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- Changing world of commencement speakers (San Francisco Chronicle)
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of the next...
- The power of words - State Journal-Register
At Theatre in the Park, “John Brown’s Body” won’t really sound like an epic poem, but it is. It’s a musical, but not always in a burst-into-song sense. It’s a drama with two love stories. It’s a tragedy with a Greek chorus. It’s a ...
- Christina Patterson: Equal opportunities? That's so public sector - The Independent
A few years ago, I was taken to tribunal by my stalker. I'd first met him some years before. Whenever he wanted to see me, he would just buy a ticket for one of the literary events I used to run, and sit in the front row and stare. He would send me ...
- Poets gather by the tranquil Crowe waters - Community Press
Poets gather by the tranquil Crowe watersCommunity Press, Canada - 26 minutes agoMarmora and Lake - What was billed as “another dam poetry reading” took place next to the Marmora dam on an unsettled Aug. 2 as part of the second annual ...
- The telltale heart - Business World
John Torres’ Taon noong ako’y anak sa labas will screen at the Mogwai art cinema at Cubao X, Araneta Center, Cubao, QC, tonight at 8 pm. John Torres’ Taon noong ako’y anak sa labas (Years When I Was a Child Outside , 2008) starts out with the ...
- Summer reads - News & Observer
Summer readsNews & Observer, NC - 10 hours agoBeing poet laureate, I want to give poetry a plug, so let me tell you how much I've been enjoying Atwood's new collection. Don't forget about poetry; ...
- Stratford: Cool theatre for summer's parching heat - Rabble.ca
Stratford: Cool theatre for summer's parching heatRabble.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoTheir love scenes are passionate and believable and their ability to articulate the poetry of the piece was rewarded with shouts of bravo from an audience ...
- Touring With an Eccentric Guide - Wall Street Journal
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) once described himself as the last of the romantics and the first of the moderns, which may account for the winning combination of the playful and the serious in his writing. Today he is largely remembered for his ballad ...
- Cal Performances hosts Robert Lepage's new work on Hans Christian ... - Contra Costa Times
First, Robert Lepage transported theatergoers to the stratosphere with his sublime solo "The Far Side of the Moon." Then he upped the ante on multimedia alchemy with Cirque du Soleil's phenomenally successful "KA" in Las Vegas. Now, the avant-garde ...
- Cheers to Shiraz - Payvand
Cheers to ShirazPayvand, Iran - 6 hours ago"Literature and in particular poetry has a direct influence in people's daily lives," she told me. Shiraz, UNESCO's world's second city of literature, ...
- Drama taps online search (Louisville Courier-Journal)
They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person?
- OTEP To Film First-Ever Live DVD - July 3, 2008 - Blabbermouth.net
OTEP To Film First-Ever Live DVD - July 3, 2008Blabbermouth.net, NY - 2 hours agoSo if you ever thought about breaking free from the cocoon, butterfly, now is the (fucking) time. "Those that come in costume (blood pigs, ghostflowers, ...
- Encampment hosts Cowboy Gathering July 18-20 - Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
Encampment hosts Cowboy Gathering July 18-20Jackson Hole Star-Tribune, WY - 1 hour agoActivities range from a stick horse rodeo and melodrama to cowboy music and poetry. An evening concert at 7 pm, on Saturday, July 19, features Blakely, ...
- Communication is key (Owen Sound Sun Times)
By Don Crosby Sun Times correspondent Organizers of this year’s Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film in Durham are honouring one of their own. Geoffrey Shea has created five installations that emphasize the written and the spoken word — a theme that he says runs through his [...]
- Pulped fiction - Financial Times
I t is an exclusive little literary club. It meets at a portal between heaven and earth, since some of its members are dead. It meets to weep and chuckle, and sometimes rail and wail, over chance, fate and the movies. You probably won’t have heard ...
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