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- Acclaimed poet Maya Angelou speaks at Texas Union - Daily Texan Online
More than 1,000 students and faculty gathered in the Texas Union Ballroom on Tuesday evening to hear Maya Angelou’s life advice, her insight into some of her famous poetry and explain why she did not speak for six years during her childhood. ...
- Nigeria: Entertainment Takes Over Federal Capital Territory (AllAfrica.com)
Abuja, the nation's capital city will temporarily suspend politics for culture and entertainment this weekend. This is because of the Abuja Carnival that enters its second day today.
- South Bulletin Board (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Bethel Park -- Prime Time Adult Care will sponsor a Holiday Craft Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the Christian Life Center at Christ United Methodist Church, 44 Highland Road.
- Most expensive new book arrives in NY from Italy (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
It's billed as the world's most expensive, most beautiful new book. Valued at well over $100,000, a 62-pound handmade tome depicting the life and work of Michelangelo has arrived at the New York Public Library, fresh from publication in Italy.
- Erik Ose: Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We Did (HuffingtonPost)
Obama's victory does not spell the end of racial disparity in America, but it is a ringing sign of progress, a triumph on the road to greater equality and realizing the Dream that Martin Luther King, Jr. revealed to us.
- Review: ACT rocks with new Tom Stoppard play about revolution - Oakland Tribune
Review: ACT rocks with new Tom Stoppard play about revolutionOakland Tribune, CA - 3 minutes agoWhen the play opens, Jan is at the home of his friend and teacher, Max (Jack Willis), a longtime hard-line Marxist, who is puzzled at Jan's eagerness to ...
- Ottawa Tavern to host book-launch reading - Toledo Free Press
Ottawa Tavern to host book-launch readingToledo Free Press, USA - 16 minutes agoThe University of Toledo’s Urban Affairs Center Press will host a book launch reading in celebration of Nick Muska’s latest poetry collection, ...
- Local Authors: Cowgirl camp inspired author - The Evening Sun
Local Authors: Cowgirl camp inspired authorThe Evening Sun, PA - 10 minutes agoShe wrote short stories, children's books and poetry through the years but could never accomplish a novel. Then, at 46 years old, Coverstone completed her ...
- Cheap Seats Bad Times, Good Prices - New York Times
New York TimesCheap Seats Bad Times, Good PricesNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoOne major new bargain in town is Free Night of Theater, a nationwide event organized by the Theater Communications Group. ...
- Passing the bucks - Village Voice
'You couldn't build a city like New York in good taste,' Rudy Burckhardt—photographer, filmmaker, painter—observed in 1994 of the hometown he'd adopted some six decades earlier. That was, in large measure, what he liked about it. Of the countless ...
- Opinion: Tell Me What Art Is, and I’ll Tell You What Games Are - Gamasutra
Opinion: Tell Me What Art Is, and I’ll Tell You What Games AreGamasutra, CA - 15 hours ago"We misjudged you," they’ll cry, "Just like we initially misjudged movies, jazz, and prose poetry." Games are a brand-new medium, we console ourselves, ...
- Righteous Kill Review - 411mania.com
411mania.comRighteous Kill Review411mania.com, TX - 57 minutes agoWhile investigating a murder of a scumbag criminal who got away with it, they find a note card with poetry written on it. More such victims start to surface ...
- A mini-break on the M1? - Guardian Unlimited
There used to be a National Lottery TV gameshow, Winning Lines, in which the booby prize for answering only one question correctly was a holiday to Spaghetti Junction. I don't know if anyone won the prize, or claimed it. But the conceit was clear ...
- What The "Subprime Poetry Crisis" Means For The Overheated Metapor Market [Freakoutnomics] (Gawker)
Last night at a poetry reading marking the release of the 2008 Best American Poetry anthology the distinguished poet and Finding Forrester star Charles Bernstein delivered a stirring plea for swift...
- Tina Howe creates a loving and rich portrait of a family on the move - Stamford Plus Magazine
Tina Howe creates a loving and rich portrait of a family on the moveStamford Plus Magazine, CT - 8 minutes agoMoreover, filling the play with insight and underlying theme are the moments when Gardner, losing so much of himself but never his love of poetry, quotes, ...
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