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- Project Digitizes Works From the Golden Age of Timbuktu (New York Times)
A lode of books and manuscripts from Timbuktu is being digitized for the Internet and distributed to scholars worldwide.
- 'Globalisation is only for men' - Sify
'Globalisation is only for men'Sify, India - 45 minutes agoShe is one of the exponents of puthu kavithai, or neo-poetry, which harps on unconventional poems in Tamil. Kanimozhi, whom her father and Tamil Nadu Chief ...
- Returning to the Past and Finding the Bogeyman Is Still There (New York Times)
Determinedly unfunny, awkwardly histrionic and sometimes anything but credible, Augusten Burroughs?s new memoir repudiates everything that put him on the map.
- Barbie vs. Bratz heading to trial - 22 WSBT
Story Updated: May 24, 2008 at 12:51 PM EDT LOS ANGELES — Four years ago, Mattel Inc. exhorted its executives to help save Barbie from a new doll clique called the Bratz. "The House is on Fire!" said an internal presentation on the decline of its ...
- In Years Past - Post-Journal
In 1908, Thomas S. Divilbliss, who lived about one and one half miles from Lander, shot and killed his neighbor, Jacob Osserlee, a respected farmer who had resided in the neighborhood for about a year. After the shooting, Divilbliss held the ...
- East meets West in paint - PNW Local News
PNW Local NewsEast meets West in paintPNW Local News, WA - 6 hours agoThis enabled “Doorgan†to be used collaboratively with artists in other disciplines, such as music, poetry and dance. The installation was exhibited seven ...
- Gary R. Widger Jr. - Portsmouth Herald News
Gary R. Widger Jr.Portsmouth Herald News, NH - 1 hour agoWE REMEMBER: Gary enjoyed all facets of literature, especially writing, reading and discussing poetry. He also enjoyed music and spending time at the beach ...
- Prince turns to print - New Zealand Herald
Prince the musical auteur is becoming an author. 21 Nights, a photographic essay that offers "a rare glimpse into the life, lyrics, and mystique" of the maker of such hits as 1999 and Purple Rain, will be published worldwide this year, according to ...
- Finest of the fest Results from the 43rd Pacific Northwest Music ... - Terrace Standard
Terrace StandardFinest of the fest Results from the 43rd Pacific Northwest Music ...Terrace Standard, Canada - 1 hour agoCentennial Christian Grade 5 National Rent-A-Car Trophy and Award, ($50), Highest Mark Canadian Poetry. Chelsea Hartmann Terrace Little Theatre Trophy, ...
- Ben Zycher of the Manhattan Institute sends this: - National Review Online Blogs
Ben Zycher of the Manhattan Institute sends this:National Review Online Blogs, NY - 5 hours agoIt was a huge bronze statue of Stalin reading from a book of Pushkin's poetry. The express train is running from Warsaw to Legnica (site of a big Soviet ...
- Laureate attacks reading policies - BBC News
BBC NewsLaureate attacks reading policiesBBC News, UK - 3 hours agoIn December, he attacked the teaching of poetry, in an interview with the BBC News Website. He said the effect of Sats and the whole literacy strategy, ...School reading should be fun, says Children's Laureate ATL Education Newsall 2 news articles
- At Your library: 'We the People' now on shelves (The York Weekly)
Every year since 2002, the National Endowment for the Humanities has invited libraries across the country to apply for a "We the People" bookshelf grant. Recipients of the grant are given a collection of classic American books on a particular theme.
- Complete List of Nominees for 2008 Emmys (E! Online via Yahoo! News)
The pedigreed HBO miniseries John Adams nabbed a leading 23 nominations this morning for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys, followed by 30 Rock with 17 nominations and Mad Men with 16.
- At our best (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
(Published April 28) CHS students win folk music award Corvallis High School students Rebecca Lomnicky and Gary Breed were awarded the Corvallis Folklore Society Folk Music Award on April 17 at Local Folk!, the open-mic program of Corvallis Folklore Society and The Arts Center. The annual award is given to high school students who best exemplify the performance of music in the folk tradition.
- LitTO: May 13–21 - Torontoist
TorontoistLitTO: May 13–21Torontoist, Canada - 15 hours ago5:30 pm Free. The Art Bar Poetry Series presents Halli Villegas and Myna Wallin, aka Ms. Kitty and Miss Kitty, respectively. Clinton’s Tavern (693 Bloor ...
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