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- Origins of festival; (The North Bay Nugget)
The Duanwu Festival originated in ancient China. There are a number of theories about its origins. Today, the most commonly accepted version relates to the death of poet Qu Yuan in 278 BC despite a number of competing theories. Qu Yuan The traditional story holds the festival [...]
- Comic-Con - Day 1 (Blogcritics.org)
Day 1 at Comic-Con begins with a five-hour traffic delay - attendees and talent trapped on the freeway. I get to the convention just in time for the RocknRolla press roundtable. Comic-Con 2008 started off with an early morning supposedly easy two-hour drive to San Diego from my nephew’s home in Fullerton. We departed at 6:30 a.m., took two cars, and quickly got to San Honofre with clear, easy ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - Times Daily
A Palestinian presidential aide says that renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has died. Darwish died at a hospital in Houston following complications from an open heart surgery, according to Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian ...
- How and Where to Blow Your Cash - East Bay Express
Print-media reading might be on its last legs elsewhere in America, but curling up with a good book or magazine will never go out of style around here. Bookshops don't get more eclectic, eccentric, and egalitarian than Book Zoo (6395 Telegraph Ave ...
- Share this article: - Desert Valley Times
Share this article:Desert Valley Times, UT - 10 minutes agoEntertainment at the park for both today and Saturday includes local band performances, cowboy poetry readings, a variety of dancers and a fiddling contest, ...
- Dana & Susan Robinson To Perform - iBerkshires.com
Dana & Susan Robinson To PerformiBerkshires.com, MA - 3 hours agoHis phrasing and poetry are wonderful.” An accomplished guitar player, Dana is described by Music Matters Review as possessing “*a poet’s perspective ...
- Tapes Offer a Look Beneath the Surface of bin Laden and Al Qaeda (New York Times)
Recordings found in Afghanistan in 2001 provide a more spontaneous look at Al Qaeda than what is available through the carefully choreographed messages it releases.
- Art unfiltered - Glendale News-Press
Art Day, the dream of Glendale short-story author Becky Mate, is gaining momentum in its 10th year. The celebration pays homage to all disciplines including fine art, music, live theater and poetry. It kicks off Friday with a party at Mate’s home ...
- Western Sahara: Poetry and Spanish - The Permanent Link - Global Voices Online
Western Sahara: Poetry and Spanish - The Permanent LinkGlobal Voices Online, MA - Jul 14, 2008If you suddenly ask a Sahrawi about poetry, he or she may not be able to tell you the title of a book or the title of a poem. But it is highly possible that ...
- Taking a tourney through grief - Dickinson Press
Taking a tourney through griefDickinson Press, ND - 32 minutes agoShe also loves to write poetry as a creative outlet. The poem, “Baby Trevour Now and Forever” appears in the book of poetry, “Timeless Voices. ...
- 'Patti Smith: Dream of Life': Chronicle of Patti Smith's life ... - Chicago Tribune
'Patti Smith: Dream of Life': Chronicle of Patti Smith's life ...Chicago Tribune, United States - 8 minutes agoIt's a story of an artist's itchy search for expression, in poetry, travel, motherhood, political activism, the whole American pop ball of wax. ...
- Look on my works, and despair - Guardian Unlimited
Toward the end of Uwe Boll's clamorously dim film In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Jason Statham and Burt Reynolds unexpectedly start trading snippets of quasi-medieval verse. It as if they were finalists in a Friday-Nite Hyborian Age ...
- 'Hamlet 2': A Fellow of Infinite Jest - Washington Post
Steve Coogan as Dana Marschz, the talentless actor turned even less talented drama teacher, in "Hamlet 2." (By Cathy Kanavy -- Focus Features Via Associated Press) Enter Noah Sapperstein, the high school drama critic whose devastating reviews set in ...
- My encounter with Ahmed Faraz - The News International
My encounter with Ahmed FarazThe News International, Pakistan - 2 hours agoNor is it a comment on his poetry – I am not qualified to do that. This is just a memory of a few impersonal encounters with Faraz that came rushing to my ...
- Nigeria: 'Mediocres Are Killing Country's Publishing Industry' - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: 'Mediocres Are Killing Country's Publishing Industry'AllAfrica.com, Washington - 2 hours agoIf you write a textbook on Biology, a book of poetry, short stories, novel, you'll wear your shoes out walking from one publishing house to another, ...
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