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- "TXTNG: THE GR8 DB8" (New York Post)
It's almost comic to imagine how annoyed some people will be by the title of this book. But texting (the idea of it, the practice, the mere word sometimes) does get people's goats. David Crystal quotes two such commentators with relish. "[Texters...
- It's not just YourSpace (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Party photos from sorority days past. A message from a friend with crude language. Sexually explicit jokes. That kind of content on a Facebook or MySpace Web page isn't an issue for many adults who use the social networking sites in their personal lives.
- Forecast for August 14 - Gainesville Sun
Forecast for August 14Gainesville Sun, FL - 11 hours agoThen you won't want to miss Classic Album's Live recreation of a seminal Floyd album with "Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon," note-for-note at the Phillips ...
- Venus Williams had it figured out all along (Times Online)
I have always assumed that Richard Williams named his daughter Venus after the planet she calls home. Certainly, no one at Wimbledon has a greater reputation for space cadetship, daftness, flakiness, a silly voice and a general air of being slightly out of step with us earthlings.
- B-52s rocking along with Cyndi Lauper (Miami Herald)
The rejuvenated B-52s -- Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson -- are still dancing this mess around 30 years after their deliriously wacko hit Rock Lobster shook up common notions of what rock 'n' roll should, and could, be.
- Religion Brief: Christian poetry contest - Journal-Advocate
Religion Brief: Christian poetry contestJournal-Advocate, CO - 20 minutes agoInformation: To enter, send one poem of 21 lines or fewer to Free Poetry Contest, 601 16th St., Suite No. C-115, Golden, CO 80401. ...
- People & Events - Visayan Daily Star
People & EventsVisayan Daily Star, Philippines - 2 hours agoOther contests lined up for the celebration are Nutri Pinta, Nutri Essay, Nutri Wow, Nutri Quiz, Lutuing Filipino, Draw and Tell, Poetry Writing and ...
- Dead author's estate snatches child's domain - Register
Dead author's estate snatches child's domainRegister, UK - 1 hour agoSaville-Smith, who also writes poetry under the name Gillian Ferguson, said that she and her husband had found the whole experience "dispiriting" and that ...
- Shahida Tabbasum: litterateur extraordinaire - The News - International
Shahida Tabbasum: litterateur extraordinaireThe News - International, Pakistan - 4 hours agoReplying to a question Tabbasum explained that the title of her poetry book is ‘Sirat-e-Ishq’, however it contains almost all forms of poetry in her ...
- 'Only room for so many' (Post-Tribune)
Ulysses Chew bowed his head, absorbed booming bass tones into his body and penned his poetry. "I'm back in the building, back in the booth," Chew begins, "Who Dat? Mr. No Love, and this is the truth."
- Gao Xingjian: Composing a narrative in ink paint - International Herald Tribune
HONG KONG : 'An artist must walk his own path, and if there are rules, they should only be rules that he himself has created," Gao Xingjian writes in the catalogue for the current exhibition of his paintings at the Alisan Fine Arts gallery in Hong ...
- BOOK WISE (Express India)
Without P. Lal and his Writers Workshop, some of the best Indian writers in English would not have found their voice
- Stories from Sugarlandia - Manila Standard Today
Stories from SugarlandiaManila Standard Today, Philippines - 1 hour agoOlivia V. Yanson and her family manage the Ceres liner, the largest liner in the Visayas, while Lourdes Concha Ciocon and her family are into the fishing ...
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - Reuters UK
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this ...
- Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian file (Independent)
Of all the fictional hamlets American writers have planted, from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, the most complex, luminous place yet might be a little town called Argus, North Dakota. Since she first introduced the town in Love Medicine (1984), Louise Erdrich has gone back to it continually, conjuring the reservation it abuts, the love affairs which ...
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