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- Perspective: Quiet, please; God speaking - Winnipeg Free Press
HOLLAND, Man. -- Unlike the mass of men inHenry David Thoreau's day, most of us lead lives of not-so-quiet desperation.Silence is a rare but little-valued commodity in our hyperactive world of instant sound-bites and endless to-do lists. It's ...
- Festival given the go-ahead - Evening Post
Festival given the go-aheadEvening Post, UK - 4 hours agoDougal Templeton, Venue's editor, said: “As well as rock, this will be a family event with theatre, children's attractions, poetry, jazz and Indian ...
- Indian blogger's series to be published in Pak text book - Express India
Islamabad, July 23: An Indian blogger's write-ups on five things Pakistanis love about their country may soon be included in a Pakistani school text book. The Oxford University Press in Karachi, which is working on a Class 11 text book, has sought ...
- Romeo and Juliet, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London (Independent)
The night before the premiere of Timothy Sheader's Romeo and Juliet, I was watching I Vitelloni, the Fifties movie about spoilt, feckless young men in a grim northern Italian town. The next night, I thought I still was. Here again were the eager girls in circle skirts, the sulky boys combing their DAs, the carnival masqueraders doing the mambo. Here, too, was lots of background music – though ...
- Best of the fests: Cool films & hot concerts (New York Daily News)
Memorial Day weekend and the days that follow might mean the unofficial start to summer, but it also kicks off a number of festivals that stretch well into September.
- MUST SEE: WILHELM SAAYMAN - Financial Mail
An epigram by the French writer Sebastien Chamfort offers a useful entrée into Saayman's bleakly funny pencil drawings: "Better on your arse than on your feet, flat on your back than either, dead than the lot." The epigram appears in a collection of ...
- Mondavi Center to present, host summer music events - The California Aggie Online
Mondavi Center to present, host summer music eventsThe California Aggie Online, CA - 5 hours agoHer best-known song is the 1974 top-five hit "Poetry Man," which was recently covered by Queen Latifah on her last album. Boylan calls the track "one of ...
- World's religions shine through 'Prism' (The Tennessean)
Singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman inhabits the music of the world's faiths on her visionary new album.
- Good Day Baltimore: Ten fun things to do today (Baltimore Examiner)
"The Thriftstore Mystery Paintings" by "Blaster" Al Ackerman - a series in acrylic that decorate the verso of Ackerman's first spoken-word album, "I am Drunk," for Stewart Mostofsky's EHSE label - are now on display for ArtScape. The backstory is that Mostofsky, a longtime Ackerman fan, commissioned the artist to decorate album covers with original acrylic paintings. Oh, and Ackerman has been ...
- Dr. Joe Harrop: Entymological adventures and the same old words - Red Bluff Daily News
Dr. Joe Harrop: Entymological adventures and the same old wordsRed Bluff Daily News, CA - 4 hours ago... however, and I even began to enjoy poetry more, and I loved jump rope rhymes. There are only so many words that children shouldn't say at school, ...
- Japanese custom of naked sushi comes to Clearwater's Dirty Martini bar - St. Petersburg Times
The Dirty Martini’s naked sushi night, held the first Tuesday of every month, has been quite a hit with free sushi served in a very unusual fashion. CLEARWATER — Chef David Keir looks out over the crowd in the dark, smoke-filled lounge, then ...
- Etisalat opens eSummer programme for children - Khaleej Times
DUBAI - Etisalat Academy on Thursday announced the opening of '8th eSummer', the academy's fun summer programme taking place at its sports and recreation complex until July 31. eSummer is designed for children aged between 6 and 12 years and includes ...
- Francis Bacon's Triptych 1975 Sells for Record 86.3 Million at ... - Art Daily
Art DailyFrancis Bacon's Triptych 1975 Sells for Record 86.3 Million at ...Art Daily - 4 hours agoLike Eliot's poetry, Bacon's art is one of compression and fragmentation, a visual analogue to Eliot's assemblage style, with its fragmentary memories, ...
- Carpe Diem - Nashoba Publishing
Carpe DiemNashoba Publishing, MA - 11 hours agoShe is passionate about history, poetry, music, horses, and most of all her family, but lacks cooking skills. Anderson makes up for it with talents for ...
- 'Wildfire' artist sings for Cowboy Poets (Eastern Arizona Courier)
Wonderful doesn’t begin to describe the evening Gila Valley fans shared with cowboy singer Michael Martin Murphey on April 25.
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