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- Darwish laid to rest in Ramallah - Al Jazeera
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, regarded as the voice of the Palestinian people and chronicler of their suffering following the creation of Israel, has been buried in Ramallah. Journalist Rachel Shabi attended the funeral and spoke to Palestinians ...
- A Clearfield debut piece for Orchestra's Camden visit (Philadelphia Daily News)
Composer Andrea Clearfield's catalog of works has often been inspired by women's issues and poetry. So when Philadelphia Orchestra's animateur Thomas Cabaniss asked if she was interested in writing a piece based on some heartfelt verses by local women, the answer was yes.
- Gaia Online Completes $11 Million Series C Funding (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teens, today announced an $11 million Series C round of venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners . At a time when eMarketer is predicting the number of teen internet users visiting virtual worlds will jump from the reported 8.2 million users in 2007 to 20 million in 2011, Gaia Online is dedicated to bringing this growing ...
- French dances, global culture - Inquirer.net
French dances, global cultureInquirer.net, Philippines - 4 hours agoIn sketchily mundane skits, eight performers in everyday wear infused hip-hop, classical ballet, African and street dance with sound poetry and moved in ...
- Norman Spinrad's top 10 novels - guardian.co.uk
Norman Spinrad's top 10 novelsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoHis Golem 100 is even more radical, combining prose,poetry, collage, musical score, illustration, but it's not as successful on a narrative level. 6. ...
- Plant enlivens gardens, meadows - Times and Transcript
Plant enlivens gardens, meadowsTimes and Transcript, Canada - 2 hours agoTry some yoga, tai-chi, Qigong, have a massage, take a horse-drawn wagon ride up the fields to poetry readings. Enjoy brunch on the verandah. ...
- Culture update - Daily Telegraph
Things are going from bad to worse,/ Our stages flooded with dodgy verse./ It's really getting up my nose,/ Please let's return to decent prose. Preposterous tosh: Fram is a rhymed epic about a Scandanavian polar explorer I'm sorry to sound a ...
- Move over, Beijing! Chicago's ready for our Olympic close-up - Examiner.com
Examiner.comMove over, Beijing! Chicago's ready for our Olympic close-upExaminer.com - 8 hours agoThe video then turns the topic over to athletics, referencing how much Chicagoans love sports and how on any given day you'll find us "running, ...
- Wake Forest students celebrate Chinese Moon Festival (Wake Forest University News Service)
Wake Forest University will celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival, the second largest holiday in Chinese culture, from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. Sept. 13 in the Green Room of Reynolda Hall.
- Tara's love story to the letter (Daily Telegraph)
WHILE glamorous best-seller Tara Moss has won notoriety from penning a series of crime novels, she's dabbling in a little romance on the side - with a poet, no less.
- Review: 'Waltzing' heartfelt, poignant (The Wichita Eagle)
"Waltzing in Heaven," an original bluegrass/country musical built around the 1970 plane crash that killed half the Wichita State football team, isn't a big, flashy show with glossy production values and instant musical hit after hit. But it is a pleasant and poignant tale with hummable, approachable music -- from polka to waltz to ballad by composer Rick Lopez -- about everyday down-home ...
- Lunch & laurels - Amherst Bulletin
Lunch & laurelsAmherst Bulletin, MA - 41 minutes agoThe 55-page festschrift, titled "Lay This Laurel," from a version of the poem Dickinson sent to Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1877 in remembrance of her ...
- Artist opens first solo show at Vienna - Lafayette Journal and Courier
Brandon Bass has rubbed elbows with the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Terrence Howard and Robert Downey Jr. That was when he was an aspiring actor and model in Las Vegas. Bass landed featured extra parts in "Oceans 13" and "Iron Man." Bass, a ...
- Eminem's Mom Tells Her Side Of The Story In New Memoir - MTV.com
Eminem's Mom Tells Her Side Of The Story In New MemoirMTV.com - 6 minutes agoTheir home was full of music that the future MC would often mimic while watching himself in a mirror, and he filled notebooks with poetry and superhero ...
- Identity Search | For local venues, when one door closes, another opens (Urban Tulsa)
This last week in July sees one cherished venue close, and another open. On July 18, Jeff Richardson threw the Continental's farewell party, two weeks before it closes to the public in preparation for renovations that will eventually convert the room into an extension of McNellie's. It was a fairl... By Josh Kline.
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