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- Downturn affects the traditionally self-sufficient (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Mary Kleiss missed a mortgage payment for the first time in her life in June. Now she has missed July's, and expects to soon lose the house she has lived in for 30 years.
- National poetry prizes awarded - Jam! Showbiz
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- Mos Def and Gil Scott-Heron at Carnegie Hall, JVC Jazz Festival - All About Jazz
Mos Def and Gil Scott-Heron at Carnegie Hall, JVC Jazz FestivalAll About Jazz, PA - 1 hour ago“It was fitting that Mos Def, one of hip hop's most recognized, and Gil Scott Heron, considered a 'Godfather' of rap and spoken word poetry (most famous for ...
- Prosecutor: Teen masterminded mother's murder - OCRegister
Prosecutor: Teen masterminded mother's murderOCRegister, CA - 5 hours agoShe quoted from one of the teen's poems: "Life, death, what does it mean. ... Do you know what kids from bad homes do? They cut, do drugs ... hurt ...
- Today's Herald - Calgary Herald
What fringe festivals lack in terms of production values, they make up for in other ways, such as words. Words which pour forth in torrents, streaming out of the mouths of fringe performers at a sometimes astonishing rate -- long, short, simple ...
- Dorothy M. Steria - Newzjunky.com
Dorothy M. SteriaNewzjunky.com, NY - 5 hours agoShe enjoyed flower gardening, cooking and writing poetry. Surviving are eight daughters and six sons-in-law. Verna and Carl Schack, Betty and Ceyril Bush, ...
- Israel's Nazi-porn problem - Salon
Americans first encountered French actress Ludivine Sagnier in the summer of 2003, when her oft-topless ingénue role opposite Charlotte Rampling in François Ozon's erotic thriller "Swimming Pool" made her an instant international sex symbol ...
- Make Art, Not War - Film Stew
Film StewMake Art, Not WarFilm Stew, CA - 13 hours agoAs part of the event, a group of Iraq veterans from both coasts will spend the week making art, poetry and written word out of their mulched uniforms, ...
- Upcoming Events - Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Upcoming EventsSmoky Mountain Sentinel, NC - 2 hours agoThe NCWNW (Netwest) Prose Workshop and Critique Session will meet at Tri-County Community College in Murphy, North Carolina, Thursday, July 10, ...
- Kids perform poetry at writer's workshop - Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Kids perform poetry at writer's workshopLancaster Eagle Gazette, OH - 7 hours agoBlankenship, a longtime fan of Wynette, said following his interview he struck up a friendship with the popular country music star and once had the ...
- Norton Center announces schedule (The Danville Advocate-Messenger)
The New York Philharmonic, singer Tony Bennett and Tony-Award-winning Broadway shows including "Movin' Out," "The Drowsy Chaperone" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" headline the 2008-2009 season of the Norton Center for the Arts at Centre College.
- Genome race and climate change vision vie for science book prize - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukGenome race and climate change vision vie for science book prizeguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoHaving studied English at Oxford and medieval Welsh poetry at Aberystwyth Hague said she was drafted in as a representative of the lay reader. ...
- Paper: It's what these artists have in common - Florida Times-Union
Paper: It's what these artists have in commonFlorida Times-Union, FL - 3 hours ago"Place of Mind," the series on paper, is inspired by and follows the memory-imbued poetry of Richard Blanco. Both are men of many countries - Blanco was ...
- From an English Arcadia - Financial Times
Ancient Landscapes/Pastoral Visions Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Though William Blake wrote of “England’s green and pleasant land”, a landscape artist is the last thing you might call him. But a late and very small-scale set of landscapes by ...
- Sudanese youth fight discrimination with rap - Daily News Egypt
Sudanese youth fight discrimination with rapDaily News Egypt, Egypt - 6 hours agoBoth are Sudanese refugees who, along with a handful of other African refugee youth in Cairo, have turned to music as their hope for resettlement and a ...
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