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- From Salem to Pacific City, dinners honor Robert Burns - Oregonian
Kilt & Thistle Scottish Shoppes Sandy MacKenzie addresses the haggis at a Burns dinner in Salem as his wife, Victoria, looks on. Sandy MacKenzie will be the master of ceremonies again this year at the Northwest St. Andrews Society dinner. Cock-a ...
- Senior enjoys helping others - Marshall News Messenger
Senior enjoys helping othersMarshall News MessengerIn her spare time, the Marshall resident writes poetry and short stories and reads books. She's interested in writing a book of her own in the future. ...
- It keeps going and going and going... - Las Vegas City Life
AJ's Tavern 3650 S. Decatur Blvd.#24., 248-6919. myspace.com/ajstavern . Fri: Live Classic Rock & Blues, 8p. Sat: Live Classic Rock & Blues, 9p. Wed: Karaoke w/ Frankie Almost, 9p. Aliante Station 7300 Aliante Pkwy., 692-7777. Fri: Yellow Brick Road ...
- Seeing world through a child’s eyes keeps things interesting - Independent Record
My son, Mike, is playing basketball through the YMCA this year and he loves it. At practice the other night, he made a perfect basket that just swished right through the net. Later that night at dinner, he was still in awe of this newfound skill ...
- Middle East meets West - Prague Post
Prague PostMiddle East meets WestPrague PostAs a child, I did what I liked." Freedom is also an important element in the singing and poetry of Yemen, which is filled with improvisation. ...
- Age no bar for the bard - Indian NewsLink
Age no bar for the bardIndian NewsLinkUrmila Seth (who prefers to be called 'Urmil') has just published her first book of poems, called, Chandni Kabhi Apni Na Hui (a loose translation of which ...
- Writer Frank X Walker in Charleston for weekend events - Charleston Gazette
Writer Frank X Walker in Charleston for weekend eventsCharleston GazetteWalker also will be an instructor Saturday morning at the annual Writers' Toolkit, an intensive creative writing workshop that encompasses poetry and ...
- Men must face the slings and arrows of Valentine's romance - Global Times
Men must face the slings and arrows of Valentine's romanceGlobal TimesMost of them also said that they would prefer flowers and poetry to any extravagant gift, as long as the poem was written by the man himself, and that they ...
- Poet's Pathway to feature Ryk McIntyre presentation - Middleboro Gazette
Poet's Pathway to feature Ryk McIntyre presentationMiddleboro GazetteMIDDLEBORO — Unabashed Ryk McIntyre will charm his audience with family poetry (especially those where he dotes on his young daughter) and sit everyone back ...
- Killings in city fall to 21-year low - CharlotteObserver.com
Charlotte hit an extraordinary milestone in 2009 - recording fewer homicides than it has in 21 years. The rate of killings is down, too: It appears to be the lowest since police began keeping uniform crime statistics in 1977. Large cities across the ...
- In death, reclusive author J.D. Salinger leaves readers with one final ... - Anderson Independent-Mail
Most of us love a good mystery. So within hours of J.D. Salinger’s death last week, literary pundits were circling like vultures around a tantalizing question: What’s in the safe? The safe, allegedly as big as a room, is in Salinger’s hilltop ...
- First Night: A celebration of the senses - Barre Montpelier Times Argus
First Night: A celebration of the sensesBarre Montpelier Times ArgusWhat she had no way of knowing was that in the waning hours of the year, she'd be slammin' — poetry. In the basement of Bethany Church, in front of an ...
- Sunday, Jan. 17 - Advocate Weekly
Sunday, Jan. 17Advocate WeeklyThe Bookstore, Amy Fleury, the current Amy Clampitt Poetry Fellow in Lenox will read from her collection "Beautiful Trouble," winner of the Crab Orchard ...and more »
- Pomp and Pyrotechnics on Point - New York Times
New York TimesPomp and Pyrotechnics on PointNew York TimesWhen it is profoundly responsive to music, when its view of human energy is serious, when it celebrates the poetry of movement and releases human ...and more »
- Eoghan Harris: The healing rivers beneath the fourth green field - Independent
FOR the past week, I have been reading and reflecting on Liam Carson 's memoir of his parents, Call Mother a Lonely Field (Hag's Head Press). Although this memoir works on many levels, at first sight it seems to be just another Irish family chronicle ...
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