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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 's debut in Dayton on Friday was good political theater. She delivered a pitch-perfect speech (presumably written by McCain's ghost writer, Mark Salter) with a panache that suggests she could be a natural on the national stage ...
- Royal Family's verse writer's 'thankless' job gave him writer's block - Smash Hits
Royal Family's verse writer's 'thankless' job gave him writer's blockSmash Hits, India - 14 hours agoThe 55-year-old's works include a poem to mark the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's diamond wedding anniversary, and a modern verse for Prince William's 21st ...
- Common threads & tatters in Toni Morrison's 'A Mercy' (New York Daily News)
Even when Toni Morrison writes prose, she writes poetry. Or, to put it in less mystical terms, don't let the fact her new novel, "A Mercy," runs only 169 pages lull you into thinking it's easy to absorb, or even to follow.
- Lake View High School Roundup (The San Angelo Standard-Times)
The Lake View High School family had reason to celebrate last week as LVHS Auto Tech instructor Ernest Ortiz was named Sam's Club Teacher of the Year. Ortiz, who has taught at Lake View for 15 years, was honored Wednesday with a reception in the LVHS library.
- Flaws stymie Intiman's finely acted 'All the King's Men' - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post IntelligencerFlaws stymie Intiman's finely acted 'All the King's Men'Seattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours agoNewman's elegiacs are a match for Warren's poetry, but their employment here is as intrusive as a freight train at a cotillion. ...
- Before They Were Beat: Murder and Poetry and a New Film - Oregonian
One of the most spectacular episodes in the early lives of the writers who went on to become the novelists and poets of the Beat Generation is coming to the screen. "Kill Your Darlings" is the name of a film written by Austin Bunn and John Krokidas ...
- Wild colonial noise - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldWild colonial noiseSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoWhen penning Havilah, he was taking in the poetry of WB Yeats, Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic journey The Road and the autobiography of the second man ...
- Winners at the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (AP via Yahoo! News)
Complete list of winners at Sunday's 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
- ON THE BILL: DJ Matthew Dear spins at Blind Pig - MLive.com
Matthew Dear, top techno/electronica DJ/remixer and producer associated with the Ann Arbor-based label Ghostly International, spins at the Blind Pig on Saturday night. Dear is also at the helm for "Body Language Vol. 7," the latest edition in a ...
- Contemporary dance, historical daring at fest - Newark Star-Ledger
The State Museum will mount its "Fall Family Arts Festival" 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow with street dance and a "visit" from Harriet Tubman. Opening the festivities at 11 a.m. will be the Soul Street Dance Company presenting a program titled "Takin ...
- Literally Salem: Schedule of events - Salem Gazette
Literally Salem: Schedule of eventsSalem Gazette, USA - 7 minutes agoWinner of the 2006 New Criterion Poetry Prize, Bill Coyle’s “The God of This World to His Prophet” offers poems translated from the Swedish that blend ...
- Daniel Radcliffe wants to play a drag queen in next movie - AZCentral.com
The 'Harry Potter' star confessed he would love to land the unusual role because it would allow him to dress as a woman and wear make-up. He said: "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads ...
- Sly Stone is lured from hiding once again - SF Weekly
Sly Stone is lured from hiding once againSF Weekly, CA - 8 hours agoKaliss' tome isn't an iconic rock biography — it lacks the cultural context of Timothy White's Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley or the sheer poetry of ...
- Douglas Bell - Globe and Mail
In his painfully brilliant short story The Swimmer , John Cheever's character Neddy Merrill "swims" from one end of Westchester county to the other by way of backyard pools and ponds. I had it in mind when I decided to bike through five ridings on a ...
- Concert review: Exquisite music, but not from Lang Lang - Seattle Times
Concert review: Exquisite music, but not from Lang LangSeattle Times, United States - Oct 15, 20083, decently played, though again without poetry. But the musician of the evening, for this regretful curmudgeon, was our own Mr. Goff.
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