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- First Night: Grace Jones, Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall (Independent)
"Pleased to meet you, your meat is sweet to me... you're my life support,you’re my life sport," booms Grace Jones’s 10ft-tall face from a white screen. Her face melts and stretches like the liquid metal cyborg from Terminator 2, as thumping tribal bass backs her android poetry.
- VIPs tell students that character counts (The Arizona Republic)
El Mirage VIPs like Councilman Roy Delgado and Police Chief Michael Frazier recently joined Dysart Elementary students and staff to celebrate the growth of the Character Counts program at the school.
- Just Saying - New York Times Blogs
Just SayingNew York Times Blogs, NY - 12 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Nuyorican Poets Café Still "Aloud And Alive At 35" - NY1
A hallowed Lower East Side spot for urban poetry and New York’s Puerto Rican culture celebrates its 35th birthday this weekend. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Diana Gitesha Hernandez has been performing at the Nuyorican Poets ...
- No-shorts Rule In Effect for Summer - Wall Street Journal
No-shorts Rule In Effect for SummerWall Street Journal - 1 hour agoOr is it going to hurt the next tier of banks?" We have the rest of the summer to find out whether this anti-shorts plan was poetry or will crash in a flash.
- Doris Dörrie and Natasha Arthy - Bright Lights Film Journal
Bright Lights Film JournalDoris Dörrie and Natasha ArthyBright Lights Film Journal - 58 minutes agoCherry Blossoms insists on poetry as the way out. While the film is also flawed (much as her outfit revealed a hodgepodge assortment of flashy color, ...
- Hawai'i author up for U.K. award (Honolulu Advertiser)
Honolulan Patricia Wood's "Lottery" is the only American work short-listed for the prestigious 2008 Orange Prize, to be named June 4. Wood, who lives aboard a houseboat at Ko Olina and is a graduate student in education, disability and diversity at the University of Hawai'i, will be in England for the awards program.
- Gary Valenciano touched by kind words of friend Martin Nievera - Philippine Entertainment Portal
Philippine Entertainment PortalGary Valenciano touched by kind words of friend Martin NieveraPhilippine Entertainment Portal, Philippines - 1 hour agoSinabi rin ni Martin sa write-up by Ricky Lo, that Gary is like poetry in motion. "He always said that before. He's watching me all the time, di ba? ...
- A spark from heaven - Jerusalem Post
A spark from heavenJerusalem Post, Israel - 2 hours agoIt's such beautiful poetry," he said. "I sat down at the piano, closed my eyes, and a melody came for this ancient prayer in full form from beginning to end ...
- Fantasy Steals and Other All-Star Wisdom - Wall Street Journal
Even the most cold-hearted of fantasy baseball players — those married to the numbers and responding to trade offers with one-word rejections — sometimes feel something that make them act irrationally. There's a reason that volumes of poetry and ...
- 'I don't make things easy' - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk'I don't make things easy'guardian.co.uk, UK - 54 minutes agoWithin three months she had amassed enough songs to fill an album; the engineer at the studio played them to a friend who ran a small record label in Oxford ...
- Concerts celebrate Ash Grove’s golden legacy (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Ed Pearl, 70, silver-haired and feisty, will forever be associated with the Ash Grove, the folk club he opened 50 years ago with a $5,000 investment, despite the fact that the venue's been closed for a quarter century.
- Cancer Society celebrates survivors - Caymen Net News
More than 70 cancer survivors and their family and supporters attended the Cayman Islands Cancer Society’s (CICS) annual Tea Party in the Grand Orchid Ballroom of the Marriott Beach Resort on Sunday, 22 June. With the theme ‘Hands of Hope’, the ...
- Time to gear up for summer reading - The News-Press
Time to gear up for summer readingThe News-Press, FL - 59 minutes agoPlayful poetry depicting traditional summer games, such as jumping rope, hopscotch, jacks and monkey in the middle make reading about it as much fun as ...
- Daily Planner for June 6 - Chico Enterprise-Record
ORLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND GALLERY: 3-7 p.m. 1016 South St. Artist's reception 5-7 p.m. Artist Ellen Heise's work through June 14. (Regular gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m.) AUTHOR APPEARANCE: 3 p.m. Lyon Books, 121 W. Fifth St. Book signing by Tom ...
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