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- Hanus remembered for love of music - Ennis Daily News
Ennis Daily NewsHanus remembered for love of musicEnnis Daily News, TX - 8 minutes agoHanus: And I love poetry, especially the works of Keats and Shelley. EDN: What do you think of people regarding you as an oddity? ...
- Film Review: Vicky Cristina Barcelona - The Charlatan
Film Review: Vicky Cristina BarcelonaThe Charlatan, Canada - 17 hours agoHer hazy Spanish fantasies are shrouded with visions of local wine, loose-leaf poetry and adventurous sex. And luckily for the duo, in walks Juan Antonio ...
- Editors? Choice (New York Times)
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
- Pushkin's The Little Tragedies dir. Slava Stepnov - Scoop
The New Zealand premiere of The Little Tragedies , a modern poetic interpretation of Alexander Pushkin’s nineteenth-century Russian masterpiece about free will, fate, and the human obsessions that continues to haunt us two hundred years after the ...
- In living colour - Mail & Guardian Online
In living colourMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 5 hours agoIt was at the Cave Poésie in Toulouse, Southern France, where he developed his signature act of performing French poetry translated into Zulu. ...
- Morton Blasts Laureate Gig (Arts Journal)
The UK's poet laureate says he wouldn't wish the job on anyone, and that writing poetry for the royal family gave him a case of writer's block. "I dried up completely about five years ago and can't write anything except to commission."
- My week in Media: Pablo Ganguli - Independent
My week in Media: Pablo GanguliIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoI have been in Lithuania, at the Vilnius Book Fair, this week and picked up a copy of The Vilnius Review, a brilliant poetry magazine. ...
- A quiet clash - Minneapolis Star Tribune
A quiet clashMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoThe theme flows naturally from Schumann, whose relatively short life (1810-1856) raged between fits of manic productivity and barren depression. ...
- Joyce Carol Oates unravels murder mystery from interesting perspective in new novel (Ventura County Star)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable.
- The masochistic joys of festivals - Daily Telegraph
Now that we all have central heating, televisions and roofs over our heads, where can the old-fashioned British masochist - lover of queues, rain, crowds - go at weekends? The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to ...
- We would love to have you for supper, Jeremy Paxman... - Daily Telegraph
Perhaps he was scared witless by someone with a Scottish accent when he was still in his perambulator. Or maybe he was thrashed mercilessly by a sadistic Scottish master at whatever minor public school he attended. Or maybe, much later in life, he ...
- What’s going on | Kitsap County Events Calendar for Aug. 16 - Bothell Reporter
THE f67 CAMERA CLUB: Will be meeting at 7 p.m. Aug. 18 in room 106 of the art building at Olympic College Bremerton for a special monochrome only print night and workshop. Visitors welcome. Info: www.f67cameraclub.org or call (360) 275-3019. CULTURAL ...
- Introducing the Twiller - New York Times Blogs
You might remember the novel in its earlier form; it had a cover, and many pages, forethought of plot, editors and agents weighing in, and, oh yes, it generally had sentences and punctuation. And, finally, some poor suckers had to take the time out ...
- Janet Jackson's nipple not "actionably indecent" - Salon
It has been four and a half years since 90 million people caught a glimpse of Janet Jackson's spangled nipple during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, and thankfully, people did eventually shut up about it. But today it's back in the news because a ...
- Fiesta Mexicana reunites old friends (The Salt Lake Tribune)
She didn't call it a miracle, but Rosvita Lopez was surprised to see a friend she and her husband knew more than 23 years ago in Chiapas, Mexico.    Their old friend, a music professor and marimba player, had traveled to Utah for a Mexican Independence Day celebration in Salt Lake
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