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- Elsie von Maur, driving force of Quad-City symphony, dies at 106 (Quad-City Times)
The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra used to practice on Sunday afternoons in Davenport’s Masonic Temple, sometimes only to a one-person audience of Elsie von Maur.
- Why We Travel To India - Reading Little India
Why We Travel To IndiaReading Little India, PA - 2 hours agoNo amount of poetry can quite rescue us from that itch. We settle into this complacency, knowing that this world is too comfortable and what we left behind ...
- Success in SILENCE (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
When Andre McLean entered Brian Russell's technology-education class three years ago at Salem Church Middle School, the seventh-grader was unaware that Russell also was the school's track coach.
- Stanford reading rescues poet who wrote of loss, destitution and abandonment (Stanford Report)
Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about.
- Cambridge students examined on Amy Winehouse song (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
They might not be Shakespeare or Wordsworth but lyrics by soul singer Amy Winehouse have been included in a Cambridge University literature exam for the first time.
- LAO guide to the book festival - LA Observed
LAO guide to the book festivalLA Observed, CA - Apr 25, 200810:30 am — Pulitzer-winning author and former Times book editor Jack Miles moderates "Poetry & Criticism," a panel that includes New Yorker staff writer ...
- Filipino revolution retold in play - Jam! Showbiz
Jam! ShowbizFilipino revolution retold in playJam! Showbiz, Canada - 12 minutes ago... using little more than a bare stage, the often powerful poetry of Len Cervantes, a passle of photographs and their own commitment and skill. ...
- London bishop to investigate gay church ceremony (AP via Yahoo! News)
The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines.
- On 'Viva La Vida,' Coldplay's new sound leaves listeners adrift - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Every time the heart-sleeved Brits in Coldplay release a new album of earnestly overwrought anthems, chief 'Play boy Chris Martin swears they've changed their sound. He thinks he's telling the truth. He's not. Detractors dig at Martin ...
- Amy Winehouse Studied - Undercover Music News
Students at Cambridge University are studying a song by Amy Winehouse. 'Love Is A Losing Game' from her 'Back To Black' album is being discussed as poetry for English literature students of the University. The students are studying the Winehouse song ...
- New play based on a series of words found in an Internet search log (Jam! Showbiz)
PHILADELPHIA - They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: "Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo." Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person?
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies (AP via Yahoo! News)
Michael Norton — who spent nearly two decades covering Haiti's coups, rebellions and disasters for The Associated Press — died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66.
- 'Kite on the Wind' Tethered by Its Script - Washington Post
Washington Post'Kite on the Wind' Tethered by Its ScriptWashington Post, United States - Apr 9, 2008During the course of "Kite," we learn about the Pashtun and the Punjabi, about the spring festival of Basant, and about the classical poetry form the ghazal ...
- Peterborough Festival 2008: Opening celebrations and Central Park ... - Peterborough Today
Peterborough Festival 2008: Opening celebrations and Central Park ...Peterborough Today, UK - 7 hours agoAt Central Park, in a weekend geared very much towards families, visitors can take their first steps on the free Fantasy Poetry Trail. ...
- Urdu awards event set for May 15 - Gulf Times
Urdu awards event set for May 15Gulf Times, Qatar - 7 hours agoTHE annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards ceremony and the Aalmi Mushaira (International poetry symposium) will be held at the Doha Sheraton on May 15. ...
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