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- DVD: If you didn't like 'Friends,' maybe you'll like 'Spaced' - Cleveland Plain Dealer
It's easy to get lost in "Spaced." The addictive British sitcom invades these shores Tuesday on DVD, offering welcome relief from the usual cookie-cutter TV comedy. Quick-witted co-creators Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) star as ...
- New memoir from Juliana Hatfield - Monsters and Critics
According to the NYT: “Ms. Hatfield reveals the troubled person behind the skinny rocker who came across as aloof, scowling and mysterious. She had been suffering from anorexia and extreme bouts of anxiety and depression since her late teens, which ...
- Special to The Washington Post - Washington Post
Special to The Washington PostWashington Post, United States - Jul 5, 2008Blankethead: It's a three-syllable telegram on the theme of the fecklessness of youth, and nobody but Wayne could turn it into poetry. ...
- Move Over, George and Martha — Stitching's Stu and Abby Get US ... - Playbill.com
Playbill.comMove Over, George and Martha — Stitching's Stu and Abby Get US ...Playbill.com, NY - 4 hours agoThe visceral poetry and physicality between the lovers creates a surprisingly tender, often humorous, brutal romance. Stitching challenges the notions of ...
- Bubble Room at Hom is about to pop open - Charlotte Observer
Bubble Room at Hom is about to pop openCharlotte Observer, NC - 56 minutes agoThis smoke-free NoDa billiards bar features open mic poetry night on Tuesdays and books live entertainment regularly. The Grape, either the University or ...
- Follow in the footsteps of Dylan Thomas - Guardian Unlimited
Thursday night in Swansea and it's a full house. Outside, it's the kind of night that Dylan Thomas would have described as 'starless and Bible black'. Inside, text-messaging teenagers and polite pensioners count the seconds to the interval and the ...
- Fundraiser for The Writers Place is a Night of Poetry and Jazz (Kansas City InfoZine)
This fundraiser for The Writers Place features poetry by Phyllis Becker and Dan Jaffe, and music by local jazz greats.
- Barboursville crews respond to house fire - Huntington Herald Dispatch
Barboursville crews respond to house fireHuntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 2 hours agoTo enter, send one poem of 21 lines or less written of any subject or style related to with a spiritual influence to Free Poetry Contest, 7308 Heritage ...
- Sean Connery: The story of a brilliant but deeply flawed man - Daily Mail
Daily MailSean Connery: The story of a brilliant but deeply flawed manDaily Mail, UK - 1 hour agoConnery then pursued the petite blonde by reciting Robert Burns verses and passages of his own poetry. She submitted, and they started an affair that lasted ...
- WHITE-WALKER: Real men read poetry - Lockport Union-Sun
Just because one has written professionally for over 40 years, people get the silly notion that I know something about writing. Imagine, as if 40 plus years is near enough time to perfect one’s craft. What do they think; it’s all about instant ...
- Beijing Olympics: BBC banned but pornography for sale in Olympic ... - Telegraph.co.uk
Beijing Olympics: BBC banned but pornography for sale in Olympic ...Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoReaders can also choose between illustrated volumes of Chairman Mao's poetry, the memoirs of pioneers of hybrid rice development, or from a large collection ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (The Star)
"Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't say that you're the greatest?'"
- Showdown in Gotham Town - New York Times
New York TimesShowdown in Gotham TownNew York Times, United States - 4 minutes agoPitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind ...
- Roger Palmer lets the Dogs out (Creative Loafing Tampa)
Childlike artworks underscore the horrors of war... By Megan Voeller When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. --J.S. Mill When philosopher John Stuart Mill evoked those brutal images in 1862, he was actually writing in favor of war, but only in cases that "protect ...
- Richard Helgerson (Guardian Unlimited)
The American academic Richard Helgerson, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 67, was one of the leading scholars of Renaissance literature and culture of the last 40 years. His reputation rests on six books, all lucidly and elegantly written.
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