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- Iran's Mr Nice - satire on a tightrope (Middle East Times)
A cover of Golagha Magazine with caricatures of Iranian government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham (left), President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (centre) and Commerce Minister Masoud Mirkazemi. In Iran, satirising the establishment can mean being slapped with a publication ban or even jail for an editor.
- Kevin O'Hare reviews of Travis, Snow Patrol, Ryan Adams, Ry Cooder - MLive.com
Most mega-bands are too caught up in their own success to give a shout out to their influences, but it was Coldplay's Chris Martin who once said that Scotland's Travis pretty much "invented" Coldplay. Of course that did not give Fran Healy and his ...
- Fayette County news (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Giving hurricane help Seven Lexington firefighters spent almost a week in the South as part of hurricane relief efforts by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Captains Rick Jordan, Chris Frontz, Chris Ward and Joe Madden, Lt. Ryan Hogsden and firefighters Corey Calloway and Wes Herald were staged in Columbia S.C., and later in Montgomery, Ala., where hurricanes were expected to ...
- McCain's Magic Formula? - Slate
Semi- amnesty in St. Paul: I asked Sen. Graham how soon, in his first term, President McCain would declare the borders secure (and move on to revive "comprehensive immigration reform"). Graham said "We'll know it when we see it," but emphasized that ...
- Steve's shelled out! - Forres Gazette
Steve's shelled out!Forres Gazette, UK - 24 minutes agoBut writing is his passion and he has just had a book of poetry published, "Shellfish and Umbrellas", by the Aberdeen-based publishers, Koo Press. ...
- The golden girls - Daily News & Analysis
The golden girlsDaily News & Analysis, India - 24 minutes agoThe first sequences in pure gold, black and red, with dashes of white was sheer poetry, as a drape here, a swish of fabric there added to her trademark ...
- Cartagena: Love in the Time of Cholera - Daily Telegraph
News of the city's wealth spread around the world, and one day a fleet of 100 ships carrying 8,000 soldiers and 12,000 sailors came to attack it. The defenders numbered just 3,000 men, led by a sailor called Blas de Lezo who had one eye, one arm and ...
- Hebrew Republic: Are Two States Still Possible? - TPM
Hebrew Republic: Are Two States Still Possible?TPM, NY - 3 hours agoI know Arab Muslims who write poetry only in Hebrew. Both the priest and the poet are, in a way, Jewish, the way I am, in a way, English when I rely on John ...
- Poet laureate Billy Collins to speak in Stevens Point (Stevens Point Journal)
Poet Billy Collins, the United States Poet Laureate from 2001-2003, will speak in Stevens Point on Thursday, Oct. 30, as part of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Points Performing Arts Series. Collins will give his presentation at Sentry Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and $6 for youth. UWSP students with ID may buy tickets in advance for $4.50 or be ...
- THE GUESS WHO PERFORMS AT TROPICANA EXPRESS - Laughlin Entertainer
THE GUESS WHO PERFORMS AT TROPICANA EXPRESSLaughlin Entertainer, AZ - 28 minutes agoSome is more cerebral, some is more flippant, but it all has its place in the world-novels, poetry, artwork-it all evokes emotion and thoughts. ...
- Obama spotted carrying poetry book (Moldova.org)
President-elect Barack Obama was carrying a book of poems while leaving the Chicago school of his daughters, witnesses say. The U.S. senator, fresh off his Election Day victory, presumably had time to enjoy some poetry while visiting his daughters' school Friday, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.While the Illinois Democrat was not spotted reading the book of poems by Nobel laureate Derek ...
- Seomra Spraoi Is back - Indymedia Ireland
Seomra Spraoi opens new autonomous social centre. Seomra Spraoi is back. After 10 long Seomra-less months a new home has been found, and work is underway to transform the space into a fully functioning social centre. A lot has changed since been ...
- Horticulturist Farr was an artist at heart - Reading Eagle
Horticulturist Farr was an artist at heartReading Eagle, PA - 6 hours agoHe expressed his deepest feelings about flowers, nature and the outdoors in eloquent essays and poetry. Friends said of Farr that he had " ... a great deal ...
- The taste of ink - Manila Times
From vivid tattoos to flashy cars, from rocking bands to urban flavored graffiti and to the jaw-dropping girls in skimpy bikinis strutting their stuff onstage, Dutdutan 2008 had it all under one roof. The biggest tattoo convention in the Philippines ...
- Street poet to run workshop at Ted Hughes Theatre - Halifax Evening Courier
Street poet to run workshop at Ted Hughes TheatreHalifax Evening Courier, UK - 1 hour agoTHE world's most unusual street poet is coming to Mytholmroyd to read his work and run a poetry workshop. Lemn Sissay has written and read his poems in all ...
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