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- Del Martin, 87, pioneering lesbian activist (San Jose Mercury News)
Del Martin, a strident and eloquent voice in the early gay and lesbian civil rights movement in America, died Wednesday in San Francisco not long after enjoying perhaps the hardest-won prize of her lifelong cause -- legal marriage to Phyllis Lyon, her longtime partner. Martin was 87.
- "Art Beat" with Stephanie Kaye - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - WAMU
"Art Beat" with Stephanie Kaye - Thursday, August 21, 2008WAMU, Washington DC - 6 hours ago(Aug 23) DC POETRY FESTIVAL A community benefit for the historic Howard Theater brings a poetry and music party to the Carter Barron Amphitheatre Saturday ...
- User Login (Weekly Dig)
The Dig managed to set up a call with noted author and screenwriter Paul Auster while he was waking up in a DC hotel room. Mr. Auster's composure bordered on heroic as we pestered him with questions at 9:15am.
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' (GMA News)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates: Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- The Paris-Ramallah Axis - The Plank on TNR.com
The Paris-Ramallah AxisThe Plank on TNR.com, DC - Aug 12, 2008Buck reminds us that, aside from poetry and Yassir Arafat's guns and olive branch speech to the General Assembly, Darwish also penned the Declaration of ...
- People from all over converge at Dataran Merdeka - Malaysia Star
Malaysia StarPeople from all over converge at Dataran MerdekaMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 4 hours agoThere were also performances such as Zapin Merdeka, Merdeka poetry rendition, lion dance, bhangra show, joget Merdeka and concert by local artistes. ...
- CD Reviews (Toronto Sun)
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- Tom Sheehan will be featured at local Coffee House - Saugus Advertiser
Tom Sheehan will be featured at local Coffee HouseSaugus Advertiser, MA - 8 hours agoProlific author of fiction (eg, Death for the Phantom Receiver), nonfiction (eg, A Collection of Friends: Memoirs), and poetry (eg, This Rare Earth and ...
- For simple perfection, think Manhattan - Arizona Republic
For simple perfection, think ManhattanArizona Republic, AZ - 53 minutes agoMaybe I'm just a classicist at heart, but a lot of contemporary cocktails bring to mind Robert Frost's assertion that writing free-verse poetry is like ...
- A Life In Books: John Banville - Newsweek
A Life In Books: John BanvilleNewsweek - 15 minutes agoThe book I most want my kids to read: "The Tower" by WB Yeats. They would learn, or at least glimpse, how magnificent poetry can be.
- A student's tribute to a beloved English teacher - Los Angeles Times
A student's tribute to a beloved English teacherLos Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours agoMr. Lutz inspired us to read, to write, to see, to travel and to experience what life had to offer, and I'm writing to say that I hear you, Mr. Lutz. ...
- Dylan Jones: I have been having a lot of acupuncture - The Independent
If you ask me: 'I'm used to lying in small dark rooms as men and women work their magic' If you ask me, the music you hear in spas is massively underrated. Honestly, it's not the drugs talking here; I mean it. And anyway, I'm not on medication right ...
- Old 97's Murry Hammond's First Solo Album Due August 18 - Plug In music
Plug In musicOld 97's Murry Hammond's First Solo Album Due August 18Plug In music, PA - 35 minutes ago... a harmonium pump-organ), cowboy poetry-style spoken word and instrumentals, and lots of "period" reverb to paint a psychological journey through a world ...
- Senior Notes (July 17) - Needham Times
Senior Notes (July 17)Needham Times, USA - 2 hours agoHer strong voice and her understanding of the text will provide new perspective on the classic prose and poetry she brings to you. ...
- Charter school takes on big challenge (Rocky Mountain News)
Some of the families who've flocked to one of the last mostly black schools in Denver returned to Challenges, Choices & Images charter school Monday night for a town hall meeting that felt at times like a Sunday church service.
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