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- John Densmore's jazz education - Los Angeles Times
THE GREAT jazz drummer Elvin Jones carried on a constant musical conversation with John Coltrane. It inspired me to have that kind of dialogue with Jim Morrison. Not that I was in Elvin's league, but his courage gave me the "huevos" to stop the ...
- Expanded Wing Luke Asian Museum's treasures are its stories - Seattle Times
Wing Luke's sisters — from left, Bettie Luke, Ruby Luke and Marge Young — with a photograph of Luke, Seattle's first Asian-American city councilmember. After seeing some Chinese slippers that a local shop owner had found in his basement, Luke ...
- You don't want to lose to (bleeping) Purdue (The Beacon News)
I guess the reason I empathize with Bobby Knight in his famous practice rant is because losing to Purdue really does stink, no matter who you are.
- Shepherd Bliss: Oil, Food and Agrotherapy (UN Observer)
2008-05-22 | Petroleum supplies slowly dwindle as demand rapidly soars. So the prices of gasoline and oil that supply modern societies with their industrial production of food will go up, up, and away. A radically different future than the oil-energized twentieth century is dawning.
- A Cabinet of Soviet Curiosities (The New York Sun)
Sometimes the smallest of things can illuminate the largest. A fossil tells the story of massive planetary change, a line or two of poetry does more to explain trench warfare than a dozen history books, and the miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard bring Gloriana's long vanished England back to iridescent, dangerous life. In writing "Lenin's Brain" (Hoover Institution Press, 163 pages, $15), Houston ...
- Gillian Ferguson: Lions versus lawyers - Scotland on Sunday Online
THERE are no stuffed lions in these parts. Not even a convincing lion costume. Or even one in the shape of a rug. Which is a shame, given that today is the eve of a decision on a legal battle I have found myself in with no less a power than the multi ...
- THIS WEEKEND IN WILLITS June 6 - Willits News
THIS WEEKEND IN WILLITS June 6Willits News, CA - 2 hours agoFree. PANCAKE BREAKFAST, 8-11 am at Harrah Senior Center. Pancakes, eggs, bacon/sausage or ham, juice, fruit and beverage. Cost $5 adult or $4 children. ...
- International conference explores Russian philosopher Bakhtin - Western News
More than 130 scholars from 26 countries will attend an international conference later this month at The University of Western Ontario dedicated to exploring the life of Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin. Much like the broad ...
- Fighting talk (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: When it opened 50 years ago The Birthday Party was slated, so how did it become such a classic?
- Five Southport schools join in star-backed Shine Week celebrations ... - Southport Visiter
Five Southport schools join in star-backed Shine Week celebrations ...Southport Visiter, UK - 14 hours agoJoining Shine is free at www.shineweek.co.uk and every school registered receives a free creative kit to help towards their celebrations. ...
- Diego Riviera's bicycle pursuit of Frida Kahlo in Hampstead (The Ham&High Network)
Unashamedly plundering characters from literature and art history, Mychael Barratt creates affectionate narrative paintings and prints with London settings.
- ASHANTI's New Album 'THE DECLARATION' Arrives in Stores - Centre Daily Times
ASHANTI's New Album 'THE DECLARATION' Arrives in StoresCentre Daily Times, PA - 2 hours agoShe is the author of the poetry collection Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love, and the forthcoming teen-targeted life and style book Ashanti Style (Jump ...
- Publisher lands job at hospital - Newsday
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The publisher of Journal Register Co.'s flagship newspaper, the New Haven Register, is leaving the company for a post at a New Haven hospital. Kevin Walsh will become vice president of development at Yale-New Haven Hospital on June ...
- SLV high school poets win ASC creative writing scholarships - Alamosa Valley Courier
Casey Diss, Brettli Decker, and Brittany Brown received scholarships to Adams State College after winning the English Department’s creative writing contest. ALAMOSA — On April 24, a poetry reading in the Adams State College Luther Bean Museum ...
- Ty: 'Hip-hop has no culture' (Independent)
"I hate the word alternative," says Ty. "I hate the word off-key, I hate the word jazzy and I hate the word laid-back. I'm not a laid-back person." That's for certain. A frown adds a touch of finality to his mini-rant. Ty has never been a fan of anything that suggests his unconventional existence in British hip-hop should paint him with the "alt" prefix. "I'm probably more disobedient with ...
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