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- Nigeria: Inside Kano's Ancient Gurasa Neighbourhood (AllAfrica.com)
Virtually every house in Jakara Quarters in the ancient city of Kano is a small factory of staple food known in Hausa as gurasa, but in English as pita and in Arabic Khubz. A visit to this area gives an insight as to how gurasa is manufactured and sold.
- The Myths of Red and Blue States - New York Times Blogs
Readers of this blog might be interested in a new book on electoral politics set to arrive in bookstores at the end of summer. Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State by Andrew Gelman — my colleague in Columbia University’s political ...
- Cleveland Orchestra welcomes top-notch guests - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Not one, but two significant Cleveland Orchestra debuts made Blossom Music Center the place to be over the weekend for the classically minded. Courtesy of the Cleveland Orchestra Lyndhurst native Orion Weiss was the poised soloist in Beethoven's ...
- Takalani Sesame Continues To Break Barriers With Fifth Season - Animation World Network
Takalani Sesame Continues To Break Barriers With Fifth SeasonAnimation World Network, CA - Aug 6, 2008Continuing on the literacy theme, this season welcomes some amazing local poets, using the power of words to get messages across. There's also a new animal ...
- DELECTABLE PIECES/Amanda Lenk - Wine, poetry and shrimp at Bar ... - Alexandria Times
DELECTABLE PIECES/Amanda Lenk - Wine, poetry and shrimp at Bar ...Alexandria Times, VA - 2 hours agoAnother man in an equally fabulous tie (“a dandy can never be a vulgar manâ€) introduced himself as a “friend of Uwe’s from law school. ...
- Series will feature slam poets, Pulitzer-winning novelist - U Of L News
Series will feature slam poets, Pulitzer-winning novelistU Of L News, KY - 1 minute agoIf you are proud enough of your poetry to perform it, the University of Louisville is offering a chance for you to show your stuff this fall as part of the ...
- David Archuleta's 'Crush' is surprisingly good! (Entertainment Weekly)
I was not a huge fan of David Archuleta during his tenure on American Idol's seventh season. Sure, as Randy Jackson reminded us (over and over and over), the kid could "sing the phone book," but frankly, a weekly rundown...
- Hunt for the write stuff - Berwick News
Berwick NewsHunt for the write stuffBerwick News, Australia - 7 hours agoThe three categories in the Fresh Words competition include creative writing, poetry and lyrics and English as a second language, for students who are ...
- Simon Fraser prof wins Griffin prize - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Simon Fraser prof wins Griffin prizeTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - Jun 8, 2008The English-language award hands out $50000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50000 to the best book of international poetry published last year. ...
- Guerrilla busking hits Bolton - This Is Bolton
A "GUERRILLA busking" event will form part of this year's Bolton Music Showcase. On July 19, musicians and poets will take to the streets of Bolton to entertain passers-by show just how much hidden talent there is in the town. The event, titled Say ...
- Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' - International Herald Tribune
Robert Macfarlane is looking for his wild in England, Ireland and Wales, territory that for most of us evokes words like "manicured," "turf" or, at the very least, "domesticated." His book about a series of pilgrimages to the moors, islands, lochs ...
- 2008 Olympics gilded with less than gold - Augusta Daily Gazette
2008 Olympics gilded with less than goldAugusta Daily Gazette, KS - Aug 7, 2008... Journalists Detained; China 'Guarantees' safe Games; 300000 surveillance cameras; Smog worries athletes; and American cyclists arrive in black masks. ...
- Nigeria: Nobel Prize Politics - Chinua Achebe, a Shameful Omission - Annie Gagiano (AllAfrica.com)
Annie Gagiano is a Professor of English at Stellen bosch University, South Africa.
- Slain daughter lives on in text messages to mother (New York Daily News)
A year after college student Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum was strangled, allegedly by an obsessive ex-boyfriend, her text messages are among the only records her mother has of her daughter's final days.
- Dance, laugh, learn, die - Globe and Mail
Dance, laugh, learn, dieGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoBut Jarman infuses each new episode with startling examples of life recorded in heavily stylized, idiomatic rhetoric. It's as if Jarman is saying he won't ...
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