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- Fall brings the Chili Cookoff - nwlanews.com
Cool weather and homemade chili are the perfect duo for this time of year. The recent cool snap and pretty weather has inspired the first annual Bossier Parish Libraries Chili Cook Off that will be going on for the next three weeks. Reading is HOT ...
- Finding Frost: Historic attendance register cements poet's ties to Methuen (The Eagle-Tribune)
Robert Frost removed his coat to show the ruffians at Methuen's Second Grammar School he wasn't someone they should mess with. It was 1893, a time when it was common for teachers to strike unruly students. According to historians, that's what the 18-year-old rookie educator did.
- Dan Billing proud to be a Canadian - Times and Transcript
Dan Billing proud to be a CanadianTimes and Transcript, Canada - 2 hours agoI also write poetry for a hobby," he smiles, "but nobody reads it." In "fairly good health," Dan Billing is completely contented with his way of life here. ...
- Michigan casinos to host variety of entertainment, including Flint ... - MLive.com
Business Wire Blue Man Group's multimedia performances are part comedy, part rock concert and part dance party. The group is one of several performing and casinos in Michigan and Canada. Michigan casino stages will host some unconventional ...
- Burning down the house with Brock Clarke (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Brock Clarke, a professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Cincinnati, will read from his hilarious and acclaimed novel, "An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England," on Thursday at the University of Louisville.
- Popular Music - Baltimore Sun
Poetry and R&B soul music will take over 88's Dueling Pianos on Thursday. The Seminole Paradise club will host "Deep Fried Soul," featuring Cosby show actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Other performers include Da Real One, Ingrid B, Jody Hill & Deep Fried ...
- 'Flight' traces trajectory of poet's career - The Olympian
'Flight' traces trajectory of poet's careerThe Olympian, WA - 4 hours agoIn some of her new poems, she roams from Venice to the moon in considering the daily life and long-term legacy of painter/printmaker Albrecht Durer. ...
- Michael Billington on directing Harold Pinter's works (Guardian Unlimited)
For the past four weeks I've been leading a strange double life, like a John le Carré character. By day I've been closeted with a group of third-year acting students from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) in a west London rehearsal room, directing a Pinter triple bill. By night I've been dashing off to review other people's work in the usual glut of autumn openings. I may ...
- Peter Fletcher to perform at Ada Public Library (Ada Evening News)
ADA  Classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform at Ada Public Library Thursday, Nov. 13, at 6 p.m. “Fletcher plays it all with a gracious virtuosity that makes for a very pleasing hour plus of unaffected musical poetry,†said Peter Burwasser of Fanfare Magazine.
- What's in the hopper so far... - Spokane Spokesman-Review
With a month to go before lawmakers pack their cars and flock to Olympia, 2008 is already shaping up to be a busy legislative session. More than two dozen lawmakers already have proposed about 50 changes in state law, including a 10-cents-a-gallon ...
- Editorial | Bond: Math-challenged Mommy: Palin should do her best to wave that special-needs flag. (Salt Lake City Weekly)
As the mother of a four-month-old boy with Down syndrome, I can relate to Sarah Palin. I mean, really, when she held Trig up after her speech at the Republican National Committee last month, offering him to the television cameras like a piece of prime elk and saying that she understood and that she'd be my boy's advocate in the White House, I wanted to melt. Look at that kid in his str...
- Roade pupils sang for harvest supper - Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Roade pupils sang for harvest supperNorthampton Chronicle & Echo, UK - 4 hours agoSinging , poetry, rap and rhymes were performed in front of parents during a harvest themed assembly at Roade Primary School. The presentation was carried ...
- Charles Pachter puts iconic Queen-moose paintings in new alphabet book - Prince Edward Island Guardian
It's been more than three decades since Toronto-based artist Charles Pachter painted the first of several images of the Queen with a moose (saluting astride one, paddling through water on one, and so on) and he still doesn't know if Her Majesty has ...
- Bumper crop of candidate slogans (The Kansas City Star)
Life isn’t a bowl of cherries, it’s a boatload of slogans. They’re the hooks of marketing. And presidential campaigns. That’s because the good ones work. Images and slogans | photo galley with audio
- World of majesty - Hindu
HinduWorld of majestyHindu, India - 16 hours agoThe commentary on the close ties of the paintings to music and poetry is supplemented by appropriate paintings and verses and the word to image translation ...
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