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- Melody in diversity: Jazz a Carthage - eJazzNews
Melody in diversity: Jazz a CarthageeJazzNews, Canada - 28 minutes agoHe led a very cohesive sextet that included the front-line horns of Black Rock Coalition trumpeter Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes, and alto saxophonist Robert Brown, ...
- Langston Hughes - Baltimore Sun
The "American Masters" biographies on PBS can be a little tame at times — too much respect and too little incisive insight can make for turgid TV. Last year, for example, an "American Masters" documentary on legendary record executive Ahmet... The ...
- Porter Web site expands features - Westlake West Life
Westlake West LifePorter Web site expands featuresWestlake West Life, OH - 6 hours agoWhen Porter held a poetry contest for students in kindergarten through grade five this spring, the entries were posted on the library Web site — in audio ...
- Share this story: - Daily Chronicle
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- Barack Obama and the graveyard of hope - East African
Barack Obama and the graveyard of hopeEast African, Kenya - 6 hours agoWe do not even remark on the haunting wastage of all this shining accomplishment — Micere Mugo sings her lyrical poetry for Americans, and we do not even ...
- Newly Named Poet Laureate Kay Ryan Ready To Assume Post - Post Chronicle
U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09. Ryan, a 63-year-old California native, is to begin her duties in the fall, opening the library's annual literary ...
- Scratching the surface on Whistler - Boston Globe
WILLIAMSTOWN - "Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly," the Clark Art Institute's summer show examining ethereal, soft-focus effects in the paintings of James McNeill Whistler and his American followers, is a fine ...
- Funs on the coast as Kataklysmos begins - Cyprus Weekly
The coastal towns will come alive from tonight with the start of the Kataklysmos Flood Festival, coinciding with the Christian feast of Pentecost. Kataklysmos is traditionally celebrated with water fights in the street although the severity of the ...
- Bypass summer traffic headaches and hop the ferry - Anchorage Daily News (subscription)
Bypass summer traffic headaches and hop the ferryAnchorage Daily News (subscription), AK - 7 hours agoSee Jack London's cabin and listen to nightly recitations of Robert Service's poetry. You also can take a boat tour on the Yukon River aboard the Yukon ...
- A complicity of love - Block Island Times
This is our glass lifted in celebration of Lisa Starr — our very own Poet Laureate — sister and daughter of the island. Though we extend our gratitude and praise for the extraordinary Poetry Project that she has conceived and reconceives each ...
- The IDEAL Poetry Contest - North Bay Nugget
IDEAL-WAY is looking for entries for its Ideal Poetry Contest. Individuals with intellectual disabilities across Ontario can share poems that touch our hearts or make us laugh, for a chance to win exciting prizes. We are on the hunt for poets among ...
- For Angelou, life is poetry (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Still close to her youthful height of 6 feet, the author-poet-dancer-singer-activist is now 80. She will speak in the season's final Smart Talk.
- 'El Niño's' Transcendent Genre - Washington Post
John Adams likes to refer to traditional forms. "A Flowering Tree," for instance, his 2006 opera-oratorio, was his riff on Mozart 's "Magic Flute." Then there's "El Niño," the sprawling choral work that the Choral Arts Society is performing tomorrow ...
- Did Robert Kennedy run 'The Last Campaign'? (Chicago Sun-Times)
Always pungently observant, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, came up with an apt description of Robert Kennedy as he campaigned in 1968: “Bobby could have been a revolutionary priest.’’
- Volunteers gear up for Book Bonanza - Reading Eagle
Volunteers gear up for Book BonanzaReading Eagle, PA - Jul 12, 2008Customers can browse varied categories of donated books - children's, romance, sci-fi, poetry, health and this year's featured category: sports books. ...
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