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- How Islam Came to Germany - Der Spiegel
The sun sets behind the Yanidze complex in Dresden, the mosque-inspired former home to a tobacco factory. The history of Islam in Germany is believed to date back to the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. In the fabled tales of "1001 Nights," al-Rashid is said ...
- Ralph Steadman Answers Your Questions - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsRalph Steadman Answers Your QuestionsNew York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoBy Stephen J. Dubner He graciously fielded your questions about his friendship with the late Hunter Thompson (a “partnership and provocation,” he called it) ...
- We don't need a Poet Laureate - Guardian Blogs
Rumoured to have been ruled out in 1999 by Tony Blair, but would Carol Ann Duffy have said yes? Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Chloe Garner's campaign for the appointment of a female Poet Laureate is no doubt well intentioned. I've nothing against ...
- Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson wed in Boulder - Daily Camera
Nick Forster had a ready answer when he got a call last month looking for someone to perform a wedding for Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson in Boulder. "I said, 'Actually, I could,'" Forster said. So the co-host of the environmentally themed "etown ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - Times Daily
Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The Niagara ...
- Durham Bulls still bask in Hollywood glory - The Ledger
Durham Bulls still bask in Hollywood gloryThe Ledger, FL - 7 minutes ago"There's a lot of poetry and a unique spirit to the game. There's some really beautiful writing in the movie about the game itself, and so I think on a more ...
- Hope College offering courses during Summer Seminar - Holland Sentinel
Four courses designed for a general audience will be presented during the week-long Summer Seminar program at Hope College this year. The seminars will run July 28 through Aug. 1. The courses are “Creative Writing: Sampler — Playing with Poetry ...
- Island Poet Takes Us Under Water (The Lakeland Ledger)
I've lived all my life on the plains, where no body of water is more than a few feet deep, and even at that shallow depth I'm afraid of it.Here Sam Green, who lives on an island north of Seattle, takes us down into some really deep, dark water.Night DiveDown here, no light but what we carry with us.
- Mamet's 'Redbelt' raises action filmmaking to an art (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
"Redbelt" takes Mamet into territory no one otherwise would have predicted, the martial-arts thriller of honorable expert fighters, international competition and sinister organizers who corrupt the process.
- Hunt for Karadzic: Paddy goes OTT - First Post
First PostHunt for Karadzic: Paddy goes OTTFirst Post, UK - 4 hours ago... he might have stopped him publishing - while still on the run, and to the horror of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague - a terrible book of poetry. ...
- Weakening Signals (Washington Post)
Bill Watson might play a four-hour piece by Bach, and then slap it on again, just because he felt like it. Or he might interrupt a Mahler symphony mid-spin, deciding instead to recite poetry or blend news bulletins with reports from his "Roman Empire correspondent," Edward Gibbon.
- 'Everything Is Cinema': A forgiving biography of Jean-Luc Godard - International Herald Tribune
Everything Is Cinema The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard By Richard Brody Illustrated. 701 pages. $40. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. Richard Brody's "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard" is a story of transformation ...
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale - Popmatters.com
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 ...
- Busy Mathile opens doors for 'Oral Funk' - Dayton Daily News
It isn't big, but the Mathile Theatre in the Schuster Performing Arts Center is getting to be a busy place. A few weeks ago, Encore Theater Company sold out two performances of the musical "I Love You Because." Last weekend, the Sandstorm Dance ...
- Sounds of final partings fill Schultz’s verse - Kansas City Star
Sounds of final partings fill Schultz’s verseKansas City Star, MO - 3 hours agoThis is the second collection of verse for Schultz, who turned to poetry after retiring from the University of Kansas in 2001, where she was the ...
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