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- Bridging the Gap (Modesto Bee)
TURLOCK -- Prisma Lisbeth Soria's high school friends didn't like that she wanted to take honors classes. They ignored her on campus for months and accused her of leaving them behind. So, the 17-year-old threw away her poetry collection and hunkered down in her basic classes to be accepted again.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Backstage.com)
, but the two-year-old Flux Theatre Ensemble certainly has tried. The show's program describes the effort. Before starting production, Flux presented a four-night reading series featuring 16 playwrights' takes on Midsummer's characters.
- Chicago notes (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Play | Chicago "The Ballad of Emmett Till" by Ifa Bayeza, directed by Oz Scott, will run through June 1 in the Goodman's Albert Theatre. The legendary story of Till is believed by many to be the start of the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s. This world premiere, part history and part ghost story, is a jazz integration of past and present, the living and dead, factual accounts and ...
- San Francisco itineraries: One day, weekend or week (USA Today)
Make the most of your time in the City by the Bay, whether you've got a day, a weekend or a week to spare.
- Virginia Higlands Festival To Feature Arts, Antiques, Crafts, Music ... - TriCities.com
ABINGDON, Va. – Come Friday, the biggest annual party in Abingdon will begin again. The two-week-long Virginia Highlands Festival – celebrating all that is great about this colonial-era town – kicks off with a variety of shows, exhibits, craft ...
- Death Cab for Cutie and Stars: Emotion reigns on the island - Varsity (subscription)
Death Cab for Cutie and Stars: Emotion reigns on the islandVarsity (subscription), Canada - 44 minutes agoThe crowd echoed Gibbard’s beat-inspired poetry, creating hope that the diary entries of the younger audience members have become a little more eloquent as ...
- Lecture on Robert Frost's influence on renowned Irish poet turned ... - Eagle Tribune
Lecture on Robert Frost's influence on renowned Irish poet turned ...Eagle Tribune, MA - 3 hours agoBy Yadira Betances LAWRENCE — Six years ago, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney came to the city to speak about Robert Frost's influence on his poetry. ...
- Media & Marketing Edition - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalMedia & Marketing EditionWall Street Journal - 5 hours agoMr. Taylor's prose rarely dips into the tone poetry of so much contemporary literary fiction. It is crisp and transparent. Still, one could do with a little ...
- UCLA experts advisory: UCLA alumnae is new US poet laureate - UC Los Angeles
UCLA experts advisory: UCLA alumnae is new US poet laureateUC Los Angeles, CA - 3 hours agoYenser is director of the Hammer Museum Poetry Series, which featured Ryan in 2006; the series is considered to be one of the premier forums for poetry in ...
- Family Events, Day by Day - Advocate Weekly
Family Events, Day by DayAdvocate Weekly, MA - 15 hours agoMettawee River Theatre Company, production of the Winnebago Native American creation tale, "NANABOZHO," a comic account of how our world began, ...
- Pashto loses two stalwarts - The News - International
Pashto loses two stalwartsThe News - International, Pakistan - 1 hour agoIn 1983, Sabir visited Peshawar to attend a poetry session and greatly felt the need for a Pashto newspaper in the NWFP. The same year he launched a Pashto ...
- Emine Saner on a haunting new movie about Afghanistan by a 19-year-old director (Guardian Unlimited)
Emine Saner on a haunting new movie about Afghanistan by a 19-year-old director
- July Calendar (Portland Tribune)
EVENTS • Division/Clinton Street Fair Come celebrate one of Portland’s most sustainable neighborhoods. Attractions include a parade, Lego exhibit, street dancing, food, music, a pizza-eating contest, a dough-throwing contest, and a jungle bouncer (we don’t know, either ...
- Mesa man suspected in killings, rapes identified - AZCentral.com
Mesa police identified Trent Christopher Benson as the man arrested Wednesday who they say sexually assaulted four women and killed two in Mesa and Phoenix. Benson is being held without bond in Maricopa County Jail on the suspicion of two counts of ...
- Have you got wind of Afri-kaaps yet? - Tonight South Africa
'Daais die move!", yells the poet Jitsvinger at the audience. "Maakit aan!", they shout back enthusiastically. His mother calls him Quinton Goliath, but in 2001, Jitsvinger was born. "I called myself Jitsvinger, because 'jits' is a slang word for ...
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