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- OBAMA'S RADICAL ARABIST PAL - New York Post
WITH polls showing a tighten ing presidential race, a bombshell might tip the balance - and that bombshell's name could be Rashid Khalidi. The Los Angeles Times has possession of a video of Barack Obama addressing a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi ...
- Poetry reading with Poet Laureate Gary Silva - Napa Valley Register
The Writing Center collaborates with retired Napa Valley College Professor Gary Silva, Napa County's new poet laureate, to present a poetry reading in the Writing Center on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 7:30-9:30 p.m., with the theme, “Fall into Poetry ...
- Web pages help parents keep ties with kids who died - Austin American-Statesman
Web pages help parents keep ties with kids who diedAustin American-Statesman, TX - 9 hours agoI love you and happy birthday." Von Alt reads a few more messages and then whips out Garrett's cell phone and checks for messages. "Happy birthday, my sexy ...
- Osama bin Laden, the entertainer - Daily Trojan Online
Osama bin Laden, the entertainerDaily Trojan Online, CA - 1 hour agoThe journal Language and Communication will be publishing a collection of bin Laden's poetry, speeches and sermons with a critical review by assistant ...
- Hawaiian dancers show spiritual side of hula - Boston Globe
Saying that the hula is a dance from Hawaii is like saying Robert Frost wrote a few poems. This doesn't begin to encompass the spirituality, outlook, and history that give the hula so much significance to native Hawaiians. Medford will get a taste of ...
- Happy Families By Carolos Fuentes, trans. Edith Grossmann - Independent
Happy Families By Carolos Fuentes, trans. Edith GrossmannIndependent, UK - 14 minutes agoThis is an uneven collection, each story interrupted by a chorus of fervent, declamatory poetry. The last goes simply: "the violence, the violence". ...
- Poetry: Spelling out the magic of the mundane (Independent)
Choosing the year's best poetry collections begs the question, "What were you looking for?". Answer: poems to make me look out at the world, and think, repeatedly, "I'll never see it the same way." Good poetry takes the familiar, makes it strange, and makes even the mundane memorable. For magic, read Pauline Stainer's Crossing the Snowline (Bloodaxe, £8.95). Stainer's language has a frozen, ...
- Cultural funding important for Canada's future, panel says - CBC.ca
Cultural funding important for Canada's future, panel saysCBC.ca, Canada - 1 hour agoHaving applied and received arts funding on both sides of the border, Canadian poet James Arthur said that artists being criticized for creating ...
- Bulletin Board: Sept. 22 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board: Sept. 22Norwich Bulletin, CT - 8 minutes agoA night of poetry with Nathaniel Baker. He will be dramatically reciting works from Shakespeare to TS Eliot from memory. Admission is free. ...
- More of today's best bets in entertainment (Detroit Free Press)
Green Jelly: 7 p.m. Machine Shop, 3539 Dort Hwy., Flint. 810-715-2650. $10. Kenny Loggins: 8 p.m. Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, 44575 Garfield, Clinton Twp. 586-286-2222. $50-$65. Langhorne Slim: American Mars and Woodman, 8 p.m. The Pike Room, 1 S. Saginaw, Pontiac. 248-858-9333. $10.
- Literary events for week of Nov. 2 and beyond - Marin Independent-Journal
Literary events for week of Nov. 2 and beyondMarin Independent-Journal, CA - 9 minutes ago6: Chapbook Poetry Readings with Belvedere poet Melanie Stoff Maier, Duff Ansom, Joel T. Katz, Rose Black, Katherine Clark Sayles and Morley Clark. ...
- JungleSmash Has a Winner … and a New Contest - New York Times Blogs
James Altucher over at JungleSmash has awarded his first $2,000 in the Great Ad Agency Disintermediation Experiment. The first product for which he solicited homemade ads was Crest toothpaste; here are the winners . James Altucher over at JungleSmash ...
- Letter to mother earns Times man place on premier book prize shortlist - Times Online
Letter to mother earns Times man place on premier book prize shortlistTimes Online, UK - 11 minutes agoI’m from a very traditonal Sikh family: I’ve got 54 first cousins, none of whom defied convention and married out. I was under a lot of pressure so I ...
- Matthew Sweet - Village Voice
Village VoiceMatthew SweetVillage Voice, NY - 20 hours agoEnter to Win 2 Free WFMU Record Fair passes and a WFMU Box Of Rocks! The high holy days of record collecting approacheth! WFMU's 200. ...
- Wilmington publisher sees opportunity in Street Lit - Delaware Online
Before rappers like Ice-T, DMX and Kool G Rap realistically portrayed urban plight, it was depicted by the talented writers of a burgeoning literary medium called Urban Fiction or Street Literature. Made popular by authors like Iceberg Slim and ...
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