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- Religious retreats: Head to the Catskills (AP via Yahoo! News)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Our Daily Bleg: What Are the Film Quotes of the Century? - New York Times Blogs
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro , editor of the Yale Book of Quotations , is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own , send it along here . Thanks again to all who contributed great suggestions of TV catchphrases, U.S. and ...
- Rabbi:The new rocker - Times of India
Rabbi:The new rockerTimes of India, India - 15 minutes agoMy mother, a Delhi college principal, has been writing Punjabi poetry for as long as I remember. My sister too writes Punjabi poetry,†says Rabbi, ...
- Peeblesshire News » News » 'Don't think twice, it's alright' as Dylan sells out (Peeblesshire News)
Bob Dylan has officially sold out! Limited edition graphics by the rock legend sold out within four days of going on sale at art gallery breeze.
- 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare recovered a decade after it was ... - Boston Globe
LONDON— It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C., and asked to have it ...
- Ryan Adams Vs. Courtney Love - ChartAttack
ChartAttackRyan Adams Vs. Courtney LoveChartAttack, Canada - 21 minutes agoA message on Adams' website says he's "currently working on his new album and forthcoming book of poetry" and that an art show of his paintings is being ...
- Jennifer Nix: Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul (HuffingtonPost)
I was living in Torino, Italy, when Bush's war on Iraq broke out, trying rather desperately to finish a collection of short stories I'd started...
- Friday Books Miscellany - Walrus Magazine
Walrus MagazineFriday Books MiscellanyWalrus Magazine, Canada - 1 hour agoYears ago, John was a professor of mine at the University of Toronto for a course called Poetry and Prose 1500-1600. It was one of the best classes I’ve ...
- Ringo and pals deliver genial tour through hits - Boston Globe
Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band shows are like a dinner party. The amiable Beatles legend invites a few friends over and, with hope, the mood is lively, awkward lulls are avoided, and everyone goes home happy and hoping to do it again some time. Last ...
- Cortese wins Columbia 300 scholarship (InsideNoVa.com)
Columbia 300 has announced Natalie Cortese, a Hoffman Estates, Ill. resident, as the winner of the 2007-08 John Jowdy Scholarship.
- Joyce Carol Oates' 'My Sister, My Love': mesmerizing, long (Austin American-Statesman)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' novels feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. "My Sister, My Love," her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- School remembers 'gifted' teenager - St. Albans Observer
HUNDREDS of students today paid their respects to a teenager who died unexpectedly at the weekend. Fourteen-year-old Rupert Marson died at his home in Boundary Road in St Albans on Sunday morning. The 'popular and bright' boy was remembered at a ...
- A local story set to chamber music plays out in Port - Newburyport Daily News
Trio 498 sets the greatest love affair of the 19th century to music when it performs a preseason event for the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival on Sunday. The concert takes place in the newly renovated Carriage House at 203 High St. in Newburyport ...
- Portsmouth v Manchester United - live! - Guardian Unlimited
Portsmouth's Peter Crouch has a good touch for a big man, but a mediocre goalscoring rate for a striker. Photo: Alex Livesey/Getty Images Preamble: The Ride of the Valkyries booming out from the Tannoy. A smattering of players warming up half ...
- Sitting back from publisher's role, his eye for talent's still true - Boston Globe
Early this summer, a little-known novel ("DeNiro's Game") published by a little-known publishing house (New Hampshire's Steerforth Press) won one of the world's largest literary awards. It was a coup for a Cambridge man, Roland Pease, who edited the ...
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