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- Illinois Times Takes Home 11 State Press Awards - Assoc. of Alternative Newsweeklies
Illinois Times has received 11 awards in the Illinois Press Association's 2008 Best of the Press contest, including first place in four categories. The first-place winners were staff writer Amanda Robert, for sports feature; staff writer Dusty Rhodes ...
- Pop review: Dido, Safe Trip Home - Guardian Unlimited
It's five years since Life for Rent, Dido's nine-million selling follow-up to 2001's 12-million selling debut No Angel, so you might wonder what's been taking so long. The answer, judging by her third studio album Safe Trip Home, is that Dido has ...
- Santa Monica - Argonaut
Art auction Nov. 15 to benefit college fund for daughter of man killed after festival The Pico Youth & Family Center of Santa Monica, Chiquele Studios and In Creative Unity (ICU) Art have planned an art auction Saturday, November 15th, to benefit ...
- War as wisdom and gore (The Japan Times)
A prominent example of how modern technology altered the world is seen in the way men wage war. In John Woo's battle extravaganza "Red Cliff," set in China in 208 B.C., armies fight with spears and shields and bare hands; they traverse deserts and treacherous mountain paths on foot and subsist on little more than rice and water, with the occasional stolen water buffalo to still the craving for ...
- Slaying rips family apart - Miami Herald
Irma's little boy sits by the window, waiting for a mother who will never come home. A week after Irma Simeus -- a 22-year-old medical technician who wrote poems, wrapped herself in strong opinions and never gave up on the idea of love -- died ...
- Acclaimed exhibition celebrates Gaelic language - Press and Journal
Acclaimed exhibition celebrates Gaelic languagePress and Journal, UK - 5 hours agoThe internationally-acclaimed exhibition consists of 100 poems from almost every century from the sixth to the 21st, including the earliest Gaelic poetry ...
- Jessie Pope: the Daily Mail's favourite first world war poet - Guardian Unlimited
When we look back to the first world war, it is generally the poets we turn to for the authentic voice of suffering humanity. Owen, Sassoon, Thomas - these are the secular saints of a conflict whose brutality remains barely imaginable, whose work ...
- Duo to perform at art museum - Times Record News
Duo to perform at art museumTimes Record News, TX - 2 hours agoMost people are afraid of poetry — and usually for good reasons, said Nathan Brown, an Oklahoma-based poet. “There is a lot of bad poetry out there,†...
- Touching service at Sophie bench - VIDEO - Whitby Today
Touching service at Sophie bench - VIDEOWhitby Today, UK - 10 hours agoSophie was just 20 when she was killed and had been a visitor to Whitby Gothic Weekends in the past. A reading was given by Ade Varney, a goth involved in ...
- Olympic celebration of arts in the capital - This is London
This is LondonOlympic celebration of arts in the capitalThis is London, UK - 1 hour agoThere will be poetry in Docklands, bell-ringing in Bexleyheath and free ballet classes for adults with the English National Ballet. ...
- Ken Russell, documentary maker - Los Angeles Times
Ken Russell, documentary makerLos Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours agoDuncan is undone by her marriage to Soviet poet Sergei Yessenin, a violent drunkard, and Rossetti's poetry career is temporarily halted when he buries his ...
- Dog days for George Lopez - AZ Central.com
Dog days for George LopezAZ Central.com, AZ - 59 minutes agoAs Papi, Lopez croons romantic tunes and recites poetry. In real life, he only wishes he were as romantic. "I tend to say it with jewelry," Lopez says. ...
- Africa: 1,000 Years of the Novel (AllAfrica.com)
The novel is so much a part of our lives that to say it ever had a beginning is like considering what life was like before mankind started walking upright -- the period before it is beyond cultural memory.
- Remarks by the President at Iftaar Dinner (Centre Daily Times)
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- Revamped school house revives history (Wahpeton News)
TRAVERSE COUNTY, MINN. — Students from Campbell-Tintah School stepped back in time Friday and got a taste of education inside a one-room school house.
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