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- South Africa bids farewell to music legend Miriam Makeba (TODAYonline)
South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela performs one of Miriam Makeba's songs in Johannesburg. Hundreds of people paid their last respects to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Makeba, whose death last weekend plunged South Africa into mourning.
- Poems for little pardners - Durango Herald
Jack Schuba, 6, a first-grader at Animas Valley Elementary School, peers from under his cowboy hat Thursday while listening to cowboy singers and poets Jim Dunham and Jerry Bell perform for the students at the school. The two singers kicked off the ...
- Students, songwriters to team up - al.com
Students, songwriters to team upal.com, AL - 9 minutes agoIn collaboration with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn., students at three area schools will have some of their poetry ...
- Mad Cat Theater Company's stirring it up with 'Mixtape' - MiamiHerald.com
Mad Cat Theater Company's stirring it up with 'Mixtape'MiamiHerald.com, FL - 2 hours agoAn eclectic mix of theater, poetry, film and music adds up to the newest original show. BY CHRISTINE DOLEN Remember the mixtape? ...
- Singer Laura Marling writes beyond her years - Chicago Tribune
Singer Laura Marling writes beyond her yearsChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours ago"My favorite escape is the Bronte era, that dark, graceful, elegant old English way of life that I wish I was born into, and in a way believe I should have ...
- Tom Junod on the future death of Steve Jobs - Crunchgear.com
Whoa. Esquire just published a 5-page piece on Steve Jobs’ cancer written by the inimitable Tom Junod. Here’s a huge snip: Like the iMac, the iBook was designed not to be an instrument of utility but an object of desire; like the iMac, it was ...
- Farewell to Fairheads - Ilford Recorder 24
Farewell to FairheadsIlford Recorder 24, UK - 16 hours ago... a member of Fairheads for 46 years, and make no apologies for these biased views, and here is a short poem as a tribute for this sad, but special occasion.
- Poet Hayden Carruth, 87; acclaim came late in life - Arizona Republic
Los Angeles TimesPoet Hayden Carruth, 87; acclaim came late in lifeArizona Republic, AZ - 12 hours agoHis Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle award for poetry, and he won the National Book Award for the ...Hayden Carruth: 1921-2008 Paste Magazineall 5 news articles
- A man at odds in 'Flash of Genius' (Boston Globe)
"Flash of Genius" is a true-story drama about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper. It's a very earnest movie and I don't mean to be cruel, but shouldn't we draw the line on biopics right around here? Can the life struggles of the discoverer of dental floss be far behind? A miniseries on the inventor of the toilet ...
- Doreen Gandy Wiley writes of real-life survival - The Regal Courier
Doreen Gandy Wiley writes of real-life survivalThe Regal Courier, OR - 1 hour ago“The name comes from a poem I wrote. The story really fell into place. “I have found myself the last five years writing essays about things that especially ...
- How Rwanda and 9/11 moved me to write for Leonard Bernstein - Jewish Chronicle
Jewish ChronicleHow Rwanda and 9/11 moved me to write for Leonard BernsteinJewish Chronicle, UK - 18 minutes agoBut Pisar resisted, saying that he "could not write poetry at the level of your music". Though Bernstein died in 1990, Pisar's wife, Judith, and others, ...
- Tough Chicago lawmaker is chosen chief of staff (San Diego Union-Tribune)
WASHINGTON – In choosing Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief of staff, President-elect Barack Obama hired both a Chicago pit-bull politician and a master tactician to run herd over the West Wing.
- Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest: Postmark deadline ... - Gather.com
Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest: Postmark deadline ...Gather.com, MA - 5 minutes agoThe Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves to express their innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry ...
- Oklahoma poetry competition set (The Oklahoman)
The Oklahoma Humanities Council has announced plans for the 2009 Poetry Out Loud competition, a national recitation contest sponsored in cooperation with the Oklahoma Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. The competition is open to high school students statewide. Poetry Out Loud encourages students to learn about poetry through memorization, performance and ...
- Sally Ketchum: Soothing mind, body, soul - Traverse City Record Eagle
Sally Ketchum: Soothing mind, body, soulTraverse City Record Eagle, MI - 3 hours ago... Ketchum is a northern Michigan writer who manages to get food and beverages into most of her work, whether columns, fiction, children's books or poetry. ...
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