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- 2 speakers compete at national tourney - Sharon Herald
Two Mercer High School speech team members competed last week at the 2008 National Forensic League National Tournament. The weeklong event, “Desert Lights Nationals,” was held June 13 through 18 in Las Vegas. More than 3,300 contestants and 1,800 ...
- Music Review: Yusa - Haiku - Blogcritics.org
Music Review: Yusa - HaikuBlogcritics.org, OH - 4 hours agoIn the liner notes of the disc, Yusa quotes Mexican poet Octavia Paz's definition of a haiku as "a poetic experience re-created as lived poetry". ...
- The Hold Steady: The best classic rock band you never heard of would make Petty and 'The Boss’ proud (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By PRESTON JONES When bands like Hinder, Buckcherry or 3 Doors Down are heralded by pop culture pundits as being saviors of rock, returning the genre to prominence after a dominant run of pop starlets and hip-hop acts, you can’t help but wonder if the pundits ever venture outside the Top 40. Case in point: Brooklyn-based The Hold Steady might be one of the best American rock bands hardly anyone ...
- Local poet "highly commended" - South Yorkshire Times
Local poet "highly commended"South Yorkshire Times, UK - 6 hours agoTALENTED local young poet, Kirsty Morris from Royston High School has been highly commended for her entry in a national poetry competition. ...
- The Russians Are Back! - CounterCurrents.org
The Russians Are Back!CounterCurrents.org, India - 4 hours agoMaybe because Russians also have a penchant for disorder, procrastination, inefficiency, qualities more than redeemed by their fantasy, poetry, nobility and ...
- Free parking isn’t the answer - La Crosse Tribune
I agree that La Crosse has a wonderful downtown, and I welcome LHI headquarters and all the jobs that are in its forecast. But to suggest, as one recent letter writer did, that all we need downtown is more free parking is incorrect. We do not need to ...
- Tragic poetic lament for lost tortoise - audio - Lewes Today
A BELOVED lost tortoise has inspired her distraught owner to write poetry pleading for her return. Washington woman Trisha Cook has turned to verse as her solace after losing life-long reptilian friend Henrietta - who lived with her for 33 years ...
- OLD 97'S MURRY HAMMOND RELEASES FIRST SOLO ALBUM, I DON'T KNOW WHERE I ... - PR Inside
2008-07-10 19:29:16 - Seventeen tracks, produced by Mark Neill, are self-released by Hammond on the 'Hammond family label,' Humminbird Records. LOS ANGELES, Calif. - On August 18, 2008, Old 97's bass player and co-frontman Murry Hammond will ...
- A cup of poetry (Livonia Observer)
"It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there."
- Lyrical terrorist Samina Malik has her conviction overturned - Times Online
The woman who called herself the “lyrical terrorist” won her appeal today against her conviction for collecting information likely to aid a person preparing a terrorist act. Samina Malik, 24, a former Heathrow shop assistant who was given a ...
- Pierce Brosnan's Springsteen ambition - Boston Globe
Pierce Brosnan wants to star in a musical about Bruce Springsteen. The 55-year-old actor - who debuts his vocal talents in the ABBA-inspired musical 'Mamma Mia!' - has got the taste for singing on screen, and is keen to take on the challenge of ...
- Music master Wilfrid Mellers dies - York Press
Music master Wilfrid Mellers diesYork Press, UK - 26 minutes agoHe gained a first class honours degree, began drawing and painting and wrote reams of poetry. But his first love was music and he began composing, ...
- Robert Redford Fights Global Warming With Poetry - NPR News
“Words are just words without action. But I think what we're seeing here today with these poets is the beginning of action.” Talk of the Nation , July 16, 2008 · Robert Redford has been fighting on behalf of the environment for more than 30 ...
- Maya Angelou captivates Cleveland audience - Cleveland Plain Dealer
In an age besotted with vacuous adolescent celebrity, 80-year-old Maya Angelou held a packed audience rapt at the Allen Theater in downtown Cleveland Monday night with nothing more than her voice. Frail knees kept her off her feet for much of her 75 ...
- Three Pioneers - Publishers Weekly
Publishers WeeklyThree PioneersPublishers Weekly, NY - 5 hours agoThe Pulitzer Prizes were launched at Columbia University in 1917 as annual awards for excellence in journalism, fiction, poetry and other cultural pursuits. ...
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