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- Wednesday, August 13 (Princeton Town Topics)
1 p.m.: Senior Resource Center screening of The Bucket List ; Suzanne Patterson Building. Free. 6 to 9 p.m.: Western singer Jet Weston; Fedora Café, Lawrenceville. Free.
- Klingon as a Second Language (Washington City Paper)
Vavoy! Vavoy!†The wild cries echo through the nearly empty Burger King, as 2-year-old Alec Speers calls out to his father, d’Armond, who sits wolfing down a Whopper at a table across the room.
- Risk, reward? - Woodland Daily Democrat
49ers rookie Josh Morgan was the second-leading receiver all-time at Virginia Tech, but wasn't drafted until the No. 174 pick. (John Green/San Mateo County Times) The 49ers have had more that their share of high-maintenance wide receivers. Terrell ...
- Hip-hop artist uses song to encourage youth voting - Inside Bay Area
OAKLAND — When Oakland rapper Yung Moses' father died 10 years ago, he turned his feelings of sadness and anger into poetry and music — instead of venting through violence. Moses, 20, is taking those same feelings of angst and translating them ...
- REGIONAL HAPPENINGS (Baxter Bulletin)
Here's a look at local and regional happenings.
- God is a Writer -- Dios es Escribo -- Writer’s Conference - HuntingtonNews.Net
Experience the Harlem Renaissance revisited and remixed southern style in the beautiful autumn hills of Huntington, WV. Chapter’s Advertising presents the first annual Dios Es Escribo (God is a Writer) Writer’s Conference held at the Pullman ...
- Solitude of Being - BlackNews.com (press release)
BlackNews.com (press release)Solitude of BeingBlackNews.com (press release), OH - 46 minutes ago... the Horizon, Howard University journal; the American Poetry Anthology; and Sisters, published by the National Council of Negro Women. ...
- Betrayal of boys: Why the male education crisis is far more complex and disturbing (Evening Standard)
Any parent will recognise Peter Smith's assessment of the boys he teaches at Hampton School in south-west London: 'Boys are like greyhounds. They love the chase and the race, and they don't care if the prize is a fake rabbit.'
- Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut) - Hartford Courant
One of two men who robbed two teenagers riding bicycles along Memorial Boulevard just before midnight was captured a short time later and officers are still trying to identify the other, police said. Investigators credit a man who was driving nearby ...
- Dava Malcolm: A 'tweaker's' tale - Chico Enterprise-Record
OROVILLE -- Dava Malcolm is an intelligent, creative, black-eyed, brown-haired, 20-year-old woman, with a vocabulary that would make a Marine drill instructor blush. But more than that she is a slave, a perpetrator, and, in a very real sense, a ...
- 'Thanks' to the Teacher That Changed a Life (ABC News)
Decades after a teacher's inspiration, a former student says "thank you."
- Poetic licence - guardian.co.uk
Poetic licenceguardian.co.uk, UK - 8 minutes agoSo is writing poetry. It has to be. I've observed that people who are too focused on being published tend not to get anywhere. If you have the urge to write ...
- Auntie Beeb and EM Forster - Times Online
Auntie Beeb and EM ForsterTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoForster the critic, however, preferred poetry to science. With literature, he wrote, “it is better to keep to metaphors, and to analogies with natural ...
- What good is the Bard to book-shunning boys? - Guardian Blogs
Yet again last week, the reading abilities of boys were up for discussion: "Sats results ... revealed a particular problem with boys' reading ability. One in five 14-year-old boys has a reading age below what's expected of an 11-year-old ." The Today ...
- Brian Wilson "That Lucky Old Sun": a new album - Westcoast Rendez-Vous
Westcoast Rendez-VousBrian Wilson "That Lucky Old Sun": a new albumWestcoast Rendez-Vous, France - 2 hours ago"A World of Peace Must Come", an album recorded by Brian Wilson in 1969 based on the poetry of Stephen John Kalinich, will finally have an official release ...
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