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- Who are the real lesbians? - The Independent
Ever since Sappho wrote of her feelings for other women, the Greek island of Lesbos where she lived has had its own place in the dictionary. But now its modern residents have begun a campaign to reclaim the term for themselves. John Walsh reports ...
- Georgian budgie learns Stalin’s poetry - RussiaToday
RussiaTodayGeorgian budgie learns Stalin’s poetryRussiaToday, Russia - 45 minutes agoThe talented little bird actually recites poetry and the bird's repertoire even includes verses by probably most notorious of Georgians, Joseph Stalin, ...
- Strong class of new plays showcased at festival (The Charlotte Observer)
The Who had it wrong: The kids are not all right. Violent video games, Internet and iPod addiction, anabolic steroids, familial disintegration, parental neglect, peer influence, unprotected sex, extreme sports, ghetto culture, guns, junk food and that most insidious scourge of adolescence, Christian rock -- these are a few of the perils facing the young generation, as profiled in a ...
- Killing Me Softly: No Child Left Behind - School Library Journal
Killing Me Softly: No Child Left BehindSchool Library Journal - Apr 30, 2008They need nature walks, field trips, poetry, recess. What they’re getting is workbooks. Never mind the shameless profiteering that underlies the testing ...
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies - The Associated Press
The Associated PressFormer AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton diesThe Associated Press - 2 hours agoHe retired months later, listening to jazz and writing poetry until the end. He penned several books, including "And When the Weeds Began to Grow," and his ...
- Aurora’s tale a sad one of love - Georgina Advocate
Aurora’s tale a sad one of loveGeorgina Advocate, Canada - 44 minutes agoDespite her role as the herald of the sunrise and her frequent references in Homeric poetry as the “rosy-fingered”, her love life was anything but rosy. ...
- Ready to wear: The art of Natick's Virginia Fitzgerald - MetroWest Daily News
Sporting a paste-on tattoo of the Hindu goddess Shiva, Virginia Fitzgerald fashions a dress from hundreds of dog tags that resembles a child's playhouse. In her downtown studio, she moves barefoot past dresses she's made from glass and eggshells, red ...
- Visual Mind Games - NY Arts Magazine
Visual Mind GamesNY Arts Magazine, NY - 3 hours agoHe expresses the heroic poetry of the extreme gesture—in this case a dialysis bag with wings—by challenging the impossible feat or legendary action. ...
- Community Leaders Forge New Approach To HIV Prevention As Part Of M•A•C AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative (Medical News Today)
HIV among imprisoned juveniles, teenagers and the Muslim community headlined a discussion of community leaders and AIDS experts in Johannesburg.
- 'Poetry in motion' (The Times-News)
Remember that scene at the beginning of the recent Bond adventure "Casino Royale" in which the agent chases a man across a construction site, bounding fences, scaling girders, leaping across empty space to land on a crane boom?
- Wild Bill's Birthday - Rake
Wild Bill's BirthdayRake, MN - 3 hours ago... read a book given to you a random man in a bar?) And, bingbamboom, what a read! Methodically splattering his tales in a realm between prose and poetry, ...
- Speech team displays skills at Showcase - Dawgnet
Speech team displays skills at ShowcaseDawgnet, IN - 2 hours agoSpear placed fourth at the national level for a prose piece. Becky Bush, a freshman theater major, took third place at nationals with her Dramatic ...
- Distilling decades into fiction - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeDistilling decades into fictionBoston Globe, United States - 55 minutes agoI think what I bring from poetry is the interest in language and in compression. But the difference is character, psychology; the external world is much ...
- Patti Smith To Release My Bloody Valentine Collaboration - Sound-Check Music
Patti Smith is to release her spoken-word performances of ‘The Coral Sea’, which feature My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, on July 11th. Smith’s performances, a tribute to her close friend, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, were ...
- Around Town - Beaufort Gazette
•A class on the basics of chess is offered from 4 to 5 p.m. every Tuesday at St. Helena Branch Library, 1025 Sea Island Parkway, St. Helena Island. The library shares a space in the St. Helena Elementary School's media center off Eddings Point Road ...
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