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- Generations and Genres Mix at a Tap-Dance Party (New York Times)
Tap City 2008, a festival presented by the American Tap Dance Foundation, is a bit like a party where you don?t know a soul but the room is overflowing with communal love and gratitude.
- Shooting revisits magic of Pete Maravich era - Baton Rouge Advocate
It was a different time. The team played its home games on a basketball court that sat atop a dirt floor in what was essentially a rodeo arena. It’s star was a skinny kid who favored floppy, oversized socks. They were his lucky socks. He washed ...
- Cuban poet Carilda Oliver Labra on Her 86th Birthday - Cuba Headlines
Cuba HeadlinesCuban poet Carilda Oliver Labra on Her 86th BirthdayCuba Headlines, Cuba - 2 hours agoAt her age, she is very optimistic, full of energy and refuses to abandon poetry. Her visual-problems have deprived her momentarily of the pleasure of ...
- Jeff Biggers: Iran: Reading Tehran With Lolita (Time to Publish Iranian Writers) (HuffingtonPost)
While Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, chronicled her efforts to teach forbidden Western literature, most Americans would be hard pressed to recall a single novel from Nafisi's native country.
- Chasing the truth in Chile - San Francisco Gate
When a former bishop was democratically elected president of Paraguay last month, it signaled the end of another "southern-cone" dictatorship in Latin America. Elizabeth Farnsworth, in her North Beach office, was exultant. "The priest won!" she said ...
- THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: God's poetry - Coleraine Today
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: God's poetryColeraine Today, UK - 2 hours agoThe idea of Christian people being poems also highlights the failures of many who profess Christ. We would have to admit that our lives are far form perfect ...
- Court throws the book at Frost home trespassers - Los Angeles Times
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Club listings - Sun Chronicle
The Ancient Marinere, 7-9 Mechanic St., Foxboro. 508-543-5564. The Anvil Pub, 303 Sheers St., Wrentham. 508-384-3752. Chieftain Pub, 23 Washington St., Plainville. 508-643-9031 or www.chieftainpub.com . City Oasis, 50 Pleasant St., Norton. 508-223 ...
- May 14 2008 Edition (rss) (The Lexington News-Gazette)
Log in above for full coverage, or subscribe now! Selected cadets at Virginia Military Institute will benefit from a more robust Arabic language program, and the college will become a model for how other schools can teach the language, thanks to a grant award announced last week.
- Relive the '70s at Lord Hall exhibit - Bangor Daily News
Bangor Daily NewsRelive the '70s at Lord Hall exhibitBangor Daily News, ME - 1 hour agoIt’s one of the images now on display in "Art of the ’70s," an impressive exhibition that is being held in conjunction with the National Poetry Foundation ...New UMMA director plans to strengthen community ties Bangor Daily Newsall 2 news articles
- Mandela's 90th b'day celebrated (HT via Yahoo! India News)
Anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday was celebrated at Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, on Friday. The event, which concluded the school's Africa Week celebrations, began with a speech by Principal Jyoti Bose welcoming all the dignitaries, including Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma; South African High Commissioner to India ...
- Crossing between American and Egyptian cultures, he Said girls made ... - Dallas Observer
How radio show host Howard Garrett pushed Dallas to the center of the organic gardening movement through passion, principle and molasses Controversy is clearly Nas' best friend. The lively debate stirred up by 2006's Hip Hop Is Dead was trumped many ...
- Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island books - guardian.co.uk
Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island booksguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoHis books of poetry and prose are extraordinarily free and witty: full of invention, autobiography and the real world of Montserrat, England and France. ...
- Visual Mind Games - NY Arts Magazine
Visual Mind GamesNY Arts Magazine, NY - 3 hours agoHe expresses the heroic poetry of the extreme gesture—in this case a dialysis bag with wings—by challenging the impossible feat or legendary action. ...
- Pike paints positive picture of Grenfell College's future - Western Star
Western StarPike paints positive picture of Grenfell College's futureWestern Star, Canada - 4 hours agoShe also noted how several Grenfell professors — such as Randall Maggs and his book of poetry on hockey legend Terry Sawchuck — have had successful books ...
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