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- Not everyone jumps for joy about new children's park - San Diego Union-Tribune
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – San Diego is set to open a long-awaited kid-oriented park across the street from The New Children's Museum, but some downtown parents say they are already disappointed. EDUARDO CONTRERAS / Union-Tribune A jungle gym sits in a ...
- Kiron resident to have book signing (Denison Bulletin Review)
Kiron resident Mary Morgan's book, "Swifty" will head to a book signing on Saturday, May 3, from 3 to 5 pm in the children's area of the Norelius Community Library.
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant-and-rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- A trio of stunning books to read this spring - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
A trio of stunning books to read this springDubuque Telegraph Herald, IA - 2 hours agoAs the skies rain ash and the duo evades marauding tribes of cannibals in their march to the warm climes of the coast, there's a bleak poetry in the love ...
- America's wackiest festivals (MSNBC)
A month-by-month guide to the contests and parades that bring out America's best and quirkiest. Some people will dream up any excuse for a party!
- Pastor’s son-in-law takes over at Harmony Street Baptist Church (The Gainesville Times)
Willard Thomas stepped down Sunday as pastor of Harmony Street Baptist Church after what he described as nearly 27 years of "preaching, practicing and promoting old-time religion."
- Robert DesRoche (Scribe) - Bleacherreport.com
Robert does not have any lineup tags. My main focus here is MMA. I found bleacher report when searching for rankings of fighters in each division. I looked at some of the typical sites, but then in the search I stumbled upon an article here by Derek ...
- Ben Zycher of the Manhattan Institute sends this: - National Review Online Blogs
Ben Zycher of the Manhattan Institute sends this:National Review Online Blogs, NY - 5 hours agoIt was a huge bronze statue of Stalin reading from a book of Pushkin's poetry. The express train is running from Warsaw to Legnica (site of a big Soviet ...
- Freedom from Ickiness with David Berman - Utne Reader Online
Freedom from Ickiness with David BermanUtne Reader Online - 2 hours agoHis lyrics are poetry in a cracked, catchy, alt-country frame. And yet the songs seem a little more straightforward this time around, less cryptic and more ...
- Edison teen learns lesson in standing up for herself (Miami Herald)
Never had Jeislee Alvarez imagined something so cold and humiliating as jail. There she was, all of 18 with her whole life ahead of her except for the grimy cell holding her back. Poet, pacificist and now jail bird No. 08-18621. Despite her tough-girl shell, the 5-foot-4 Miami Edison Senior High student feared using the toilet with other inmates and guards watching. Disgusted by the smell of the ...
- No Shushing in This Library - San Diego Reader
No Shushing in This LibrarySan Diego Reader, CA - 1 hour agoA bulletin board reminds us that it’s the Year of the Rat or National Poetry Month. We don’t have art like the new libraries, which have benefited from the ...
- Students tested on Winehouse lyrics (UPI)
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 28 (UPI) -- Students taking the Practical Criticism class at Cambridge University in England compared Amy Winehouse's lyrics to Sir Walter Raleigh's poetry for an exam.
- Quick Takes: Out Before He Started, Gender and Students’ Online ... - Inside Higher Ed
Quick Takes: Out Before He Started, Gender and Students’ Online ...Inside Higher Ed, DC - 3 hours agoEducational wonkery as...poetry? Inside Higher Ed columnist Wick Sloane has accepted an invitation to read from his work 7 pm, Friday, June 27, 2008, ...
- Asia’s Top Music and Lifestyle Event Singapore Sun Festival to ... - 華富財經
Asia’s Top Music and Lifestyle Event Singapore Sun Festival to ...華富財經, Hong Kong - 2 hours ago... and accomplished political foreign correspondent Andrew Forbes -- who will delve into the world of history, fiction, food, poetry and news journalism. ...
- War e-mails offer immediacy, but sacrifice eloquence - St. Petersburg Times
Sally Clark looks over Reed Brown’s shoulder during an Internet skills class at MacDill. One goal of the class is to teach them to communicate with family members in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sometimes, Iraq didn't seem so far away. Marine Tom Brunk ...
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