A little sympathy for the returning expat

BEIRUT: Playwrights create alternate realities in script. Directors strive to use the theater's diverse facets - lighting, sound effects, props, costume - to make that reality come alive on stage. This was evidently the premise of Tunisian thespian Wahid Ajami, the director and co-writer of "Yin3ad 3leik" (May it happen to you again), which just began a week-long run at Masrah Beirut

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Kent State University’s Downtown Art Gallery and Wick Poetry Center, in collaboration with Soldier’s Heart veterans’ organization, present “Speak Peace: American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children’s Paintings, The Vietnamese Children’s Art Exhibit” at KSU’s Downtown Gallery, 141 E. Main St. in Kent. Exhibit pairs Vietnamese children’s paintings with poetry written by American children ...

Delaware Valley Arts Alliance to host seminars on writing grant proposals

The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance is hosting two free seminars on grant writing for state money for cultural events in 2011.

EPA fracking hearings back on in Binghamton

That on again/off again Environmental Protection Agency hearing on gas drilling has been rescheduled for this month in its original location, Binghamton.

Bascom Group Acquires a Distressed 360-Unit Luxury Class A Apartment Community in San Antonio, Texas in Receivership

The Bascom Group, LLC has acquired The Retreat at Canyon Springs Apartments, a 360-unit luxury Class A property constructed in 2001. The sale closed on August 26, 2010. The apartment community is located in the exclusive Stone Oak subdivision of San Antonio, Texas.