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- Festival to rock out with Patti Smith - News.com.au
Legendary writer and 1970s rock performer Patti Smith will perform in Melbourne for the first time in more than a decade. She will also join composer Philip Glass on stage for one performance of music and poetry in tribute to the late beat poet ...
- Maya Angelou at 80: "Life is Still An Adventure" - BlackNews.com
NEW YORK (AP) _ It takes just seconds to leave behind this muted Harlem side street and enter the parlor of Maya Angelou's brownstone, a step as bright and quick as a black and white film dissolving into Technicolor. Plump sofas and armchairs in ...
- New Hartford performer returns to Salisbury Grange - Observer-Dispatch
With a 22-foot-high ceiling, a balcony and stage, the Salisbury Grange No. 624 anticipates a full house when contemporary folk musician and lyricist Marshall Stewart performs at 7 p.m. Saturday. “He tells a story, but it's not cowboy music,†said ...
- Berkshire County musician Jim Reynolds releases first CD - Advocate Weekly
Berkshire County musician Jim Reynolds releases first CDAdvocate Weekly, MA - 58 minutes agoAfter the breakup, he turned to poetry and another Emily and found solace. "See, Emily Dickinson knows what I'm talking about," he said he thought at the ...
- Youth Literature Festival celebrates reading with authors, books (The Champaign News-Gazette)
CHAMPAIGN – For Mary Kalantzis and Violet Harris, planning the first-ever Youth Literature Festival for East Central Illinois has required a lot of labor. But it's work that Harris calls a "glorious burden" because it celebrates books. The dean and associate dean, respectively, of the University of Illinois College of Education, have ambitious goals for the festival, happening Thursday, ...
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Launch.com
Few rock groups of the '80s broke down as many musical barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musical style by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show, to boot), the Chili ...
- Kay Ryan Becomes American Poet Laureate - New York Observer
Tomorrow, a self-described "modern hermit" will assume arguably the country’s most public position for a poet. This may seem like a contradiction in terms, but ever since Kay Ryan embarked on her career as a writer, she has gradually been peeking ...
- The Enright House - Amplifier
large part post-rock and one rather not-so-large part electronica. The press have described their sound as anything from "pop as pop should be" to "skittery percussion, ethereal drones with metallic resonances, and disturbingly atmospheric sounds ...
- Terre‘Blanche wows crowds at AWB security system meeting - The Herald Eastern Cape
Terre‘Blanche wows crowds at AWB security system meetingThe Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 15 minutes ago... Africa to join the AWB and also by AWB leader Eugene Terre‘Blanche, who wowed them with his emotive style, quoting poetry and recalling historical events.
- Thousands pay final respects to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish - CBC.ca
CBC.caThousands pay final respects to Palestinian poet Mahmoud DarwishCBC.ca, Canada - Aug 13, 2008Officials buried Darwish next to Ramallah's Cultural Palace, the site where he had frequently given poetry readings to massive crowds. ...
- St. John's students show at-risk youngsters another side of life - Annapolis Capital
Annapolis CapitalSt. John's students show at-risk youngsters another side of lifeAnnapolis Capital, MD - 3 hours ago"I have discovered talents and skills I didn't know I had; writing poetry and this heavy talking stuff," Antonio Conner, 16 and a resident of the Kingsport ...
- Resident asks council for more trolley stops - Gadsden Times (subscription)
Resident asks council for more trolley stopsGadsden Times (subscription), AL - 7 minutes agoArea schoolchildren and the public have the opportunity to enter an essay/poetry writing contest. Winners will receive cash prizes, and their essays will be ...
- Waipi'o little league: Team profiles - Honolulu Advertiser
Waipi'o little league: Team profilesHonolulu Advertiser, HI - 2 hours agoKainoa Fong, pitcher and outfielder, wrote a poem for his sixth-grade class. His poem was submitted to the America Library of Poetry 2008 Student Poetry ...
- Matshikiza's fans say goodbye (Independent Online)
He was one of a rare breed, but John Matshikiza probably died not knowing how many people admired, respected and loved him.
- Fall's full of fun - Thecalifornian.com
The pumpkins are ripe and ready and so are your entertainment options this month. Tonight and Saturday night, for instance, you can take in live music at Café du Jour, formerly the Pajaro Street Grill, near the corner of John and Pajaro streets in ...
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