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- Jazz Listings (New York Times)
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- Foregoing black tie for white formal fetches plenty (Vancouver Sun)
BLANC CHEQUES: Chairing the Heart & Stroke Foundation's Heart of Gold gala recently, Jackie Bevis and Janice Ketcham urged 400 attendees to deep-six their ubiquitous black ensembles and "dress formal white." So-coloured couture can challenge some figures, but the bottom line that counted was pure green. The do took in a reported $410,000, bringing Bevis and Ketcham's three-year delivery to H&SF ...
- McCain Picks Palin and Reform for the GOP (Blogcritics.org)
The dark days of ambivalence and poor leadership are behind us and John McCain has banished our doubts and restored our hope. In a miraculous moment in Dayton, Ohio, John McCain announced what may be the most politically significant decision of the new millennium. Faced with many choices and the challenge of a resurgent left, McCain defied all of those who questioned his worthiness as a leader ...
- A Choice of Kipling's Verse - T S Eliot - Tonight South Africa
In 1941 Anglo-American poet T S Eliot undertook this work "with the aim of restoring (Kipling's verse) to its place" which, he thought, was far from "secondary" to the writer's prose fiction. Eliot admitted "Kipling is the most elusive of subjects ...
- Queertopia: A cabaret celebration of queer love - Twin Cities Planet
Queertopia: A cabaret celebration of queer loveTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 42 minutes agoFrom poetry and breakdancing to hula hooping and musical entertainment, you won’t be disappointed. Queertopia, a theatrical event presented by Outward ...
- Kay Ryan goes to Washington -- as poet laureate (Miami Herald)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike enthusiast and self-described ''modern hermit,'' will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate starting in the fall. The appointment lasts a year and comes ...
- Signposts: Berkeley group names '10 best ethical destinations" (Inside Bay Area)
Also, passport cards are must-haves for Americans, World Heritage selects 27 new sites and Wild Horse Sanctuary to host open house.
- Thought Criminal Wins Appeal - Londonist
LondonistThought Criminal Wins AppealLondonist, UK - 3 hours ago... sobriquet "lyrical terrorist", applied not because of a love for rap rabble-rouser MIA but due to her penchant for writing extremist "poetry". ...
- Calm evening so far in Civic Center Park - Rocky Mountain News
Calm evening so far in Civic Center ParkRocky Mountain News, CO - 9 hours agoSeveral hundred people had gathered in the park to listen to hip-hop artists play and activists read poetry. Some of those who clashed with police Monday ...
- Bay State Potty Among Top 10 - Boston Channel.com
Bay State Potty Among Top 10Boston Channel.com, USA - Aug 27, 2008It has been a setting, over the years, for music videos, business and political negotiations and even wedding photos, hotel officials said. ...
- MUST SEE: WILHELM SAAYMAN - Financial Mail
An epigram by the French writer Sebastien Chamfort offers a useful entrée into Saayman's bleakly funny pencil drawings: "Better on your arse than on your feet, flat on your back than either, dead than the lot." The epigram appears in a collection of ...
- Music Review: Jamey Johnson CD - MSN Entertainment
Jamey Johnson's "That Lonesome Song" delivers a salt-of-the-earth antidote for those who consider contemporary country music too slick and sentimental. His bare-knuckled, barroom poetry takes the point of view of hard-bitten losers and boozers, and ...
- County welcomes new businesses (Gloucester County Times)
Ricky's Affordable PC Repair: Sales & service of computers; Richard J. Reigens, 275 E. High St., S-370, (856) 524-5198. Badmoon Sauce: Specialty foods; Joshua Personius, Jeremy Personius, Jeffery Gwillim, 520 5th Ave., (609) 425-8953.
- Entertainment Calendar: 08/15/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Items for this calendar must be received by the Record-Eagle at least two weeks in advance. All calendars are published on a space available basis. Information may be mailed to Entertainment Calendar, Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632; faxed to 946-8632; or e-mail sbeach@record-eagle.com .
- An absolutely Ani performance at Wolf Trap - Inside NoVA
Inside NoVAAn absolutely Ani performance at Wolf TrapInside NoVA, VA - 20 hours agoOver nearly 20 years, 20 albums, 10 official bootlegs, 3 DVDs and a book of poetry, DiFranco managed to sell more than 4 million records under her ...
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