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- A guide to getting you through that mid-week slump (The Charlotte Observer)
Thursday REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST: Legendary poet-musician-author Gil Scott-Heron appears in Charlotte for the first time. Scott-Heron (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”) is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of rap. He'll perform his music with a full band, as well as some of his poetry. 9 p.m. Neighborhood Theatre. 511 E. 36th St. $20 in advance, $25 day of the show. ...
- ASU forensics team repeats its top 10 status - Arizona State University
ASU forensics team repeats its top 10 statusArizona State University, Tempe - 14 hours agoJulia Kolsrud, a senior majoring in political science, was the national runner-up (second place) in dramatic interpretation, semifinalist in prose ...
- Boinking: A (Very) Natural History (Nashville Scene)
Robert Olen Butler knows his way around a sex scene. His 1994 novel, They Whisper , is basically nothing but detailed, rhapsodic descriptions of lovemaking. So fans of literary erotica could be forgiven for, um, salivating a little in anticipation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's new ...
- Jane Krakowski is Poetry in Motion - New York Post
Jane Krakowski is Poetry in MotionNew York Post, NY - 28 minutes agoIn an era when the American public hears the word “blonde” and immediately conjures up rehabbing starlets and the waifish, lifeless cast of The Hills, ...
- PoemMegan Berndt's 'Grandpa' finishes second in contest - Belleville Intelligencer
PoemMegan Berndt's 'Grandpa' finishes second in contestBelleville Intelligencer, Canada - 48 minutes agoBarker submitted students' entries in both the Polar Expressions contest and the Young Writers of Canada poetry and prose contests. Another Grade 7 student, ...
- Newlywed Mariah 'over the moon' - This is Nottingham
This is NottinghamNewlywed Mariah 'over the moon'This is Nottingham, UK - May 7, 2008I love Nick Cannon for Mariah. For Mariah, this is poetry." Mariah and Nick are thought to have been dating for just two months. Commenting on the whirlwind ...
- Master Conductor/Composer's album on Ancient Chinese Text gains ... - NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)Master Conductor/Composer's album on Ancient Chinese Text gains ...NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - 53 minutes agoA collection of ancient prose referenced routinely by Confucius as being a must read for any educated man. The lyrics are directly inspired and translated ...
- O'Neil: When war was just a card game - Wakefield Observer
O'Neil: When war was just a card gameWakefield Observer, MA - 8 hours agoHer poem won first prize, and deservedly so, in the recent Alec J. Nelson Young Adult Poetry Contest sponsored by the Beverly Library. ...
- Red, black and blue - The Australian
Red, black and blueThe Australian, Australia - 1 hour agoFor Stevenson, politics truly was about poetry rather than prose -- sometimes in the most literal sense of all. During his last-ditch bid to wrestle the ...
- Beyond the Bard at Oregon Shakespeare Festival - San Francisco Gate
Ask Bill Rauch how he likes being the new artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and his boyish face beams. The 45-year-old Rauch moved to this southern Oregon hamlet more than a year ago to take the reins of the festival, its three ...
- Arts around the Mid-coast; July 24, 2008 (The Times Record)
Quilting show AUGUSTA — The Pine Tres Quilters Guild will hold their annual Maine Quilt Show on Friday-Sunday at the Augusta Civic Center . Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
- Mona Hatoum at Parasol Unit - the Sunday Times review - Times Online
In the Chapman brothers’ staggeringly good recreation of hell at White Cube - if you haven’t seen it yet, consider yourself spanked by head teacher Januszczak - there’s a strange and sad little figure living in a cabin on a hilltop outside all ...
- OBITUARY: Helen Burns, wife of former Fed Chairman - Packet Online
Ă‚ Ă‚ Ă‚ Helen Burns of Princeton died Wednesday at University Medical Center at Princeton. She was 98. Ă‚ Ă‚ Ă‚ Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was a former resident of New York City and Washington, D.C. Ă‚ Ă‚ Ă‚ A graduate of Hunter College with majors ...
- Students lift voices for others to hear - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Students lift voices for others to hearThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 40 minutes ago... poetry and other work. Jeffrey-West says 90 students worked on the project, which teaches expressive writing by tapping students' interest in music. ...
- Batman Is Back — The TIME Review - TIME
Batman Is Back — The TIME ReviewTIME - 2 hours agoIt turns pulp into dark poetry. Just as that movie found metaphors of cancer, aids and death in the story of a man devolving into an insect, ...
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