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- Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Big Range Dance Festival, Electile Dysfunction, La Sylphide and A Doll's House, Present ... (Houston Press)
bare Damon Intrabartolo (music and book) and Jon Hartmere (book and lyrics) call their vigorous and entertaining R-rated musical set at a co-ed Catholic boarding school a "pop opera," and that's all right by us, even though it's a long way from having an opera's thematic unity. Yes, everything's sun ...
- Café Voltaire likely to close - Vallejo Times-Herald
Café Voltaire likely to closeVallejo Times-Herald, CA - 8 hours agoPoetry readings, Spanish and French classes, music and art have come to the Tannery though the café, and it would be missed, customers said. customers ...
- Ed Harcourt: The Beautiful Lie (Pitchfork)
No, the host of "Morning Becomes Eclectic" hasn't started writing his own songs; it's the latest album from that dude who used to get compared to Elliott Smith and Rufus Wainwright but now gets bracketed with Tom McRae and Damien Rice. read more
- Lesbos ladies launch lesbian lawsuit - CNN
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between gay women and the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos. Inhabitants on the Greek island of Lesbos, pictured, have launched a lawsuit against a gay rights group. Three ...
- Review: Portishead, Third - Oregonian
Press releases describe new albums as "eagerly anticipated" with pathetic regularity. Usually, the claim's laughable, but for Portishead , one of the 90s trip-hop pioneers and among the most influential bands to emerge from the fertile scene in ...
- Kids study cultures with poetry, music offerings (Morton Grove Champion)
Reanae McNeal just has to step up to the front of the Lincoln Junior High School auditorium to hear the cheers and applause of a room full of mostly seventh-graders. They chant along, repeating her words as she says, "I'm so sweet, I should be sugar. I'm so cool, I should be ice." The cheers grow louder as she continues: "I'm so popular I should be pop, pop, popcorn."
- Sahara gets set for 'Raw Talent' (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The new owners of the Sahara hotel-casino are close to announcing a new show set to open in August. "Raw Talent Live" is being described as a high-energy dance show built around high-tech video illusions.
- Teasing glimpse inside the bedroom doesn't satisfy - Globe and Mail
Teasing glimpse inside the bedroom doesn't satisfyGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThe first, Song Telling, is not so much a play as performance poetry: King has written various stream-of-consciousness monologues timed to be spoken over ...
- On St. Columban - Zenit News Agency
On St. ColumbanZenit News Agency, Italy - 2 hours agoA man of great culture -- he also wrote poetry in Latin and a grammar book -- he proved himself to be rich in gifts of grace. He was a tireless builder of ...
- Greed, water and poetry - Salon
"Savage Grace" involves an exceedingly unlikely combination of ingredients. It's a sleazy, true-life story of decadence, incest and murder. It features a four-time Oscar-nominated movie star, but was directed by a man who's spent much of his career ...
- Professional polish to choral premiere - Ledbury Reporter
Professional polish to choral premiereLedbury Reporter, UK - 1 hour agoThese will take part in a major Ledbury Poetry Festival attraction, - an original choral work by Mr Frith, set to eight John Masefield poems. ...
- Kiss and Make Up - Slate
The New York Times leads with uncommitted superdelegates fearing a prolonged battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Times says the Democratic heavies are "uncertain about who, if anyone, would step in to fill a leadership vacuum and ...
- SFU's Blaser wins $50,000 poetry prize - Vancouver Sun
TORONTO - Robin Blaser, the 83-year-old B.C. poet and professor emeritus from Simon Fraser University, was named the Canadian winner of the $50,000 Griffin Poetry Prize last night at a gala event in Toronto. The international prize went to New York's ...
- Animal whisperers help you communicate with your pets - The Associated Press
Animal whisperers help you communicate with your petsThe Associated Press - 3 hours agoIt's a love-hate sister relationship." It was Lucy's turn next. Link said he could see her "strong, healthy body" and that she took offense when I told him ...
- Concert Preview: Voxx bears the mark of a gritty street rapper - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Concert Preview: Voxx bears the mark of a gritty street rapperPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 3 hours agoWhile he has been writing poetry for as long as he can remember, five years ago he wouldn't have dreamed of making an album, let alone two. ...
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