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- Kathleen Norris says the demon you're fighting may really be age-old ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
The word might have died, but the state of being it describes is very much alive. The blues, boredom, ennui, an inability to care, cynicism, escapism -- these symptoms are really just acedia, masquerading as the modern condition, argues Norris. She ...
- Deport VFD hosts fellowship event (The Paris News)
The Deport Volunteer Fire Department is hosting an evening of music, fellowship and food at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Deport Fire Station. The event is free, but donations to the fire department are welcome. Free hot dogs, beans and chips will be served in the fire department bays.
- Pay raise for CCISD employees up for vote - Corpus Christi Caller
Voters can pick and choose from the seven proposals. The total $153 million can be covered under the city's current debt tax rate of 19.9 cents per $100 property valuation, city officials have said. CORPUS CHRISTI  It will be up to voters whether ...
- Prince shows off a different side for '21 Nights' - USA Today
Prince shows off a different side for '21 Nights'USA Today - 1 hour agoThe residency is chronicled in 21 Nights (Atria Books, $50), a coffee-table tome of Prince's lyrics and poetry and 124 previously unreleased photographs by ...
- Make straight for the Strule Arts Centre for Kiely Festival weekend - Ulster Herald (subscription)
Ulster Herald (subscription)Make straight for the Strule Arts Centre for Kiely Festival weekendUlster Herald (subscription), UK - 11 hours agoOn Saturday morning poet Frank Ormsby will read from his work, including his fourth poetry collection Fireflies which will be published by Carcanet Press in ...
- Collection of poetry walks off with Toronto Book Award (CBC)
Glen Downie's collection of poetry, Loyalty Management, has captured the 2008 Toronto Book Award, worth $11,000.
- NY Film Festival showcases stellar selections - Princeton University The Daily Princetonian
NY Film Festival showcases stellar selectionsPrinceton University The Daily Princetonian, United States - 5 hours agoThe film's numerous boldly colored dream sequences come off as violent visual poetry. Folman captures a war-torn world as if it is a waking nightmare. ...
- Hearts & minds - Sunday Herald
Hearts & mindsSunday Herald, UK - 3 hours agoBut equally important will be a professional news service closely attuned to local events, and plenty of entertainment in the form of music, local poetry ...
- Vilar's Amerindo Left Widow `Begging' for Her Money,' She Says (Bloomberg)
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Alberto Vilar 's Amerindo Investment Advisors Inc. reduced an 83-year-old widow who invested her entire $74,000 retirement savings to ``begging for my money,'' said the woman, who tried unsuccessfully to close her account.
- Calendar for 9/9/2008 (Fort Worth Weekly)
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Mamma Mia! Catherine Johnson, Benny Andersson, and Björn Ulvæus’ musical about a woman who invites three men who might be her biological father to her wedding on a Greek island. Sep 9-14. Bass Performance Hall, 555 Commerce St, FW. $30-88. 817-332-2272.
- A VILLAGE RULED BY THE WORD - Newark Star-Ledger
There were walks in the woods, gift shopping and food, hacky sack games and flirting, but the day was, ultimately, about words. Speaking words. Choosing the right word. The power of words, particularly the spoken word. That was the gift that many of ...
- I sing a song of myself (The Victoria Advocate)
As a highly decorated American poet, Mark Doty has a love for another highly regarded poet. As the October speaker for the American Book Review reading series, Doty discussed Walt Whitman's work and the impact "Leaves of Grass" still has today for readers.
- Happy Friday: News You Can Lose - Village Voice
Pixar's newest blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie’s gone before. And that’s a good thing. The Lives of Others has a superbly alienated title and a quintessentially 20th-century premise. Florian Henckel von ...
- Mattera's voice rises above the rest - Tonight South Africa
It's a feather in the cap of the festival organisers as well as an indication of the high regard it holds, when a prominent figure like our former president's wife, Zanele Mbeki, attends the Urban Voices Poetry festival. After a year's absence, the ...
- Making a book with the Bone Folders' Guild (Isthmus)
The Bone Folders' Guild exhibit at the Kohler Art Library is perhaps the atypical event at the Wisconsin Book Festival, where most of the sessions are centered on authors reading their prose or poetry aloud. This session was about the book itself. The book as object. Books separated from the words they usually contain.
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