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- Blues Traveler drummer beat parental deadline for his big break - Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Parents, take heed: Sometimes a kid who aspires to make his living in a band does it. And sometimes he's still doing it 20 years later. Blues Traveler is set to play at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Brendan Hill understood his own parents ...
- Pros and cons of 'The Great Debaters' - Baltimore Sun
(B-) An optimistic movie set during the Great Depression, the fact-based The Great Debaters coarsens its inspirational story and powerful history with movie devices that date to the 1930s. Director Denzel Washington uses the cliffhanging climaxes and ...
- Quiet life of accused mass murderer Radovan Karadzic - News.com.au
RADOVAN Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, lived for years in a Belgrade suburb posing as a bearded doctor of alternative medicine. Pictures given to Reuters by people who knew him as his alter ego show his face, ruddy in his heyday as the ...
- TW: Viggo Mortensen (RainbowNetwork.com)
Viggo Mortensen is an all-round artistic phenomenon. He might be best known for playing Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but he’s also a professional photographer, jazz musician, painter and poet – and he’ll do just about anything to get hold of your ring.
- Teaching job draws local woman to China - Pueblo Chieftain
Teaching job draws local woman to ChinaPueblo Chieftain, CO - Jul 29, 2008Students follow a schedule that's similar to their American counterparts - 8 am to 3:15 pm The school term starts at the beginning of September and runs ...
- Hundreds march for knife victim Darren, 14 - guardian.co.uk
BBC NewsHundreds march for knife victim Darren, 14guardian.co.uk, UK - 37 minutes agoThe demonstration was organised by family and friends of teenager Darren Pyper who was fatally stabbed in an argument at a party last September. ...Thousands expected at knife march BBC Newsall 18 news articles
- Beijing 2008 - Day Six Summary - 20 Aug - International Association of Athletics Foundation
Telegraph.co.ukBeijing 2008 - Day Six Summary - 20 AugInternational Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 9 hours agoWe'll dispense with the poetry, or at least try: Usain Bolt's 100m World Record was only four days old. He was relaxed and joking in the blocks for the race ...Video: Olympics '08: Bolt Wins 200, Gets Sprint Double AssociatedPressall 2,908 news articles
- Spenard fling generates cash for art project (Anchorage Daily News)
Luck, fate or the rain gods took mercy on revelers Saturday night at the ninth annual Spenard neighborhood barbecue at Sheila Wyne's studio. The downpour stopped at 4 p.m., just as the party started, and by the end of the night, the trebuchet had lobbed more than 25 melons and the crowd had contributed enough money to generate more than $1,400 toward Wyne's Homer art project.
- Should Darwish's poetry be taught in schools? - Jerusalem Post
Should Darwish's poetry be taught in schools?Jerusalem Post, Israel - Aug 10, 2008I am afraid [teaching his poetry] would arouse sentiments against Zionism, Judaism and the country," said Orlev, also the former chair of the Knesset ...
- The Dark Before The Dawn Will Warm Your Heart -- New Poetry Book ... - StreetInsider.com (subscription)
The Dark Before The Dawn Will Warm Your Heart -- New Poetry Book ...StreetInsider.com (subscription), MI - Aug 6, 2008With the release of his new book The Dark Before The Dawn, Robinson emphasizes the many meanings and expressions of love through the art of poetry. ...
- 3 heavy-metal bands coming to town (The Arizona Republic)
Judas Priest, Heaven & Hell (a k a Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio) and Motorhead perform Thursday.
- Poet/essayist will give reading at UMF - Sun-Journal
FARMINGTON - Award-winning nonfiction writer, poet and essayist Richard Hoffman will be the second reader in the University of Maine at Farmington's 2008-09 Visiting Writers Series. Hoffman will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in ...
- Dennis Douda - WCCO
Dennis Douda, an anchor and reporter for WCCO-TV, joined the staff in 1998. He has won multiple Regional Emmys for his anchoring, writing and reporting. Among his many duties, Dennis is WCCO-TV's medical reporter, leading the Lifeline health news ...
- Art that flows - Northwest Explorer
Wendy Burroughs knows two types of desert kids. “On one side, there are kids who have not spent much time outdoors, and they tend to come up with a lot of imagery that is the sensationalized image of the desert – hot, dry, parched dying-of-thirst ...
- Worldly wise Biden full of candor, zeal - Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON -- Few people know the world like Joe Biden. The 65-year-old chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee returned recently from a visit to the Republic of Georgia to assess the Russian invasion there. He has visited Iraq more than ...
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