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- 1 p.m. - Sinangan-ta poetry slam tomorrow night (Pacific Daily News)
1 p.m. Aug. 29 — Those looking for a little knowledge and inspiration can head down to PTC tomorrow night for this month's Sinangan-ta poetry slam. Those looking to participate should bring two pieces to perform for a chance at the $100 prize.
- Taoiseach joins leading theatre companies as Irish take Manhattan - Irish Times
Taoiseach joins leading theatre companies as Irish take ManhattanIrish Times, Ireland - 7 hours agoThe Abbey is in New York staging its production of American writer Sam Shepherd's Kicking a Dead Horse. Mr Cowen was uncharacteristically diffident in such ...
- Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'? (WorldNetDaily)
For years, I had a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging on my living room wall. I had painted it while in high school in New York at a salon overseen by Helen Farr Sloan, the widow of famed American painter John Sloan and herself a painter of no small talent.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas. President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of national mourning to honor ...
- Pittsburgh’s Artistic 250th Celebration Underway - PNN
Pittsburgh’s Artistic 250th Celebration UnderwayPNN, VA - 2 hours agoShe is a Scholar of Poetry at Middlebury College in Vermont and the author of a 2005 book, “At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing. ...
- Artie Traum: Greenwich Village folk star - The Independent
He shared a manager with Bob Dylan, toured with the Band, composed the film score for a Brian de Palma movie and played on 35 albums, but Artie Traum is probably most warmly celebrated as a supreme acoustic guitar stylist. One of the first Americans ...
- Step Brothers, X-Files invade multiplexes - Creative Loafing Sarasota
Step Brothers, X-Files invade multiplexesCreative Loafing Sarasota, FL - 42 minutes agoThe smoothly digestible freneticism of WALL-E's last act is a bit of a let-down after the near-minimalist poetry of the unconventional opening passages ...
- DICK HELLER: Kahn recalls stories of summer (The Washington Times)
I encountered an old literary friend recently, and you can, too. His name is Roger Kahn, and he promptly reaffirmed his status as one of the best baseball writers ever to apply pen, typewriter or word processor to the erstwhile national pastime.
- Promoting reading habit via Selangor Book Fair - New Straits Times
Realising that good reading habit is an innate feature of a knowledge society, the 2008 Selangor Book Fair was launched on last Saturday to promote reading habit in the society. Sarwani Abdul Jalal, the Selangor Public Library Corporation’s (PPAS ...
- From the Editor - Colby Magazine
Colby MagazineFrom the EditorColby Magazine, ME - 4 hours agoBlue-jeaned and pony-tailed when he taught me contemporary poetry in 1976, he was Bob way back then. Calmly soft-spoken, unfailingly gentle, unswerving in ...
- The Power of Music in the Ancient World - Cybergrass
The Power of Music in the Ancient WorldCybergrass - 6 minutes agoHistory was chanted in myth and poetry. We can translate most ancient languages but much of the feeling and meaning of what the chants conveyed are hidden ...
- Politics in Comics: Mr. A - LubbockOnline.com
Politics in Comics: Mr. ALubbockOnline.com, TX - 39 minutes agoA story about LA’s gangs, lead by a teen girl, taking on the LAPD sounds like something that’d have something to say about racial politics, cop culture, ...
- Weekend's Best Bets, Aug. 1 - 3 - NRToday.com
Weekend's Best Bets, Aug. 1 - 3NRToday.com, OR - 10 minutes agoRiverbend Live! continues with Cowboy Poetry by Dan Roberts and RJ Vandygriff. Roberts wrote Garth Brooks’ No. 1 hit “Beaches of Cheyenne” and Vandygriff ...
- Harvest of fall films promises quality stories, stellar casts - MLive.com
Star power: Brad Pitt appears in the Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading." Summer blockbusters? Totally overrated. Well, usually. This summer was different, considering it produced two of the year's best films, "WALL-E" and "The Dark Knight." But ...
- The Insomniac's Guide to Late-Night TV Movies July 28-Aug. 2 - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), 11 p.m. TCM. Starring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien and Mary Astor. One of the finest musicals ever made. In addition to the title song, Garland sings "The Trolley Song" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ...
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