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- Entertainment Calendar: 5/15-5/21 - Mankato Free Press
“Image and the Word†Opening reception and Poetry Reading — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Emy Frentz Arts Guild, Mankato. Exhibit runs through June 3. Capital For a Day — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Ulm. Featuring popcorn wagon dedication and naming, Pictorial ...
- Cleveland Arts Prize announces 2008 winners (The Plain Dealer)
Every year, the Cleveland Arts Prize highlights artists and leaders in the local culture whose work the judges believe brings pride to Northeast Ohio. Eleven people, including a young classical music composer and a bookseller with more than 50 years supporting literature, will be honored Thursday, June 26, at the Cleveland Play House's Bolton Theatre.
- YO! Poetry -- Halo Ape Godo at City Lights (New America Media)
Robin Black, otherwise known as Halo Ape Godo, talks about his love for poetry and hip hop and drops some verbal game after a performance at the historic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.
- Louise Erdrich has been listening to 'Plague of Doves' characters for ... - St. Petersburg Times
Louise Erdrich, who grew up in North Dakota, sets her new book, The Plague of Doves, in the fictional town of Pluto, N.D. The author, daughter of an Ojibwe Indian mother, also has a bookstore in Minneapolis that sells Indian art, jewelry and ...
- Female poets recoil from Laureate role - First Post
Female poets recoil from Laureate roleFirst Post, UK - Jun 10, 2008Even these perks could not sway Padel, the chair of the UK Poetry Society, who said she thought most poets worth their salt would give the post a wide berth ...
- Website Will Help Victims Track Offenders (R News)
A new web site is helping victims of crime track down what's happened to their offenders coming up for parole. The new web site link, managed by the New York State Division of Parole, lets users look up parole board determinations over the past two years.
- Coup de grace - Deccan Herald
The strength of this book lies in its irreverence and the wry tenor employed in referring to, at times the inanity, at others the brutality or hypocrisy of the men in positions of power. Quite often it really is the opening of the book that decides ...
- Our 50 favorite magazines - Chicago Tribune
Once again we've gathered around the magazine racks in our minds and pulled out our favorites. We are a mixed bag of folks, and the list reflects that, ranging from the inevitability of the New Yorker to the surprise of G-Fan, a magazine for Godzilla ...
- 5th Graders at Waldorf (Garden City News)
For fans who wish for a simpler Olympics - one free from lawsuits, controversy and unpronounceable chemical compounds - we present the annual Waldorf School Olympics! Fifth graders at the Waldorf School of Garden City recently hosted their own version of the Greek Olympics for their friends from the Rudolf Steiner School in Manhattan.
- Tulisoma in South Dallas will feature best-selling authors plus ... - Pegasus News
DALLAS — Award-winning authors, poets and artists will come together in Dallas for Tulisoma 2008, a celebration of literacy and the arts. Book readings, storytelling, writing workshops, panel discussions and performances are all part of the free ...
- Remembering Bobby Kennedy - Macleans.ca
Remembering Bobby KennedyMacleans.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoWhen addressing the crowd, Kennedy spoke without notes and, in his unique way, referred to poets to bring solace to the devastated crowd. ...
- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies in Santa Monica - San Diego Union-Tribune
LOS ANGELES – Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose “Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In†took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as “Sock it to me ...
- Meet Singer-Songwriter Aimee Mann and Acclaimed Author Joseph O'Neill "Upstairs at the Square" on Thursday, July 31, ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Barnes & Noble, Inc. , the world's largest bookseller, today announced the next event in its buzzed-about series, "Upstairs at the Square," held at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan .
- Read the Summer's Heat Away... - About - News & Issues
Read the Summer's Heat Away...About - News & Issues, NY - 55 minutes agoEmily Dickinson wrote: "To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - / True Poems flee." Ada Louise Huxtable wrote: "Summer is the ...
- Hudson is genteel but not too fancy (The Record)
The little city of Hudson, N.Y. — 110 miles up its namesake river from North Jersey — was an unlikely whaling port in the 18th and 19th centuries and has been an unlikely focal point for antiques enthusiasts in the 20th and 21st.
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