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- Subject: Well, a Scotsman clad in a kilt... - Penn State Altoona
Subject: Well, a Scotsman clad in a kilt...Penn State Altoona, United States - 2 hours ago... my Granada poetry project, reading constantly for the PDS program, and somehow managing the usual summer life of family reunions, weddings, and parties. ...
- Worshippers mark anniversary of Jamaican independence - BirminghamMail.net
Worshippers mark anniversary of Jamaican independenceBirminghamMail.net, UK - 4 hours agoShe said: “I am accepting this on behalf of the community, family and friends because I couldn’t have done any of this work without their support. ...
- Cheers to 21 years of performance from Felpham entertainers - Littlehampton Gazette
Cheers to 21 years of performance from Felpham entertainersLittlehampton Gazette, UK - Aug 23, 2008The group performs at homes, hospices, hospitals and groups such as WIs with a 45-minute medley of humourous poems, prose and music. ...
- Teen Pride Review premieres Friday - Twin Cities Planet
Teen Pride Review premieres FridayTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 7 hours agoPerformance artist “Wonder Dave”, of the Minnesota Poetry Slam Team will also part of the Friday night line-up. “Sixteen-year-olds are pretty grown up and ...
- Alicia Keys (Evening Standard)
Alicia Keys generously gave London its second audience with the New York Grammy hoover in just over four months, despite being one of the busiest women in pop.
- Here's Your Sign - OpEdNews
Here's Your SignOpEdNews, PA - 5 hours ago... Kipling's God of Fair Beginnings and skies above and beyond. And the only way for a writer to make peace with the Deity is through the language of Poetry.
- Death of 'a humble man' - Gil Prewett - Chichester Today
Death of 'a humble man' - Gil PrewettChichester Today, UK - Jul 14, 2008He was an accomplished pianist, and his wife also helped instil in him a passion for poetry, art and drama, which became more central to his life as time ...
- Composer Stephen Foster's life in city helped shape music (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Stephen Collins Foster's young years in Pittsburgh in the 1800s helped shaped the music he would write later in his life.
- Ethan Canin’s many-layered novel. - New Yorker
New YorkerEthan Canin’s many-layered novel.New Yorker, United States - 10 minutes agoAnd a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history it is, shuttling between the twenty-first-century present and the ...
- Critic's Notebook: The failure of Ludacris' pro-Bama song was ... - Los Angeles Times Blogs
I highly recommend New York City blogger and radio dude Jay Smooth’s commentary on last week’s non-confrontation between Ludacris and Barack Obama. Jay’s view is that the incident -- which involved the rapper-actor offering up a pro-Bama song ...
- David Biespiel's poetry column addresses variations in Philip Whalen's 'Zenshinji' (The Oregonian)
L ast month I was visiting a cousin who showed off his framed broadside of the poem "Zenshinji" by his late friend, poet Philip Whalen. Whalen was born in 1923 in Oregon and grew up in The Dalles (he and my cousin attended Reed College during the Gary Snyder and Lew Welch era of the late 1940s).
- Smears, Scribbles, and Scratches: Twombly at the Tate Modern - New York Sun
The magnificent retrospective of veteran American artist Cy Twombly at London's Tate Modern is a reminder that, above all else, painting is smearing and drawing is scribble. In his handling, with its extremes of slightness and scatter, informality ...
- Hot Picks: Things to do around the valley - Desert Sun
RINGO RETURNS: Often referred to as “the fourth Beatle,” Ringo Starr has enjoyed a post-Fab Four career that came close to, but never matched, the apex of his creativity, which everyone can agree is “Octopus's Garden.” The 68-year-old Starr ...
- The Dawn of Independents (Backstage.com)
How to break into Off-Off-Broadway. August 07, 2008 By Halley Bondy Call them indie, Off-Off-Broadway, downtown, or 99-seaters — these are the theatres where many actors begin their careers in New York City. Known for being open to veterans and newcomers, union and nonunion, Off-Off-Broadway can be the ideal community for new arrivals — if you know how to get your foot in the door.
- Noted Palestinian poet Darwish dead at 67 (UPI)
HOUSTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was best known for his works about life in Palestinian territories, has died in Houston at the age of 67, officials say.
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