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- Forward Back GMTV Weather Presenter Quits (Waveguide TV and Radio News)
Weather presenter Andrea McLean is to quit GMTV after 11 years to appear on ITV's lunchtime show Loose Women. Mclean has a year-long contract to appear on the programme and plans to pursue other broadcasting opportunities.
- Book's sequel doesn't quite match up to original - Florida Times-Union
It is time for a revue. Take your seat. Adjust the lights, and open The Scrambled States of America Talent Show. The book uses subtle wit, knock-knock joke-caliber humor and vivid illustrations to teach a lesson. Author Laurie Keller plunges readers ...
- Lucinda Williams sings of a rambling woman's travels (Access Atlanta)
From stark images that raise goosebumps on the arms to swoonworthy expressions of love, Lucinda Williams is a master of rustic lyrical beauty. She's also created quite the travelogue, with the references to cities, towns and other geographical landmarks lending local color to her musical poetry, from Beaumont to Birmingham, Minneapolis to Memphis.
- The Solar System Was Nice While It Lasted - RhinoTimes.com Greensboro
The Solar System Was Nice While It LastedRhinoTimes.com Greensboro, NC - 1 hour agoSo the really, really bad news is that collider's not going to go online in October as had been planned, but now they have (A) moved up the date of the end ...
- Red Letter Dates (Peoria Journal Star)
September 1 "A Mother's Journey." Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs by Renee C. Byer. Through Oct. 10. Bradley University's Hartmann Center Art Gallery. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Reception: 4-5 p.m. Oct. 2 at Hartmann Center. Lecture: 5 p.m. Oct. 2. at Horowitz Auditorium, Caterpillar Global Communications Center. Free. Call 677-2989.
- Palestinians plan funeral for admired poet - Boston Globe
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank tomorrow - an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for Darwish poured ...
- Zimbabweans blog out their deep frustrations - Baltimore Sun
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The blogger calls himself a "fat white man" and jokes about the right way to approach a cordon of Zimbabwe riot police: Don't wear an opposition T-shirt, or ask for the results of the recent one-man presidential runoff ...
- Vince Aletti: "Street Art, Street Life," at the Bronx Museum. (The New Yorker)
In its attempt to keep an impossibly broad and popular subject manageable, the Bronx Museum stunts and nearly smothers “Street Art, Street Life,†but the sprawling exhibition’s best work survives. Driven primarily by photography, video, and performance art, the show opens in the nineteen-fifties, with images by Robert Frank . . .
- Africa's hurricanes - Radio Netherlands
Africa's hurricanesRadio Netherlands, Netherlands - 8 hours agoIn her poem Speaking of Hurricanes, Ghanaian poet Ama Ata Aidoo contrasts the damage caused by hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean, ...
- Readings and Talks - New Yorker
Readings and TalksNew Yorker, United States - 2 hours agoThe Poetry Society of America and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council inaugurate a new monthly reading series at the Fraunces Tavern with appearances by ...
- Chanteuse Releases Book and CD Set - RedOrbit
Chanteuse Releases Book and CD SetRedOrbit, TX - 13 hours agoWritten in English with a French cachet, it offers something new: memoir glimpses (written in prose and/or rhythmic poetry); something old: French-Canadian ...
- Poet Czeslaw Milosz's last days - Los Angeles Times
KRAKóW, POLAND -- DURING A late night in Kraków, nonagenarian Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz was tipping back the vodka with Jerzy Illg, editor in chief at his Polish publishing house, Znak. Late in the evening, a touchy topic dropped on the table ...
- Creating The Mood For The Beatles' Music - The Bulletin
Rick Belzer, a native Philadelphian, was a stage-struck kid-but not in the usual way. Even as a child, he didn't want to perform on stage - he wanted to work backstage, behind the scene. "I can't explain it - it just was always a curiosity and a ...
- Duo's 'Koana' captures D.C. audience (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
James Kass, founder and executive director of Youth Speaks, is particularly proud of what the Hawaii team did to win the nonprofit organization's Brave New Voices international competition.
- Mehr als 100 000 Besucher haben nach Schätzung der Veranstalter ... - newsclick.de
Mehr als 100 000 Besucher haben nach Schätzung der Veranstalter ...newsclick.de, Germany - Jul 6, 2008Zu Gothic-Rock-Klängen erzählt Darian Dawn alias Bettina Sternberg eine mystische Gruselgeschichte um ein Urlauberpärchen im dunklen Herzen Kretas. ...
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