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- Exotic Erotic Ball and Expo Add Musical Acts - antiMUSIC
(PR) 29th annual Exotic Erotic Ball and Expo has upped the ante in celebration of its move to San Francisco's Treasure Island, by completing the best overall talent lineup in its 29-year history. Recent musical additions include San Francisco's ...
- JB Seed Successful Grant Applicants Announced (Undercover)
The JB Seed is all over for the fourth year running and this year it was bigger than ever before. This year the Seed has expanded to include partnerships with the Falls Festival and Southbound festival, with one act (who’s manager is attending the workshop) being chosen to play at both festivals.
- Writers welcome a literary president-elect (Seattle Times)
For Toni Morrison and other writers, the election of Barack Obama matters not because he will be the first black president or because the vast majority of writers usually vote for Democrats. Writers welcome Obama as a peer, a thinker, a man of words — his own words.
- Poet's quarters - Times-News
As I climbed the steps to Carl Sandburg's front porch, I had no idea what lay on the other side of the door, but was anxious to find out. When the tour guide said that there wasn't any air conditioning, what was on the other side of that door got a ...
- Boyd Tonkin: Breaking the ice for poetry and pop (Independent)
Always accessible, never predictable, Derek Mahon has run long and well as the dark horse of Irish poetry. Born in Belfast, a contemporary of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, an avid traveller but now settled in the dinky foodie port of Kinsale in Co Cork, he likes to keep a surprise or two up his ever-shapely literary sleeve.
- St. Cloud Writer's Novel Is 'Spirits In The Grass' - WCCO
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) ― Author Bill Meissner's blue manuscript folder has seen years of use and abuse. Its seams are held together with various types of clear tape -- some packaging tape and some "magic" tape. But the real magical part of Meissner ...
- Massey scholars shed light on writer Robin Hyde - Massey News
Massey scholars shed light on writer Robin HydeMassey News, New Zealand - 18 minutes agoNamed after an unpublished short story of the same title by Hyde, the collection brings new insights and understandings of Hyde’s fiction, poetry and life ...
- Oswego County welcomes the holiday season - Palladium-Times
Thursday, the city of Oswego welcomes the holidays at the City Hall Plaza on West First Street. Opening ceremonies begin at 5:30 p.m., with an introduction from Mayor Randy Bateman, and winning poetry readings by elementary students. Santa Claus ...
- 'The Seafarer' floats high on tide of holiday angst (The Sacramento Bee)
If a drunken singalong to "Ave Maria" sounds like your idea of Christmas Eve, you'll be right at home with the Harkin brothers in their house in Baldoyle, on the coast north of Dublin. In Conor McPherson's play "The Seafarer," which opened over the weekend as part of the B Street Theatre's B3 Series, booze and bellicosity only enhance the holiday spirit. The flip side of "It's a Wonderful Life," ...
- Community life is a piece of cake - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldCommunity life is a piece of cakeSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 2 hours agoFrom the research, the very first time that her poetry was criticised . . . she stopped writing. It was too much for her . . . But if she'd really had the ...
- Touched by time - Lawrence Journal World
Touched by timeLawrence Journal World, KS - 19 hours agoA Medieval city, a walk in any direction is an architectural stroll through the centuries: gothic gables to ornate guild houses, churches to ramparts, ...
- An Undecided Black Republican Weighs His Options - New York Observer
Derrick Wilson, a 41-year old black Republican from Kingsbridge, in the Bronx, isn’t sure who to vote for. “My problem with McCain is Sarah Palin,†Wilson said. He was sitting at the Starbucks on 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard ...
- Second Cup Cafe: Phoebe Snow (CBS News)
Singer/guitarist Phoebe Snow stopped by the The Early Show 's "Second Cup Cafe" to perform songs from her first in-concert album, "Phoebe Snow - Live."
- No Shoving and Pushing at the Back Please Manners are free, birthday ... - Slate
Slate 's customer base: "gangstas that want to pimp their lives"? Yes, we too were surprised by JonIscream 's description , it conjured up such an… unlikely view of you all. The topic was etiquette one way or another: this post referred to the ...
- 'The Ragpicker's Dream' in Portsmouth, Kittery - Portsmouth Herald News
'The Ragpicker's Dream' in Portsmouth, KitteryPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 12 hours agoThis spoken-word performance features play scenes, poetry, and prose adapted for reader's theater from some of the world's great writers. ...
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