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- Simplicity and repetition may explain staying power of songs (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
It only takes a single exposure, and in an instant, your whole day can change. The infection is rapid and feels potentially unending. One minute you're minding your own business and the next you find that you can't stop thinking, humming, or singing "Dancing Queen."
- Confluence, Pittsburgh's 20th Annual Science Fiction Convention - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Confluence, Pittsburgh's 20th Annual Science Fiction ConventionPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 3 hours agoPoetry readings, filk concerts, a video room and other entertaining fare. A taste-testing consuite, a boffo art show, and a book-crammed dealers room. ...
- Thurston Moore: Sensitive/Lethal (Pitchfork)
The latest in a long run of below-the-radar experimental solo releases for small labels finds the underground rock figurehead making long-form noise music for Carlos Giffoni's No Fun imprint. read more
- Eletha Nelson Taus - The Eureka Reporter
Eletha Nelson TausThe Eureka Reporter, CA - Jul 16, 2008She wrote poetry and had many published. She is survived by her son Tracy Nelson and wife Lois of Ferndale; son Frank Taus and wife Ann of Grants Pass, ...
- BBC website signals greater interactivity (Guardian Unlimited)
The BBC is developing an extensive personalisation system on bbc.co.uk this year as part of a wider plan to improve interactivity. By Jemima Kiss
- Mother Of Two Boys Crowned Mrs. Pakistan World - South Asian Link
Mother Of Two Boys Crowned Mrs. Pakistan WorldSouth Asian Link, Canada - 9 hours agoBesides her passions for bringing Pakistan on the map of beauty pageants, Saman in also in the midst of publishing her second poetry book in Urdu. ...
- In praise of Mbeki - Essop Pahad - Politicsweb
In praise of Mbeki - Essop PahadPoliticsweb, South Africa - 4 hours agoYou are a practical politician who delights in the pleasure of literature and poetry, you are a philosopher and your narrative encapsulates simultaneously ...
- Column: Back to Beirut (The Daily Review)
My heart started thumping when my parents told us we were going to Lebanon. They were beaming with excitement — my dad hasn't gone back to his homeland in nearly 20 years and it has been 14 years since my mom and I went there.
- Preview: Edinburgh International Festival (The Herald)
History happens next Wednesday when the Edinburgh International Film Festival makes its June debut.
- Things to do today - Baxter Bulletin
Things to do todayBaxter Bulletin, AR - 1 hour agoCelebrate America's Western culture with music, storytelling and poetry recitations by working cowboys. Concerts planned both evenings. ...
- Finding challenge in verse - Caulfield Glen Eira Leader
Caulfield Glen Eira LeaderFinding challenge in verseCaulfield Glen Eira Leader, Australia - Jul 15, 2008She will often find herself sitting in front of her laptop in her quiet Eltham study with a perfectly formed idea for the shape of a poem, but little idea ...
- What’s Wrong With Economists? - New York Times Blogs
“Well I’ll tell you what, I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.” And more recently John McCain has jumped aboard : “I trust the people and not the so-called economists to give the American people a little relief.” Honestly, I ...
- Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry Prize - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry PrizeAllAfrica.com, Washington - 6 hours agoNigeria's highest poetry prize is ANA/Cadbury Prize worth $1000. A letter from the organisers of the award, Assilah Forum Foundation, a non-profit ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney - Brisbane Times
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone. Friends, relatives and police officers from the Cowra ...
- Town reels after stabbing - Point Reyes Light
Town reels after stabbingPoint Reyes Light, CA - 30 minutes agoJeff Castro, a young man who knew both Ricky and those who beat him, spoke during the middle of the meeting in a style reminiscent of slam poetry. ...
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