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- Slanted Script (San Diego Reader)
The curtain rises at the Old Globe and vwa-lah! We’re in the majestic living room of a Victorian mansion. A bay-window seat, with nine-foot windows, overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge (we’re in San Francisco’s Marina District, east of the Presidio and up, maybe, around Lombard).
- Sharmagne Leland St. John last-minute Books By Bay replacement - The North Bay Nugget
Sharmagne Leland St. John last-minute Books By Bay replacementThe North Bay Nugget, Canada - 3 hours agoShe has published three poetry books: Unsung Songs, Silver Tears and Time, and Contingencies. She also co-authored a book on film production design, ...
- Too Broke to Fail - Slate
Someone's Better Off: With a deep recession looming and the government going bust, the widespread consensus is that the financial crisis strikes a bitter blow to the presidential candidates' grand policy ambitions. As Ted Widmer asked in the Outlook ...
- Bailout Flameout Fallout - Slate
The L.A. Daily News on its city's seeming unshrinkable downtown education bureaucracy : [A] Daily News review of salaries and staffing shows LAUSD's bureaucracy ballooned by nearly 20 percent from 2001 to 2007. Over the same period, 500 teaching ...
- Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guests (AP via Yahoo! News)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Healing Arts Project founder Leigh Schickendantz, left, and theater Program Director Leah Lindsay pose for a portrait ... (Daily Inter Lake)
Project board members Schickendantz, Julianne Hinchey, Paula Buckley, Libby Moothart and Lori Madden know too well the impact of drug addiction, crime and other problems on their clients.
- iUniverse Would Like to Announce the Release of Looking for Jencey by ... - PR.com
Endearing Narrative Tells of Strong Heroine’s Life in Early 20th Century. Looking For Jencey, The Life of Lizzie Elnora Murphy Casebolt is unlike most biographies. Told in an engaging present-tense style, this story by the late author Dorothy ...
- Arts Alive opening rocks Jozi - ArtslinkNews
ArtslinkNewsArts Alive opening rocks JoziArtslinkNews, South Africa - 19 hours agoThe Speak the Mind Poetry Night, featuring a range of local and international artists on September 13th promises to deliver an evening of the finest ...
- Girl Talk Has Its Limits (New York Times)
Sharing is good, but researchers discuss if it can spin out of control for teenagers.
- Lindsay students sweep 1A UIL compeitions - Gainesville Daily Register
Lindsay set the record in 2005 with 274.5 points total — which broke the 2001 record of 188 points. “I’ve been doing this for a long time now, and I thought I’ve seen it all,†said Craig Hertel, Lindsay’s UIL academic coordinator. “But ...
- Simon Gray 1936-2008 - RedOrbit
Simon Gray 1936-2008RedOrbit, TX - 8 minutes agoBut he also wrote beautifully of those people and things that he loved, of family and friends, dogs and cats, books, poetry, movies, the theatre (love-hate ...
- The perils of faith and reward - Sydney Morning Herald
The perils of faith and rewardSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 3 hours ago(2003), The Castle In The Forest (2007) and a collection of poetry and drawings titled Modest Gifts (2003). "Working with Norman was not what I expected," ...
- British playwright known for wit - Chicago Tribune
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays like "Butley," "Otherwise Engaged" and "Quartermaine's Terms" about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon ...
- Farewell for Darwish: Palestinians' "voice and heart" (News Feature) - Monsters and Critics
Ramallah - Hundreds of Palestinians lingered over the grave of Mahmoud Darwish, the famed Palestinian poet, author and political activist, after his funeral in Ramallah on Wednesday. Thousands had earlier descended on the West Bank city to pay their ...
- Week of peace begins - Hillingdon Times
PEOPLE of different faiths in the community are due to gather tomorrow for the launch of Hillingdon’s week of peace. The annual event sees cultures coming together to provide a week of activities for everyone to take part in. A civic march from ...
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