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- Meghan O'Rourke: The real Miley Cyrus tragedy - Dallas Morning News
Call me insensitive, but I didn't think that the supposedly "racy" photo of 'tween star Miley Cyrus holding a bedsheet around her bare torso was as outré as all the fuss made it out to be. Sure, she is, technically, topless. But from a less alarmist ...
- Cashing in on fruit of the vine - Star-Gazette
Wine is a very complex thing -- a beverage, a food, a social lubricant and an inspiration to poets, philosophers and politicians through the ages. "Wine is liquid poetry." (Robert Louis Stevenson) "Wine is the most healthful and hygienic of beverages ...
- Poetry session spotlights humorous verse pioneer - Gulf Times
Gulf TimesPoetry session spotlights humorous verse pioneerGulf Times, Qatar - 12 hours agoAN URDU forum has hosted a poetry session dedicated to Akbar Allahabadi, a pioneer of humorous and satirical verse. The forum, Anjuman Muhibban-e-Urdu Hind ...Event held to remember poet Akbar Peninsula On-lineall 2 news articles
- Brain song - Deccan Herald
Brain songDeccan Herald, India - 1 hour agoThere is metaphysical poetry in Chabria's prose and it is while writing these passages that the author stands at the very edge of imagination and manages ...
- AP Top News at 11:00 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is ...
- Letter: Thanks to all who made literary festival a success - Newburyport Daily News
During the last weekend in April, Newburyport celebrated its third literary festival with the arrival of over 60 authors and poets speaking and reading at over 50 events. How lucky for us! This year we honored Newburyport's own Rhina Espaillat for ...
- Poor prospects for Glasgow's underground poet - Times Online
It aims to produce underground literature, but according to some writers, the only thing subversive about a plan to recruit a poet-in-residence for Glasgow's subway system is the pay. The scheme, thought to be the first of its type for public ...
- Okyeame Kwame Back To School - GhanaBase Music News
Okyeame Kwame Back To SchoolGhanaBase Music News, Ghana - 4 hours agoKwame has been consistent with his positive lyrics for the past 11 years and his latest work M’awensem , literally translated as My Poetry, on which he has ...
- Pride 2008: Proud Voices - blogTO
blogTOPride 2008: Proud VoicesblogTO, Canada - 30 minutes ago... Poetry Slam veteran Arianna Pozzuoli, there was a stellar line-up of Toronto's literary scene, coupled with crowd-favourites such as Yukon golden child ...
- New York Festival of Song Gala, with Daly, Kaye and De Haas, Presented May 21 (Playbill)
The New York Festival of Song's 20th Anniversary Gala Celebration will be presented May 21 at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall.
- N.Y. man takes legal steps to prove mom wrote 'Footprints in the Sand' - Honolulu Advertiser
The single set of footprints in the sand — as millions of inspired souls now know — was that time when the Lord picked you up and carried you. It's a metaphor, people: He is there when you need Him most, and so is the ubiquitous poem known as ...
- Classical notes from a provocative pianist — Matthew Edwards plays ... - Pacifica Tribune
San Francisco Bay Area native Matthew Edwards will present a classical piano performance this Saturday at Pacifica Performances Sanchez Concert Hall. Many Pacificans know Edwards as the pianist for the San Francisco Symphony Chorus as well as pianist ...
- Klaus Michael Grueber | Opera director, 67 - Philadelphia Inquirer
Klaus Michael Grueber, 67, a German opera and theater director renowned for lyric elegance, died Sunday on the Brittany island resort of Belle-Ile-en-Mer, where he had a second home. Town officials gave no cause of death. Mr. Grueber broke the ...
- Teen feud ends in death (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
Friends, relatives say girls used to get along, but small fights festered until violence erupted
- The Pope of German Letters Returns to TV - Deutsche Welle
The Pope of German Letters Returns to TVDeutsche Welle, Germany - 2 hours agoThe imperious critic whose words have helped make and break many authors over the years seems to live in a world that reveres sublime poetry and profound ...
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