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- Spoken in slam: Poet brings swagger to SHS (Norwalk Advocate)
STAMFORD - The students had the words, but Mahogany Browne helped them find their voices. Browne, slam curator from the New York City-based Nuyorican Poets Cafe, worked with Stamford High School students during a two-hour poetry slam workshop after school Thursday.
- Issue Project Room Moves Again - Village Voice
Village VoiceIssue Project Room Moves AgainVillage Voice, NY - 1 hour ago"A place like Issue is essential, and not just for musicians, but for literature, poetry, film—for all artists, really." The new space will provide the ...
- Book briefs: May 11, 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Book briefs: May 11, 2008Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA - 33 minutes agoAward-winning poet and novelist Jimmy Santiago Baca will lecture and facilitate a poetry workshop at Cabrillo College Friday. The lecture begins at 1:30 pm ...
- The Arts Column - Daily Telegraph
'Creativity" is a word much bandied about in our babble of culturespeak. Like "community", it has a warm glow around it, and we rarely give it much further thought. However, to mark the centenary of Freud's essay "Creative Writers and Day Dreaming ...
- Regional arts and entertainment events (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Sunday Some kind of clown There are clowns. There are actors. There are dancers. There are acrobats. And then there is Bill Irwin, who combines it all to inhabit a corner of the theatrical world all his own. In his work The Happiness Lecture, commissioned by the
- Austin spoken-word poet near death after diving accident (Austin American-Statesman)
'Incredibly lyrical, hip-hop infused and intensely personal' voice silenced during wait to turn off life support.
- Man City owner Thaksin says club still chasing Ronaldinho (Straits Times)
BANGKOK - MANCHESTER City still wants to lure Brazilian star Ronaldinho from FC Barcelona. 'The new manager is looking for new players to join the team.
- Julian Sher, Jon Redfern among crime-writing award-winners (CBC)
Crime stories spanning subjects from a fictional murder in Victorian London to the real-life worldwide hunt for internet child predators were recognized at the 25th annual Arthur Ellis Awards gala Thursday evening.
- Syarhei Parsyukevich shares ward with mentally ill people - Charter 97
Syarhei Parsyukevich shares ward with mentally ill peopleCharter 97, Belarus - 13 hours agoOne writes poetry, and tells lots of interesting things. Sometimes he talks to himself. Another begins to worry when someone eats. He is always hungry. ...
- Weekend Hotlist - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The eclectic trio of the New York Dolls, Maceo Parker and Phoebe Snow are the musical highlights on the second weekend of the Three Rivers Arts Festival. The New York Dolls laid the groundwork for the New York punk scene in the early '70s before ...
- Piano competition winner Ghindin returns to town for concert - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Russian pianist Alexander Ghindin beams after being named winner of the 2007 Cleveland International Piano Competition last August at Severance Hall, where he performed Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Cleveland Orchestra. What: The first ...
- First African-American to hold post in Md. Episcopal Diocese - Baltimore Sun
First African-American to hold post in Md. Episcopal DioceseBaltimore Sun, United States - 2 hours agoHis son, Kyle Sutton, 28, a slam poetry performer and teacher who lives in Brooklyn, reiterated that "it's huge for the African-American community in ...
- BE YOUR OWN PET "Get Awkward" Ecstatic Peace!/Universal - Washington Post
Washington PostBE YOUR OWN PET "Get Awkward" Ecstatic Peace!/UniversalWashington Post, United States - May 29, 2008Two of the Nashville teen punks recently entered their 20s, but such cranky ditties as "Food Fight!" show that all four remember high school as if it were ...
- West Island Events (The Suburban)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT $"/> $"/>West Island Readers Electric: Invites all to readings by West Island writers & friends on June 26 from 7-9 p.m., with special guest Angela Carr. Brief open mike period. At Café Aurora, 552 Beaconsfield Blvd, south of Hwy 20. Info: 514-671-9941.
- Avril Levigne's laryngitis forces more cancellations (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Avril Lavigne has laryngitis and has postponed shows on her national tour this week. The 23-year-old singer backed out of performances in Los Angeles and Anaheim over the weekend. She was supposed to perform in Santa Barbara today, followed by San Jose, Spokane and Everett, Wash.
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