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- Wagon ride takes travelers to dinner in a tipi - Montana Standard
For the past five summers, Bruce Anfinson and his family have hosted dinners at Moose Meadow Tipi on the ranch, located south of Helena. People access the tipi via horse-drawn wagons. The historic past is brought to life as horses’ hooves clop ...
- Eighteen and the world in their hands - Amsterdam News
Eighteen and the world in their handsAmsterdam News, NY - 6 hours agoAlso an award-winning writer, Brittany is a semifinalist of the 10th annual Urban World Poetry Slam. Sticking to their mission of changing America’s ...
- Spalding plays "cool" blend of jazz, R&B, bossa nova (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Moments after Esperanza Spalding finished singing "Precious" on NBC's "Late Show With David Letterman" in early June, the host strode right up and anointed her "the coolest person we've ever had on the show."
- Nico Muhly looks for that radical sound (Los Angeles Times)
The composer's young career shows an adventurous streak, including stints with Philip Glass and Björk. His newest is 'Mothertongue.' THE FIRST vocal lines of young composer Nico Muhly’s new album, "Mothertongue," consist of a seemingly arbitrary list of numbers and addresses. Sung by mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer over aching strings and a distorted sub-bass synthesizer, the arrangement feels ...
- Guest List: Ponytail (Pitchfork)
Ponytail's Jeremy Hyman, Ken Seeno, Molly Siegel, and Dustin Wong, whose diverse tastes result in a number of disparate song recommendations, nevertheless all seem to agree on the best two TV shows of the past few years. [Interview: Tyler Grisham] read more
- Winners of William Rockhill Nelson Awards - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Winners of William Rockhill Nelson AwardsSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 11 hours agoWalter Bargen’s West of West and John Gallaher’s The Little Book of Guesses were poetry finalists, and Michael L. Johnson’s Hunger for the Wild and R. Alton ...
- Caroline Kennedy Goes To Bat For Obama - News Channel 2000
BOSTON -- Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is ...
- 'The Earl Sande Saga' chronicles legendary jockey - WMI Central
SPRINGERVILLE - Summer of 1916. Hot, dusty. The rough and rowdy town of Springerville is pursuing its favorite sport - matched horse racing. It's a chance for working cowboys and ranchers to put their money on the cow ponies they've been "bragging on ...
- Ashland Peace Fence vandalized - Ashland Daily Tidings
The Peace Fence in the Railroad District was vandalized Monday night. Jean Bakewell, one of the Peace Fence founders, found five of the decorated panels lying on the ground in shreds Tuesday morning. Three of the ruined panels had been painted by ...
- MR HILARIOUS - CNET Asia
MR HILARIOUS is Mr. Hilarious (vocals), Mr. Ridiculous (guitars and effects), Roger (bass guitar), and Donald "Donny the Drummer" Garret (drums). The last name of Roger has always been withheld due to the bassits extreme devotion to his family and ...
- WEIRDNESS A FRINGE BENEFIT AT MIDTOWN FEST - New York Post
THE International Fringe Festival may get the lion's share of attention around here, but don't discount its Midtown rival, now quietly entering its ninth season. Kicking off tonight and running through Aug. 3, this year's Midtown International ...
- Search is on to find wartime child poet - Stratford-upon-Avon Observer
AN UNUSUAL search is underway for a Gillian Marjorie Hughes of Stratford, more than 64 years after she inspired a visiting Second World War soldier with her poetry. On March 13, 1944, Australian Winston Sydney Dimond, a navigator in 518 Squadron ...
- Super Columbine Massacre RPG - computer gaming at its worst? - Tech Leader
Super Columbine Massacre RPG - computer gaming at its worst?Tech Leader, South Africa - 2 hours agoThis is akin to arguing, as was done with film a century earlier, that to have a book about a subject is one thing because the audience can passively read ...
- American Life in Poetry - Easy Reader
American Life in PoetryEasy Reader, CA - 8 hours agoIt is important for me to be down on my knees, my fingers sifting the black earth, making those things grow which will grow.
- Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Commences 2008-09 Season ... - University of Pittsburgh News (press release)
Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Commences 2008-09 Season ...University of Pittsburgh News (press release), PA - 1 hour agoIt also has been featured in such anthologies as “Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present” (Scribner Book Company, 2003), “Best American Poetry ...
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