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- Rob Walker's 'Buying In' - International Herald Tribune
Buying In The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are. By Rob Walker. 291 pages. $25. Random House. Late in 2006, pollsters at the Pew Research Center called up 2,000 Americans and asked a simple question: Which products could people ...
- Announcing the teams competing at the National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison (Isthmus)
Hundreds of spoken work performers from around the United States, along with a handful from Canada and Europe, are in the midst of preparations for this year's National Poetry Slam, which be held in Madison over the first week of August. Competing in teams of four or five members apiece, each will take the stage and give their best through a series of bouts at the competition. Altogether they ...
- Lessons of the Magnolia Tree - New York Times
New York TimesLessons of the Magnolia TreeNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoI remember when one night after dinner he picked up the battered poetry book that was always somewhere at his side and read aloud Tennyson’s “Charge of the ...
- Budding Prides (Metro Weekly)
Unity might be key in celebrating Capital Pride. There is, however, also something special about celebrating what might set a group apart, says SaVanna Wanzer, a transgender activist who serves on the board of directors at Whitman-Walker Clinic.
- 'Bomb It': How outlaw graffiti survived - Los Angeles Times
'Bomb It': How outlaw graffiti survivedLos Angeles Times, CA - 28 minutes agoThe plot's connective tissue is deficient from the start as Oskar (Jonathan Scarfe), a disillusioned, poetry-spouting German soldier, rescues Rachel (Nina ...
- Famed architect's city treasures prove inspirational to local artists (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
FITCHBURG - The warm sunshine yesterday evening allowed visitors at the second annual Downtown Paint-In exhibition on Main Street to take in the paintings of the city's architecture outdoors, where the works were created.
- Red State/Blue State (Atlanticville)
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think.
- Bulletin Board, May 21 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board, May 21Norwich Bulletin, CT - 55 minutes agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY, 10 am to noon, Waterford Library, EAST LYME. All area poets are invited to attend. Bring a poem in progress or finished poems to ...
- Savoring the single life (The Ithaca Journal)
“The chances are that at some time in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence,” wrote Vogue scribe Marjorie Hillis in the 1936 book “Live Alone and Like It.”
- Finding poetry in animal migrations - Toledo Blade
Finding poetry in animal migrationsToledo Blade, OH - 22 minutes agoHis writing has the heart and passion the book needs; it is well beyond the dryness of a scientific journal but without emotional, flowery rhetoric, ...
- Faculty members, lab scientists elected to two national research ... - University of Chicago Chronicle
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences announced their 2008 classes at the end of April, and members of the University faculty, the Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Director of Materials ...
- Love of reading requires right book, right hands - St. Petersburg Times
I love to read. As a middle school language arts teacher, part of my job is to teach reading. Not just the mechanics and strategies. I try to inspire children to be lifelong readers. Most middle schoolers don't like to read. Most people don't like to ...
- Of Tulips, Open Spaces and Freedom - The Daily Star
The Daily StarOf Tulips, Open Spaces and FreedomThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 35 minutes agoWe heard readings from British poet Daljit Nagra book of poems Look We Have Coming to Dover, which won the 2007 UK Forward Poetry Prize for best poetry ...
- Poetic justice for teens who trashed Frost home - MSNBC
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost’s former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using “The ...
- MGM 2008 - HOLOCAUST CENTRE MARKS DISABLED HOLOCAUST VICTIMS - 24 Hour Museum
24 Hour MuseumMGM 2008 - HOLOCAUST CENTRE MARKS DISABLED HOLOCAUST VICTIMS24 Hour Museum, UK - 1 hour agoDisabled actress Kim Tserkezie from the children’s TV show Balamory gave a poetry reading at the candle lighting ceremony. She said: “This event today is so ...
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