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- DCist Interview: Martha Reeves (DCist)
For those of us who spent our childhood (or adulthood) glued to oldies radio stations, reliving a mythical golden era, Martha Reeves is more than just a household name. Her years with the Vandellas constituted one of the most successful runs during Motown's halcyon days in the mid-'60s. You can't flip on BIG 100.3 FM or go to a wedding these days without hearing "Dancing in the Street" or ...
- The Great Outdoors - Saline Reporter
Camping in Southeast Michigan is no longer only about s'mores and soggy sleeping bags. With campgrounds that offer summer-long residencies, golf-camping packages, sites where horses can stay next to the family tent and even clothing-optional ...
- Blitz The Ambassador - CNET Asia
Close listeners will hear a spate of NYC-centric influences in this Brooklyn MC's stellar rhymes. The urgent, conscious-is-cool flows of Black Star (especially Kweli) and the punchy grunts of KRS-One meet amid a maze of classic keyboards, live drums ...
- Montessori helps student thrive - Steamboat Pilot & Today
Montessori is a method of teaching where you can work at your own level and make your own choices. It was invented by Maria Montessori in 1907. Montessori has many hands-on activities that help students understand math, language arts, and science ...
- Novelist Stewart O'Nan at Farmington Library - Hartford Courant
Novelist Stewart O'Nan at Farmington LibraryHartford Courant, United States - 1 hour ago... Poetry to promote an interest in that genre among young writers and teachers. The event is free and follows the museum's First Sunday activities. ...
- Pioneering lesbian activist Del Martin dies - Chicago Sun-Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National ...
- Model enthusiast still a 'fly boy' at 81 - Daily Herald
Model enthusiast still a 'fly boy' at 81Daily Herald, UT - 10 hours agoThey are too delicate." Airplanes are not all that fills Shay's life, however. He's written poetry and even had a poem published in an anthology. ...
- Fairfax Woman Named Nation's Poet Laureate - BayInsider
FAIRFAX, Calif. -- Kay Ryan, a 62-year-old Fairfax resident, was appointed today by the Library of Congress as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09. Ryan will assume her duties as the nation's poet laureate in the fall, opening the ...
- Religion roundup (Asheville Citizen-Times)
CANDLER — Piney Mountain United Methodist Church, 14 Piney Mountain Church Road (off N.C. 151), will hold an open house at 11 a.m. Sunday. Following the worship service, members of the congregation will offer tours around the facility.
- DTH Archives (The Daily Tar Heel)
Billy Collins is out to show that poetry isn’t arcane and irrelevant fluff written by cigarette-smoking bohemians decked in berets — it’s a way to consider the world humorously, empathetically and accessibly.
- Leeds University, England - guardian.co.uk
Leeds University, Englandguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoThe sing-song rhymes, blunt speech (see the obscene inarticulate skinheads of V) and political stance of Harrison's poetry have kept him outside the ...
- Silly fun with teens in 'Emo! The Musical' (The San Francisco Examiner)
Teen angst - it happens to the best of us. Take a second to reflect upon those melodramatic years and recall the disaffected youth you most identified with: Were you the misunderstood artiste, the perpetually stoned slacker or perhaps the sad-sack scribe of seriously bad poetry?
- Loudon Wainwright 3rd is in 'Recovery' (New York Daily News)
Loudon Wainwright 3rd talks to himself on his new album. Not his current self, mind you, but a much younger edition - the man/boy of his early 20s who wrote songs of such clarity, wit and poetry, you'd think he was much older way back when.
- Got creatures? Author says we need each other - Staunton News Leader
N ot "Got milk?" but "Got beavers, coyotes, wildlife?" prompts an ad for an area company that offers solutions for "nuisance" animals that have invaded homes or property. Just who has been invading whose territory ceased to be a question, among most ...
- This week in the Arts: - The Chattanoogan
This week in the Arts:The Chattanoogan, TN - 9 hours agoThe Chattanooga African American Museum will host the Smithsonian travel exhibit, The Dancer Within, through Aug. 15. To obtain additional information about ...
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