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- Frieda C. Freedman, Hebrew school teacher - Philadelphia Inquirer
When she was 90, Frieda Cohen Freedman taught her last student, reading children's poetry from the time of the Holocaust. The student was a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, studying for her bat mitzvah. On Monday, Mrs. Freedman, 92, a Hebrew ...
- Sedlescombe resident wins fiction prize - Rye and Battle Today
Sedlescombe resident wins fiction prizeRye and Battle Today, UK - 6 hours agoKay MacMullan, from Sedlescombe, came first in the prose fiction category, with Robertsbridge resident Jules Hammond taking second place. ...
- Community Briefs (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)
Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of death for women in California, but early detection saves lives, according to the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department.
- Fall arts guide: Schedules for local arts groups (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Venue is Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville Civic Center ( www.ashevillebravoconcerts.org ). Tickets available at box office and 251-5505.
- Metalhead memories roar back to big screen - Columbus Dispatch
Columbus DispatchMetalhead memories roar back to big screenColumbus Dispatch, OH - 2 hours agoDoes one not thrill to hear ringing poetry such as "I just wanna make some eardrums bleed!"? Studio 35 will screen This Is Spinal Tap , the 1984 ...
- How to fly without fear (Independent)
Last week's "terror plunge" to an emergency landing by a Qantas jumbo jet will have done little to soothe the intense fear of flying suffered by one in five of the UK population. Boarding an aeroplane may actually be the safest form of travel, but being stuck in a metal tube, 39,000 feet in the air, can exacerbate so many other phobias: fear of crowds, heights, confined spaces and loss of ...
- The Noble Bowzer - Reason.com
Two members of Sha Na Na take to the pages of Columbia College Today to explore the recent scholarly interest in ... Sha Na Na. An excerpt: During the revolution the year before, the Vietnam-era culture wars had escalated into fist fights, even mob ...
- Headlines ... well, just read below - Evansville Courier-Press
As you may know, there's a town in Southern Illinois called Oblong. Another in the central part of the Prairie State bears the name Normal. And so it is that a friend swears he once saw this headline in a local newspaper: "Normal man marries Oblong ...
- CD Review: Jamey Johnson's 'That Lonesome Song' gutty, gritty thrill (Tucson Citizen)
Jamey Johnson's "That Lonesome Song" delivers a salt-of-the-earth antidote for those who consider contemporary country music too slick and sentimental.
- Matthew Bruccoli - Guardian Unlimited
Matthew J Bruccoli was in his teens when he first heard the name of F Scott Fitzgerald, attached to a reading of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz on the radio of his parents' car during a Sunday afternoon ride. The next morning he went straight to his ...
- Michael Rosen: 'Give children books, not SATs' - The Independent
The children's laureate, Michael Rosen, is a fierce critic of the Government's education policies. He's against testing – and wants pupils to be excited by literature again. Andy Sharman talks to him Michael Rosen, the children's laureate, can't ...
- Arts&Culture Drawing the line Local artists Bob Garner and Rod Caudill show their different styles at the Upper Crust. (Chico News & Review)
Local visual artist and poet Bob Garner, known for his signature minuscule watercolor paintings and his spare, evocative poetry, brings his love for the...
- Poet Hayden Carruth dies - Newsday
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. - Hayden Carruth, an award winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont , has died. Carruth, who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 70s, died Monday at his home in Munnsville, N.Y. after suffering a stroke a ...
- Nightingale has a tale from dark side - Tulsa World
Summer has gone, and so has the tendency to stack light-hearted musicals on top of each other. But once in a while, something different and darker comes around. At the Nightingale Theater, the Actor's Company of Tulsa is putting up a little 1928 ...
- Haiku Friday: It’s time for your presidential poetry - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Haiku Friday: It’s time for your presidential poetrySt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - Oct 9, 2008By Kurt Greenbaum I’m sorry, but the news has been too grim this week. We have had local crimes and national scandals, the Dow keeps setting new records for ...
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