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- Asia's love of 'living art' koi fish growing (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Koi, an ornamental fish which enthusiasts liken to a moving work of art, are gaining popularity across Asia thanks to changing lifestyles and increasingly sophisticated tastes, experts say.
- The Art of Science - Washington Post
Washington PostThe Art of ScienceWashington Post, United States - 24 minutes agoThe book has much poetry in it. A man named Robert Symmer notices that, when rubbed together, his like-colored socks repel each other while opposite-colored ...
- This is not the truth - California Aggie
I have a tendency to hyper-imagine crazy scenarios and possibilities after seeing something that qualifies as even remotely strange. Perhaps this is where my storytelling ability comes from - I don't know. In any event, I decided I would share the ...
- Historical Society House Tour: Creative Artists Lived Here - Larchmont Gazette
Larchmont GazetteHistorical Society House Tour: Creative Artists Lived HereLarchmont Gazette, NY - Apr 17, 2008The home at 12 Hazel Lane, built in 1894, is where its former resident, Phyllis McGinley, worked on her Pulitzer-Prize-winning poetry. ...
- School Time for May 1 (Chico Enterprise-Record)
Honors Notre Dame Catholic School eighth-grader Jamie Mensching and seventh-graders Madeleine Pardini and Lindsay Harrison were selected to participate in the California State Science Fair in Los Angeles May 19-20.
- Close Shave (MetroActive)
BUTCHLALIS de Panochtitlan—L.A. butch performance artists Raquel Gutierrez, Mari Garcia and Claudia Rodriguez—explored a new dimension in their full-length piece, The Barber of East L.A., which played over the weekend at MACLA following a week's residency by the troupe.
- Book giveaway at the library (Whitby This Week)
WHITBY -- Don't just sign out books from the library, enter to win one too. Enter a draw to win one of several free books of poetry from the library. One book will be given away to mark each...
- Art listings - San Francisco Guardian
Arion Press Living Museum of Printing, 1802 Hays, Presidio; 668-2542, www.arionpress.com . Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm. Free. A museum of historic type foundry, letterpress printing, and bookbinding. Ongoing. Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin; 581-3500, www.asianart ...
- Sharp wit, whimsical words - Calgary Herald
Sharp wit, whimsical wordsCalgary Herald, Canada - 1 hour agoDel Pine has a way with words, and since retiring, he's reconnected with his childhood hobby of poetry. With five books of poetry self-published under his ...
- Saddam feared getting 'venereal diseases' from his U.S. prison guards ... - International Herald Tribune
CAIRO, Egypt : Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or some other venereal disease during his U.S.-supervised captivity, according to excerpts of his prison writings published in a leading Arab newspaper Monday. The London-based ...
- TV's 'Laugh-In' Comic Dick Martin Dead At 86 (Local 6 Orlando)
Comedian Dick Martin, best known as the zany half of the comedy team Rowan and Martin whose show "Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, has died.
- Robert Frost, Breindel Award, etc. - Weekly Standard
THE SCRAPBOOK notes with dismay some innovative justice meted out in Vermont. Readers will recall the incident last January when dozens of young nighttime revelers broke into the onetime home of Robert Frost in Ripton, Vermont, drinking, smoking pot ...
- Mariah over the moon with new hubby - 7 Days UAE
Mariah Carey is said to be “over the moon” about her marriage. The singer’s friend Andre Leon Talley, the editor of America’s Vogue magazine, revealed the 38-year-old singer is “so happy” following her surprise nuptials to rapper Nick ...
- Nigeria: Inside Kano's Ancient Gurasa Neighbourhood (AllAfrica.com)
Virtually every house in Jakara Quarters in the ancient city of Kano is a small factory of staple food known in Hausa as gurasa, but in English as pita and in Arabic Khubz. A visit to this area gives an insight as to how gurasa is manufactured and sold.
- Cicely Nichols, writer/editor, activist, dies at 70 (The Villager)
Cicely Nichols, who came to the Village from her native Seattle as a dancer to join the Robert Joffrey Ballet in the mid-1950s and went on to become a writer/editor and activist, died on April 5 at Cornell Hospital at the age of 70.
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