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- Archives > Communities > Whitestone (Queens Courier)
Whitestone is a largely upper-middle-class neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens, located between the East River to the north and 25th Avenue to the south.
- Madison team takes second in its opening bout at National Poetry Slam 2008 (Isthmus)
Setting: the lecture at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Status: packed. Time: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. Context: National Poetry Slam, preliminary bout. Teams: H-Town Slam from Houston; the hometown heroes in the Madison Spoken Word Collective; Open Mic Poetry from Manchester, New Hampshire; and, Puro Slam from San Antonio. At stake: advancement to the semi-finals. Anticipation ...
- A man of science and letters - Minnesota Public Radio
A man of science and lettersMinnesota Public Radio, MN - 3 hours agoWilliam Carlos Williams is one of the most celebrated American poets of the 20th century, yet he toiled in obscurity for much of his life. ...
- What rhymes with taxes and crime? - Times Union Blogs
 Every time I think my dinosaur brain has heard all possible government tripe, along comes more nonsense.  The Schenectady County Legislature last week created the position of poet laureate.  Rome is burning and these guys ponder official prose ...
- Idaho history: 'The greatest liar this country ever produced' - IdahoStatesman.com
Idaho history: 'The greatest liar this country ever produced'IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 3 hours agoMiller's critics probably outnumbered his admirers, for the quality of his poetry did not live up to the celebrity he had achieved. ...
- Short takes: 'Heaven' is a study of life on Earth - San Jose Mercury News
Short takes: 'Heaven' is a study of life on EarthSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 1 hour ago... violence) but engages them so honestly, with such sophistication, that what in "Babel" was a fuzzy-headed tract becomes sheer poetry. ...
- The week in Kenyan Blogs - Global Voices Online
The week in Kenyan BlogsGlobal Voices Online, MA - 2 hours agoWe conclude with some poetry, the piece “You” by lifemoments, and the piece “In Praise of Love” by Munaks,where he provides an english translation and ...
- Prince of Poets is growing stronger with each year - Khaleej Times
Prince of Poets is growing stronger with each yearKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 40 minutes agoNashwa said, "When they (ADACH) told us that they wanted to take classical poetry to the masses we knew straightaway that we would be perfect for this ...
- You don’t mess with the racism (Online Journal)
I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song , the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But damn you, Scuba Steve!
- Community datebook (7/15/08) (Anchorage Daily News)
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- Sunken Garden Festival Achieves Poetic Justice - Hartford Courant
Hartford CourantSunken Garden Festival Achieves Poetic JusticeHartford Courant, United States - 57 minutes agoIt was a celebration at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington Wednesday as the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival resumed after a year's hiatus. ...
- Yale and Harvard Teach Coprophagia - Cleveland Indy Media
Yale and Harvard Teach CoprophagiaCleveland Indy Media, OH - Jul 15, 2008... a perfect verse of poetry.) Maybe they'll leave my blog alone! Cut and paste my blog elsewhere for easy reading.) Forum Topix is playing the same game; ...
- "MVP" scrapes bottom of hockey's barrel of misogyny (Denver Post)
The New York TimesWithin the first few minutes of "MVP," a new drama — and I use that term as one might call "Big Momma's House" a film — a young woman barely out of her teens is straddling a guy upstairs during a party at her parents' Disney World castle of a house, and making royal demands: "You work for me now. Take your pants off."
- People’s Art On Foreign Shores - Tehelka
People’s Art On Foreign ShoresTehelka, India - 4 hours ago... the city hosts a festival called Vicino/Lontano or Near and Far: a cultural blowout in which Chinese film makers, African poets, Muslim intellectuals, ...
- Iranian scholar to review Hafez influence on Goethe (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, July 28 (MNA) -- Iranian scholar Mahmud Falaki is writing a book on the effects of Hafez on Goethe.
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