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- Maimed Manifestos - Kolkata Newsline
Maimed ManifestosKolkata Newsline, India - 2 hours agoFrom blogs to street plays, activism to poetry, spirited expression has been the hallmark of a Kolkata youngster. Then what went wrong with youth magazines? ...
- Oedipus, NT Olivier, London In the Red and Brown Water, Young Vic, London The White Devil, Menier Chocolate Factory, ... (Independent)
Ralph Fiennes' Oedipus is on top of the world. In director Jonathan Kent's new modern-dress vision of Sophocles' tragedy, Fiennes strides from the gilded portal of his Theban palace. The ground beneath his feet is domed like the curvature of the earth. Shorn-headed, this is a leader exuding aristo-thuggish potency, like a glaring polar bear.
- Town Commons: What's happening on the South Shore Dec. 18-26, 2008 - Daily News Tribune
Harpist Aine Minogue will perform at The Old Ship Coffeehouse off the Square, Sunday, Dec. 21, at 4 p.m. The Coffeehouse off the Square is at the Old Ship Church Parish Hall, 107 Main St., in Hingham Square just up from the Loring Hall Theater and on ...
- World War II prison escapee dies - BBC News
BBC NewsWorld War II prison escapee diesBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoA member of Inverness Gaelic Society, Mr Maclean was also inspired to write Gaelic poetry about his war-time days. He retired from a senior post at ...
- Preserving a poet's legacy - Myrtle Beach Sun News
Preserving a poet's legacyMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 4 hours ago"A lot of people who come are still familiar with his poetry," said Sarah Perschall, chief of visitor services for the park. "Folks who are retired remember ...
- Quirky cafe comes to the end of its life - The Press
The PressQuirky cafe comes to the end of its lifeThe Press, New Zealand - 10 hours agoThe cafe had been a popular meeting place for poetry, art, gym and church groups, and had attracted patrons from afar. Smith has been in the hospitality ...
- Athletes’ infatuation with guns makes no sense - Boston Herald
T o honor Sean Taylor, who was gunned down a year ago in the prime of his football career, his family and the Redskins made an interesting song choice while his highlights played on the video screen before Sunday’s game against the Giants. It was ...
- Blacksmith Simmons' home on track to become museum - Charleston Post & Courier
Sitting in a wheelchair in his sun-filled room at an upscale James Island retirement community, 96-year-old Philip Simmons folds his large, age-spotted hands into his lap and thinks about what it means to live to see his former home become a museum ...
- The history boy - Inside Housing
The history boyInside Housing, UK - 2 hours agoScene after scene of black and white archive footage streams forth, set to music by Mahler and poetry by TS Eliot. Mr Davies manages to get away with ...
- Adam Bock is a good listener - Boston Phoenix
"I'M ALWAYS MANIPULATING LANGUAGE," SAID BOCK. When Adam Bock first came to Providence in the late '80s, after a friend told him there was this great playwriting teacher at Brown, he was busting with unstoppable aspiration. When Paula Vogel told ...
- Pal blames me after poem caused split with boyfriend - Glasgow Daily Record
Pal blames me after poem caused split with boyfriendGlasgow Daily Record, UK - 8 hours agoIt was a funny poem I'd made up about him. But they'd made up and he saw the poem which included some stuff she told me about his willy not being very big. ...
- Vigo author remembers roots (Terre Haute Tribune Star)
Josh Bell can’t remember the first poem he ever had published, but he remembers receiving many, many rejection slips before that first success, he says.
- Thoughts in Exile - Egypt Today
Oscillating between hope and despair, submission and rebellion, gravity and playfulness, she turns hawk-like to my colleague. “Beware,†she says, “My face changes every passing moment. One minute I’m beautiful, the next I’m ugly. You must ...
- State reading association hosting Biloxi conference (The Clarion-Ledger)
The Mississippi Reading Association Conference is set for Dec. 7-10 at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi with the theme "What's your story? Live it, Write it, Read it!"
- Programs to keep kids on right track counting on Measure O (Ventura County Star)
"Mexicans don't know what roast beef is," joked Armando Vazquez as he chatted with a group of 25 Latino teens. Some of the kids laughed and shot back that they did know what roast beef was. Everyone seemed to be in on the joke about stereotypes. There would be roast beef sandwiches later on.
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