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- Literary luminaries to attend unveiling of statue of poet Al Purdy - Canada East
TORONTO - Author Margaret Atwood and poet Dennis Lee were among the literary luminaries set to attend an unveiling of a statue of poet Al Purdy on Tuesday. The Wooler, Ont.-born writer, who is considered one of the most important Canadian poets of ...
- 8 Days in June: Schedule, details (Detroit Free Press)
Peter Oundjian, artistic director; Tom Allen, host and creative consultant. Concerts at Max M. Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward, Detroit, except chamber concert Friday at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 4454 Woodward.
- Engrossing 'Dark Knight' redefines genre (The Aspen Times)
"Batman" isn't a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about.
- Provincetown Guide (RainbowNetwork.com)
Why go? The largest lesbian and gay holiday resort in the USA is surprisingly a whaling village at the tip of Cape Cod. Provincetown is definitely the place to be for gays and lesbians wanting a bit of sun, sea, sand and whale watching!
- Persian: difficult but loveable - The News - International
Persian: difficult but loveableThe News - International, Pakistan - 6 hours ago“In order to understand Iqbal’s, Saadi’s and Roomi’s poetry, you must know Persian,” points out Dr Afsar. Azhar Gillani studied Persian for this very reason ...
- Safe roads for everybody - La Crosse Tribune
A brief history of paved roads in America: In 1890, the League of American Wheelmen lobbied to have roads paved; until this time roads were an impassable quagmire of mud and ruts. The Wheelmen were a powerful organization with 102,000 members ...
- The Incredible Hulk : A Smashing Sampling of Scenes - Superhero Hype!
In a spacious screening room on the Universal Studios lot, the French-born action film director Louis Leterrier ( Transporter 2 ) is brimming with energy; Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige, fresh off the spectacular success of the ...
- Around the Area - News Report
Around the AreaNews Report, NJ - 2 hours agoThe workshop is free, but registration is required. Call (609) 267-9660, ext. 3072 to register. POETRY WORKSHOPS: Poetry workshops presented by the ...
- Living to tell the tale - The National
Living to tell the taleThe National, United Arab Emirates - 45 minutes agoAlameddine offers moving passages on the oud, Umm Kalthoum and the poetry of Abu Nawas and Al-Mutanabbi. But his novel is also a raucous celebration of ...
- The man who heard the woodwind in the willows - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentThe man who heard the woodwind in the willowsIrish Independent, Ireland - 2 hours ago... the poetry of Alfred Edward Housman, a turn-of-the-century English romantic, whose verse was all about nostalgia for a rural way of life that was gone ...
- Opera Camp Hits The Right Note - Yankton Daily Press (subscription)
Opera Camp Hits The Right NoteYankton Daily Press (subscription), SD - 16 hours agoIt’s the poetry, the melody and the harmonies,” she said. “He really stresses making the piece your own, internally, because people may have heard the same ...
- Zimbabwe: Play Takes Dig At Mugabe's Rule (AllAfrica.com)
Another playwright has taken a dig at President Robert Mugabe's controversial 28-year rule, with a play set to take the forthcoming Umthwakazi Arts Festival by storm.
- Children's tale comes to stage (Rocky Mount Telegram)
Whatever you do, don't call her "Carrots."
- Up close and personal with the Lincolns - Chicago Sun-Times
Up close and personal with the LincolnsChicago Sun-Times, United States - 41 minutes agoThey read poetry together, and talked politics. They shared ambition -- Mary wanted to marry someone who would be president, and recognized greatness in ...
- Book review: Finding the deeper Albert Camus in his 'Notebooks, 1951-1959' (International Herald Tribune)
Beneath the author's ideological quarrels is a deeper unhappiness with the critical bent of the Paris intelligentsia.
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