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- The death of meaning - Arts Journal
I went to a vocal recital. Doesn't matter where, or who sang. I'll just say that she's an older soprano, a star in both opera and lieder, nearing the end of her career. The setting and audience were genteel. When the singer and her pianist appeared ...
- National year of reading focus falls on rhythm and rhyme - Hampstead and Highgate Express
National year of reading focus falls on rhythm and rhymeHampstead and Highgate Express, UK - 2 hours agoEvery member of our staff has chosen a favourite poetry book for the window. Choices range from the classic I Saw Esau, Iona Opie's seminal gathering of ...
- Citizens, alliance support Boston's at-risk youth - Boston Globe
Citizens, alliance support Boston's at-risk youthBoston Globe, United States - 17 minutes ago"At the cafes, youth learn violence prevention training while engaging in fun activities, including poetry slams, cook-offs, movie nights, and talent shows ...
- By SHIRLEY WEST (The Post-Journal)
RIPLEY — Ripley Central School sixth-graders wowed parents and faculty this past week with a presentation of original poems. "The students worked very hard on this," said Susan Hammond, secondary school principal. "It is all their own original work.
- Poetic and turbulent look at 'Yangtze' - Boston Globe
In his masterful and haunting documentary "Up the Yangtze," Yung Chang shows the old China drowning helplessly under the weight of the new. Looming over the film, physically and metaphorically, is the nearly complete Three Gorges Dam in the interior ...
- Summer is for reading (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Summer's almost here, and kids are counting the days until they can put their textbooks to rest for a while. But that doesn't mean all books have to be tossed aside. Area libraries and literacy programs are hoping to encourage kids to keep reading for fun all summer long with an array of activities and special events. .Catch the Reading Bug. is the summer reading program theme at many ...
- Video: Borders(R) Launches New E-Commerce Site (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
After seven years of being teamed with Amazon.com for e-commerce, it's independence day for Borders as the company today launches its own new e-commerce site that is rich with innovative features and positions Borders as a leader in delivering a true cross-channel experience for customers.
- Arts community feels snub as council picks Gloucester's new poet ... - Boston Globe
"The noise of debate makes music," Gloucester poet John Ronan once wrote in a tribute to his flinty hometown. But the noise of late has hardly been music to his ears. Ronan's recent appointment as Gloucester's second poet laureate, following the ...
- Entertainment Briefs: Friday, May 9, 2008 - NewsOK.com (subscription)
NewsOK.com (subscription)Entertainment Briefs: Friday, May 9, 2008NewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 22 hours ago"Juxtaposing his dueling worlds of music and solitude, it (‘21 Nights') will incorporate Prince's evocative poetry and lyrics to new songs and other ...
- Ist Northern Writers Summit: A re-definition of status... - Vanguard
"MOST of us writing from the North are rarely accorded recognition as our counterparts in the other parts of the country.” said a female Hausa-Fulani writer. “It is probably because some of us prefer to write in our indigenous language and rarely ...
- Clubs, hobbies and crafts (Daily Herald)
Bob Bohm's Family Entertainment will present the Survivor Family Game Show at 7 p.m. June 30 at the Bloomingdale Public Library, 101 Fairfield Way. All contestants will earn prizes. Registration is required. For details, call the Youth Services Desk at (630) 924-2740.
- Book Review: All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John McWhorter (Blogcritics.org)
The author argues that hip-hop is metaphysical at best, mystical at the least, but a political tour de force? Not yet, and maybe never. On one side I hear John McWhorter, and on the other side I hear Michael Eric Dyson. In this book their voices come together because McWhorter has put forth his hip-hop apolitical argument in sharp contrast to the many political ones. In fact, Dyson provided the ...
- He was Fredericton's man (The Globe and Mail)
With his Atlantic Canada performances, 73-year-old Leonard Cohen is warming up for a major national and international tour, his first since the early 1990s
- A Salute to the Chicago Defender - New York Beacon
A Salute to the Chicago DefenderNew York Beacon, NY - 6 hours agoNow known as the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the organization was established to unify publishers of African American newspapers across the ...
- A unique upbringing: Schrand explores his childhood in his memoir ... - Moscow-Pullman Daily News
A unique upbringing: Schrand explores his childhood in his memoir ...Moscow-Pullman Daily News, ID - 1 hour agoHe started writing poetry in college and published an underground newspaper at Southern Utah University, which led to his foray into nonfiction. ...
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