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- Ashlee Simpson-Wentz cancels tour, including Cleveland concert - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has called off her tour, including a stop June 11 at the House of Blues in Cleveland. Ticket refunds are available at point of purchase. The pop singer married Fall Out Boy 's Pete Wentz in May. Last week, Wentz announced they're ...
- Film Capsules - Before the Rain - VUE Weekly
Film Capsules - Before the RainVUE Weekly, Canada - 1 hour agoAn Orthodox Christian monk (Grégoire Colin) hides an Albanian teenager accused of killing a local shepherd. A London photo agent (the late Katrin Cartlidge) ...
- The laureate of all Arabs - Guardian Unlimited
None of us really thought he'd die. Our loss is great, we tell each other. In our minds we think of Edward Said, of Haider Abdel-Shafi, of Faisal Husseini, and even - yes - of Yasser Arafat. The "big men" of Palestine. And now, Mahmoud Darwish. He ...
- Poems spoke to Palestinians - Chicago Tribune
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more than 20 ...
- Chris Treadway Community Column: San Pablo church, nonprofit pitch ... - Contra Costa Times
Chris Treadway Community Column: San Pablo church, nonprofit pitch ...Contra Costa Times, CA - 3 hours agoWinkelstein booked children's shows, established monthly poetry reading and writing programs and started the brown bag speaker's forum at the library, ...
- Exhibit a testament to city's visual-arts scene (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The exhibition "Pittsburgh Now" at SPACE, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's largest Downtown gallery, is a tidy showing of works by mature Pittsburgh-area artists.
- Andrew Turnbull's Great Fitzgerald - Washington Post
Enlarge Photo An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. The glamorous, accomplished and tragic life of F. Scott Fitzgerald has lost none of its appeal to readers, and hence to ...
- NW Arkansas today - NW Arkansas Times
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Health care is going to be a crisis if they don’t get people into taking care of themselves and being independent longer.” Keri Wilkinson, Rogers Adult Wellness Center director Article, 1 B Today’s meetings Fayetteville ...
- Who's Townshend slams iTunes as 'heartless' - PC Advisor
“Artists can no longer sell the products of their genius because the internet supplies it virtually for free. What can be sold is that genius in the flesh,” Jenkins thrills. “The money is now being made in supplying a public craving not for ...
- Piano Students Perform For Hundreds In Houston - Tyler Morning Telegraph
The elementary ensemble played “Changing Places,” by Edna Mae Burnham at the Texas Music Teacher’s Association Convention at the Houston Hyatt Regency Hotel in June. They are (back row, from left) Lacie Randolph, Kara Kucskowski, Ian Finlay ...
- Meet Singer-Songwriter Aimee Mann and Acclaimed Author Joseph O ... - Business Wire (press release)
Meet Singer-Songwriter Aimee Mann and Acclaimed Author Joseph O ...Business Wire (press release), CA - 13 hours agoWith a songcraft often compared with the Beatles and Badfinger, Mann frequently pairs the bleakest of poetry with soaring, infectious melodies. ...
- Letters for July 21, 2008 - Oneonta Daily Star
Letters for July 21, 2008Oneonta Daily Star, NY - 5 hours agoMark Twain wrote not only poetry and short stories, he addressed politics, racism, humanitarianism, capitalism and many other issues that faced the ordinary ...
- Late Benazir’s 55th birthday celebrations (The Pakistan Link)
KARACHI: As a mark of respect and in recognition of her unparalleled services for the country, the government is celebrating the 55th birth anniversary of Benazir Bhutto with simplicity at official level across the country today (Saturday).
- Other events (The Hazleton Standard-Speaker)
Today and Saturday – “Walk-Talk-Taste Tour,” a tour of historic Jim Thorpe, featuring a free gift card and free coupons, every Saturday and Sunday until fall; cost, $10; (267) 519-1599 or mair@ptd.net or www.walktalktaste.com; reservations suggested.
- Racist Media Whore Designer Says Dumb Things All By Himself [Fools] (Gawker)
We dislike giving any unnecessary PR to [bad designer], the L.E.S. twit who duped the free NYC paper Metro into putting him on its cover for a racist publicity stunt about a (probably nonexistent)...
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