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- Utah Phillips: radical US folksinger and pacifist - Times Online
Utah Phillips was an American folk singer, story-teller and political activist of the old school who kept alive the freewheeling hobo spirit of Woody Guthrie. He was born Bruce Duncan Phillips in 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were both labour ...
- Cult Roots Rocker Reissued (CMJ)
Hailing from Miami, Charlie Pickett was the Richard Belzer of '80s roots rock—musicians lauded him as the best, but most music fans never really got around to lifting him above cult status.
- Unfinished Universe was his book and his business - Lexington Herald-Leader
Pat White was a popular UK English teacher and long-time co-owner of a furniture making and restoration business. Pat White’s book Unfinished Universe remains unfinished. At some point, his family plans to do something about the book, which he’d ...
- For Angelou, life is poetry - Cincinnati Enquirer
It takes just seconds to leave behind this muted Harlem side street and enter the parlor of Maya Angelou's brownstone, a step as bright and quick as a black-and-white film dissolving into Technicolor. Plump sofas and armchairs in bursts of green and ...
- Understanding the book of Isaiah - Progress Index
Understanding the book of IsaiahProgress Index, VA - 3 hours agoTranslating idiomatic expressions, such as those in verse 5, and poetry is even more difficult because of poetic license and symbolic imagery. ...
- Behind the scenes and beyond the speeches at the Tonys - Chicago Sun-Times
Behind the scenes and beyond the speeches at the TonysChicago Sun-Times, United States - 2 hours agoAnd you could sense the difference as soon as they came to the stage to make their acceptance speeches — speeches that reflected their love of language and ...
- 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?' - OhmyNews International
OhmyNews International'And When Did You Last See Your Father?'OhmyNews International, South Korea - 2 hours agoAn honest and unsentimental film, it brings dignity to the subject of family relationships and has a powerful conclusion that left much of the audience, ...
- Breakfast of Champions 7/14: "That Guy" edition - Minneapolis City Pages
Breakfast of Champions 7/14: "That Guy" editionMinneapolis City Pages, MN - 2 hours agoDuring out friendship his role was to write good poetry; mine was to write mediocre poetry and coordinate our community endeavors. Each role fit us smartly, ...
- Cleveland's WCLV to air complete 'Ring' cycle to salute Olympics - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Many music lovers consider Wagner's "Ring" cycle an event of Olympian proportions. After all, the saga contains almost 15 hours of music and requires singers of heroic accomplishments, not to mention a conductor and orchestra of inspired gifts. Peter ...
- Capturing the Enormity of the Shoah - Jewish Exponent
Jewish ExponentCapturing the Enormity of the ShoahJewish Exponent, PA - 50 minutes agoThe critics quoted above were generally speaking of an approach to written creativity -- poetry and novels. The argument gets far more complex when faced ...
- Muppets, Beat poets influence Tamblyn's work - Knoxville News Sentinel
Amber Tamblyn says that art imitates life in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2." "They literally lifted our personal characters into the film, so what you're seeing are real friendships, real bickering, real moments, real laughter, real inside ...
- Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen Say "I Do" (US Weekly)
American Pie star Jason Biggs and actress Jenny Mollen will say "I do" before 40 to 50 guests somewhere in Napa shortly after sundown tonight several sources confirm to Us. But it won't be for the first time! The pair got hitched at City Hall in Los Angeles with no friends or family present on April 23. Usmagazine.com first broke the news of their engagement in January. The two began ...
- Journalist's writings survive tragic life (The Pantagraph)
BLOOMINGTON -- One of the hidden treasures of the McLean County Museum of History is a collection of newspaper-styled journals written more than 100 years ago. | From Our Past page
- Latino poets bring different perspectives to ‘The Wind Shifts’ (Register Pajaronian)
Published in 2007, “The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry” represents a breakdown of the conventions that once governed the craft of the Latino poet. A reading from the anthology tonight at Cabrillo College’s Watsonville Center will showcase Latino poetry as it exists today.
- Tribute to a mate (Wingham Chronicle)
Killabakh bush poet Roderick Williams has returned from the Henry Lawson Festival at Gulgong with a prize for a very personal poem he wrote as a tribute to one of his mates.
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