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- Rodeo List of Events and Time (KCBA FOX 35 Salinas)
Known for its week-long cavalcade of events, California Rodeo "Big Week" is the largest community event held in Salinas. Parades, barbecues, cowboy poetry, fireworks, concerts, a carnival, and much more....
- Hollins gets $5 million creative writing gift - roanoke.com (Roanoke Times)
The donation from alumna Susan Gager Jackson and her husband will nurture the university's program in a variety of ways. Hollins University will receive a $5 million gift to establish what will be known as the Jackson Center for Creative Writing. The university announced Monday that alumna Susan Gager Jackson and her husband, John Jackson, have pledged the $5 million to create the center.
- LUNCH WITH BS : Akhil Gupta - Business Standard
Whether it is investing in companies or shopping for ties, Akhil Gupta looks for value. The nattily-dressed chairman and managing director of private equity player Blackstone Advisors, India, is not really into big brands, preferring to buy good ...
- Translation captures irony of original (The Daily Item)
This superb new English version of Flaubert’s masterpiece at last makes it possible to understand how Flaubert could say of his heroine, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi!”
- The 2008 Jackson Young Influentials (Jackson Free Press)
Jackson is the sort of place that has the potential for great change, a mid-sized city with both a rich cultural history and a fierce “up-and-coming” attitude. Given its size and accessibility, it’s also the sort of place that begs its citizens to become actively involved in the development process.
- Five things to do in Denver and Boulder (Vail Daily)
Murder By Death, Bluebird Theatre It sounds worse than it is: Murder By Death isn’t some grimy metal band covered in blood and wailing about Satan. They’re sort of like an indie rock version of Johnny Cash ... with a cello player.
- Marsalis family spends Father’s Day at Toledo jazz fest - Toledo Blade
Marsalis family spends Father’s Day at Toledo jazz festToledo Blade, OH - 1 hour agoHe said he was not surprised that their son Ellis III opted for poetry and computers. “I’ve often wondered how I would have felt if I had been the third son ...
- Book news: Of poetry, prizes, publishing - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Book news: Of poetry, prizes, publishingPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 4 hours agoBy Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Poetry makes its annual summer appearance on the South Side tomorrow when a trio of poets give voice to their words ...
- Spin me a yarn. - Scone Advocate
Spin me a yarn.Scone Advocate, Australia - 11 hours agoKen entertained the crowd with renditions of songs and poems while competitors signed up to compete in four categories of bush poetry and yarns. ...
- Islanders work like beavers to stay afloat - MLive.com
Islanders work like beavers to stay afloatMLive.com, MI - 2 hours agoHe includes cutting and stacking firewood as one of his favorite activities -- not surprisingly, he heats the family home primarily with a wood stove. ...
- 'Shel Silverstein Uncensored!' - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times'Shel Silverstein Uncensored!'Los Angeles Times, CA - 48 minutes agoThough the late Shel Silverstein is best remembered as an author of wryly subversive children's poetry, his 40-year career spanned a dizzying array of ...
- Mom always put family first - La Crosse Tribune
My mother was adopted at 6 weeks old by a loving couple from the Holmen area. She didn't know she was adopted until her first day of school, when other children bullied her about it. She must have been so hurt. She always put her eight children and ...
- 'No Child Left Behind' Still Gets Mixed Grades - abc40
'No Child Left Behind' Still Gets Mixed Gradesabc40, MA - 7 hours agoI answered, 'We don't have time for poetry any more. We have to get ready for the test' (Illinois). As might be expected, the US Department of Education's ...
- Up & Coming: Exhibits, Music, Onstage, Potpourri - Nashua Telegraph
Up & Coming: Exhibits, Music, Onstage, PotpourriNashua Telegraph, NH - 35 minutes ago... literature is full of memorable tales and poetry about horses. In her exhibit titled "The Literary Horse: When Legends Come to Life," Vanessa Wright ...
- District Community Events May 8-15, 2008 - Washington Post
District Community Events May 8-15, 2008Washington Post, United States - 7 hours agoUS POET LAUREATE LECTURE, Charles Simic discusses poetry translation. 6:45 pm, Library of Congress, Madison Building, Montpelier Room, 101 Independence Ave. ...
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