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- Quincy's Cultural Festival - KHQA
Quincy's Cultural FestivalKHQA, IL - 1 hour agoThe display showcased African-American history from right here in the Tri-States and the United States. The African-American culture was highlighted because ...
- Grave Dispute Opens Wounds From Spanish Civil War (Fox News)
Relatives of those shot and killed along with poet Federico Garcia Lorca have petitioned to have their mass grave exhumed, despite the protestations from Lorca's family.
- Scanning the past - Surrey Leader
Scanning the pastSurrey Leader, Canada - 1 hour ago... Johnson specialized in 17th century poetry, and says you can learn more from an authentic document. “On the original stuff you can hold the book up and ...
- Education Newsmakers: 08/12/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
-- West Shore Medical Center recently presented four area high school seniors with scholarships of $500: Joshua Briggs, an Onekama High school graduate, who will be attending Grand Valley State University to study pre-medicine; Julia Kedrowski, a Manistee High School graduate who is attending Grand Valley State University to study nursing and hopes to become a nurse practitioner; Allyson Owens, ...
- San Diego datebook (San Diego Union-Tribune)
If you love big dogs, come out to Fiesta Island from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow for a special adoption event featuring more than 100 large breed dogs and puppies from 25 local shelters and rescue groups. The largest adoption event of its kind.
- New Recordings - Philadelphia Inquirer
New RecordingsPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 15 hours agoOther numbers show Southside to be an elegant balladeer while highlighting the classic songcraft behind Waits' gutter poetry. Waits gives his imprimatur to ...
- Picture books, babes and happy endings (Toronto Star)
To read Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Harcourt, 32 pages, $17.95, newborn to 2 years), written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, is to experience the perfect baby book. It has just what babies love: babies.
- Shaker of salt: Collector obsessed by tequila - Atlanta Journal Constitution
TEPOZTLAN, Mexico — Ricardo Ampudia cradles the bottle of tequila like a baby. It is, after all, a rare "presidential" tequila - a bottle commissioned by former Mexican leader Jose Lopez Portillo when he was elected in 1976. "It's exceptional ...
- CARRIE McCRAY NICKENS 1913-2008 (The State)
A storyteller with grit and grace By the time she was in her 70s, Carrie Allen McCray Nickens had already had a long and productive live. She had taught school and been a social worker, earned a master’s degree and was active in the civil rights moment. But she still had another career in her. At 73, she began writing seriously, and during the final two decades of her life published poetry and a ...
- WHAT'S ON - The Chronicle Herald
The D250 Rockin’ In the Free World Concert at Halifax’s Grand Parade today, 2 to 11:30 p.m., features Lone Cloud, Blueberry Grunt, Stephanie Hardy, Samantha Robichaud, Ill Scarlett, Jordan Croucher, Chad Hatcher, Theo Tams, Mitch MacDonald and ...
- Slow Food Nation celebrates good, clean and fair food - San Mateo County Times
THERE HAS hardly been a time in recent history when food has played so prominently on everyone's minds. It's in the news every day — food prices are rising, grain is being used to make fuel, rice is being hoarded. At the same time, sales of organic ...
- "A Map of the Night": Master poet sometimes loses his way in new collection (Seattle Times)
David Wagoner's new collection of poems, "A Map of the Night," feels like a summing-up by the author many consider the dean of Northwest poetry.
- Oates' latest novel a daring work of dark imagination (The Springfield News-Leader)
Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- POETRY IN MOTION: "Rosepetals" (York County Coast Star)
Rosepetals in a crystal jar
- Teens Flock To Open Mic Night At Auburn Library (WCSH 6 Portland)
AUBURN (NEWS CENTER) -- Music, poetry, comedy, these means of expression have been around for generations. The latest generation takes full advantage of these forms of entertainment at the Auburn Public Library. They have a teen open mic night and it has become quite a success.
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