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- 'El Niño's' Transcendent Genre - Washington Post
John Adams likes to refer to traditional forms. "A Flowering Tree," for instance, his 2006 opera-oratorio, was his riff on Mozart 's "Magic Flute." Then there's "El Niño," the sprawling choral work that the Choral Arts Society is performing tomorrow ...
- Greenspan Rewrites Aristophanes for World Premiere, Old Comedy , in NYC (Playbill)
Classic Stage Company presents the Target Margin Theater world-premiere production of Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs by David Greenspan, based on — as the title would suggest — Aristophanes' 405 B.C. play Frogs, May 7-31 at CSC's East Village home.
- Elinor Lyon: Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled ... - The Independent
Author of 20 well received children's novels, Elinor Lyon ceased writing in 1975, at a time when the new emphasis on urban social realism in junior fiction had made her own stories seem increasingly out of date. But for many older readers, her ...
- A passion for fashion in paper - Blackpool Gazette
A passion for fashion in paperBlackpool Gazette, UK - 13 hours agoBy Julia Bennett The first-year fashion and clothing students were tasked with creating sculptural paper garments for an exhibition called Poetry in Fashion ...
- AP Top News at 11:00 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is ...
- Get public attention with poetry, not bombs - Agoravox
Get public attention with poetry, not bombsAgoravox, France - 10 minutes ago... went from something approaching normality to suicide terrorist - come to think of it, it’sa bit like what I think of as the Decent Death Dive. ...
- People's Hall of Fame - MiamiHerald.com
People's Hall of FameMiamiHerald.com, FL - 3 hours ago''There probably won't be more than a handful of people at the ceremony who have ever been to a poetry slam or encountered a performance poet, so it's great ...
- The write stuff: (Watauga Democrat)
A local writing group has honored its best through its “Book of the Year” awards.
- A FEW SECONDS OF PANIC (Kirkus Reviews)
Channeling George Plimpton, a sportswriter dons pads and becomes the first journalist in more than 40 years to take the field alongside an NFL team.
- Capsule movie reviews (Calendarlive.com)
A young female caregiver with a wild side (Mena Suvari) and a kicked-to-the-streets jobless man (Stephen Rea) meet decidedly un-cute in director Stuart Gordon's "Stuck," a grisly black comedy of ill manners inspired by the head-spinning case of a Texas nurse's aide who hit a guy with her car and kept him lodged in her windshield in the garage until he died two days later.
- The Africa Day show goes on - Joburg
The Africa Day show goes onJoburg, South Africa - 4 hours agoA full weekend has been earmarked for Africa Day festivities, from Friday, 23 until Sunday, 25 May, with the focus on arts and crafts, dance, poetry and ...
- The revelation of Rev. Wright - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The revelation of Rev. WrightMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 10 hours agoHis speeches are long on poetry and make what can only be described as millennial promises. On the evening that he clinched the nomination, he suggested ...
- Arts and Review - Nigerian Tribune
Nigerian TribuneArts and ReviewNigerian Tribune, Nigeria - 58 minutes agoProfessor Oyewale Tomori wondered why some Nigerians don’t use their power of imagination while others use it wrongly before reading a poem in Yoruba ...
- The Illusionists - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsThe IllusionistsNew York Times Blogs, NY - 56 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Actions Speak Louder | For what A Midsummer Night's Dream loses in dialogue, it makes up for in physical comedy (Urban Tulsa)
Theatre Tulsa's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Whitson Hanna, favors slap-stick physical comedy over Shakespeare's poetry. Though the production fails to evoke much sympathy for the characters, its over-the-top sense of humor will have the audience in stitches. This is the par... By Paul Sheckarski.
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