thunderstorms and act accordingly — proceed with your outdoor plans or choose an alternative indoors.
- What's the story? - Guardian Unlimited
Michael Frayn's new play, Afterlife, like Democracy and Copenhagen, takes a real historical incident as its starting point. Like Copenhagen it cycles deftly through the years, each cycle getting at something new, some different layer of meaning, like ...
- Morning update: Thunder boomers (Quad-City Times)
Good morning, Quad-Cities. At 6 a.m. it’s 48 degrees under fair skies. It will be mostly cloudy today with a high near 74 degrees. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon increases to 90 percent in the evening. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain, according to the National Weather Service. New rainfall amounts between a half- and three- quarters-of-an-inch are ...
- Robert Redford, Slammin' - NPR News
Robert Redford on Capitol Hill in April. Source: Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images Going green is all the rage now. Interior designers, car companies... Even McDonald's is doing the green thing. I have family members working for Greenpeace now. Green, my ...
- They celebrate the other Mother’s Day - Lynchburg News and Advance
Lynchburg News and AdvanceThey celebrate the other Mother’s DayLynchburg News and Advance, VA - May 10, 2008“When you’re going through the teen years and the college years, you kind of think you’ll never see eye-to-eye on things.” “The older you get, ...
- Nightmare on Tiananmen Square - Washington Post
Nightmare on Tiananmen SquareWashington Post, United States - 47 minutes agoAs his mind wanders, he takes us through the interplay of the present, memory, myths, poetry and the cellular landscape of his body. ...
- The Edge of Love (15) - The Independent
the film is much less about Thomas than it is about two women who were central to his life. It presents a portrait of friendship, not a portrait of the artist. I've not been able to look at the name Dylan Thomas without being reminded of Kingsley ...
- This week - Chicago Tribune
10 Virgins: Laura Jacquin's fanciful new play follows 10 girls who live alone in a swamp. Jacquin, a Chicago writer, recently won the $25,000 Wendy Wasserstein Prize for an outstanding script by an emerging female playwright. Through June 1 by ...
- Former RIT prez extolls virtues of diversity - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Former RIT prez extolls virtues of diversityRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 8 hours agoRIT graduate Reenah Golden, who founded the teen poetry group Slam High, attended the discussion with some of her student-poets, who performed during the ...
- Chris Abani Wins Beyond Margins Award - UC Riverside
Chris Abani Wins Beyond Margins AwardUC Riverside, CA - 11 hours ago“As usual, Abani’s prose is haunting and unforgettable,” he said. A native of Nigeria, Abani is the author of “The Virgin of Flames,” “GraceLand,” “Masters ...
- Thomas M. Disch, 68; was science fiction novelist, poet, and critic - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - Thomas M. Disch, an author, poet, and critic who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in new, disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God, died Friday in his Manhattan apartment. He was 68 ...
- At festival, it's not all about `bling' - San Gabriel Valley Tribune
At festival, it's not all about `bling'San Gabriel Valley Tribune, CA - 11 hours agoIt started out as a small workshop, but this year it's a two-day showcase featuring poetry, spoken word, plays, dance and art. Hinds is quick to point out ...
- The dangers of banality - Financial Times
R eporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, the political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil”. Eichmann, responsible for the slaughter of millions of Jews, had the appearance and even the mentality ...
- Death Be Not Proud - Huffingtonpost.com
Still reverberating from the stunning loss of the beloved Tim Russert along comes Mr. Death to twist the knife of unanticipated loss and drown us once again in grief. George Carlin is in the rarefied pantheon of the few, too few, truly great stand-up ...
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