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- Elsie Von Maur receives musical farewell at memorial service - Quad City Times
Elsie Von Maur receives musical farewell at memorial serviceQuad City Times, IA - 43 minutes agoThe service features the talents of musicians from the Quad-City Symphony, an octet singing the choral portion, poetry and two works composed by her father, ...
- Midwest events - Chicago Tribune
Midwest eventsChicago Tribune, United States - 26 minutes agoAsparagus season is ushered in with games, dinners, poetry and cooking contests, wine tastings, a fun run and food vendors selling asparagus-based recipes ...
- The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, ed. Richard Dawkins (Independent)
Richard Dawkins's profile has morphed in recent years: from the most lucid science writer of our time, the man who makes his readers feel smarter than they really are, to the Chief Pastor of World Atheism Inc. Despite the astonishing sales of The God Delusion, there has been some loss. His new role has made his job of evolution's champion harder because the religious right in the US has always ...
- Arnold Green finds joy in his poetry (The Hooksett Banner)
BY SUSANNA HARGREAVES Just up the road from the Hooksett library is a popular family-run boat dealership called Green’s Marine Inc. With anticipation for summer, the store is filled with inquiring customers, ringing phones, boats, life preservers and paddles. Sitting behind a desk in a small cubicle is Hooksett resident and business owner Arnold Green, 81, who is happy to discuss of all ...
- Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian file - Independent
Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian fileIndependent, UK - 3 hours agoNot surprisingly, two other Erdrichs are writers – Lise, a children's author, and Heid, the author of three poetry collections. Erdrich has published three ...
- Who Is the Donna Reed of This Election? - Slate
It's no secret that Slate has actively cultivated a reputation for contrarianism . Our headline piece over the weekend, in which Jack Shafer took down the clichés of Slate 's "green journalism," raises our institutional antagonism to Whitmanesque ...
- Sorry division of Ulster-Scots - Belfast Telegraph
It is at times distressing to see how Ulster-Scots is being treated in Northern Ireland. As the founder of the modern Ullans movement, I have been disappointed by the setting up of two camps, one camp promoting Ulster-Scots merely for the province of ...
- Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou - Atlanta Daily World
Happy Birthday, Maya AngelouAtlanta Daily World, GA - 13 hours agoAngelou has written five memoirs, published volumes of poetry and crafted music, plays and screenplays. She's been in movies and on television, ...
- Kay Goldstein: Putting Life On Pause: 3 Mini-Meditations For People Who Don't Have Time To Meditate (HuffingtonPost)
Life is certainly not simple now, but we humans have gotten in the habit of making it more complicated. "Do more" is the message from...
- Madam Walker to Malcolm X at Annual African-Americana Sale - Maine Antique Digest
Madam Walker to Malcolm X at Annual African-Americana SaleMaine Antique Digest, ME - 1 hour agoInstead, there are hundreds of typescript pages of fiction, poetry, essays, and miscellaneous writings, as well as self-published pamphlets with topics such ...
- Lucille Clifton: An Evening of Poetry - PW-Philadelphia Weekly
PW-Philadelphia WeeklyLucille Clifton: An Evening of PoetryPW-Philadelphia Weekly, PA - 3 hours agoNo contest. (Steven Wells) Thurs., May 1, 8pm. $20. Bridge: Cinema de Lux, 40th and Walnut sts. 215.386.3300; Riverview Plaza, 1400 S. Columbus Blvd. ...
- Peter Ross: Key player who pulls out all the stops for musical double ... - Scotland on Sunday Online
LIKE the Wizard of Oz pulling levers behind the curtain or Charlie Chaplin beset by cogs in Modern Times, Gordon Frier sits at the pipe organ in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery, on a balcony 60 feet up, a tiny figure in a tartan jacket coaxing ...
- The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History by Hugh Trevor-Roper - Times Online
How the publishers of this remarkable volume must have hugged themselves when Wendy Alexander, the leader of the Scottish Labour party, recently thrust her hand into the hornets' nest of Scottish independence. On the face of it, a book on the history ...
- Quincy program helps kids know Chinese roots - Patriot Ledger
Sitting in a car, the black-haired girl with two pony tails ate french fries from McDonalds and played with an American Idol toy. “Let’s do some Chinese reading today, Margo,†said her mother, Becky Butler. Upon hearing the plan, Margo was ...
- National Poetry Month - Houston Chronicle
My friend Michael and I are walking home arguing about the movie. He says that he believes a person can love someone and still be able to murder that person. I say, No, that's not love. That's attachment. Michael says, No, that's love. You can love ...
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