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Generations of love -- Author gives voice to five generations through book
Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M.Mothers are often the glue that holds a family together, keeping them grounded and simultaneously performing a daily juggling act of activities, chores and everything in between -- all something a Las Cruces author hopes to capture in her new book that...Tags: New York City, Mother's Day, Amazon.com Inc., Music, Authors
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OPINION: Send us your opinions in our new #Twitorial challenge
The Idaho StatesmanThe poet Robert Frost, who often wrote in the regimented style of metered verse, with rhymes no less, was fond of dissing free-verse poetry as "playing tennis without a net." We agree it is an extra challenge to get one's point across in a structured... -
"What if?" Sci-fi and poetry natural to Grayland writer
The Daily World, Aberdeen, Wash."I've only read about three sci-fi books, and none of them were yours," Bill Ransom remembers warning science-fiction legend Frank Herbert before they set about their first official collaboration, a novel called "The Jesus Incident." Ransom, about a...Tags: Entertainment Events, Book, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Labor Legislation, Electroencephalography
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Md. poet laureate Stanley Plumly comes to Hagerstown
chrisc@herald-mail.comStanley Plumly has received many awards and published many books in his long career in poetry. And for the past four years, the University of Maryland, College Park English professor has been Maryland’s poet laureate. But this particular honor...Tags: Barnesville, Human Interest, Colleges and Universities, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Customs and Tradition
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SPLM's Amum distances himself from dismissal of six members in Aweil
Sudan TribuneThe secretary-general of the South Sudan ruling party (SPLM), Pagan Amum, has distanced himself from the controversial dismissal of six members of his party in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, saying he did not want to get involved in "political allegations...Tags: Sudan, France
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?An Iliad? spins a classic to modern times
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y.A modern-day interpretation of "The Iliad" at Syracuse Stage connects the decade-long Trojan War and the siege of Troy that's depicted in Homer's poem to conflicts of today. The tale of "An Iliad" at Syracuse Stage, which begins Wednesday and runs...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), War of 1812, Denis O'Hare, International Military Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Five books by Chicago authors appearing at Lit Fest
In Thomas Dyja's cultural history of Chicago, "The Third Coast," he writes that in Nelson Algren's day, "being Chicago's Famous Writer was like winning the heavyweight title — there was only one at a time, and you kept the belt for as long as you...
Tags: Rogers Park, Edgar Allan Poe, Literature, Fiction, Nelson Algren
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Kevin Powers talks war, writing and 'The Yellow Birds'
Kevin Powers was 17 when he joined the U.S. Army. It was 1998: Sept. 11 was still three years away, and war didn't seem a likely possibility. He was following a path laid by his father, uncle and grandfathers — all of whom had served as well....
Tags: Tribune Tower, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Army
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Styx and REO Speedwagon revive a popular annual ritual
The Kansas City StarThis tour feels like an annual reunion, like a rite of post-winter: a four-hour orgy of songs more than three decades old unleashed upon a huge crowd in the best outdoor venue in Kansas City. REO Speedwagon and Styx returned to Starlight Theater on...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Young Man (music group), Dennis DeYoung, Barack Obama, Music
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The Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman column
The Charlotte ObserverMy college music teacher said the mark of a masterpiece is that we discover something new every time we encounter it. And what I discovered Friday night is how much Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has echoes of the previous eight. I heard the noble, striding...Tags: Music, Culture, Charlotte, Arts and Culture
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Cone sees drop in income; cites electronic health records system
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is not alone among Triad hospitals in struggling with the implementation of a complex electronic health records system. Cone Health, based in Greensboro, confirmed Friday it had an operating loss of $13.4 million...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Finance, Medical Research, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Marketing
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Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater
In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Anna Leonowens, Music Theater, Theater, Palace Theater
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