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- Area universities unite for art and literature forum - Tacoma Weekly
Area universities unite for art and literature forumTacoma Weekly, WA - 2 hours agoMany of the participants, representing all five schools, read poetry while others read short stories aloud to the audience. Drawing their inspiration on ...
- the new way to view life through the old ball game - Seymour Herald
More than two million kids from around the world will play on seven thousand baseball Little League teams this year. These children, ages 13 and younger, are taking part in a tradition that spans nearly 70 years. Parents across the world enroll their ...
- Neuroscientist: Poetry Comes From Synesthesia, Tree-Climbing (Wired News)
A prominent neuroscientist told a crowd at the World Science Festival that the curious phenomenon of synesthesia -- in which some people "taste" colors or "hear" smells -- is simply a consequence of the aptitude humans evolved for abstraction.
- Jef Aldrich, former Aspen Mtn. patrol director, remembered (Aspen Daily News)
A memorial service was held Friday afternoon at the top of Aspen Mountain for Jef Aldrich, who died unexpectedly in January at age 52 and who served as the director of Aspen Mountain Ski Patrol from 1994 to 2001.
- In 'My Sister, My Love,' Oates fictionalizes JonBenet Ramsey (Boulder Daily Camera)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates. Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Place setting - guardian.co.uk
Place settingguardian.co.uk, UK - 23 hours agoIn black tie to the Travellers Club on Pall Mall for the fifth annual Christopher Ondaatje prize for the book of poetry, fiction or "something called ...
- Updated 5/7: OPRF grad killed in possible gang crossfire - River Forest Leaves
Updated 5/7: OPRF grad killed in possible gang crossfireRiver Forest Leaves, IL - 20 hours agoIshma Stewart's adolescent poetry mused on the meaning of the poverty that she saw in Chicago's public housing. As a student at Oak Park and River Forest ...
- Senate committee calls for music video classification review - Australian Broadcasting Corp.
A Senate committee has urged television stations to review classifications of music videos, due to concerns children are getting too much access to inappropriate material. The committee found that inappropriate sexualisation of children in Australia ...
- What does constitute academic freedom (The Hendersonville Times-News)
This question was raised most recently when a few students refused to attend a required play. In my literature course, it is common that some want sexual content, especially work containing homosexuality, edited out, including Byron's poetry, de Laclos's novels, and Shakespeare's bawdy plays. Similarly, I have had students refuse to read a novel...
- The fearless explorer - Ottawa Citizen
The fearless explorerOttawa Citizen, Canada - 28 minutes agoEven at the close of the free-wheeling '70s, the sight of Chouinard urinating into a bucket was shocking enough to get her banned from the Art Gallery of ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (Miami Herald)
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here.
- Playhouse season unveiled - Antelope Valley Press
Performances by folk singer-guitarist Richie Havens, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester and local group Nuns for Fun, as well as a production of "Heidi," are on the schedule for the Palmdale Playhouse's 2008-09 season. Dressed ...
- Weightlifter pushing toward 358 pounds - Ponte Vedra Recorder
Weightlifter pushing toward 358 poundsPonte Vedra Recorder, FL - 6 hours ago"It’s like poetry in motion," Reynolds said. "You appreciate all the nuances that go into maintaining identical form and technique rep after rep. ...
- The Week in Preview: May 12 - Nashua Telegraph
The Week in Preview: May 12Nashua Telegraph, NH - 45 minutes agoThe new poet laureate's work will debut on Bad Poetry Day, Aug. 18. With spring officially in full swing (you can tell because it rains instead of snows), ...
- Local author’s work may help to answer age-old question (Wilson County News)
La Vernia resident Loyce McCarter asks a question of her readers that many have asked for more than 2,000 years. Her book, Is He the Messiah? A Reporter’s Notes, offers readers the chance to view Jesus through the eyes of ordinary people of His time.
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