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- Golden moment (VIDEO) (Erie Times-News)
This fall session at Erie Institute of Technology is different -- and not just because the enrollment of nearly 300 is the largest in the school's history.
- Placido Domingo to release Pope John Paul II-inspired album - Earthtimes (press release)
Placido Domingo to release Pope John Paul II-inspired albumEarthtimes (press release), UK - 6 hours ago... according to details posted by Italian online shop ibs.it The Spanish-Mexican Domingo, also known as one of the celebrated Three Tenors - together with ...
- SQA gets black mark for dropping Makar - Scotsman
SQA gets black mark for dropping MakarScotsman, United Kingdom - 4 minutes ago... beginning his tenure by writing 'The Poem For The Opening Of The Scottish Parliament'. Morgan's publisher, the professor of poetry at Glasgow University ...
- Purple Haze: A Saginaw worker played with Jimi Hendrix - MLive.com
A musician for five decades, James W. Hudson, 67, of Grand Blanc can tally the legends for whom he kept the beat. Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Marvin Gaye are among those he played drums with in the 1960s and '70s. Region Ann Arbor Bay City/Midland ...
- Toni Morrison Is John Updike's Latest Lit-Fit Victim [Literary Feuds] (Gawker)
Cranky old John Updike has always used his bully pulpit at The New Yorker to blast popular writers who didn't fit his idea of fiction. As he's gotten older, his hatred of anything he doesn't...
- We Care about Global Issues! [photoessay] (OneWorld)
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (OneWorld) - Green Festival attendees in Washington, D.C. tell OneWorld what global issues matter most to them. Interests range from global warming and human rights to bee colony collapse, but the message that we are one world shines through in each shot.
- Verbal-jousting poets vow to get nasty - Calgary Herald
Verbal-jousting poets vow to get nastyCalgary Herald, Canada - 15 minutes agoIt takes very little to spark up a competitive streak in the exuberant captain of Calgary's SLAM poetry team. Five minutes into a conversation with the ...
- Area Briefly - Fremont News-Messenger
Bellevue Public Library will close at 5 p.m., on Nov. 26. The library will be closed on Nov.27, which is Thanksgiving. Normal hours will resume on Nov. 28. Winter Library hours are: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 ...
- Deadline set for WC writing contest - Wearford Democrat
WEATHERFORD — The deadline for submissions for the fourth annual “Canis Latrin (The Coyote) Writing Contest,†associated with Weatherford College’s annual spring book festival Books ‘n Authors ‘n All That Jazz, is approaching. “We have ...
- Prominent political prisoner freed in Myanmar - Hanford Sentinel
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner was among more than 9,000 inmates freed Tuesday, days before the first anniversary of the junta's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests led by Buddhist monks. Win Tin, a journalist ...
- Pupils play with words - Northumberland Gazette
Pupils play with wordsNorthumberland Gazette, UK - 7 hours ago... at Warkworth First, said: "It is great fun playing with words – poetry enables children to be very creative and be very proud of their writing. ...
- 'Mad Men' and `30 Rock' win top Emmys - 9NEWS.com
'Mad Men' and `30 Rock' win top Emmys9NEWS.com, CO - 2 hours agoChildren's Program (Area Award: Possibility of more than one award): "Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show," HBO; "Nick News with Linda ...
- Executive Q&A - Judith Laitman: Knowledge Unlimited head aims to help kids (Wisconsin State Journal)
Judith Laitman is passionate about children and about helping them learn about the world. Laitman is founder, president and publisher of Knowledge Unlimited, 2310 Darwin Road, a company that creates educational materials. Established in 1983, Knowledge Unlimited competes with the big educational publishers, including Weekly Reader and Scholastic, creating its own portfolio of some 600 posters ...
- Happy Jack - WhatsOnStage.com
WhatsOnStage.comHappy JackWhatsOnStage.com, UK - 27 minutes agoThe funny but wistful love story is about a West Yorkshire miner, Jack, and his wife Liz and is perhaps based on the author’s grandparents. ...
- Greece to mark anniversary of Byron's death - San Diego Union-Tribune
ATHENS – Greece has declared the anniversary of the death of Lord Byron, the British Romantic poet who fought in its 19th century war of independence, as a day of celebration to hail Greek culture. Byron died of pneumonia fighting Ottoman rule on ...
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