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High season for book fairs and festivals: Midsummer's Harlem Book Fair highlights a year-round calendar of events
EVERY YEAR, THOUSANDS OF BOOKLOVERS GATHER AT FESTIVALS around the country to hear their favorite authors, buy more books and celebrate the solitary ......(Continue Reading) The final act: with more shows every year, you might think that Scotland's annual arts bazaar was alive and kicking. But quality has plunged, and the average
It's over. At the risk of catapulting myself into pole position for the Curmudgeonly Old Git Award (Coga), I have to tell you it's curtains for the Edinburgh Festival. True, this bizarre bazaar is...(Continue Reading)Ultimate guide to summer 2003: your guide to concerts, festivals, outdoor activities, & lodging - Special Advertising Section
PERFORMANCES Special lighting is provided by the moon and stars, choral accompaniment is compliment by chirping crickets and ribbiting frogs. Picnickers ......(Continue Reading)Danu follows road to 'Pheoria' - Band brings Irish music to Gateway
PEORIA - Contrary to what you might have heard, the members of Danu don't need a spelling lesson. When the seven-member band from Ireland released ......(Continue Reading)The ecstasy of God's dancers: now more than ever the world needs a gentle, tolerant version of Islam. Sufism is exactly that, but it faces growing hostility
Six years ago, in the autumn of 1998, I was sitting in a roadside tea shop surrounded by the desert landscape of Rajasthan, when I saw a succession of bicycle rickshaws appear over the horizon. The...(Continue Reading)
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