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- LAist Interview: David Berman, Silver Jews (LAist)
Silver Jews is coming to town. On just the second tour of a 20-year career, DC Berman and his familial touring band will visit LA tonight behind its sixth recording, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea . Berman answered a handful of questions from the road, via e-mail. How do you write songs? I build their walls and then lay siege to them for weeks. It's a dialectic between the artistic ...
- Hayden Carruth - Commonweal
Hayden CarruthCommonweal, NY - 9 hours agoAs I was walking home tonight, I thought to myself, “I should have a look at the Poetry Foundation website now and then. Otherwise, how will I know when ...
- Legendary Actor Paul Newman dies at 83 (Zap2It)
The blue-eyed star of 'The Hustler,' 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' was at home after a long battle with cancer Paul Newman, the legendary movie star and irreverent cultural icon who created a model philanthropy fueled by profits from a salad dressing that became nearly as famous as he was, has died. He was 83.
- Patrick Lane's Violent Memory (in Tyee Books) (The Tyee)
The author of 'Red Dog, Red Dog' on bloody mayhem, denial and how the Okanagan used to be.
- Emmy's writing uncovers a treasure chest of talent - Birmingham Post
Emmy's writing uncovers a treasure chest of talentBirmingham Post, UK - 3 hours agoThough Emmy had trained in silversmithing and has been employed as an arts development worker, she has always written poetry and short stories. ...
- First Friday Going artsy - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
First Friday Going artsyHonolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - 2 hours agoFree until 7 pm, then $5 afterward. Call 637-2117. Meanwhile, at "Live from the Lawn" at the Hawaii State Art Museum (250 S. Hotel St.), the Brothers ...
- Calgary Highland Games feature Robbie Burns recital, competition - Canada East
CALGARY - Fans of the Scottish poet Robbie Burns can get their fill of his verse at Calgary's Highland Games. A total of $3,000 in prize money will be handed out in a Burns recital and competition, which will feature both poetry and song. Competitors ...
- Learning a foreign language integral to future success (Independent Florida Alligator)
There’s a lot of advice I could give you about the next four years of your life. There’s a ton of stuff I could tell you that you should or shouldn’t do and a mass of truisms I could throw at you about how important education is or whatever. I’m sure you’ve heard it all before.
- Globe North listings - Boston Globe
Globe North listingsBoston Globe, United States - Aug 5, 2008Free. New events include a chalk drawing contest, train rides and pony rides. Entertainment by the female harmonic trio Maeve, comedic folk music by Vic and ...
- Jefferson's Other Family - Slate
I have long considered David Lodge's novels a guilty pleasure. They are comedies of manners that, despite Lodge's literary aspirations, succeed mostly as what Graham Greene called entertainments. Lodge chooses themes that are serious enough. The ...
- Green Spaces: vulture culture in Croatia - Times Online
Times OnlineGreen Spaces: vulture culture in CroatiaTimes Online, UK - 36 minutes agoGoran's vision is not just saving the vultures, but the entire biodiversity of Cres, which for him means archaeology, folklore, poetry and religion as well ...
- My fellow prisoners, please wash away the green behind your ears - Tucson Citizen
I once used a word in a poem for a UA poetry class: corpusculent. Great word, except I was mortified to find out, during a class reading before a published poet, that no such word actually exists. The poet, however, loved the feel and sound of it ...
- Earthdance Festival features music from many genres - Redwood Times
Earthdance Festival features music from many genresRedwood Times, CA - 6 hours agoFrom a personal and cultural history rooted in poetry (being the grandson of one of Somalia’s most famous poets), K’Naan widens the traditional hip-hop ...
- Alleged victim testifies in Gary cop brutality trial - Post-Tribune
HAMMOND -- Victor Adams Jr. said he had been sitting on the couch at a friend's house when a much larger man burst through the door and began punching and throttling him, all the while demanding to know what Adams had done with "his stuff." Adams, a ...
- SOU Native American youth program receives grant (Ashland Daily Tidings)
The Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation has awarded the Southern Oregon University Native American Youth Academy Program, Konaway Nika Tillicum, $10,000.
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