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- Arts & Entertainment Calendar (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)
n Harry’s Night Club and Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo Beach, hosts live music Friday and Saturday from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. This weekend, the headliner band will be Cory and L.A.’s Retro Disco Band. Cost is $5 at the door.
- The Impostor, by Damon Galgut (Independent)
A ramshackle farmhouse in the hinterland of South Africa, a mysterious silent neighbour and a town where corruption has become a way of life. These ingredients go into making Damon Galgut's follow-up to The Good Doctor. It's a spine-chilling read that doubles as a sharp and rather depressing critique of the "new" South Africa.
- Standout performances best part of Theatre Q's Wilde production of ... - Contra Costa Times
While flamboyant Oscar Wilde led a life filled with drama, "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" is an enormously difficult subject to make into a dramatic play. It's also somewhat difficult for an audience to follow, but the exceptional ...
- Shirley Beers: Aircraft engineer, artist, actress and poet (McKinney Messenger)
Shirley Beers is a multi-talented woman. She is best known in the Lewisville area as an artist and an actress. Her artwork is on display at several places in Lewisville, including at Tierney’s Café and Tavern and at the Lewisville Senior Center.
- AGENDA (New York Post)
Say sayonara to Shea Stadium; chow down on fare from local family farms; play fashionista at a free Vanity Fair photo show; celebrate all things Mexican; and remember 9/11 in song. Goin' local FOOD - TUES,9 More than words ... TRIBUTE - THURS,11...
- 'My brother and I loved it when the Old Man returned home legless' - The Observer
'My brother and I loved it when the Old Man returned home legless'The Observer, UK - 3 hours agoHe began writing poetry 'seriously' at 30 and his debut poetry collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, was published by Faber in February 2007, ...
- A Letter to True - Guardian Unlimited
If Virginia Woolf could write Flush, a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, and that doyenne of British film critics Dilys Powell could publish Coco, a biography of her pet poodle, then the photographer and documentary film-maker ...
- Arts & Books Digest - Thecalifornian.com
Romance Writers of America has announced local author Kelly Parra's novel "Graffiti Girl" has been named as a finalist in the Best First Book and Young Adult Romance categories of the 2008 RITA awards. The RITA, the romance publishing industry's ...
- Girl from polygamist group ordered into state care (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (10:54 a.m.) A Texas judge has ordered a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly married to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to be placed in foster care.
- Out of 'Sight - Staten Island Advance - SILive.com
Out of 'SightStaten Island Advance - SILive.com, NY - Jul 8, 2008One guy is left to care for twins while his partner works, and another teen calls it quits after a harsh review from the parents. ...
- Author Gowdy wins Trillium Book Award (Toronto Star)
Barbara Gowdy's gripping novel Helpless , which incited controversy in some quarters for its sympathetic portrayal of a man who abducts a young girl, is the winner of the $20,000 English-language Trillium Book Award.
- BR Area for Aug 1-Aug 7, 2008 - 2TheAdvocate
BR Area for Aug 1-Aug 7, 20082TheAdvocate, LA - 1 hour agoThe store will remain open late (past midnight) to sell the latest book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn. Kalila Katherine Smith, author ...
- 'Still Alive! A Temporary Condition' by Herbert Gold - Los Angeles Times
If America had the literary culture it ought to have, every city would have a writer like Herbert Gold. They would be rooted rather than regional. Their sensibility would be cosmopolitan rather than provincial, though their focus would be voluntarily ...
- Penchant allows women to speak in poems - Post-Bulletin
Penchant allows women to speak in poemsPost-Bulletin, MN - 32 minutes agoTo describe their latest work as simply a book of poetry would be an understatement. This collection of professional women is so much more. ...
- Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns! - Wired News
Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns!Wired News - 5 hours agoOther recent tidbits include a mortar-making manual, militants' new web video push, and the poetry of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (“If it wasn’t for defending the ...
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