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- Column: Back to Beirut (The Daily Review)
My heart started thumping when my parents told us we were going to Lebanon. They were beaming with excitement — my dad hasn't gone back to his homeland in nearly 20 years and it has been 14 years since my mom and I went there.
- On DVD: "Times and Winds," "Chop Shop" - IFC
IFCOn DVD: "Times and Winds," "Chop Shop"IFC - 3 hours ago... even if its poetry outpaces Erice's — Erdem punctuates his semi-narrative with surreal tableaux of his cast of children slumbering (or dead? ...
- Entertainment Calendar: 06/20/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Entertainment Calendar: 06/20/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour agoStone Circle 25th anniversary celebration, 9 pm, family-friendly poetry, storytelling and music around a fire, $4 adults, $2 children; US 31, 10 miles north ...
- Ian Hunter on William Topaz McGonagall, the world's worst poet - National Post
Ian Hunter on William Topaz McGonagall, the world's worst poetNational Post, Canada - 3 hours agoMcGonagall would be sad to learn that perhaps his most famous poem, Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silver Tay, is used in schools as an object lesson in ...
- What a Fine Pairing: Music and Poetry - New York Times
What a Fine Pairing: Music and PoetryNew York Times, United States - 2 hours ago“Life for me would be unimaginable without these two arts, poetry and music,” said Ms. Houghton, a member of the Academy of American Poets and a ...
- Three Days To Hone Craft, Meet Agents And Talk Shop - Evening Bulletin
Three Days To Hone Craft, Meet Agents And Talk ShopEvening Bulletin, PA - 27 minutes agoParticipants will have the opportunity to explore many topics including novel, magazine, poetry, memoir, nonfiction books, short story and juvenile writing. ...
- Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen Say "I Do" (US Weekly)
American Pie star Jason Biggs and actress Jenny Mollen will say "I do" before 40 to 50 guests somewhere in Napa shortly after sundown tonight several sources confirm to Us. But it won't be for the first time! The pair got hitched at City Hall in Los Angeles with no friends or family present on April 23. Usmagazine.com first broke the news of their engagement in January. The two began ...
- Derek Walcott attacks Sir VS Naipaul in verse - Hindu
Derek Walcott attacks Sir VS Naipaul in verseHindu, India - 6 hours agoNow, he has upped the ante by slamming his old sparring partner in a poem that mocked the Indian-origin author as a "mongoose". ...
- Candidates keep Portland weird - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Candidates keep Portland weirdThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 2 hours agoFish was also a big hit with the crowd, sporting a 50s beat look while he tossed off snatches of poetry to the wail of a sax. Chris Smith changed a bike ...
- ‘1940: A Novel’ by Jay Neugeboren - Today's Zaman
‘1940: A Novel’ by Jay NeugeborenToday's Zaman, Turkey - 10 hours agoBoth peoples, Bloch muses, "share a marked and common respect for the printed word -- we are The People of the Book, they The People of Poetry and Thought. ...
- On radio: Prescott joins the workers' revolution - Daily Telegraph
Alf the plumber first drew my family's attention to Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists back in 1946. Alf, more given to pinching me than plumbing, was attempting to engage my mother in the workers' revolution. My mother, who had ...
- Idealism, refashioned - Los Angeles Times
It's hard not to notice that we're suddenly in the grip of what might be called "Kennedy chic," triggered in part by the enthusiasm for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidacy. Just this month, major books on John and Robert Kennedy have hit the ...
- Health put little damper on Carlin (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Comedians Dennis Blair, left, and George Carlin take a break. For 18 years, Blair served as an opening act for Carlin, who died June 22 in Los Angeles.
- Alicia Keys Muhteşem Vücudunu Sergiledi - Güncel Haber
Alicia Keys Muhteşem Vücudunu SergilediGüncel Haber, Turkey - 2 hours agoA press release from Imagine Entertainment has announced that Keys will voice the lead character of the animation The African Princess, Princess Zya, ...
- Sadly, what we have here is a failure to be happy (News Transcript)
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think.
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