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- AP Top News at 10:41 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is ...
- Anderson writer/artist to appear on program on WSPA News Channel 7 - Anderson Independent Mail (subscription)
Anderson writer/artist to appear on program on WSPA News Channel 7Anderson Independent Mail (subscription), SC - 46 minutes agoHe writes personalized poetry by special commission through his Web site, www.cdavenport2324.com. Davenport started what would become a 40-year career in ...
- Insurers given help to hike car rates - Buffalo News
State lawmakers hastily passed legislation that would restore auto insurers’ ability to raise or lower rates, by an average of up to 5 percent, without seeking prior permission from regulators. The bill, which has not been signed by the governor ...
- Exhibition by Mitra Tabrizian in London: This is that Place (Payvand Iran News)
In June 2008, Tate Britain will open the first major exhibition in the UK of the work of the Iranian-British photographer and film director, Mitra Tabrizian. Born in Tehran, Tabrizian's primary concerns are contemporary issues and debates and her interests range from post-feminism and post-colonial theories and the effects of late capitalism in Britain, to the shifting realities of life in ...
- RAW Deal Looms for Taxpayers Unless Terminator and Lawmakers Act Fast (Santa Barbara Independent)
It’s nut-cutting time in Sacramento, to paraphrase famed wordsmith Dick Nixon, as California politicians face an August 1 deadline, when further dithering over the stalemated state budget will start having real-world financial consequences.
- Community Calendar July 16 to 22 - Atascadero News
Community Calendar July 16 to 22Atascadero News, Atascadero - 3 hours agoCriss Canaday of Paso Robles, will be featured reading her original poetry at Third Thursday Poets’ Night Out beginning 7 pm on Thursday, July 17 at St. ...
- Fantasy novel turns dreams into reality (Leader-Telegram)
Inspiration struck Cayla Kluver while helming the joystick of a Nintendo 64. "I was playing a video game, and I got sick of the video game's plot," Cayla said. "So I decided to write my own."
- EATING CONTEST (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
'Gurgitators' race Some call it gross. Some call it down-right ridiculous.
- Everyone has something to say - Austin Herald
Everyone has something to sayAustin Herald, MN - 1 hour agoI think my interest in poetry surfaced in sixth-grade in Miss Frost’s class when she asked that we illustrate a poem that included lines from the poet. ...
- The Oddest English Spellings, or, Thinking of O. With My ... - OUPblog
The Oddest English Spellings, or, Thinking of O. With My ...OUPblog, New York - 9 minutes agoToday love/move is a so-called rhyme to the eye—a fact of no importance, since rhyming poetry is all but dead. Old Engl. an “one” (with long a, ...
- Gestures of freedom - Financial Times
“Illustrious and unknown: this was what Degas aspired to be, and what Cy Twombly has become.” That’s how curator Kirk Varnedoe introduced Twombly to an ambivalent American audience at his retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in ...
- Big secrets - Age
Smooth operator ... Chris Noth has made a career out of playing alpha males. Chris Noth is not a morning man. he missed his first round-table at the press junket today. Yesterday was worse: according to one anxious publicist, he sat through a series ...
- St Alban’s in the full flower of life - This is Hampshire
IT grew up with Southampton's Flower Estate and now the 75th anniversary bells are ringing out loud and clear from St Alban's Church. Back in 1933 the church was built to serve a new parish with giant housing estates north and south of Burgess Road ...
- Washington hosts National Book Festival, Sept. 27 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival.
- Wordsinhere: Take five (and six - Expatica Netherlands
Expatica NetherlandsWordsinhere: Take five (and sixExpatica Netherlands, Netherlands - 19 minutes agoEditor Natasha Gunn rekindles a love of poetry and prose at the launch of wordsinhere's fifth volume of the international literary journal Versal, ...
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