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- Recently married lesbian activist dies - Chicago Sun-Times
SAN FRANCISCO---- Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day that California's same-sex couples gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the ...
- Letters (Washington Post)
In two of her recent Poet's Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. In the June 8 issue of Book World, she states that "William Matthews beat brain cancer" before submitting to a heart attack in 1997. It was Matthews's wife, Patricia, who beat brain cancer. Two of...
- Jeremy Paxman Interrogates The Victorians - Waveguide
Jeremy Paxman is to present a new BBC One series about his “first loveâ€, Victorian art and culture. In the four-part series, Paxman will use Victorian art to dispel the impression of 19th-century society as buttoned up and overly moralistic ...
- 1 pm - Sinangan-ta poetry slam tomorrow night - Pacific Daily News
1 pm - Sinangan-ta poetry slam tomorrow nightPacific Daily News, GU - 31 minutes agoDoors open at 6 pm with performances beginning around 7 pm Entrance is $5 for those 18 and over and includes one drink. Anyone 17 and under gets in for free ...
- Our picks for this week's top events (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Marengo Cave in Southern Indiana will celebrate the 125th anniversary of its discovery tomorrow. Also this week: Louisville Improvisors improvise; Jazz Record Collectors hold meeting; Rudyard Kipling hosts "Homegrown," a double-nighter of local drama, music, poetry and comedy; and more.
- SAC's arts village will be hopping at Northern Lights - Sudbury Star
SAC's arts village will be hopping at Northern LightsSudbury Star, Canada - 14 hours agoSmith will be reading some poetry and short stories from "Tag Alder Tales." Monique Chenier will be reading from "Remembering Medusa Remembering," her new ...
- A Poet and Patriot: Chris Matthews (1946-2008) - SantaCruz.com
A Poet and Patriot: Chris Matthews (1946-2008)SantaCruz.com, CA - 19 hours agoMatthews arrived in Santa Cruz County in 1973, and he immediately immersed himself in the local political and poetry scenes (Night Owl Press published a ...
- Authors get rock-star treatment at Brazil festival (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
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- Education Ministry to ban 'Bible Lite' study booklet (Haaretz Daily)
The Education Ministry is to ban Bible aid booklets that help elementary and junior high school students by "translating" the text into simple Hebrew. Private publishers defend the booklets by arguing that biblical Hebrew is a foreign tongue to young Israelis.
- Tiny Talents (New York Times)
Instruction, especially in trivial skills, is one of the Web?s great giveaways.
- Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry Slam - Huffington Post
Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry SlamHuffington Post, NY - 23 minutes agoThe National Poetry Slam--or so-called "Superbowl of spoken word"-- took place in Madison, Wisconsin this past week. The event featured more than 75 teams ...
- Night Life - New Yorker
New YorkerNight LifeNew Yorker, United States - 1 hour agoJuly 18: Brazzaville is led by the guitarist and singer David Brown, an old friend and sideman of Beck’s. The group started out in the Los Angeles ...
- You don’t mess with the racism (Online Journal)
I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song , the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But damn you, Scuba Steve!
- Poetry like a prayer (The Norman Transcript)
Jim Chastain — father, husband, friend, writer, poet, movie critic, attorney, cancer patient — has found a whole new universe of friends and fans as he’s dealt with his illness and reached out to those close and not so close with his creative talents, whether or not he meant to.
- Right now, his art is an open book - San Diego Union-Tribune
He's made 12 books thus far and continues to embrace the form. “Coverage†is a different type of work. It's a cross between poetry and conceptual art, and it's made to be mailed – in installments. He just had hhis first solo exhibition in a ...
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