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- Centre for Arabic poetry established - Khaleej Times
DUBAI - His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday directed the establishment of the House of Poetry, a centre for researching and documenting Arabic poetry and ...
- Sara Mobayen: A talented young photographer - Payvand
PayvandSara Mobayen: A talented young photographerPayvand, Iran - 4 hours agoI must admit that even from the back one can feel that this child is having a good time. When she told me that she does yoga I realized where that gentle ...
- Gaia Online Gives Teens the Chance to Take Home "Olympic Gold" - Earthtimes
SAN JOSE, Calif. - (Business Wire) For those of us who have dreamt of Olympic glory, but prefer thumb wrestling and hot dog eating to swimming and hurdles, Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 5 million teens, today announced it will ...
- Handle with care - Guardian Unlimited
Few of us have forgotten the lyrics, books, lines of poetry and movies that struck us most as teenagers. For me, they were Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin' and Albert Camus' The Outsider . I remember retelling the Camus story in my own world ...
- Hastings-on-Hudson - Upstate House
Hastings-on-HudsonUpstate House, NY - 26 minutes agoThe Hastings Village Arts Commission (HVAC) organizes poetry readings, a music festival, and local art happenings. Hastings Library sponsors family programs ...
- Judging the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 - Daily Telegraph
As chair of this year's BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, I was privileged to be joined by a diverse panel of judges: the literary editor of the Guardian, Claire Armitstead; the poet Daljit Nagra; the director of the Science Museum, Chris Rapley; and ...
- Obituary: Diana Rowntree (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: The Guardian's first architecture writer she was a fervent believer in the moral potency of design
- Heath Ledger in 'Dark Knight': Bravo! - Los Angeles Times
Great actors, even those who have been blessed with longevity, often bear a tragic mark. It's not just the ups and downs of stardom that can make for a cruel career. Rough inner seas are typically the very reason someone seeks to be among what ...
- Quick Hits: Big Boi, Prince, Natasha Bedingfield, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Flobots, Black Light Burns (FMQB)
Outkast 's Big Boi is almost finished his solo album, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty , which is due out later this summer. It will feature guest spots from Raekwon , Mary J. Blige and his Outkast cohort Andre 3000 . Big says it's important to note that the duo is still working together and his solo album does not spell the end of Outkast.
- Ronnie Drew: Lead singer of the Dubliners - The Independent
With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the Dubliners, whose charismatic stage presence and ...
- Death and loss to be examined (Scoop.co.nz)
People can learn about loss and grief from a poet and world leader on these subjects at a workshop to be presented by Mercy Hospice Auckland, the University of Auckland and the National Association for Loss and Grief.
- Religious retreats help guests find peace (Asbury Park Press)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Oppel, Vigneault up for kid-lit awards - CBC News
Toronto writer Kenneth Oppel is on the short-list for the English-language TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for his novel, Darkwing. (Steve Carty) Toronto author Kenneth Oppel and celebrated French Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Gilles ...
- KOLO Featured Events - KOLO TV Reno
WASHOE VALLEY - Washoe County Regional Animal Control officers have captured two black leopards at a Washoe Valley home. Responding to a call of dogs barking, Washoe County Regional Animal Control officers noticed something else, two big cats thought ...
- The Market, Part 1 (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybody's actions aim at the satisfaction of other people's needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own.
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