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- Emergency firefighting costs California $305M - Record Searchlight
Carol Powers views her mother’s pearls Tuesday as firefighter Dustin Hurwitz pries open a jewelry case in the bedroom of her heavily damaged home in the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Los Angeles. SACRAMENTO — The Southern California wildfires are ...
- Deep, dark secrets - Independent Record
Photo by Michael Jamison, Missoulian - Galen Jamison and Lydia Kryshak, both 8, emerge into the light from a shallow cave that hangs on a bluff of limestone and has been used by humans for centuries. POLEBRIDGE — Beneath: a bed of soft sand ...
- Sunday Calendar (The Post and Courier)
RURAL MISSION OYSTER ROAST: 3-6 p.m. Bowen's Island Restaurant, 1870 Bowen's Island Road, Charleston. $25 at the door. To raise money for Rural Mission, Bowen's Island Restaurant will host an oyster roast with live music, drinks, more.
- Ayr Academy - Ayrshire Post
Ayr AcademyAyrshire Post, UK - 18 hours agoERIN Bell of S2 has been chosen for publication of her poem The Disappearing Forests. The school will receive a copy of the poetry collection A World of ...
- EVENT 1:50 p.m. — Sinangån-ta poetry slam tomorrow at PTC (Pacific Daily News)
1:50 p.m., Oct. 24 — The Sinangån-ta Poetry Slam is held each last Saturday of the month at the Pacific Trading Club Bar & Grill at the Agana Shopping Center.
- BC BREAKING NEWS: (Victoria News)
FRAIDY CAT – Kelly McManus, aspiring climber with a fear of heights, tries her hand at a V1 in Squamish last weekend. She sent it, but not without a little trepidation.
- Actor to take part in Remembrance event - Hereford Times
Actor to take part in Remembrance eventHereford Times, UK - 10 hours agoOn Remembrance Sunday, he will read poetry and prose by, among others, Sassoon, Owen and Kipling. “One of my long-term jobs has been at Tonbridge School and ...
- McCain: He's Lost Alter! - Slate
Jonathan Alter, Joe Klein, Richard Cohen, David Ignatius, Jacob Weisberg: all former McCain admirers now turned brutal critics. Equally if not more damaging, the shift has been just as pronounced, if less operatic, among straight-news reporters ...
- Ben Folds finds his 'Way to Normal' - Grand Rapids Press
Courtesy photo Ben Folds will play The Fillmore in Detroit on Thursday. For singer-pianist Ben Folds, playing Detroit is like performing in front of thousands of emotional brainiacs. "I've always liked playing Detroit," Folds said during a recent ...
- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- Ricci repeats as GG Literary Award winner - Ottawa Citizen
Globe and MailRicci repeats as GG Literary Award winnerOttawa Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoJacob Scheier of Toronto won the English poetry prize for More to Keep Us Warm. This book of poems, the jury said, "invites the reader into a world of hope, ...Nino Ricci wins GG's Award for fiction Canada.comall 111 news articles
- 20 (PLUS) QUESTIONS WITH: Composer Jake Heggie (Playbill Arts)
Composer Jake Heggie - perhaps best known for his milestone piece Dead Man Walking - is currently hard at work on Moby Dick , which is set to premiere at Dallas Opera in 2010 with Ben Heppner slated to star as Captain Ahab. Heggie recently took a moment to contribute to our newest Q&A series.
- Philip Ayckbourn and Dave Ross have the write stuff - Barking and Dagenham Post
Philip Ayckbourn and Dave Ross have the write stuffBarking and Dagenham Post, UK - 5 hours agoDave has been writing almost all of his life, starting with poetry and lyrics, then motivated by a former artistic director at the Queen's Marina Calderone, ...
- Town revealed in poems and pictures - Westmidlands.com
A new book of poems is drawing on the traditions and people of Tipton. The town’s civic society is marking its 20th anniversary with the celebration of local folk which also contains a host of locally-inspired illustrations. Black Country wordsmith ...
- Miracle Worker from Baghdad - New Era
Miracle Worker from BaghdadNew Era, Namibia - 6 minutes agoNada Yousif’s poetry reading sets the mood for Saad Eskander’s lecture. “The story I’m about to tell is a sad story, and it is always difficult to tell a ...
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