The James Logan Courier

By Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)

"Love N' Dancing" isn't a "Lifetime Original Movie." Not yet. But you can hear the commercials for it as you watch it.

"She couldn't feel until she learned to move. He couldn't hear until he listened to his heart. And switched on his hearing aid."

This edge-free competitive dance drama doesn't drift much from its formula — pretty school teacher (Amy Smart of the "Crank" movies) lives in the shadow with dullish fiance (Billy Zane) until she starts taking West Coast Swing Dance lessons from the two-time U.S. champ, Jake (Tom Malloy).

By Margaret Talev and Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has a sweeping goal for his speech Thursday in Cairo, Egypt: to begin remaking the dynamic between the United States and Muslims abroad.
He'll declare a clean break from the Bush administration's "war-on-terror" approach to foreign affairs and forcefully endorse establishing a Palestinian state.

From wikipedia:
Alfonsina Storni (May 29, 1892 – October 25, 1938) was one of the most important Latin-American poets of the postmodernism movement.

Alfonsina was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland to an Argentine beer industrialist living in Switzerland for a few years. There, Alfonsina learned to speak Italian. After the family's business had failed, it opened a tavern in the city of Rosario, Argentina, where Alfonsina worked at a variety of chores.

In 1907, she joined a traveling theatre company which took her around the country. With them she performed in Henrik Ibsen's Spectres, Benito Pérez Galdós's La loca de la casa, and Florencio Sánchez's Los muertos.

Read some of Alfonsina Storni's poems, free from famouspoetsandpoems.com.