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- Poshstock generation: The entrepreneurial aristocrats who are creating a whole new summer season of festivals (Independent)
Glastonbury, V, Reading... it wasn't so long ago that the music-lover's diary was filled with names synonymous with summer, hedonism and rock. But across the country's green spaces, change is afoot. In the past few years, dozens of festivals have sprung up to cater for fans no longer willing to put up with the downside of the mega-festivals: sewage-soaked Portaloos, head-to-tail camping, ...
- People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term 'Lesbian' - San Francisco Gate
A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay ...
- Writing 5 at Dartmouth, a closer look - Power Line
Writing 5 at Dartmouth, a closer lookPower Line, MN - 7 hours agoHer book project argues that "African American drama presents strategies to interpret historical evidence embedded in black performance (eg cakewalking, ...
- Russian police told to improve their image - Daily Telegraph
Worried by the widespread disdain for the force shown by ordinary Russians, Rashid Nurgaliyev, the interior minister, has ordered his errant officers to enrol themselves in a "programme of moral purification". The new initiative came as posters ...
- Part 1: The Bob Owen Story - Topeka Capitol-Journal
The Harvard graduate tipped a paper cup to his lips, tranquilizing his brain. Liquid stelazine tamed his delusions as it washed over him inside his sparsely decorated hospital room — a desk, a chair and a single bed inside four white walls. File ...
- ?One or Two Murderers in Any Crowd? (New York Times)
Charles Simic?s poems take on politics and moral themes.
- Helping students put a face on AIDS - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Helping students put a face on AIDSFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 4 hours agoVoices runs alongside art and poetry by some of the interview subjects. Student Jackie Kirkelie said interviewing people with HIV or AIDS put a face on the ...
- Does Choice Really Matter When Life is at Stake? -- Critically ... - Primenewswire (press release)
Does Choice Really Matter When Life is at Stake? -- Critically ...Primenewswire (press release), CA - 1 hour agoIn addition to writing both poetry and prose, she allocates her time to her family, including 5 children (one deceased), nine grandchildren and two ...
- "Faeries" A Gallery Show - American Chronicle
"Faeries" A Gallery ShowAmerican Chronicle, CA - 5 hours ago... jewelry and poetry readings, all created by female artists. Lana Penrose, conveys the essence of simplicity via gel contour drawings on black paper and ...
- Changing world of commencement speakers (San Francisco Chronicle)
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of the next...
- Amos Lee - Rolling Stone
Though he's often labeled as a singer-songwriter, Amos Lee is a talented singer, period. On his third album, the Philadelphia native lends his stellar Al Green impression to "Won't Let Me Go," and lays a cool, Curtis Mayfield-style falsetto over the ...
- Church-state wall protects religion - La Crosse Tribune
In regard to the argument about separation of church and state that has reared its ugly head due to the cross on Holmen’s Star Hill, adequate research has been a scarce commodity. James Madison wrote in an essay dating to the 1800s, “Strongly ...
- Galway Writer Prizewinner - Indymedia Ireland
Galway writer and poet, Maureen Gallagher, has been awarded first prize in the Wicklow Writers’ Poetry Competition 2008 for her poem 'December Rain', about clerical child abuse . Her winning poem can be read on wicklowwriters.blogspot.com . She ...
- A walk on Geneva's artsy side - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily HeraldA walk on Geneva's artsy sideChicago Daily Herald, IL - May 1, 2008By Dave Heun | Daily Herald Correspondent Those who immerse themselves in the world of art know one of the most popular traditions is for galleries in a ...
- HOT TOPICS (The Hanford Sentinel)
This is apropos of nothing, but a friend e-mailed me a poem the other day. That’s the first time it’s happened. Truth is, poetry has gone the way of the dodo bird.
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