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- Angola: Writer Releases New Literary Work (AllAfrica.com)
The Angolan writer Roderick Nehone released last Thursday a book of tales entitled "Uma bÃ'ia na tormenta", which talks about the Angolan daily life, particularly the country's capital city.
- All Courant Blog Feed - Hartford Courant
Some people disapprove of Las Vegas, and they'll let you know about it. That's not going to stop me from going there. I like Las Vegas for the same reason I like Disney World. It's fun. Just as Sarah Palin has excited the Republican base, so has it ...
- Summertime for teachers (The Washington Examiner)
Teachers are saddled with two different stereotypes during the summertime. The first has us lounging around a pool or on the beach, reading classics and complaining about how hard our job is and how little we're paid. The second has us selflessly teaching summer school for pennies in order to keep the evil mortgage collector at bay.
- Fire Sale For Hendrix Guitar (Forbes)
The rock star's singed guitar goes for a cheaper-than-expected $493,638.
- Obama running mate rich with appeal to blue-collar America - Calgary Herald
Calgary HeraldObama running mate rich with appeal to blue-collar AmericaCalgary Herald, Canada - Aug 24, 2008"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden told the newspaper. ...
- Bostonist Book Review: Figures and Figurations - Bostonist
BostonistBostonist Book Review: Figures and FigurationsBostonist, MA - 3 hours agoCollage would seem to go directly against poetry's goal of reassembly in a place beyond the region of the spirit where signifieds construct and deconstruct ...
- What happened to ‘straight talk?’ - La Crosse Tribune
The lust for power has corrupted many people. This may be the reason John McCain has gone from being a man of “straight talk†and honor to using lies and deliberate distortions of the truth in order to advance his candidacy. The McCain/Palin ...
- Foundation adopts East Delavan branch library to promote literacy (The Buffalo News)
A new beachhead was established Tuesday in Buffalo's ever-widening campaign against illiteracy.
- Party to mark new book (Baltimore Sun)
Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Ellicott City will host a book-release party at 6 p.m. Friday for local author Wayne Batson 's new book, Isle of Fire . The event will begin with a reading and book-signing by the author.
- Music with a view - Salt Lake Tribune
Music with a viewSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 17 minutes ago"Lucrezia" allowed him to incorporate a music style he loves in service of Campbell's hilarious poetry. "Mark's an extremely witty writer who loves arcane ...
- Sentenced to a lifetime of stress - Guardian Unlimited
An extraordinary phenomenon ... Lindsay Anderson on the set of If... . Photograph: Jane Bown Exactly 40 years ago, the film director Lindsay Anderson was preparing for the release of If..., the surreal story of a revolt in a public school in which ...
- Cultural Hot Spots (The Gleaner)
Cultural Hot Spots
- Bulletin Board - RedOrbit
Bulletin BoardRedOrbit, TX - 45 minutes agoPoetry Workshops: Poetry workshops for adults take place on the second Saturday of every month, from 10 am to noon, at the Norton House, 315 Commerce Drive ...
- Athens Boys Choir -- no boys, no choir, just offbeat hip-hop - Wisconsin State Journal
Athens Boys Choir isn't a choir. It's just one guy from Athens, Ga., his microphone and some beats. It's part hip-hop, part spoken word, and part goofball aerobics dance music. Harvey Katz, the guy behind the mic, calls it "the poetry your mama ...
- A beautiful noise in the neighborhood - New Orleans Times-Picayune
In the bloated portfolio of dreamy, over-romanticized depictions of life in New Orleans, certainly one of the most overplayed notions is that of music being everywhere and inescapable; that it permeates our very atmosphere, is in the air we breathe ...
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