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- Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters... (Arts Journal)
The Rifftides staff is attempting to keep ahead of the CD tsunami described in this recent post . It's an impossible assignment, but they're a game bunch. Herewith, brief reviews of approximately 0.06% of the accumulated mass of discs.
- Concert review: Ratatat, E*Rock, and Panther at the Granada (September ... - Pegasus News
Evan Mast and Mike Stroud, also known as Ratatat, don’t sing. The Brooklyn-based duo don’t recite poetry over their music either. Good riddance. However, what they do is fuse hip hop beats with spectacular acrobatic guitar riffs as well as a ...
- Education Calendar: 10/21/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
The Education calendar is published weekly. To submit information email awidmer@record-eagle.com ; fax (231) 946-8632; or mail to 120 W. Front St., P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632. Items should be received at least two weeks in advance.
- Leprosy sufferers abandoned by families - Saudi Gazette
Leprosy sufferers abandoned by familiesSaudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia - 9 hours agoHe, too, last saw his family the day they brought him to the hospital. AA, a 58-year-old poetry lover from Al-Otaibiah in Makkah, is one such case, ...
- National Book Award Finalists Named for 2008 - Authorlink (subscription)
National Book Award Finalists Named for 2008Authorlink (subscription), TX - 1 hour agoThe Winner in each of the four categories - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature - will be announced at the 59th National Book Awards ...
- Family Story Brought Abe Lincoln To Life (The Tampa Tribune)
In 1948, I was 12 when my great-grandmother told me about the time she saw Abraham Lincoln come through her family's little community of Smoke Hole, W.Va. The truth is, her parents told her the story because she was only an infant at the time.
- The protected right to offend - Macon Telegraph
The protected right to offendMacon Telegraph, GA - 2 hours agoA writer in Jordan was arrested Tuesday for using verses from the Koran in some of his poetry. It seems a Jordanian poet named Islam Samhan published a ...
- High Bridge man taking leap at breaking jump rope record - Scarlet Scuttlebutt
High Bridge man taking leap at breaking jump rope recordScarlet Scuttlebutt, NJ - 16 minutes agoGaddy's wife Deborah, a gospel singer, will perform throughout the weekend, and there will be poetry readings, an art gallery, games and other activities to ...
- CHS speakers take top honors at Culver Invitational (Chesterton Tribune)
The Chesterton Speech team took top honors at the Culver Academies Speech Invitational last Saturday, besting fifteen other teams from northern Indiana. More than 300 students competed in both novice and varsity divisions.
- Southwest Iowa Writers Guild Literary Contest - Atlantic News-Telegraph
The Southwest Iowa Writers Guild is conducting a literary contest entitled “It’s Laughter We’re After.” To be eligible: Work must be original and unpublished, except for work in local or school newspaper. All writing must be done in the ...
- Santa Rosa libraries resume children's programs Sept. 22 - Pensacola News Journal
Santa Rosa libraries resume children's programs Sept. 22Pensacola News Journal, FL - 15 hours ago22, the after-school program will feature the theme "Poetry Aloud Here." Participants are encouraged to bring a favorite poem. Programs will take place at ...
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Hayden Carruth dies - Syracuse Post-Standard
MUNNSVILLE, NY -- Hayden Carruth, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who populated his verse with the same folks who inhabited his life, died Monday at his Munnsville home. He was 87. According to friend and fellow poet Brooks Haxton, Carruth had ...
- Event: The Harry Ransom Center hosts free public programs - News from the University of Texas at Austin
Event: The Harry Ransom Center hosts free public programsNews from the University of Texas at Austin, TX - 7 hours agoThe Ransom Center presents the free Poetry on the Plaza event "Ballads and Balladeers." Popularized by the Romantics, the ballad is a unique narrative form ...
- 'Good to a Fault' author inspired by real-life accident (CTV.ca)
It's been said that the longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. Yet a fateful drive down a Saskatoon road sets a lonely woman and a chaotic family on the journey of a lifetime in "Good to a Fault," the Giller-nominated novel by Marina Endicott.
- Dame Vera Lynn praises Armed Forces - Crewe Guardian
Dame Vera Lynn has spoken of her admiration for the Armed Forces as she launched a new anthology of poetry dedicated to and written by service personnel and their families. The 'Forces Sweetheart' paid tribute to their bravery and sacrifice as she ...
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