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- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale (The Charlotte Observer)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away. Here, guides spin questionable tales of the emperor playing hide-and-seek with his beautiful queens. And here, within the parched landscape of the ghost city, author Salman Rushdie stood ...
- Culture Night draws the crowds for evening of tours, talks and ... - Irish Times
Culture Night draws the crowds for evening of tours, talks and ...Irish Times, Ireland - 10 hours agoIn Cork, poetry fans were treated to readings by Mary Noonan and Eugene O'Connell and star-gazers in the south attended a viewing of the Andromeda galaxy at ...
- "A Love Song for New Orleans" is poetry set to music (Louisiana Weekly)
When people think of a poet, they might imagine a solitary figure with pen in hand bent over a tablet at a coffee shop or in a corner of a quiet room. These days, it's also easy to picture a man or woman of verse contemplating their next stanza in front of a computer.
- Erik Darling, 74; singer-songwriter helped revive American folk music (Los Angeles Times)
Erik Darling, a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who played a vital role in the revival of American folk music and was identified with the pulsing 1960s pop hit "Walk Right In," died Aug. 3 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 74 and had lymphoma.
- Fear and loafing in the Green Zone - Salon
SalonFear and loafing in the Green ZoneSalon - 20 minutes agoHe who has the bullet no longer needs poetry. The bullet is poetry. I call the press center and say: "I'm afraid you'll have to come and get me. ...
- Chinese school of rock? Somebody tell Jack Black - Winnipeg Sun
Chinese school of rock? Somebody tell Jack BlackWinnipeg Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoChinese black metal takes those basics and adds bits of history and poetry to make the music belong to the people. In every country, metal has been bent and ...
- Celebrated Palestinian poet dies in US hospital - Lebanon Daily Star
JERUSALEM: Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered one of the greatest poets in Palestine and the wider Arab world, died Saturday in a US hospital following open-heart surgery. He was being treated at the Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas ...
- Sobering tales at Hopatcong anti-drug rally - Dailyrecord.com
Sobering tales at Hopatcong anti-drug rallyDailyrecord.com, NJ - 11 hours agoReading aloud from a poem she penned for Breanna, Nutto reflected on the despair, hurt, determination and love she felt after discovering her daughter had ...
- Art & Soul: - Savannah Morning News
Art & Soul:Savannah Morning News, GA - 9 minutes agoWith their visual poetry and emphasis on spiritual transcendence, Antonakos's circular, square and rectangular neon-illuminated panels steal the proverbial ...
- Archiving an archenemy (San Jose Mercury News)
DAVIS -- Heaped haphazardly into twin cardboard boxes, the hundreds of audiocassette tapes looked more like a baby boomer's teenage detritus than a historical link to Osama bin Laden.
- Star power meets philanthropy with celeb charities - Lincoln Daily News
[ September 26, 2008 ] N EW YORK (AP) -- Bono battles the AIDS epidemic. Leonardo tries to make the world a greener place, and Martha has a soft spot for animals. For today's celebs, charity work is almost as much a part of the job as walking the red ...
- Feminists Unite at the Radical Women Conference - SF Weekly Blogs
Feminists Unite at the Radical Women ConferenceSF Weekly Blogs, CA - 3 minutes agoFeminists of all walks of life came together over the weekend for the Radical Women Conference to talk Marxist feminism, unionizing, reproductive rights and ...
- First reported allegation in Corsi's Obama attack book is false - Media Matters
Summary: A WorldNetDaily.com article about author Jerome Corsi's forthcoming book, The Obama Nation , asserts that the book "points out" that "Barack Obama admitted using drugs in his autobiography but never revealed if or when he stopped." In fact ...
- Capitalism has proven Karl Marx right again - The Herald
Capitalism has proven Karl Marx right againThe Herald, UK - 5 hours agoNevertheless, amid the unconscious, accidental poetry of dismal economics you will find the phrase "moral hazard". It means that you have to be stupid or ...
- Tolworth author robbed of valuable manuscript - Sutton Guardian
A Tolworth author has appealed for the return of his valuable manuscript after being robbed in Surbiton last night when he stopped to ask for directions. Sohan Lal Saini, 72, of Hamilton Avenue, Tolworth was driving back from Surbiton station at 10 ...
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