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- Catlett celebrates century of aging artfully - San Francisco Gate
On a recent Friday at Albany Bowl, painter and poet Frances Dunham Catlett bowled 143 in a league game, good for three prizes. The score was an improvement over her current average of 109, even if it did not quite reach the lofty heights of the 200s ...
- Mark Speight hanged himself with his shoelaces, inquest told - Times Online
A children's television presenter whose fiancée died in the bath after a night of drug taking hanged himself because he could not contemplate life without her, an inquest was told yesterday. Mark Speight, 42, was found dead in a building next to ...
- Review: Carla Bruni's new album - Daily Telegraph
The Premiere Dame may have a colourful past, but her music has always been as classically chic and subtly sexy as her Christian Dior wardrobe. The supermodel-turned-chanteuse has been worried that her left-leaning fanbase might desert her now she's ...
- Dishing out knowledge (Sierra Sun)
Editor's note: This is the second installment of a two-part series about Tom Meschery. The first story, on Saturday, June 14, focused on Meschery's professional basketball career.
- Poet Marie Howe's reading on Wednesday canceled - Democrat and Chronicle
Marie Howe’s poetry reading Wednesday at Writers & Books has been canceled because of because of travel difficulties. Howe, a Rochester native, was to appear as part of the Visiting Writers Series at 7 p.m. Howe's new poetry collection is The ...
- 'A tiny bit of adventure' - guardian.co.uk
'A tiny bit of adventure'guardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoI've settled into the restaurant car with Ellen, Tim and half a dozen other passengers to enjoy the poetry of the journey. The poetry is not helped by the ...
- Literary award winners in Wells (York County Coast Star)
WELLS — On May 1, the Wells-Ogunquit Community School District held the 2008 Literary Achievement Awards ceremony in the Olenn Auditorium at Wells High School.
- THE MEMBER-ABILIA AMONG US - New York Post
Treasure-troves of "member-abilia" - Napoleon's privates, Einstein's eyeballs and other morbid collectibles - are being kept under lock and key, prized like family heirlooms, right in our own back yard. An elderly New Jersey ophthalmologist owns ...
- in brief - Batavia Sun
Hall Quarry Beach open for season Hall Quarry Beach opened for the season Saturday at 400 S. Water St. The beach is open from 12:45 to 8 p.m. and includes a sandy beach and swimming area, drop slide, zero depth entry, large picnic area, concession ...
- Calendar for June 4 - Kansas City Star
Calendar for June 4Kansas City Star, MO - 9 hours ago(913-642-2222) FRESH INK: SPOKEN WORD AND MUSIC POETRY SLAM: Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence. $3. www.jazzhaus.com (785-749-3320) GINN SISTERS, ...
- Hendrix fire guitar 'to fetch £1m' - Crewe Guardian
A guitar set on fire by Jimi Hendrix during a live show is to go on sale, it was revealed. Hendrix famously covered his Fender Stratocaster in lighter fluid at the end of his March 1967 show at the Finsbury Astoria in London. He then ignited it ...
- Meditations on love (Savannah Morning News)
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
- Foreign Diplomats, Ohio Officials Open Azerbaijani Cultural Garden in Cleveland (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Amid rave reviews, Cleveland residents got their first look at the new, iconic sculpture that forms the centerpiece of the Azerbaijani Cultural Garden in the city's famed Cultural Gardens.
- Michael Rosen’s favourite children’s books - Socialist Worker
Adults become attached to children’s books in three overlapping ways – as memories of when they were children, as moments when reading books with children in their care and as pleasurable reads in themselves. So, when we come to recommend ...
- From the pulpit and pew - New Mexican
From the pulpit and pewNew Mexican, NM - 4 hours agoFrom 6 to 7:30 pm on Wednesdays: "Ecstatic Hebrew Poetry" focuses on the sacred phrases (mantras) within the ancient Hebrew texts known as the "Psalms" with ...
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