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- Polymeme Diversifies the Echo Chamber - MediaShift Idea Lab
Polymeme Diversifies the Echo ChamberMediaShift Idea Lab, CA - 11 hours agoOf course, there are plenty of other notable and interesting conversations taking place online (among them: the ethics of for-profit fundraisers, ...
- He's 'soul of the country' - The Gazette (Montreal)
He's 'soul of the country'The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - Aug 9, 2008He's there because he lost his job and house in Johannesburg and is trying to start a new life. He wrote a volume of poetry two decades earlier and now, ...
- The minds behind Girlspeak - The Windy Citizen
The minds behind GirlspeakThe Windy Citizen, IL - 43 minutes ago"It's okay to scare people, but then educate them," said Melissa Jordan, a senior at North Side College Prep, adding that the poems were too teen-angsty and ...
- Martin Atkins: Teaching Bands To Tour Smart - NPR News
Since writing Tour: Smart, Martin Atkins has traveled the country teaching aspiring musicians and bands the basics of how to have a successful tour. All Things Considered , July 6, 2008 - Drummer Martin Atkins spent the 1980s and 90s performing and ...
- Does This Make Me Look Old? - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Does This Make Me Look Old?Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 31 minutes agoThat's why healthy academic retirees often go into something new: spying, drumming, tutoring, poetry writing, hectoring the powerful. You're never too old, ...
- Morning update: A foggy start (Quad-City Times)
Good morning, Quad-Cities. At 6 a.m. it’s 69 degrees with fog in the Quad-Cities. The National Weather Service is warning that fog will linger until about 9 a.m. this morning with reduced visibilities of a quarter mile at times. The fog most likely will be dense in river valleys and other low-lying areas.
- Glances at Undervalued Classics: Waking The Dead (2000) - Amplifier
Glances at Undervalued Classics: Waking The Dead (2000)Amplifier, KY - 57 minutes agoThis isn’ta work that ever panders…compared to most productions from the decade it is like an exceptional piece of poetry that has a rhyme that needs to be ...
- Teen Poetry Slam - Myhighplains.com
Teens are competing Monday night in "Slamarillo". It's a teen poetry slam. The Yellow City Teen Poetry Team performed before they head off to Washington, D.C. this week. It was free for anyone to join in
- James Joyce family portraits restored at Buffalo State - Buffalo News
Buffalo State College art conservation graduate student Katrina Bartlett explains her work on portraits of author James Joyce and his wife. Nine family portraits that belonged to James Joyce, including two of the literary giant himself, have been ...
- London: multicultural celebration at Sion Manning School - Independent Catholic News
London: multicultural celebration at Sion Manning SchoolIndependent Catholic News, UK - 1 hour agoThere are over 60 nationalities, so this year we had beautiful costumes, dances, poetry and songs from Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, ...
- The foibles that make us all human - Mail & Guardian Online
The foibles that make us all humanMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 1 hour agoWhen the guy, Bester, a cowboy-like type with his moustache, cocksure swagger and sliminess, enters the scene, she's already quite deep in her cups; ...
- Raymond C. Olson - Post-Journal
Raymond C. Olson, 72, of 100 Elam Ave., died at 2:41 a.m.Tuesday (July 29, 2008) in WCA Hospital. He was born July 3, 1936 in New York City, the son of Harold G. and Anna T. Pajacs Olson. A 1954 graduate of Jamestown High School, he served in the U.S ...
- The 10 greatest golfers ever (The Observer)
1. JACK NICKLAUS (USA) Won 18 majors between 1962 and 1986 After winning the 1962 US Open at the age of 22 in a play-off with Arnold Palmer, the Golden Bear amassed 18 majors, surpassing the combined total of his great rivals - Palmer and Gary Player - throughout the next two decades.
- poets speak their minds - Joburg
poets speak their mindsJoburg, South Africa - 16 minutes agoPoets from Zimbabwe, Angola and Kenya will represent the rest of the African continent. Zimbabwe's Underground MC, a social activist and spoken word poet; ...
- Here the Birds’ Journey Ends - New Yorker
Here the Birds’ Journey EndsNew Yorker, United States - 5 hours agoMahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), the Palestinian poet, who died this month, was the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry in Arabic. ...
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