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- New play explores what search reveals about us (The State)
They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person? That's the premise behind "User 927," a new production in Philadelphia that blends fact and fiction in the tale of a disappearance from a small Midwestern town. "It's the world's first play based on a search log," director ...
- Political Prediction Markets: Webcast for the Uninitiated - New York Times Blogs
Very few readers of this blog are strangers to political prediction markets . But if you are new to this and interested in learning more, here’s some help: A podcast of a talk I gave at the recent CFA Institute annual conference in Vancouver. Or if ...
- Goldfield Days events update - Pahrump Valley Times
The schedule for Goldfield Days, as of Aug. 10, includes a few special additions, beginning with the presentation at the community center on Friday morning of a million-dollar check for the purpose of treating the town's water supply. Friday, Casino ...
- Authors get rock-star treatment at Brazil festival - Washington Post
Resize Text PARATY, Brazil (Reuters) - Paulo Cavalcante rode buses for 46 hours from the dusty Brazil northeast to this coastal town for the chance to rub literary shoulders with British dramatist Tom Stoppard and other famous writers. "This is ...
- Book lists backroads of Texas - Abilene Reporter-News
Book lists backroads of TexasAbilene Reporter-News, TX - 6 minutes agoTexas Poetry Calendar: More than 75 Texas poets have pieces published in the new "Texas Poetry Calendar 2009," edited by Scott Wiggerman and Cindy Huyser ...
- Frank Malley to read at Poetry on the Loose - The Photo News
Frank Malley to read at Poetry on the LooseThe Photo News, NY - 6 hours agoAdmission is free. Malley will read from his collection, “Millennium Infant.” In his poems, he presents eccentric and amusing reflections on everything from ...
- Hometown homage - Guardian Unlimited
There's a wonderful line from Guy Maddin's tragicomic 2003 film The Saddest Music In The World, which states, "Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass." If Maddin were to use this to describe his latest film, the autobiographical My Winnipeg, let ...
- ‘Chand Ke Paar Chalo’ to debut on NDTV Imagine - Real Bollywood
Real Bollywood‘Chand Ke Paar Chalo’ to debut on NDTV ImagineReal Bollywood, India - 11 hours agoIt’sa classic love story, set in the heart of Lucknow…full of poetry and passion… pain and sacrifice” Chand Ke Paar Chalo is a co-production between ...
- Give Newark a (coffee) break - Bridgeton News
Starbucks built its business by recognizing that many people want more than a quick cup of coffee. Many want a coffeehouse experience, a place where they can gather to chat with friends, work on a laptop or even hear poetry. The Starbucks on Broad ...
- Wednesday, August 13 (Princeton Town Topics)
1 p.m.: Senior Resource Center screening of The Bucket List ; Suzanne Patterson Building. Free. 6 to 9 p.m.: Western singer Jet Weston; Fedora Café, Lawrenceville. Free.
- In transit - The Times
In transitThe Times, South Africa - 3 minutes agoThe UK’s Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008 has been won by John Lucas, a former poetry editor, for 92 Acharnon Street, a portrait of Greece. ...
- Diversions for July 13, 2008 (The Gleaner)
BADGETT PLAYHOUSE, Grand Rivers, Ky., "Always ... Patsy Cline," 2 p.m. today and July 20 and 27, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and July 23, 24, 30 and 31; "Variety!
- Why English still matters - Detroit News
Oh, perdon . I was just tuning up for an interview with Baracko Obama and Juan McCain . Juan y Baracko have been busy lately wooing los que hablan espanol . That is, people who speak Spanish. With an estimated 9.2 million Hispanic votes in play this ...
- Cultural soundtrack: Watkins Museum welcomes Smithsonian's exhibit on American music (Lawrence Journal-World)
Nineteen concert road cases are rolled into the third floor of the Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass. The hefty amount of touring gear gives the impression a legendary rock band like The Who is getting ready to set up and perform. But the “who” in this instance is really a “what” — albeit a musical one.
- Bevan plaque for NHS anniversary - BBC UK News
The National Health Service began work on the 5th July 1948. This scene from the 1960s is featured in an exhibition around Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust hospitals A plaque to mark 60 years of the NHS is to be unveiled in Tredegar, the birthplace of the ...
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