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- FREAK Shots: We Don’t Want You Laughing at Us - New York Times Blogs
In the months before the Olympics, the Beijing Speaks Foreign Languages program sent out sign police to catch and correct Chinese signs with incorrect English translations, reported Mei Fong of The Wall Street Journal . “We don’t want anyone ...
- A Sprocker-doodle-doo in Tring - Hemel Gazette
A Sprocker-doodle-doo in TringHemel Gazette, UK - 58 minutes agoThe competition acted as a warm up to John Hegley, who did his usual mix of comedy, music and poetry to the family audience. His gig, at 4.30pm, ...
- Patience's poetry performance - Portsmouth News
Patience's poetry performancePortsmouth News, UK - 23 minutes agoHer inspirations include Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah's dub poetry, issues of race and social comment, and the melodic song-like poems of ...
- Morissette, Listlessly Listing (Washington Post)
It's hard to deny Alanis Morissette's artistic appeal when her trademark "list songs" are accompanied by pop hooks. So many of her greatest tunes, such as "Hand in My Pocket," "Thank U," "Hands Clean" and "Everything," benefit from lyrical repetition, which helps the declarative-sentence songs bu...
- 'Infinite Jest' author, 46, an apparent suicide - CNN
'Infinite Jest' author, 46, an apparent suicideCNN - 4 minutes ago"He was the best of our generation, and his death is a loss beyond describing," Richard Powers, winner of the National Book Award in 2006 for the novel "The ...
- So long, brilliant Penny Poet (Portsmouth Herald)
Poet Robert Dunn died last Sunday. The day he passed away, we were moving some old bookcases when a fragile green pamphlet floated to the floor like a leaf. Turns out it was a tiny collection of Robert's poems. The eight-page hand-sewn booklet is titled...
- 2000年Passage 3 - 新浪网
2000年Passage 3新浪网, China - 29 minutes agoWith regard to Futurist poetry, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be even admitting that the theory on which it is ...
- Angelou, Lear named for 2008 Marian Anderson Award (USA Today)
TV producer Norman Lear and author Maya Angelou will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity.
- Uğur Işık brings together world religions on Anatolian soil - Zaman
The most prominent quality of his music is his performing instrumental and sometimes vocal pieces from Turkish culture using his cello, a Western instrument. Having reached a considerably large European audience with his first album, in which he ...
- A Fan's Notes - Time
In how fiction works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 265 pages), James Wood tells a story from Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March, a novel that since its publication in 1932 has probably been read by only two people, namely James Wood and Joseph Roth. A ...
- Peter Coke - Telegraph.co.uk
Peter CokeTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoAfter graduating, at the age of 24 Coke was identified by the Daily Mail as the first in its series of Stars of the Future, on the strength of his role in ...
- School winners - HeraldNet
School winnersHeraldNet, WA - 15 minutes agoJessica Simpson, 14, of Everett recently won an Editor's Choice Award in a poetry contest for a poem she submitted to the International Library of Poetry. ...
- 'Man on Wire' an amazing feat of balance - Baltimore Sun
(A) Atop the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the high-wire walker Philippe Petit is an epic poem in motion. In Man on Wire , the sight of his accomplishment - he walked back and forth between the towers eight times in his 1974 acrobatic feat ...
- Search is on to find wartime child poet - Stratford-upon-Avon Observer
AN UNUSUAL search is underway for a Gillian Marjorie Hughes of Stratford, more than 64 years after she inspired a visiting Second World War soldier with her poetry. On March 13, 1944, Australian Winston Sydney Dimond, a navigator in 518 Squadron ...
- 'Godspell' is Broadway's latest no-show (The Star-Ledger)
Although the buzz going around the Rialto is that the company was informed of their situation last Tuesday, producers officially have yet to confirm the cancellation, which will make the Stephen Schwartz tuner the fifth no-show for the 2008-2009 season.
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