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- Shakespeare goes groovy in Kingsmen's comedy - Agoura Hills Acorn
Shakespeare goes groovy in Kingsmen's comedyAgoura Hills Acorn, CA - 5 hours agoThere's some clever business of Touchstone mocking Orlando's syrupy love poetry and "Ganymede" teaching Orlando how to pitch woo to a lady. ...
- July 7, 2008 Library Books - Clovis News Journal
July 7, 2008 Library BooksClovis News Journal, NM - 2 hours ago500 Great Books for Teens by Anita Silvey was given by Viva Laney, Daughters and Family in memory of Jackie Pruet. Divided into 21 sections, ...
- Nam Le launching world tour for 'The Boat' May 16 in Exeter - Portsmouth Herald News
Nam Le launching world tour for 'The Boat' May 16 in ExeterPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 17 hours agoAnd so it goes with a writer who has spent much of his life writing poetry –– a poet who knows that a single, well-chosen and well-placed word can sometimes ...
- Smart People - RTE.ie
Smart PeopleRTE.ie, Ireland - 55 minutes agoJames, by the way, is also a 'smart person', thanks to his poetry. Chuck, though, is not smart, except in a hokum, homespun-wisdom sort of way. ...
- Panel of judges picks Best Books of Indiana (The Indianapolis Star)
Finalists in the 2008 Best Books of Indiana Competition were revealed for fiction and children's/young adult categories. A panel of judges in each category considered all entries and granted awards at their discretion. According to the Indiana Center for the Book, which sponsors the contest, entries are judged on the quality of writing, with organization and interpretation also considered. Only ...
- Town setting for historical novel - Ashbourne News Telegraph
Town setting for historical novelAshbourne News Telegraph, UK - 55 minutes agoIt began when she was a boarder in Wales and when her family moved to Scotland she won prizes for both poetry and prose. After travelling in Italy she took ...
- Writing a haiku in German - often a tight squeeze - Nation - Thailand
Cologne's haiku workshop, held at the Museum of East Asian Art, often has up to 10 amateurs eager to read their latest poetry in German, a language of long words where it can often be a squeeze to distill an idea into such brief poem. Traditional ...
- Urban Verbs in Concert - NPR
Urban Verbs in ConcertNPR - 8 hours agoRoddy Frantz wrote great poetry and always sang with passion. There is a spirit and sound I'll hear in some bands making music today that reminds of what ...
- 'Deadliest Catch' fishermen pursue opportunities, thanks to Discovery ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
What: Captains Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand discuss and sign their book, "Time Bandit." When: 7 p.m. Tuesday. Where: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Legacy Village, Lyndhurst. Tickets: Line numbers are required, available with book purchase. Information ...
- Ken Peplowski: Good Times On the Road For Reed Virtuoso - All About Jazz
All About JazzKen Peplowski: Good Times On the Road For Reed VirtuosoAll About Jazz, PA - 7 hours agoThis cohesion of elements is described by the late critic Whitney Balliett: “Jazz...like poetry, it is an art of surprise—that, shaken down, amounts to the ...
- 'Xanadu' Special Edition: Let the Good Times Roll - Washington Post
Olivia Newton-John on skates plus Gene Kelly equal a "magical music edition" of "Xanadu." (Universal Studios Home Entertainment Photos) What I am about to write will undoubtedly elicit mockery and ridicule for weeks, if not months, to come. But I ...
- Super Kid: Maggie Wicken, 17, senior, Darrington High School - HeraldNet
Super Kid: Maggie Wicken, 17, senior, Darrington High SchoolHeraldNet, WA - 18 minutes agoPoem passion: Writes poetry and competes at poetry slams in Seattle. Next chapter: Wants to be a novelist and poet and possibly teach high school. ...
- B-52s rocking along with Cyndi Lauper (Miami Herald)
The rejuvenated B-52s -- Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson -- are still dancing this mess around 30 years after their deliriously wacko hit Rock Lobster shook up common notions of what rock 'n' roll should, and could, be.
- Tempted by the illusion of greatness (Asbury Park Press)
In a previous life, I remember wondering out loud about Mark McGwire's assault on one of our cultural treasures, baseball's single-season home-run record. Something didn't feel right to me. I wasn't alone, either. But the skeptical voices of 1998 were drowned out by an unrestrained celebration that was enthusiastically endorsed by Major League Baseball.
- Woody Allen rediscovers comic side with 'Vicky' (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
If Woody Allen's geographical shift from Manhattan to London caused some to see a more serious and philosophical side to him, his progression to Barcelona for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" might, for others, represent a welcome return to the neurotic, impetuous romances of his "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan" and even his "Husbands and Wives" periods.
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