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- Library celebrates freedom of speech (Newport News-Times)
Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager forced into hiding during the Holocaust, spent 25 months during World War II secreted away above an Amsterdam office. When she, and others hiding with her, were betrayed to the Nazis, they were arrested and deported to concentration camps.
- Arts in brief - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
Arts in briefMid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - 1 hour ago... his music reflects his humble beginnings in India and his love of poetry. Admission to the concert is $5. Kids 12 and younger are free. ...
- Singer Cave to present Turner Prize - Croydon Guardian
Nick Cave, frontman of the Bad Seeds, will announce the winner of this year's Turner Prize. The singer-songwriter follows in the footsteps of Madonna, Yoko Ono and actor and director Dennis Hopper in presenting the controversial contemporary art ...
- Curtain soon to fall on the Press Gang - North Norfolk News
Curtain soon to fall on the Press GangNorth Norfolk News, UK - Oct 10, 2008But the Press Gang's timeless mix of humour, music, poetry, prose and wry observation on country life has rocked village halls with laughter and applause. ...
- Bates Wells holds poetry day breakfast - Lawyer Online
London charity specialist Bates Wells & Braithwaite has hosted a poetry breakfast with Cornish poet Sally Crabtree in advance celebration of National Poetry Day today. Co-hosted with Scandinavian bank SEB in the canteen the two businesses share, the ...
- Minority Male Leadership Academy kicks off Nov. 21 (Asheville Citizen-Times)
ASHEVILLE – Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College will officiallly kick off its Minority Male Leadership Academy with a public meeting at 4 p.m. Nov. 21 in the College’s Simpson Building lecture room on the Asheville campus.
- City Book Fair wants to put burgeoning literary community on the same page (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Buenos Aires had Borges. St. Petersburg had Pushkin. And Nabokov. And Akhmatova. And Brodsky. Not to mention Dostoevsky. (Ah, the Russians!) Even petite Newburyport, Mass., population 17,000, draws thousands of tourists and over 60 authors to its annual literary festival. What about San Diego?
- American Buffalo - Variety
VarietyAmerican BuffaloVariety, CA - 3 hours agoWhen "American Buffalo" is done right, the profane poetry of David Mamet's dialogue can be bracing and the sad desperation of its three minor-league crooks ...
- Scottsdale briefs: Singing cowboy returns to Old Town - East Valley Tribune
Singing cowboy Gary Sprague, and his horse Dusty return to Old Town Scottsdale on Saturday to serenade visitors with Western classic songs, cowboy poetry and local folklore, city officials announced. Sprague is in his 19th year in the Valley; his ...
- Nigeria: Justice Isaac Ejiofor (1949-2008) - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Justice Isaac Ejiofor (1949-2008)AllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour agoMy friend, Barrister Ahmed Miawada, was going to give a public reading from his new collection of poetry, Fossils, (Hybun Publications, 2008). ...
- Oxford don trips badly on 'Dreams' analysis - WND.com
Oxford don trips badly on 'Dreams' analysisWND.com, OR - 29 minutes agoHe tells readers that they "will be pleased to discover that the probable next leader of the free world did not get his impressive first book written by ...
- Nickole Brown - Publishers Weekly
Nickole BrownPublishers Weekly, NY - 3 hours agoFrom her desk at Sarabande's office in Louisville, Ky., Brown, 34, has spread the word about Sarabande's poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction titles for ...
- Bin Laden a poet? - Economic Times
LONDON: Osama bin Laden was once a "skilled poet", a media report said on Sunday revealing a new facet of the world's most wanted terrorist. The elusive al-Qaeda leader's literary work will be published soon by an Oxford-educated academic expert in ...
- First and only paraplegic hot air balloon pilot uplifts (Standard-Examiner)
KAYSVILLE -- It's no surprise that the main attention grabber Thursday morning at Kaysville Elementary was the fully inflated, rainbow-colored hot air balloon on the school grounds.
- I Spy a Prize - Rake
I Spy a PrizeRake, MN - 4 hours agoNonfiction, poetry, and young adult shortlists can all be found here. What else? Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday. ...
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