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- Stooges nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - MLive.com
The Stooges have been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - again. The iconic Ann Arbor band - led by wild, charismatic frontman Iggy Pop and widely considered the godfathers of punk rock - is among nine nominees for next year's hall ...
- Joan Aragone: Play games to improve your brain (San Mateo County Times)
As we age, our brains function less efficiently than they did when we were younger.That isn't news to anybody over 50 who knows the experience of forgetting a name immediately on introduction or grasping for words to describe a common object.
- Jazz On The Ektara - Outlook (subscription)
Outlook (subscription)Jazz On The EktaraOutlook (subscription), India - 21 minutes agoThe book also gives us an insight into the evolving aesthetics of Beat poetry. Ginsberg writes, "What we are writing in America today is to create a new ...
- Iran to compile Shahnameh encyclopedia - PRESS TV
PRESS TVIran to compile Shahnameh encyclopediaPRESS TV, Iran - 13 hours agoWritten by the Persian poet, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) is a classic among epic Persian poetry and recounts Iran's mythical and historical past ...
- Witty playwright known to live hard (Miami Herald)
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays like Butley, Otherwise Engaged and Quartermaine's Terms about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself, died Wednesday in London. He was 71.
- For Fantasy Fans, the Dragons Fly Again - Washington Post
For Fantasy Fans, the Dragons Fly AgainWashington Post, United States - 3 hours agoPaolini may have streamlined his prose line by line and cut the Elvish poetry out, but this is by no means a sleek story, dragging as it does for long ...
- A year in the Martini Lounge - RoxReview.com
A year in the Martini LoungeRoxReview.com, PA - 59 minutes agoOriginally broadcasting a mix of rock and poetry and spoken word as Skin Radio, the AM station switched formats. Skin Radio remains available streaming ...
- Weekend Picks: Bookworms and Dead Heads (LA.com)
WeHo Book Fair, Abbot Kinney Street Fair and more!
- Obama Supporters, Stop Whining About McCain's Lies! - Slate
a) MSM outrage doesn't sway voters anymore. It didn't even back in 1988, when the press tried to make a stink about George H.W. Bush's use of "flag factories," etc. After this year's failed MSM Palin assault , it certainly won't work; b) When Dems ...
- A man who has had sex with 1,000 cars! - Zee News
Melbourne, Aug 01: A stunning woman won’t set his heart racing but a car is more than enough to leave Edward Smith gasping for more. Smith claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars insisting that he would prefer a car over a woman any day. Smith’s ...
- Financial Titans, Listen Up - Tampa Tribune
Financial Titans, Listen UpTampa Tribune, FL - 16 hours agoHughes wrote more than 40 books of poetry during his life (he died in 1998), including "Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. ...
- Entertainment Calendar Updated 7-17-08 - Petoskey News-Review
Entertainment Calendar Updated 7-17-08Petoskey News-Review, MI - 25 minutes agoPoetry reading — Bob Vance will read 7 pm Friday, July 18. at Northern Michigan Artists Market, downtown Petoskey. Shay Days — The annual Shay Days 10 am-4 ...
- Edinburgh Festival 2008: return to the Fringe - Daily Telegraph
Clive James is convinced that one of the many sketches he directed for the Cambridge Footlights revue at the Edinburgh Fringe 40 years ago was at least the equal of Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch. 'I learnt a lot, usually by failure,' says Clive ...
- Klingon as a Second Language (Washington City Paper)
Vavoy! Vavoy!†The wild cries echo through the nearly empty Burger King, as 2-year-old Alec Speers calls out to his father, d’Armond, who sits wolfing down a Whopper at a table across the room.
- Spotlight: Old Town Poetry Series - Lansing State Journal
The Old Town Poetry Series launches its fall season with a reading of works by Michigan poet John Rybicki. His latest book "We Bed Down Into Water," was published in January. An open mic reading will be held after the featured poet
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