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- St. Louis celebrates work of sculptor Harriet Hosmer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Get out your party clothes — preferably Victorian vintage. It's been 100 years since Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908) died, and certain elements of the St. Louis art world are going all out to celebrate that milestone. Who exactly is Harriet Hosmer, you might well ask? Oh, how quickly we forget!
- Virtual community mobilizes, mourns for quake victims - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Whether distributing appeals for on-line donations, uploading images of quake-hit towns or asking for help in extracting someone from the rubble, Chinese netizens are fully engaged in relief from the deadly earthquake. Zhu ...
- Spiritual Living - Jamaica Observer
Spiritual LivingJamaica Observer, Jamaica - 10 hours agoRead spiritual poetry and writing regularly. Think about developing a specific value or emotion like - joy, peace, love, patience, understanding, ...
- From Germany, an opera engulfed by shadows of war - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - In Theodor Adorno's famous dictum, writing poetry "after Auschwitz" was a barbaric notion, but what about opera after the war? The genre was pronounced dead by modernists who wanted a clean break from the past. Pierre Boulez called for the ...
- Powerful with a point - The Roundup
Powerful with a pointThe Roundup, CA - 19 hours agoBut listening to the Flobots is such a powerful feeling that the words, poetry and music are heartfelt and have real meaning. The cocky rockers, who have ...
- Bessie Head competition (Mmegi)
The Bessie Head Heritage Trust and Pentagon Publishers have announced the winners of the 2008 Bessie Head Literature Awards.
- Flux-Fest promises eclectic inspiration - Metro
MetroFlux-Fest promises eclectic inspirationMetro, UK - 9 hours agoTomorrow Feng-Ru Lee recreates Al Hansen's 1958 Dumpling Party (VIVID, 6pm, free), alongside the UK premiere of Car Bibbe by Sean Carrillo and Bibbe Hansen, ...
- Learning to speak Yorkshire - Yorkshire Post
Learning to speak YorkshireYorkshire Post, UK - 23 minutes agoI may enjoy slang, but I also adore poetry and have a passion for French songs. Just like the actors in Renoir's film On Connait la Chanson I burst into ...
- Inspired by a Bunny Wabbit - Wall Street Journal
Bugs There he leans: cracking wise, biting his bright orange carrot bugging the world speed demon ventriloquist and master of disguise he is everywhere at once buck-toothed and spectacularly eared he is armed with dynamite he is the only one who ...
- Roses are red, violets are blue, HSBC investors know what to do - Daily Telegraph
Every year a handful of HSBC's Hong Kong shareholders compose poems praising the bank and read out their masterpieces. This year Mike Geoghegan, HSBC's straight-talking chief executive, will be there to hear the offerings. If only Geoghegan could ...
- Gulzar's New Anthology Of Poems Steeped In Nostalgia - NEWSPost India
Gulzar's New Anthology Of Poems Steeped In NostalgiaNEWSPost India, India - Apr 30, 2008'Selected Poems' has 44 Urdu poems, mostly sonnets, along with their English translations. The poems are a reflection of the author's life, ...
- A teacher’s tales—Danton Remoto - ABS-CBN
S tudents love teachers who listen to them – not only to their difficulties with the past perfect tense or the reading, but more important, to their difficulties in making that transition from childhood to adulthood. I’ve been teaching for 22 ...
- Tawny Kitaen hits bottom with "Celebrity Rehab" stint; Arsenio Hall ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Tawny and Chuck, in happier days. Remember when Tawny Kitaen was Cleveland's favorite sports wife? Until she started whuppin' on Chuck Finley with a shoe, that is. Kitaen's got a new gig as one of the Z-listers on the next season of Dr. Drew Pinsky's ...
- MOVIE REVIEW: 'Jellyfish' (Miami Herald)
A beautifully strange movie, "Jellyfish" - from the Israeli author, and now director, Etgar Keret - tracks the perambulations of three Tel Aviv women. Though they are unrelated, and their paths cross by chance, they share a common bond: a profound sense of disconnection - from family, from loved ones, from themselves.
- 'It's not really a career, more like a series of identity crises' (Sydney Morning Herald)
I WANDER into the room next to the London Sofitel's Peggy Ashcroft Suite, where I am to interview Sophie Marceau. The vast bed is tempting, as is the room-service menu.
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