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- Taking Life With A Spoonful Of Sugar - The Bulletin
Her voice is as crisp and cool as a fresh breeze. Even at the other end of a telephone line, Julie Andrews comes across as gracious, elegant and unfailingly polite. Ms. Andrews (one would never call her just "Julie") has just finished a photo session ...
- The eye of the storm - Brisbane Times
The eye of the stormBrisbane Times, Australia - 2 hours agoIn July, she released an album performance of her long poem The Coral Sea in collaboration with guitarist Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine. ...
- NAMES AND FACES: Heigl forgiven, but Izzy may suffer (Detroit Free Press)
Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl, 29, withdrew herself from Emmy contention, saying that she didn't feel she was "given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination," but show creator Shonda Rhimes says there are no hard feelings.
- Sex and drugs and blank verse (Hindustan Times)
The Genealogy of the Beats goes right back to the Romantics, with their "falling and dying" and funereal odes to creatures with wings.
- Italian singer adds new facet to Rabindra Sangeet (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's music transcends geography and culture. For Italian singer Francesca Cassio, a blue-blooded Roman, it is both a passion and vocation.
- Ft. Benton hosts poetry event (KPAX Missoula)
Cowboys and ranchers from all over the state are gathering in Fort Benton to read some poetry.
- Civic activities (Redding Pilot)
Over the years Ms. Ensor has served on various civic boards, including the Redding Land Trust’s almost since its founding. “I would have been a founder except that I was a reporter for The News-Times reporting on it, and so I couldn’t be a part of it,” she explained.
- Books-a-gazillion - Creative Loafing
Books-a-gazillionCreative Loafing, NC - 31 minutes agoAfrican-American poetry will be celebrated; kids, and children's book fans, have a couple of events tailored to their tastes; and Armistead Maupin, ...
- The great seducers - Independent
The great seducersIndependent, UK - 13 minutes agoHe was a radical MP, journalist and later Lord Mayor of London who wrote pornographic poetry. And he was described as the ugliest man in England. ...
- Schedules loaded with fall programs for kids, teens (The Chelsea Standard)
The McKune Memorial Library has a full schedule of programs for the fall that are designed to appeal especially to children and teenagers. "I'm very excited about our new programs for this fall, especially our "afterschool specials," said Karen Persello, director of Youth and Teen Services.
- Overheard, out and about, Mrs. Grundy sees all, tells all - Andalusia Star-News
Overheard, out and about, Mrs. Grundy sees all, tells allAndalusia Star-News, AL - 58 minutes agoThe Portly Gentleman, who dabbles in poetry and thinks himself a man of letters, attended a poetry workshop July 25 at the Confederate Memorial Park at ...
- Nutter Announces New BenePhilly Program - The Bulletin
Philadelphia - Mayor Michael A. Nutter's signature will appear at the bottom of more than 60,000 letters mailed out to local senior citizens, urging them to enroll in a new program announced from City Hall yesterday. A partnership with city and state ...
- Thomas Sutcliffe: Do these bigots think their daughters are tarts ... - Independent
Thomas Sutcliffe: Do these bigots think their daughters are tarts ...Independent, UK - 16 minutes agoThe Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, the largest examinations board in England, has been mocked for its decision to remove a poetry anthology from ...
- Move Aside, Batman - Egypt Today
On e might say cartoons and Islam have a rather testy relationship. In early 2006, the Muslim world erupted in protest when Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten printed cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in less-than-flattering caricatures ...
- Poetry review: Armitage maintains colloquialism (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid By Simon Armitage Knopf; 64 pages; $25 Simon Armitage's latest poetry collection, "Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid," winds down with a touch of bravado, publishing a penultimate verse that is, at first,...
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