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- Sins Invaild @ BRAVA Theater SF Sept 5th and 6th 8pm - Bay Area Indymedia
Sins Invaild @ BRAVA Theater SF Sept 5th and 6th 8pmBay Area Indymedia, CA - 1 hour agoThe Dancing Tree embraced the project, and last year over 300 people witnessed the groundbreaking, erotic event in San Francisco. ...
- Philip Glass: Confessions of a chameleon - The Independent
As a child, the composer Philip Glass worked at his father's radio- repair shop in Baltimore, which doubled as a small record store. It was there that he was exposed to a huge variety of music, from Schubert and Bartok to Hank Williams and Elvis. "I ...
- Hayden Carruth - Guardian Unlimited
One of American poetry's most distinctive voices, the writer and critic Hayden Carruth, has died aged 87. Although he found acclaim relatively late in life, his deceptively simple style, infused with the rhythms and inflections of jazz, explored ...
- North Las Vegas homes on fire (Las Vegas Sun)
The North Las Vegas Fire Department is responding to smoke and flames coming from several homes behind the station near Las Vegas Boulevard North and Carey Avenue.
- That Guy Next to Palin - Slate
"Lipstick on a pig": Either (a) shockingly clumsy and hack--suggesting unchivalrously that Palin isn't attractive or (b) brilliant, memorably undermining three of her central virtues** at once. ... I tend to think (a). ... **-- What three virtues? 1 ...
- The Ash Girl lacks colour and feeling - Georgia Straight
The Ash Girl lacks colour and feelingGeorgia Straight, Canada - 24 minutes agoAsh Girl’s stepsisters still hack off chunks of their feet so that they can wear the magic slipper but, instead of letting the grisly poetry of these acts ...
- Benedict XVI's Homily at Synod's Inaugural Mass - Zenit News Agency
Benedict XVI's Homily at Synod's Inaugural MassZenit News Agency, Italy - 23 minutes agoThis is a canticle placed in the autumnal context of harvest: a small masterpiece of Jewish poetry, which must have been very familiar to those who listened ...
- Tango Diva Announces Shams Ensemble from Iran on Tour with the First ... - Forbes
Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, composer Kaykhoro Pournazeri enjoyed a career in traditional Persian music. He boasts a century-long music heritage and was a driving force in shaping the newest talent -- both men and women -- that came ...
- For sale: a better life - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentFor sale: a better lifeIrish Independent, Ireland - 3 hours agoThe Romantic poet Shelley, one of the main surfers on this incoming tide, has been mocked ever since he asserted that "Poets are the unacknowledged ...
- Extraordinary American Novelist Ray Bradbury to Headline the Seventh Annual West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.----Famed novelist Ray Bradbury, who is widely considered to be one of the most important American writers of fiction during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, will headline the award-winning West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, September 28, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at West Hollywood Park, 647 North San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood.
- Using the power of poetry to help highlight troubles - Lewes Today
An orthotist has used poetry to reflect the emotions of a broken Zimbabwe father left to nurse his innocent son's wounds following an attack in the terror-striken nation. Jonathan Wright, of Orchard Way, Barnham, chose to recount the man's horrific ...
- Gary Snyder Gets the Lilly - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Gary Snyder Gets the LillySeattle Post Intelligencer - Apr 30, 2008says Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chair of the selection committee. The $100000 award is one of the most lucrative out there and no one is ...
- Son of a widowed city - Al-Ahram Weekly
Son of a widowed cityAl-Ahram Weekly, Egypt - 44 minutes agoJaheen also promoted poetry written by El-Abnoudi and that, in short, is how the ammiya poetry movement made its start." Though his friendship with ...
- Notable: Katrina collections - Tampabay.com
Notable: Katrina collectionsTampabay.com, FL - 6 hours agoBy Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor To mark this week's third anniversary of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, three new books of poetry ...
- A slice of life in the region - The Daily Star
The Daily StarA slice of life in the regionThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 52 minutes ago“Even if you don't understand the music, the poetry and the words, you get a very strong sense of the sound, emotion, feelings of loss and yearnings. ...
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