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- Farce on parade (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The latest from Garrison Keillor is classic Lake Wobegon all the way.
- Fronts sign two more draft picks (Kingston Whig-Standard)
The Kingston Frontenacs have signed two more players: second-round draft picks defenceman Ty Mort of Keswick and forward Charles Sarault of Mississauga. Mort and Sarault will join the Ontario Hockey League team for training camp on Monday, when new players will undergo physicals. "Ty is a [...]
- Lifestyles digest (Post-Bulletin)
y center schedules events The History Center of Olmsted County will host the following events in the month of August. The history center is at 1195 Circle Drive S.W. in Rochester. • Aug. 8: Movie on the Barn. Begins at sunset, showing "E.T." No
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music (The New Yorker)
OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA Last season’s opening-night attraction was Mary Zimmerman’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor,” whose combination of fantasy and verisimilitude delighted the daring but left traditionalists unmoved. Diana Damrau (who could definitely give 2007’s Lucia, Natalie Dessay, a run for her money) takes the title role . . .
- Deconstructing the Bird's Nest - NBC Olympics
In 2003, the Chinese commissioned Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to create an iconic building that would house the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Games. And with such a structure being the first image stamped in the minds of ...
- Strathairn and Giamatti Open Theatre Works' Season With 'Rivalry' - Broadway World
Broadway WorldStrathairn and Giamatti Open Theatre Works' Season With 'Rivalry'Broadway World, NY - 26 minutes agoHis books include "Trivializing America"; "Holes In A StaiNed Glass Window"; his collected correspondence; and many books of his scripts and poetry. ...
- Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization - EuropeNews
Fourteen Centuries of War Against European CivilizationEuropeNews, Denmark - 6 hours agoAt its peak, the destruction and depopulation of some areas probably exceeded what European slavers would later inflict on the African interior. ...
- Leading article: A triumph for all of Europe (Independent)
The arrest of Radovan Karadzic has caused rejoicing in the streets of Bosnia and Croatia, where his brand of violent nationalism resulted in tens of thousands of dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. It should also be the cause of some congratulation in Brussels and Western Europe. It was the Serbs who, under a new pro-Western government, who finally and belatedly arrested the man so ...
- critics' choice (Toronto Star)
Classic Albums Live is taking a major turn. The five-year-old Toronto-based series known for note-for-note re-creations of rock's greatest records, including the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon , is having its way with Michael Jackson's pop masterpiece Thriller . A crack 12-piece band of faceless musicians who have backed the likes of Tom ...
- WG Sebald - guardian.co.uk
WG Sebaldguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoWith his literary star riding so high, his poetry (After Nature) and non-fiction (On the Natural History of Destruction, about the Allied fire bombing of ...
- CHINA: All the World's Stage - Inter Press Service (subscription)
CHINA: All the World's StageInter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 3 hours agoIt had poetry and romantic charm unseen in any previous Olympic ceremonies. I can confidently say there has never been a more successful attempt to express ...
- The Footsteps of Giants with Little Feat’s Bill Payne - jambands.com
The Footsteps of Giants with Little Feat’s Bill Paynejambands.com, NY - 2 hours agoBefore that, I was into the world of writing, writing poetry, and writing some pieces for three-and-a-half years for this Japanese magazine, ...
- World-famous Russian poet to perform work written for centennial ... - Columbia Missourian
COLUMBIA - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a world-renowned Russian poet, will perform a poem he wrote for MU's School of Journalism's Centennial celebration during the closing ceremony at Mizzou Arena Friday. Stuart Loory, the Lee Hills chair in Free Press ...
- Singer Laura Marling's refined songwriting defies her youth - Boston Globe
Earlier this year, at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, a blond wisp of a girl with an acoustic guitar accomplished the incredible feat of making drunk people in a trendy bar shut up. This wasn't Laura Marling's main order of ...
- Group GL to present Kenzo collections in Cannes – 18/09/08 - MoodieReport
MoodieReportGroup GL to present Kenzo collections in Cannes – 18/09/08MoodieReport, UK - 1 hour agoHana – Hana – ‘flower’ in Japanese – is said to be “a tribute to the harmony and poetry of Japanese flowers”. It has a large dial in white metal inset with ...
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