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- Mark Steel: Life begins at forty* - The Independent
I've always been suspicious of the lifestyle crisis. One of my first jokes when I began as a stand-up comic was about how a "mid-life crisis" was only possible if you were comfortable enough to afford one, because you couldn't imagine a peasant in ...
- a smart, rather vain man - BBC News
BBC Newsa smart, rather vain manBBC News, UK - 50 minutes agoHe would insist on reading me poetry, his poetry. He was a known poet." His poetry, however, was in Serbo-Croat, which Ms Adie did not speak, "so I'm afraid ...
- Facebook is "educational", says US uni - Silicon.com
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build beneficial technological, creative and ...
- SF Chronicle Political Writer Enthuses Over Cosmetic JFK/Obama ... - News Busters
Did you know that John F. Kennedy had a whole bunch of pets and now Barack Obama is planning on getting a pet dog too? JFK gave a speech in Berlin and now Obama is preparing to do the same. JFK also spoke at a stadium during the 1960 Democrat ...
- Poetry comes alive at the Bean Cycle | By Alexandra Bartz Loveland Reporter-Herald (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Poets month after month willingly strut their shaky hands, slipped-up syllables and stumbled-over sentences in front of strangers; slam poetry can be far from pretty, perfect or profound. Yet, it’s this imperfection that gives the Fort Collins Poetry Slam a sense of rawness and what gives Northern Colorado an added element of culture. “Fort Collins is a college town where poetry is something ...
- Sophie Will “Make Someone Happy†in Santa Cruz, July 28th - Jazz Police
Jazz PoliceSophie Will “Make Someone Happy†in Santa Cruz, July 28thJazz Police, MN - 4 hours ago... the Platters, Stevie Wonder, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, particularly the voices and sounds of African American musicians. ...
- Communities give teens a voice - Daily Camera
Communities give teens a voiceDaily Camera, CO - 8 hours agoLast school year, the group hosted a middle school poetry slam. Mandy Perera, the city's liaison to the youth board, said attendance at events has been low, ...
- Review: Strange Music by Laura Fish - Daily Telegraph
The last time most people saw Elizabeth Barrett Browning's name in print was probably at a wedding. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" is always a safe choice of nuptial verse. It's easy to forget that the doe-eyed and spaniel-ringletted ...
- Time well spent at Planet Ant - pride source.com
Time well spent at Planet Antpride source.com, MI - 4 hours agoIt's a fine piece of stage poetry; I wish it were more dramatic. It's about a homeless woman, Hester (remember your Nathanial Hawthorne, kiddies! ...
- 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...
- He's a creative force to be reckoned with - Boston Globe
When Joseph Arthur describes his Museum of Modern Arthur gallery in Brooklyn, it's hard not to wonder if he's not actually talking about himself as a kind of living art installation. After all, the "MOMAR," as he facetiously refers to it, is in fact ...
- From the sublime to the ridiculous - Cyprus Mail
From the sublime to the ridiculousCyprus Mail, Cyprus - 13 hours agoI get the feeling my dub poetry set with Bandulu Dub is not really suited here but I soldier on and by song three, the crowds are skanking. ...
- Tuned In to Yoav - WPVI
Our featured Tuned In artist this week is Yoav. He is a singer songwriter who currently calls England home. He comes from a multi cultural background. He is the son of a Jewish architect, and grew up in South Africa. We caught up with him during a ...
- John Updike Explores How Art Mirrors America's Soul - NewsBlaze
John Updike Explores How Art Mirrors America's SoulNewsBlaze, CA - 4 hours ago... suspended above a waterfall; and Romare Bearden's collage The Dove (1964), a bustling cityscape that explores the urban African-American experience. ...
- Shawano man to help children in Africa with AIDS (The Shawano Leader)
A Shawano man will be spending three months in Africa to help children affected by HIV/AIDS. Rich Montour will be traveling to Capetown, South Africa Oct. 25 through Jan. 17 through an organization called Cross Cultural Solutions.
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