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- Obituaries for Sunday, May 25, 2008 (Carroll County Online)
Barrow, Evelyn A. Baughman, Clarence E. Sr. Bryson, David B. Farver, Erinn E. Klarman, Louise E. Petras, Carmela C. Wedderien, Kimberly L. Evelyn Amelia Barrow, 88, of Sykesville died Friday, May 23, 2008, at Copper Ridge in Sykesville.
- Night goggles - San Diego CityBEAT
Night gogglesSan Diego CityBEAT, CA - 4 hours agoIt’s official: For the first time since 2002, San Diego is sending a team of hard-hitting, word-slinging, bad-ass performance poets to the National Poetry ...
- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- Mary Peccolo; original owner of Blue Door Bookstore, arts supporter (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Hillcrest wasn't Hillcrest yet when Mary Peccolo and her husband opened the Blue Door Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in 1961. The tiny shop came to be known as a literary center for Bohemians, intellectuals, artists and activists.
- Faith Calendar (The Warren Reporter)
SATURDAY, May 17 A Spring Recital featuring Linda Gill, will be held 4 p.m., directed by Robert Jelks, on behalf of the William and Martha Jelks Scholarship Fund, at Hillcrest Seventh-day Adventist Church, Route 57, Washington. A free-will offering will be taken to benefit scholarship fund.
- Poet Edward Hirsch - Westerly Sun
Hirsch will read from his just-published new book of poems, Special Orders . Hirsch’s six previous books of poems won many prestigious prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Delmore Schwarz Award, and the Lavan Younger Poets ...
- Denver's homeless play inspiring role (Rocky Mountain News)
Real homeless people - drug users, prostitutes, fathers, children - told their stories to Steve Sapp, his wife, Mildred Ruiz and director Dee Covington for Curious Theatre Company-commissioned The Denver Project.
- more stories (Gay Wired)
This gay week, teen queen Miley Cyrus sheds her inhibitions and then regrets it; the Greek Isle of Lesbos hates lesbians; Harvey Fierstein refuses to play gay for Adam Sandler ; a Memphis school board gets in trouble for outing a gay couple; Janet Jackson is honored with a GLAAD award; gay escort murderers Joseph Kerekes and Harlow Cuadra get sued and As the World Turns defends gay kiss between ...
- Margaret Atwood awarded Asturias prize - Euroresidentes
Margaret Atwood awarded Asturias prizeEuroresidentes, Spain - 7 hours ago... Galeano (Urugay), Haruki Murakami (Japan), the poet Alà Ahmad Said (Albania), Ko Un (Korea), Antonio Tabucchi (Italy) and Richard Ford (American). ...
- Worst-ever poetry to equal Harry Potter sales - Daily Telegraph
Because more than a century after his death a collection of poems by the Scot is set to reach up to £6,500 at auction. That would put him in the same league as first edition copies of Harry Potter books signed by author JK Rowling. Nicknamed 'The ...
- Break to Close School on Massacre Anniversary (R News)
Monroe County school administrators say they're taking no chances when it comes to planning next year's spring break vacation. A committee of educators planned the 2009 spring break around April 20. The date will mark 10 years since the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado.
- U.P. centennial literary awards winners announced - ABS-CBN
The U.P. Institute of Creative Writing has announced the winners of the Gawad Likhaan: U.P. Centennial Literary Awards. In the English division, the winners are: Jose Marte A. Abueg (poetry, for his collection, “ Bird Lands , River Nights and Other ...
- CHOP Given $15M For New Care Center - The Bulletin
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will be opening a new pediatric care center in Norristown thanks to a $15 million gift from Athena and Nicholas Karabots of Fort Washington. The new Karabots Pediatric Care Center will give families in-and ...
- 'Sleeping It Off in Rapid City' by August Kleinzahler (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
August Kleinzahler fam-ously began one of his essays with this bit of sly revelation, "It was the dog who raised me." ...
- City seeks to honor Griffin with a party — or several - Buffalo News
Jimmy Griffin loved a good party, and Common Council members think they’ve found the perfect way to honor the late mayor, who held Buffalo’s top office for a record-shattering 16 years. A bill, championed by a majority of lawmakers, that would ...
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