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- London bishop to investigate gay church ceremony (AP via Yahoo! News)
The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines.
- NOTES AROUND TOWN (Atlanticville)
The Shrewsbury Chorale will hold a gift raffle fundraiser at 7 p.m. tonight at the Radisson Hotel, 50 Gibson Place, Freehold Township. Admission is $30 and includes desserts, entertainment and a set of raffle tickets. Additional tickets will be available at the event. For reservations, call 732-776- 5276. For information, visit www.shrewsburychorale. org.
- Jazzfest review: Ottawa Composers Collective - Ottawa Citizen
Jazzfest review: Ottawa Composers CollectiveOttawa Citizen, Canada - Jun 28, 2008... poetry, bits of singing - some in the style of Bjork, some with echoes of Irish folk music - passages of soloing, duo and trio playing, moments of dark ...
- Outskirts Press Announces One Night Stand, the Latest Highly ... - PR.com (press release)
Outskirts Press Announces One Night Stand, the Latest Highly ...PR.com (press release), NY - Jul 8, 2008The 5.5 x 8.5 paperback in the Adult category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail ...
- New Novel Asks Whom Do You Love? Whom Do You Bomb? - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Third World is full of grist for the pulp mill. Adam Kellas is a reporter who wants to sell out, write a rollicking thriller that will earn him scads of cash and put his embossed name on a cover in gold lettering 2 inches high. And though he ...
- Mehrgan Cultural Foundation: Agents of Change through Community-Based ... - Payvand Iran News
Founded in 1994, Mehrgan Cultural Foundation was conceived by Hassan and Faezeh Firouzi in San Diego, California as a non-political, non-religious, and non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Iranian heritage. This aim is most notably achieved ...
- Robert Greacen: Ulster poet of considerable gifts (Independent)
In the years just before and after the Second World War, the north of Ireland was thought of, if at all, as a province culturally in the doldrums and religiously on the boil. "There was an almost complete blank in poetic utterance and in drama," Robert Greacen wrote. For an aspiring poet at the time in Belfast, he went on (in an article for the magazine Rann), few local literary exemplars ...
- Cambridge students examined on Amy Winehouse song (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - They might not be Shakespeare or Wordsworth but lyrics by soul singer Amy Winehouse have been included in a Cambridge University literature exam for the first time.
- Let's give the past a future - Globe and Mail
Let's give the past a futureGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoSo does history have a Sugar Daddy with Cundill, in similar fashion to the way industrialist Scott Griffin has championed poetry? ...
- With cast of 'History Boys,' a lesson in good chemistry - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeWith cast of 'History Boys,' a lesson in good chemistryBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour ago"In American high schools, it would be the athletes who would be looked up to, but in this school it's the experts in history and poetry. ...Hot for teacher South End Newsall 4 news articles
- From a book, little gems about the process of poetry (The Oregonian)
I was intending to write this month about the sensual poems of the Lebanese-born poet Venus Khoury-Ghata when -- poof! -- the dang thing got eaten by the dog of Microsoft Word. Forgive me: I couldn't face re-creating it. I'll return to her in a month or so when I've recovered.
- iUniverse Announces Underwriting Sponsorship of Nationally Syndicated Public Radio Program (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
iUniverse, the leading book marketing, editorial services, and supported self-publishing company, announced that effective May 1, it will underwrite the nationally syndicated public radio show A Way with Words.
- He found his passion by accident, but Racine library’s teen patrons benefit (The Journal Times)
RACINE — After graduating from Carthage College last spring, Nick Demske went west. He left his home, his girlfriend, his family, and went to the National Outdoor Leadership School for a semester. He climbed rocks in Colorado, canyoneered and kayaked in Utah and mountaineered in Wyoming.
- Poet laureate of American hymns dies at 89 (West Salem Coulee News)
ST. LOUIS — It wasn’t until the Rev. Jaroslav Vajda was nearly 50 that he began to pursue the craft that would leave his name etched in history. Or at least the hymnal.
- In the Big Easy, 2 Cocktails Reign (New York Times)
The Louisiana legislature recently chose the sazerac as the official cocktail of the city of New Orleans, but the Ramos gin fizz might be a better fit.
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