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- The Sellouts (San Diego Reader)
Thursday 15 “Like a robot making love to a tree,” says odd-pop duo Ghostland Observatory about dousing dance-y funk jams with electronica and pop hooks. But the pair’s known more for their unusual pose in pigtails and vampire cape.
- 1 pembroke theatre js - Kankakee Daily Journal
1 pembroke theatre jsKankakee Daily Journal, IL - 11 hours agoIt was the first play written by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway, Hansberry, at age 29, was the youngest dramatist to win the New York ...
- USA (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled Tuesday that more interest-rate cuts are unlikely, telling a monetary conference that "for now, policy seems well positioned to promote moderate growth and price stability over time." The Fed dropped its key interest rate to 2 percent last month, a nearly four-year low.
- Report: Taliban using sophisticated media network (AP via Yahoo! News)
The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a report released Thursday.
- All's Fair in London for Lovers - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalAll's Fair in London for LoversWall Street Journal - 9 hours ago... the Antiquarian Book Fair (until June 7), with 158 major booksellers providing a browsing heaven for bibliophiles -- everything from 19th-century poetry ...
- Newly Named Poet Laureate Kay Ryan Ready To Assume Post - Post Chronicle
U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09. Ryan, a 63-year-old California native, is to begin her duties in the fall, opening the library's annual literary ...
- GBC to award 296 degrees (Elko Daily Free Press)
ELKO - The students in Great Basin College's class of 2008 will commence their professional lives with a graduation ceremony at 10 a.m. May 17 in the Elko Convention Center.
- Bridging the 'two cultures' of arts and science - Globe and Mail
Bridging the 'two cultures' of arts and scienceGlobe and Mail, Canada - 54 minutes ago(an exclamation that later became the title of a prose poem by Edgar Allan Poe, describing his solely intuitive conclusions on nature and the universe). ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search - NWI.com
BOSTON - Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is ...
- Police identify shooting victim - Daily Advance
HERTFORD — Hertford police have identified the man shot to death near a street corner here early Sunday as 21-year-old Jamar Quedraell Fletcher. Police found Fletcher's body lying in the road at the intersection of King Street and Stokes Drive at ...
- For Chris Hedges on the Fourth of July - OpEdNews.com
I came across an article by well respected, supposedly left-leaning journalist, Mr. Chris Hedges, on common dreams.org , a "progressive" news site which I sometimes visit though I hate that label, and I felt compelled to respond to his hysterical ...
- Activist and artist known as one of 'Catonsville Nine' - Baltimore Sun
Forty years ago next month, Tom Lewis and eight other Vietnam War protesters strode into the offices of U.S. Selective Service Board 33 in Catonsville and left a mark on history. The "Catonsville Nine" emptied file cabinets, hauled 600 draft records ...
- Night life - News-Star
AMERICAN LEGION POST 51 — U.S. 165 North, Bastrop. Saturday: Frankie B's Mason Creek. May 17: Bayou Kritters. All shows 8 p.m.-midnight. Wednesdays and Fridays: Karaoke with Alan Brown. All covers $6, except as noted. 281-1315. THE ARENA — 1411 ...
- Summer Writers Institute includes Pulitzer winners - Schenectady Gazette
Summer Writers Institute includes Pulitzer winnersSchenectady Gazette, NY - 27 minutes agoJuly 11 — Fiction reading, at Gannett Auditorium: Joyce Carol Oates (National Book Award, “Them,” “We Were the Mulvaneys”). July 14 — Fiction and poetry ...
- City Council Election Saturday (Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post)
Early voting ended yesterday, with 646 residents casting ballots in Saturday’s May 10 Fredericksburg City Council election.
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