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- A Letter to a Retired Activist - OpEdNews.com
My friend John spent most of 30 or 40 years as a full time activist. A learned, wise and all around intelligent man, his subsistence came from doing “odd jobs” here and there. His full time job was to deface the nation’s highways and byways by ...
- Bring poetry to the streets - Mustang Daily
Bring poetry to the streetsMustang Daily, CA - 3 hours agoAnthem, Cal Poly's annual poetry slam competition, returns tonight for another year of toe-tapping, grooving poetry exploring racial, sexual, ...
- LAist Interview: Filmmaker John Palmer - Laist.com
Starting Saturday and running until July 28, The Black Maria Gallery will feature an exhibit examining landscapes both natural and manmade. Titled “Modern Soil,” the show will include new drawings from Brooks Salzwedel and a series of short films ...
- Channa's Sigiriya: The First Sri Lankan Ballet - The Island (subscription)
The Island (subscription)Channa's Sigiriya: The First Sri Lankan BalletThe Island (subscription), Sri Lanka - 1 hour agoIn 2007, WJM Lokubandara (yes, the one and only Honourable Speaker), who has had a notorious long-standing, love affair with the Sigiriya damsels published ...
- Those Elizabethans, hear them roar - Globe and Mail
There is much to like, but much more to admire, about director Peter Hinton's unwieldy The Taming of the Shrew currently playing at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. It drips with Hinton's research into the sexual politics of the Elizabethan era ...
- necessary breath - Wire
necessary breathWire, NH - 37 minutes agoThe voice of Patricia Smith is for many the sound of slam poetry. But her voice carries through all her writing, whether it be poetry, novels, plays, ...
- Verses – Mandy Lagan - eJazzNews
Verses – Mandy LaganeJazzNews, Canada - 5 hours agoAll those who remember A Child’s Garden of Verses, raise your hand. The influential collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson has been a favourite of ...
- Used words for sale at independent book stores - Tacoma News Tribune
In a culture that values newness and efficiency, used book stores are the quintessential embodiment of “old school.” The South Sound’s independent used book stores attract bibliophiles, avid collectors and people who simply refuse to fork over ...
- Vilhelm Hammershøi at the Royal Academy: the poetry of silence (14 ... - Guardian Unlimited
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Portrait of a Young Girl, 1885 (oil on canvas). Hammershøi's portrait of his sister Anna was painted when the artist was 21. The Danish Royal Academy passed over the work when judging the 1885 Neuhausen Prize, and the omission ...
- Experimental musician and local author releases long awaited Prey ... - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.comExperimental musician and local author releases long awaited Prey ...The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 3 hours ago... in the background of some seriously sick poetry laden lyrics. "I felt really strongly about my ability to express myself through my writing and writing ...
- Art Recycled - Honolulu Advertiser
The exhibition as a whole, like any with a socio-political theme, begs the question of how you address important concerns in art, on the one hand, without being overly didactic, or, on the other, wandering off into romantic idealism.
- Write On! (The Lakeland Ledger)
Kristen Tracy is a poet from San Francisco who here captures a moment at a zoo.It's the falling rain, don't you think, that makes the experience of observing the animals seem so perfectly truthful and vivid'Rain at the ZooA giraffe presented its head to me, tilting itsideways, reaching out its long gray tongue.
- A new report says white boys need father figures at school. But ... - Daily Mail
Daily MailA new report says white boys need father figures at school. But ...Daily Mail, UK - 1 hour agoOne English teacher said that much of the set poetry is uninspiring in its worthiness. Contemporary poetry might be politically correct, he said, ...
- Standout performances best part of Theatre Q's Wilde production of "Gross Indecency" (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.
- On the cusp - Cleburne Times-Review
On the cuspCleburne Times-Review, TX - 36 minutes ago“My mom was heavy into poetry at that time, and I started writing poetry as well,” Johnson said. Johnson also began emulating the sounds and lyrics of his ...
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