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- In the Big Easy, 2 Cocktails Reign (New York Times)
The Louisiana legislature recently chose the sazerac as the official cocktail of the city of New Orleans, but the Ramos gin fizz might be a better fit.
- Pakistani writer regales audience - Gulf Times
WELL-KNOWN Pakistani writer and orator Mohamed Kabir Khan entertained the audience at a seminar on ‘humour and satire’ organised by the Pakistan Cultural Forum (PCF) at the embassy auditorium to mark Pakistan’s Independence Day. UAE-based Khan ...
- Noted poet Khatir Ghaznavi passes away - Pakistan Times
Noted poet Khatir Ghaznavi passes awayPakistan Times, Pakistan - 3 hours agoIn a message to the bereaved family, the Prime Minister paid tributes to Ghaznavi’s contribution to poetry. He said Khatir Ghaznavi was not only a poet but ...
- Back to basics for Limetree Festival - Yorkshire Evening Post
Back to basics for Limetree FestivalYorkshire Evening Post, UK - 6 hours agoCompleting the festival are the classic funfair rides, comedy acts, cabaret and street theatre, open mic stage for poetry, politics, literature and more. ...The Limetree Festival Urban Planetall 2 news articles
- Ogden murder victims identified - ksl.com
This afternoon, police released the names of the two women killed in Ogden this weekend. Rosanna Marie Cruz and Teresa Rene Tingey were shot to death sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Police say the two victims were prostitutes ...
- Much revered father figures - New Straits Times
Much revered father figuresNew Straits Times, Malaysia - 9 minutes agoAnd on July 18 the world paid tribute to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday. Mandela is seen in South Africa as the Father of Freedom and is also regarded ...
- Inuk artist raises her voice - Northern News Services (subscription)
Northern News Services (subscription)Inuk artist raises her voiceNorthern News Services (subscription), Canada - 4 hours agoPartridge has played with poetry for a long time but she got into spoken word performance about four years ago. She had been living in the south for about ...
- Raymond news briefs - York Weekly
Raymond news briefsYork Weekly, NH - 44 minutes agoReadings can be an excerpt of a work, poetry, song lyrics etc.; your own work or another's; with a time limit of 10 minutes. The format will be readings ...
- In brief: City of God director tackles Shakespeare (Guardian Unlimited)
Plus: Will Ferrell takes on 2-Face, comic bookdom's Lucky Luke begins journey to big screen, and trailer for Ridley Scott's Body of Lies goes online
- Signing off: the weird world of book signings (Independent)
To some authors, the book-signing is a curse. What could be more excruciatingly dull, to the sensitive creative mind, than to sit for hours in a festival tent or bookshop, inscribing your name on several hundred copies of your new masterpiece? This isn't a proper display of your writing talent – a baboon scratching the dirt with a stick could do it just as well.
- Mary Wells' New Novel, 'Forbidden Destiny: Contemporary Poetry and ... - Forbes
HOUSTON, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- What happens when a young adult has the audacity to search for a twin, unscrupulous conglomerates eagerly seize a city, and avaricious dominance of life spans is more powerful than human rights to life, liberty ...
- Obama lacks American decency - La Crosse Tribune
From the newspaper coverage so far, it’s obvious that the editors of the La Crosse Tribune are going to pull out all the news and Opinion page stops to get Obama elected president. Obama’s family were 20-year members of a large Chicago church ...
- Heat turned on Blackett - Nation News
Nation NewsHeat turned on BlackettNation News, Barbados - 8 minutes agoBrathwaite, professor of history and literature and winner of the world's poetry prize more than a dozen years ago, said he had "problems with the ...
- A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named ... - Hartford Courant
A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named ...Hartford Courant, United States - Jul 16, 2008Both Billington and Ryan referred to parallel traditions of American poets — the expansiveness of Walt Whitman, and the reclusiveness of Dickinson. ...
- The Gig Guide - Wiltshire Times
The Gig GuideWiltshire Times, UK - 1 hour agoCF: Festival Club Open Stage, eclectic mix of folk, blues, jazz and rap through to comedy, short film and poetry. Hosted by compere and performer Leander ...
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