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- Benson, Thielemans honored as NEA Jazz Masters - International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK : Guitarist George Benson had a chance to reconnect with his jazz roots when he was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of its 2009 Jazz Masters. But it was another newly minted Jazz Master, Belgian-born Toots Thielemans ...
- Queens Lawmaker Proposes Law to Control Black Friday Crowds - 1010Wins
NEW YORK (AP/1010 WINS) -- Police are still reviewing surveillance video of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be tough to bring criminal charges. Nassau County police ...
- Richmond Really Really Free Market - Infoshop News
Richmond Really Really Free MarketInfoshop News - 6 hours agoAt past free markets, participants have come to share their musical talents, read poetry, and conduct impromptu workshops. "The Really Really Free Markets ...
- Mind your manners, T urges rude riders (Boston Globe)
For generations, it seemed, parents schooled their children in the basics of commuter courtesy, chiding sons and daughters to step aside and surrender seats for the elderly, the infirm, the pregnant. But simple gestures of kindness have mostly gone the way of the nickel fare. Commuters say it's more like bedlam below ground.
- REFORMA Honors Two Libraries - School Library Journal
REFORMA , the National Association To Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, has selected two winners of the 2008 Estela and Raúl Mora Award for promoting this year’s April 30 El dia de los ninos/El dia de ...
- tri-arts - Contra Costa Times
tri-artsContra Costa Times, CA - 9 hours agoBenefits Art in the Schools of the San Ramon Valley. n Poetry Reading — 2-4 pm, Oct. 5. Pleasanton Poet Laureate Martha Meltzer will host nature poet Sandra ...
- David Henry Sterry: Truth or Fiction: Voting by Memoir (HuffingtonPost)
McCain didn't even write his memoir. And the book reads like it was written by the captain of the football team who had the smart kid do it for him.
- What Makes an Artist? - School Library Journal
School Library JournalWhat Makes an Artist?School Library Journal - 4 minutes agoUsing engaging and inspirational primary source quotes from Gág’s diaries, which the artist kept all her life, author/illustrator Ray provides a compelling ...
- Barker retires as volunteer at G.W. Carver - Neosho Daily News
In woods deep and dark at the George Washington Carver National Monument is a statue of the famous scientist as a boy. The bronzed boy sits upon a rock, a plant in his hand, staring contemplatively into the trees, chin at a slight upward tilt. But ...
- $25k Grant Supports Cranford Public School's Service to Others - Scarlet Scuttlebutt
$25k Grant Supports Cranford Public School's Service to OthersScarlet Scuttlebutt, NJ - 12 hours agoThey will craft a poem capturing the essence of the picture, fashion the poetry and photograph into a keepsake, and present it to a resident of a local ...
- April 15, 1865: Death of a president - Rocky Mountain News
April 15, 1865: Death of a presidentRocky Mountain News, CO - 2 hours agoTo any reader, the front page of The Daily Rocky Mountain News on April 15, 1865, looked like any other edition. At the top of the page there were the usual ...
- Doubled edged chalice... - New Statesman
Doubled edged chalice...New Statesman, UK - 1 hour agoThe sad truth is that poetry would never make it onto television. At an Arts festival in September Motion looked back on his laureateship as a “thankless ...
- Paperbacks: Answering Back, Ed. Carol Ann Duffy (Independent)
PICADOR £8.99 (148PP) (FREE P&P) FROM 0870 079 8897Good poetry is always a spirited conversation between then and now. This eye-opening anthology pairs 46 poems from the past with new partners: works by current poets that echo, wrestle, back-chat or otherwise engage with them. The couplings are sometimes odd, but always lively. Wit, mischief and (as Duffy's preface puts it) "electricty" crackle ...
- Blog: In search of happiness - Nursing Times
Blog: In search of happinessNursing Times, UK - 23 hours agoOne man becomes half hyena, half quick-fire poetry slammer, howling his way though a tirade of vitriolic verse. My colleagues and I usually let them ...
- Madonna And Alex Rodriguez's Love Letters - Entertainmentwise
EntertainmentwiseMadonna And Alex Rodriguez's Love LettersEntertainmentwise, UK - 2 hours agoThe queen of pop is said to be pencilling A-Rod into her schedule with some old fashioned love letters and poetry. A source tells the Chicago Sun-Times that ...
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