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- Making mix discs for your creeptastic party? Pick from our Halloween 50 (Miami Herald)
The first thing you'll realize is that we're liars: There are way more than 50 songs contained on our three lists - one of perennial classics, one filled with rock staples and a final 20 comprised of offbeat and lesser-known gems. Plenty of other selections have been drizzled like blood from an unhealed wound into these blurbs. You could easily patch together a wide enough web of fiendish ...
- Lisa Starr: ‘Mad with Yellow’ (The Block Island Times)
Rhode Island’s poet laureate and island resident Lisa Starr proves the adage that the “show must go on.†Though she broke her leg playing tennis on Saturday with her husband Champ, Starr kept her promise to read from her recently published third book of poetry “Mad with Yellow†on Sunday afternoon, October 12. Her audience filled the sanctuary of the Harbor Baptist Church.
- Review: 'The Jewel of Medina' neither a gem nor a firebomb (Contra Costa Times)
"The Jewel of Medina," Sherry Jones' hot-potato novel about the Prophet Muhammad and his child-bride Aisha, comes not from a field of spuds, but a Mideast quarry some consider bedrock-hard in its historical clarity, others soft and uncertain.
- Outhouse salesman has a good singing voice - ScrippsNews
BUSHNELL, Fla. -- In an economic recession such as the one Florida is experiencing, it helps to be good at a lot of things, just in case. Vince Denimarck's job skills include drafting, design, carpentry, wiring, plumbing, laying tile, hanging paper ...
- The Karachi breeze - Himal Southasian
Himal SouthasianThe Karachi breezeHimal Southasian, Nepal - 1 hour agoThe wind then remembers Morero, and sings his tales through the poetry of the 18th-century Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, whose persona and poems remain ...
- John Gray: Thoughts on the election - Troy Record
John Gray: Thoughts on the electionTroy Record, NY - 7 hours agoMario Cuomo once said, “We campaign in poetry and govern in prose.†When Obama speaks it is poetry itself and I can listen all day. ...
- Obama: the first ‘Canadian’ president? - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Obama: the first ‘Canadian’ president?TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 52 minutes agoCertainly, pundits have swamped airwaves and pages with pieties about the election of "the first African-American president" or "the first black family in ...
- Welsh authors scoop new writing awards - WalesOnline
Welsh authors scoop new writing awardsWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 4 hours ago... which was up against the might of London-centred publishing in the competition. Seren poet Kathryn Simmonds was also shortlisted in the poetry section ...
- Saugatuck woman to climb Kilimanjaro for cause - Kalamazoo Gazette
ALLEGAN -- Annie Hotwagner is taking big steps to raise awareness and support for patients of Wings of Hope Hospice, based in Allegan. Hotwagner, of Saugatuck, will climb Mount Kilimanjaro in January as part of her new mission, Climb for Hope. Wings ...
- It is time to move on - La Crosse Tribune
A rose by any other name smells as sweet. We are on the road to recovery. As a nation we are united. Please don’t let arguments start because someone says Indian rather than Native American, or black rather than African American. Study our history ...
- Local poet returns (Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
Kristin Bock read several poems from her newly published book, "Cloisters," while audience members listened intently, snacking on cheese and drinking wine.
- Pinwheels spin during Peace Day - Florida Today
Pinwheels spin during Peace DayFlorida Today, FL - 40 minutes agoAs students fashion the pinwheels, they also can incorporate poetry and prose about tolerance and harmony into the designs. As part of Holy Trinity’s ...
- Time to cherish Ron Sexsmith - The Birmingham Post
Time to cherish Ron SexsmithThe Birmingham Post, UK - 14 hours agoThe self-deprecating singer, a rather shambling, chubby figure with a great shock of bouncing dark hair, possesses one of contemporary music's most ...
- Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish (Al-Ahram Weekly)
It is five years today -- Thursday 25 September -- since the death of the Palestinian public intellectual and political activist Edward Said, "the most brilliantly eloquent emissary of Palestine to the outside world" in the words of an equally eloquent and brilliant fellow compatriot -- Mahmoud Darwish.
- River Falls Events - River Falls Journal (registration)
River Falls EventsRiver Falls Journal (registration), WI - 5 hours agoHudson poet Sue Wagner and fellow poet Pete Henry will give a free and open to the public poetry reading at the Kinni Lounge Coffeehouse, 122 S. Main St., ...
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