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- Mind aerobics fight dementia - ScienceAlert
Mind aerobics fight dementiaScienceAlert, Australia - Oct 20, 2008... “If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my ...
- Experience against youth on Costa shortlist - The Independent
A nonagenarian whose work is described as a biographical account of "sex, love and sore feet", as well as impending death, has been shortlisted for the Costa book awards. Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End has made it to the final few ...
- Transported by the art of Motion - guardian.co.uk
Transported by the art of Motionguardian.co.uk, UK - 7 minutes agoAndrew Motion has made this personal selection of autobiographical and critical writing from an astonishing 2000 pages of lectures, essays and reviews. ...
- Nigeria: Enter, Ramadan'bachelor Hunter' of Kano - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Enter, Ramadan'bachelor Hunter' of KanoAllAfrica.com, Washington - 9 hours agoHaka ma rana da yawa 'yan samari... the way the late Alhaji Sani Dankwairo sang his father's praise poetry. He was, many people believed, a chip off old ...
- Games start for cultural Olympics - BBC UK News
Events taking place this weekend include the North Wales Music Festival in St Asaph, a performance by Diversions Dance at Theatr Gwynedd in Bangor and a community project at Castell Harlech. The launch of the Cultural Olympiad at the millennium ...
- South Africa bids tearful farewell to ‘Mama Africa’ (Gulf Times)
JOHANNNESBURG: Hundreds of people paid their last respects yesterday to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba, whose death last weekend plunged South Africa into mourning.
- The public shouldn't have a say in choosing the laureate - Guardian Unlimited
The news that the public will be asked for their opinion when considering who will be the next poet laureate might have been welcomed by Andrew Motion himself, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. Of course, being laureate can have a ...
- Traveling ‘Fences’ Exhibit Now Displayed In Vermillion (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
VERMILLION — Is the old adage “good fences make good neighbors” accurate?
- Do You Think Kobe Bryant Already Has LeBron James' Home Address? - Bleacher Report
Bleacher ReportDo You Think Kobe Bryant Already Has LeBron James' Home Address?Bleacher Report, CA - 4 hours agoRemember that ridiculous commercial of him writing poetry or making an introspective entry in his journal or some such nonsense? Wow. ...
- Two pieces on the program - “Maxfield for painter Maxfield Parrish" and “The Music of Life" - are recent works by jazz ... (All About Jazz)
“He has garnered many awards, including the Guggenheim, and seems to put out a ground-breaking album every year, “ he said.
- At 'Home' With the Past - Washington Post
If you want to understand how different Marilynne Robinson is from other contemporary novelists -- how different, in fact, from most contemporary human beings -- all you need to do is walk into her dining room. "These are my favorite books in here ...
- Critics and public figures on the books they just couldn't put down (Guardian Unlimited)
You don't have to be a novelist to love good writing. For our Christmas special, we asked a mix of public figures, Observer critics and people on the street to tell us which books thrilled them most this year
- ’Lockerbie’ a lyrical look at life, loss, love (Naples Daily News)
The Naples Players plumbed the depths of grief and anger Wednesday night in a taut production of “The Women of Lockerbie,” a tragedy that takes a little too long to hit its stride but hammers the emotional buttons once it gets there. “Lockerbie,” which was written by Deborah Brevoort, explores the aftermath of the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am 103 over the village of Lockerbie, Scotland — ...
- Reports: Madonna and Ritchie to announce divorce - Grand Rapids Press
AP file photo Sept. 1 file photo, British director Guy Ritchie and his wife Madonna arrive for the world premiere of his film 'Rock n Rolla' in London. British newspapers said Wednesday that Madonna and Ritchie are splitting up. LONDON — Madonna ...
- Greece to mark anniversary of Byron's death - Reuters UK
Greece to mark anniversary of Byron's deathReuters UK, UK - Oct 17, 2008Byron was a celebrity during his own lifetime for his Romantic poetry and his support of revolutionary causes. He paid for the refitting of the Greek fleet ...
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