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- Teachers, please, be good to them - Philadelphia Inquirer
They're coming back to you this week. Presumably, they're ready. While I have no kids to send to you these days, one never forgets. Not their shiny, scrubbed, summer-drenched look. Not those feet that have run bare for nearly three months, now shod ...
- Fall Arts Week: Books & Literature - Calgary Herald
These people prove Calgary's literary scene is alive and thriving. We've got budding novelists, acclaimed veterans, entrepreneurial publishers, innovative bookstore owners and just about everything else needed to keep the books world vibrant. Here ...
- Ahoy, mateys, join the treasure hunt! - MLive.com
A2 Art Salon is inviting everyone to act like pirates during the month of October by participating in the Ann Arbor Treasure Hunt. Designed to bring people downtown, the hunt will have people follow a treasure map of businesses and restaurants, where ...
- Casting a Spell on the Economy A sinister atmosphere spreads … - Slate
Economics and witchcraft: This is not a combination we'll be hoping for more of in the future. Tim Harford's " Undercover Economist " on the dangers of being a witch in a recession produced considerable unease and gloom, and that's just in someone ...
- Iconic Palestinian poet Darwish buried - Los Angeles Times
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK -- During the six years he spent in an Israeli prison, Haidar Jaradat read one poem over and over: "My Mother," by Mahmoud Darwish. "I long for my mother's bread," it begins. "My mother's coffee/Her touch." "It brought me comfort ...
- Short Comings (The Shawnee News-Star)
Today Individual Artists of Oklahoma will sponsor an open-mike poetry reading at 7 p.m. at Benedict Street Marketplace. Jennifer Kidney, Ph.D., director of literature for the Oklahoma Humanities Council, will be the featured reader. ••• Overeaters Anonymous meets at 11 a.m. at First Christian Church, 1625 N. Broadway, Shawnee. For more information, call Oteka Ball at 275-2594. ••• Disabled ...
- American Nightmare - GoErie.com
American NightmareGoErie.com, PA - 59 minutes agoTheatre 145's 'Buried Child' is an amalgamation of naturalism, symbolism, myth, poetry, and dark comedy. BY FLOYD LAWRENCE Aaron Pacy portrays Tilden with a ...
- The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes - The Independent
The phrase "Romantic Chemistry" did not always mean the sexual spark between two people. At the birth of English Romanticism, chemistry and other sciences, notably astronomy and the physics of electricity, were exciting components of the new mood ...
- Tim Grobaty: We don't run, even when running late - Contra Costa Times
Tim Grobaty: We don't run, even when running lateContra Costa Times, CA - Oct 9, 2008... Major" (Grove Press; $24) as well as the new Gerald Locklin poetry collection "The Plot of Il nevertheless likes to get out and cheer the runners on. ...
- Pigeon race is poetry in motion (The Australian)
THE artform of poetry will be revived by eight pigeons in a unique race, flying down the NSW south coast with poem in claw.
- U.S. Refuge for Singer Fleeing the Taliban (New York Times)
A hostile cultural climate forced Haroon Bacha, a Pashtun musician, to leave his homeland and come to New York.
- POSTCARD USA: One for Ahmed Faraz — Khalid Hasan - Daily Times
This is Ahmad Faraz’s week as he lies in a Chicago hospital, fighting back, refusing to go gently into the night. Sometimes prayers do get answered and this may well be one of those moments, because for the first time since July 7 when he entered ...
- Cowboy poet, singer are performing in Reno - North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
Cowboy poet, singer are performing in RenoNorth Lake Tahoe Bonanza, NV - 23 minutes agoIf you would like to submit poetry, a book review of your own or what your book club is reading email bpwhyman@sbcglobal.net.
- Three Pioneers - Publishers Weekly
Publishers WeeklyThree PioneersPublishers Weekly, NY - 5 hours agoThe Pulitzer Prizes were launched at Columbia University in 1917 as annual awards for excellence in journalism, fiction, poetry and other cultural pursuits. ...
- Director Stone selling five Chinese paintings - Miami Herald
Besides a keen interest in Vietnam, Oliver Stone is also a collector of Chinese art. The Oscar-winning American director, whose George W. Bush biopic W. hits theaters Friday, has commissioned Christie's in Hong Kong to sell five of his modern Chinese ...
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