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- 'Drink' by Iain Gately: fascinating facts about the history of alcohol - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News'Drink' by Iain Gately: fascinating facts about the history of alcoholDallas Morning News, TX - 52 minutes agoDrink has created and toppled empires, stoked and dampened economies, inspired men to poetry and driven them to war. In the long run alcohol may have been ...
- Crash teen farewelled in sombre service - West Online
A teenager killed in car crash with three of his cousins has been remembered as a "pretty boy" with a georgous smile who cared for his family. About 150 people farewelled Quinton Humes - one of four boys killed in a car crash in Ravenswood last month ...
- Stories from today's Northwest papers - Oregonian
This morning's Oregonian reports on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services decision to scrap its plans to move the Oregon office to West Linn. The immigration service will look for a new site that's easier to reach by public transit. Federal ...
- 'Yeti' can be disappointing at times (Salem Statesman Journal)
"Betty the Yeti," which opened at Pentacle Theatre on Friday, shows that playwright Jon Klein has his ear to the Northwest dialogue.
- New York, Aug. 18 - Slate
New York, Aug. 18Slate - 10 minutes ago... of the life-loving Persian nature (wine, love, poetry, song) woven into the fabric of abstinence, prayer and fatalism often associated with Islam? ...
- Bulges (The New Yorker)
The Incredible Hulk” picks up the story of Bruce Banner--the guy with anger-management problems--some five years after the end of his tantrummy misadventures in “Hulk.” As Bruce, Edward Norton has taken over for Eric Bana, and Louis Leterrier has replaced Ang Lee as director, but Bruce’s situation . . .
- Iraqi scholar translating Iran’s “Chess with the Resurrection ... - Tehran Times
The Iranian novelist Habib Ahmadzadeh authored “Chess with the Resurrection Machine”. The book has previously been translated into English by U.S. scholar Paul Sprachman. The book portrays the image of loyal and simple people during the Iran-Iraq ...
- The Fun Of Judging Others: Madrid - Torontoist
TorontoistThe Fun Of Judging Others: MadridTorontoist, Canada - 54 minutes agoBut what must make it an amazing place to live is its commitment to making life…well, livable for its citizens. Granted, Toronto doesn’t have constant, ...
- Where in the world is Cleveland actress Ring? In Pittsburgh's "Playboy ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
That's a big question, involving discussions of which city is on the ups, and which on the downs. But for the purposes of this blog-post, we can definitely say that Pittsburgh has Derdriu Ring. Stephen Grebinski The Widow Quin (Cleveland's own ...
- Minister to inaugurate Kuwaiti Cultural Week in Syria - Al Watan Daily
Minister to inaugurate Kuwaiti Cultural Week in SyriaAl Watan Daily, Kuwait - 2 hours agoOn the Kuwaiti Cultural Week, the minister said it would include seminars, poetry recitals, arts exhibitions, and performances by Hamad Bin Hussein national ...
- Ric Masten remembered at memorial service (The Monterey County Herald)
Ric Masten left quite an impression on the world. To many who never met Masten, he was a great poet. To friends and family members who remembered Masten's life during a memorial service Friday, he was a wise man with a huge heart and an endless curiosity for the world.
- Nonprofit thinks big to recruit volunteers - Akron Beacon Journal
Nonprofit thinks big to recruit volunteersAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 11 hours agoTeen poets from the area will compete in the Grand Slam Poetry Championship from 6 to 10 pm Tuesday at Weathervane Community Playhouse in Akron. ...
- Writer Colin Dexter pays tribute to the teacher who opened up the ... - guardian.co.uk
Writer Colin Dexter pays tribute to the teacher who opened up the ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 33 minutes agoMr HB Sharp was a senior English master who ran the school magazine and I caught his eye when I wrote an article about poetry for the magazine. ...
- Missing metaphors - Times Online
Missing metaphorsTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoHere he has produced a breathless yet sleepy book, rich in poetry (often glutinously so), ethereal and evasive in its merging of metaphor and plot, ...
- Thursday Tech Tip: Read At Work - Shiny Shiny
Thursday Tech Tip: Read At WorkShiny Shiny, UK - 1 hour agoNot all of the books work here in the UK (presumably because of copyright regs) but there's a good grounding in classics and poetry to get you going. ...
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