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- Meet a living relic of bohemian New Orleans - South Coast Today
Every morning in Slidell, La., a Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots. The acts of rebellion take place in the ...
- Post-holiday reading list - Guardian Blogs
How simple some great poetry can seem - as simple as water, and as necessary. Bishop is incomparable: "Awful, but cheerful," she said. 2. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton A vast rickety structure of learning, wit, sense, nonsense, bizarre ...
- Magic and guilt - Signandsight.com
Magic and guiltSignandsight.com, Germany - 16 minutes agoThe correspondence opens with Celan's poem "In Egypt", which he sends to his beloved, with the dedication "to one who is painfully precise", ...
- Dooley Noted tries 'to give people a moment' - Battle Creek Enquirer
Dooley Noted tries 'to give people a moment'Battle Creek Enquirer, MI - 9 hours agoDooley took poetry she'd written and put it to a jazz-rock-blues-folk type of music that stands out in the rock-dominated local scene. ...
- The Press is many things, and it's hers - East Bay
Some people might say the Third and Elm Press has an identity crisis (Is it a bookstore? Is it a card shop? Is it an art gallery? Is it an old-fashioned print shop?), but there’s no doubt whose business it is. According to owner Ilse Buchert ...
- The Jade Goody Decade: The Ten-Year Plan And An Indian Take-Away - Anorak
“I FEAR MY CANCER’S SPREAD,†says the Jade Goody-inspired headline on the Mirror’s cover. This is not a metaphorical tabloid cancer, and right now millions of youths are not racially abusing Asians for our entertainment. This is real cancer ...
- Don Pullen: Ode to the Life Lived - All About Jazz
All About JazzDon Pullen: Ode to the Life LivedAll About Jazz, PA - 1 hour agoThere may be many tributes to Malcolm X in poetry and in music, but none as sharp and incisive and everlasting in the memory they leave behind as Pullen's. ...
- Contests and Giveaways - WBKO
Powerful Hurricane Gustav in Gulf after socking Cuba; New Orleans orders evacuation Rescuers Head to Quake Site in Southwest China Rescue teams head to quake site in southwestern China where 22 killed, hundreds injured Hundreds of Thousands of ...
- Fan Zeng's paintings true to tradition - China Daily
China DailyFan Zeng's paintings true to traditionChina Daily, China - 3 hours agoThirteen generations since the Ming Dynasty have been devoted to poetry, prose, calligraphy and painting. He started school at age of four, ...
- Brown bag series a huge success - smudailycampus.com
Brown bag series a huge successsmudailycampus.com, TX - 9 hours agoBrown says she was inspired by Joseph's piece that she first heard in a DEF jam poetry performance as well as her recent experiences in Harlem. ...
- In living colour (Mail and Guardian)
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Thokozani Mthiyane's name may not be familiar in Johannesburg's mainstream arts and culture scene, but his enormous serpentine dreadlocks certainly are.
- Why most arthouse films are so unspeakably awful - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukWhy most arthouse films are so unspeakably awfulguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoIn painting, sculpture, poetry, opera, you name it, idiots seem to have taken over much of the asylum. It all seems to have started a century or so ago, ...
- Wipe clean my life's 'stain of injustice' (Cape Argus)
His ten-year sentence is finally complete. Now Mzwakhe Mbuli, revered as the "people's poet" during the dying years of apartheid, is seeking a presidential pardon.
- Forde: Bolt gives Games its second - abc11tv.com
Forde: Bolt gives Games its secondabc11tv.com, NC - 3 hours ago"He's poetry in motion." He's silliness at rest. In a sport rife with preening prima donnas, Bolt has taken posturing to a new level before, ...
- Poetry a source of comfort and healing - Delaware Online
Every year as the 9/11 anniversary approaches, psychiatrist Saleem Khan pours his feelings into poems documenting the horror of the day and the pain that reverberates across time. Usually, the poems focus on his own emotions, which were reinforced as ...
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