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- Woody Guthrie fest draws music lovers from across world (The Oklahoman)
OKEMAH — Strumming a guitar almost as big as she is and singing in a high, clear voice, Texas singer-songwriter Emily Elbert held the last note of her jazzy number "I Feel Fine” a breathtakingly long time. The crowd of about 250 music fans gathered in the basement of the Brick Street Cafe rewarded the diminutive 19-year-old with a standing ovation that left her grinning and blushing. Thursday ...
- Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles Times
IT WAS brief. It was beautiful: that moment just after the smoke cleared and the air felt charged with possibility. Black people organized, overcame and began to bask in the promise, started constructing 3-D dreams out of what had been abstract ...
- 'Woman Warrior' to 'Passport Baby' (The Japan Times)
LONDON — Since this fictional memoir was published in 1975, the telling of Chinese women's lives has become big business in the English-speaking world. Short stories, novels, memoirs and histories by women from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora, have proliferated to the extent that... Read the full story.
- A delicious trip on a sailing ship on the rugged coast of Maine - Providence Journal
Providence JournalA delicious trip on a sailing ship on the rugged coast of MaineProvidence Journal, RI - 8 hours ago“I love the poetry of motion, the challenge of it,” says John Dickey, an avid sailor and NASA engineer from Houston. “And the nature. I just love it. ...
- Somerville bookstores few and far between - Somerville News
Somerville bookstores few and far betweenSomerville News, MA - 2 hours agoIfeanyi Menkiti, Somerville resident, Wellesley College professor, and owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, said, “It's an immeasurable loss ...
- Emmet Meara: Man facial turns big oaf into beautiful metrosexual (Bangor Daily News)
I look good. I feel good. Hell, I even smell good. I just had my very first (but not last) facial. I guess I am a metrosexual now. I can remember the first time I walked into a hair salon, filled with staring women and strange smells.
- Jaime Courtney preferred 'well-traveled' to 'gypsy' - Dowagiac Daily News
Jaime Courtney preferred 'well-traveled' to 'gypsy'Dowagiac Daily News, USA - 40 minutes agoI remember when her four-woman writing group came away from an August Cranbrook Writers' Guild summer conference with a $125 poetry prize and a nickname. ...
- WPI to Host Rare Reading by Poets Laureate Gertrude Halstead and ... - Media Newswire (press release)
WPI to Host Rare Reading by Poets Laureate Gertrude Halstead and ...Media Newswire (press release), NY - 3 hours agoWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and the Worcester County Poetry Association will cosponsor a rare reading by two poets laureate, Gertrude Halstead, ...
- Sandler Makes Shampoo-poo in `Zohan'; Powerful `Father': Movies - Bloomberg
June 6 (Bloomberg) -- What's hilarious about Adam Sandler 's pelvic gyrations, un-P.C. barbs and hummus obsession? Taken individually, perhaps you could find something laugh-worthy in there; mash them together into a 90-minute movie and all you've ...
- University Press books 'part of the mission' at Northwestern U - U-Wire.com
Walking into Northwestern University Press is almost like walking into a far corner of the campus library. The muffled tapping of fingers on a keyboard and the abrasive creaking of the front door break the silence. A simple table of books stands in ...
- A test of will - San Mateo Daily Journal
San Mateo Daily JournalA test of willSan Mateo Daily Journal, CA - 3 hours agoIn test land, you are coming upon hypothetical situations, poetry and statistics with column after column of the options: A, B, C, D or E. It’s as if you ...
- Rural children refuse to be left out - Malawi's Daily Times
Rural children refuse to be left outMalawi's Daily Times, Malawi - 3 hours agoThe children displayed raw talent in mganda, drama, poetry recitals and their elders climaxed the occasion with gulewamkulu, all carrying a sympathetic ...
- Cowboy up at these 7 events - AZCentral.com
Saturday is the National Day of the American Cowboy. Cities and towns around Arizona are hosting a variety of rootin' tootin' celebrations. Here's where you can join in the fun. Some events are free; call or check the Web sites for prices and ticket ...
- Funky hybrid Monkey (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
And other Spoleto sights... By Perry Tannenbaum.On Memorial Day, the last day that Freedom Schooner Amistad was moored in Charleston, I strolled onto the Maritime Center boardwalk just after 4pm, camera at the ready. So less than an hour remained before tours of the historic replica were scheduled to end -- and our next Spoleto Festival USA jazz concert was scheduled to begin. There was no sign ...
- Racine Roots: 'Writing My Way Out of Adolescence' is performer ... - Journal Times
Racine Roots: 'Writing My Way Out of Adolescence' is performer ...Journal Times, WI - 4 hours ago... radio station KHSU in Eureka, Calif., began his writing and performance career in Madison where he read poetry in bars and galleries in the 1970s. ...
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