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- Redeeming Beauty (Zenit News Agency)
WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 20, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Christian art cannot be permitted a lower standard; in fact, it must embrace a higher standard since Christian artists serve God with their work, says the assistant director of a sacred arts foundation.
- A Community Unites With Goal Of Healing The Hood - CBS2 Chicago
A Community Unites With Goal Of Healing The HoodCBS2 Chicago, IL - 21 minutes ago... a poetry slam and spoken-word contest, a three-on-three basketball tournament, and a two-story high water slide. Kids eat for free at the festival. ...
- What's in a Name? - Slate
On frozen winter nights in Minneapolis, I used to lie in the dark and listen to the high-school hockey scores. They were read out on the radio—hockey is always news in Minnesota—but I didn't much care who won. I was 10 or 11 years old, a little ...
- A musical masterpiece (The Star-Ledger)
A pipe organ is like a living creature; its bellows are "lungs" that breathe with each performance. If the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium organ -- one of the nation's largest -- were to celebrate its long life with a birthday cake this week, it would have to blow out 100 candles.
- Stratford Theater season in review 07/20/08 (The News-Herald)
If you're going to insert the name Shakespeare into your Theatre Festival after 50 years, you may as well kick off the season with "Hamlet." Ontario's re-dubbed Stratford Shakespeare Festival has done just that. It's their eighth "Hamlet" since 1957, and we couldn't imagine a better one.
- Barker on Books - Fort Morgan Times
Barker on BooksFort Morgan Times, CO - 1 hour ago“The Aeneid” is a kind of epic fantasy poem, very similar to “The Odyssey” by Homer, in which the protagonist, along with his family and friends, ...
- X's music is letter-perfect - The Washington Times
The seminal Los Angeles punk band X doesn't rehearse anymore — and no, says founding member Exene Cervenka, it has nothing to do with laziness or unforgiving schedules. She, John Doe, Billy Zoom and D.J. Bonebrake have scrapped practice time ...
- More News - Wilkes Barre Citizen's Voice
More NewsWilkes Barre Citizen's Voice, PA - 1 hour agoPick up a game board, learn about teen summer programs, have fun, snacks and prizes. Ages 11-18. Poetry Workshops with Wilkes University’s Jim Warner this ...
- Obituaries in the news - Forbes
DALLAS (AP) - James A. Baker. a former Texas Supreme Court Justice known as a devoted scholar of appellate law, died Sunday. He was 77. He died in his sleep, the Texas Supreme Court said. Baker was diagnosed last year with cancer, which spread ...
- Ellen, girlfriend set to get hitched - WFXL Fox 31
Ellen, girlfriend set to get hitchedWFXL Fox 31, GA - 2 hours agoNow, he jokingly says he's ready to recite poetry at her wedding to his "Arrested Development" co-star, Portia de Rossi. He says he does "great readings of ...
- Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 2, 2008 - Pierce County Herald
Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 2, 2008Pierce County Herald, WI - 8 minutes agoYears after my mother died, I discovered in her suede-bound book of love poetry, a flower pressed by her many decades ago. Hasse’s “Found in My Mother’s ...
- Main in Motion kicks off - Montrose Daily Press
Main in Motion kicks offMontrose Daily Press, CO - 57 minutes ago... the “Free Stage,” facilitated by the Boys and Girls Club and White Tie Productions. “We welcome all musicians and poetry readings,” Tyrrell said. ...
- Philip Larkin - guardian.co.uk
Philip Larkinguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoLarkin's most famous poem, of course, is the grim doggerel of This Be the Verse ("They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad..."). There's more light and shade, ...
- Book Review: All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black ... - Blogcritics.org
Book Review: All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black ...Blogcritics.org, OH - 3 hours agoThe Real Prose of Politics VS. The Beat Poetry of Hip-Hop I find McWhorter the embodiment of a ghetto nerd turned generational guru for the sandal wearing, ...
- Girlz on the hood (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Artist Richard Prince has a thing about fast cars, nurses and other supposed male obsessions
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