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- George Carlin: An Appreciation - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The first reactions varied Monday when people learned of comedian George Carlin's death: "George Carlin, really?" "How old was he?" "Oh, man, too bad." But the second reactions were all the same. Like a proud aunt naming her nieces and nephews, folks ...
- Lou Reed, Royal Albert Hall, London - The Independent
Lou Reed's performance of his 1973 album in its entirety shows that some things are better left in the past The last time I reviewed Lou Reed in this column, I made what I thought was a fairly transparent joke about taking heroin in the toilets ...
- Things Fall Apart's still teaching lessons 50 years later - Nigeria Guardian
T he classic novel, Things Fall Apart by the master novelist, Prof. Chinua Achebe is 50 years old today having been first published in June 17, 1958. In the last couple of months, series of activities in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and United States ...
- Community Calendar (Pahrump Valley Times)
Bible study -- 7 p.m., First Southern Baptist Church, Highway 160 and Fehrs Way. Classes for all ages. Young Adults Bible Study -- 6:30 p.m., college students/adult, The Way Baptist Fellowship, 420 E. Bronco St., 727-5242.
- How does a headteacher cope with a pupil's murder? - Guardian Unlimited
Floral tributes to Ben Kinsella, the 17th teenager to die violently in London this year. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Hours before the funeral of knife victim 16-year-old Ben Kinsella late last week, another teenager was stabbed to death ...
- Festival will promote literary understanding - Khaleej Times
Festival will promote literary understandingKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 8 hours ago"The Arabic language must be one of the richest in the world, and the opportunity to celebrate both Arabic and English literature, poetry, books and ...
- PAUL HAYWARD: Federer falls but he goes down with grace (Daily Mail)
When kings tumble, they should fall like this, with valour, with the crowd thrilled and exhausted, with a light trained on all the human virtues sport brings out.
- Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning: Something For All of Us… (Pitchfork)
Chock full of woozy sing-alongs and pulsing ballads, Brendan Canning's debut solo album suggests he's just as responsible for Broken Social Scene's life-affirming guitar pop as Kevin Drew. read more
- Students get graphic with literature (Chico Enterprise-Record)
CHICO -- Although there aren't many words, works being created by junior high school students are considered literature, or at least a close cousin to it.
- Near Mantua, Italy - guardian.co.uk
Near Mantua, Italyguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoVirgil's influence saturates English poetry: high points of inspiration include Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece, Milton's Paradise ...
- Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild to host a literary evening - Cape Gazette
Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild to host a literary eveningCape Gazette, DE - 2 hours agoThe Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild will host a Night of Literary Prose, Poetry and Song, from 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Tuesday, May 13, at Fish On in Five Points, ...
- Bisbee council to discuss recycling, Save Our Stairs - Sierra Vista Herald
Bisbee council to discuss recycling, Save Our StairsSierra Vista Herald, AZ - 2 hours agoShe focuses on mentoring them in music, art, theater, film making, poetry and outdoor recreation, with the intent of involving them in the community around ...
- Appetite for learning shapes seniors' life - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
"We know the poet's a man, but is there any part of his poem that successfully conveys the feelings of a woman?" When Prof. Shinji Watanabe asked his class about a poem from the Spoon River Anthology (1915), told from the point of view of a female ...
- On Poetry: Rhythm washes up in waves - Traverse City Record Eagle
On Poetry: Rhythm washes up in wavesTraverse City Record Eagle, MI - 2 hours agoSince the early 20th century, it seems as though most poems have been "free verse." One explanation is that as it became increasingly easy to map the ...
- Fools and madmen - New Statesman
Fools and madmenNew Statesman, UK - 2 hours ago... melodramatic (it is also, unfor tunately, guessable). For all its mysteries, hesitations and poetry, The Secret Scripture is, finally, a little too pat.
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