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- Lou Reed, Royal Albert Hall, London Beck, Guildhall, Southampton (Independent)
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 beforehand. The credulous media diarist at The Guardian took this at face value, and alerted that newspaper's entire readership to my apparent junkiedom. This time, then, with a face as solemn as Reed's, I shall report that I watch Lou Reed recreate his entire ...
- Brazilian Director Heads Towards Shakespeare - TheCelebrityCafe.com
Brazilian Director Heads Towards ShakespeareTheCelebrityCafe.com, NY - 14 hours agoEach line has poetry, philosophy, a deep understanding of what we are.” His movie adaptation is based on the Brazilian adaptation of Love’s Labour’s Lost, ...
- Poetry night to benefit at-risk children - Anderson Independent Mail (subscription)
Poetry night to benefit at-risk childrenAnderson Independent Mail (subscription), SC - 27 minutes agoHelp us get it right. If you find a factual error or misspelling, email online@independentmail.com or call the newsroom at 864-260-1274.
- Ha Jin wants to visit China (The Charlotte Observer)
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday at the Hong Kong Book Fair that if if he has the chance, he would like to see his homeland again. "I'd like to. I want to ...
- Faith survey revealing, but there are more questions to ask - Allentown Morning Call
Dear Readers: In a recent column, I tried to set out the two routes people of faith must choose between: 1. There are many paths up the same mountain, or 2. My way or the highway. Since then, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a ...
- Al-Baradoni, the last great Arab classical poet (Yemen Times Online)
Yemeni poet, intellectual and writer Abdullah Saleh Al-Baradoni was born in Dhamar governorate’s Al-Baradon village in 1929. Having contracted smallpox at age 4, by age 6, he had lost his vision entirely.
- Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley High (Berkeley Daily Planet)
Tucked inside every diploma of the Berkeley High School graduating class of 2008 is a voter registration card, something principal Jim Slemp didn’t forget to point out amidst all the exhortation, advice and pranks at the Greek Theater on Friday.
- Political Benefits Of Inexperience, Ignorance And Black Solidarity - Post Chronicle
There's no dispute that rookie United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is (1) the youngest serious presidential candidate, (2) the only serious presidential candidate with a black biological parent, (3) winning nearly ...
- National Endowment for the Arts Announces More Than $2,000,000 in Grants for the Big Read (Kansas City InfoZine)
208 grantees include libraries, arts groups, science organizations, colleges, and municipalities; NEA pilots The Big Read Mexico
- Mike Myers: Man of mystery (Entertainment Weekly)
By Josh Rottenberg After a long absence, the star returns in ''The Love Guru'' -- but some in Hollywood aren't rooting for him
- A rare slice of NZ railway history now online - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A rare slice of NZ railway history now onlineScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 31 minutes agoAll issues of the magazine, an official publication by the New Zealand Government Railways Department from May 1926 to June 1940, have been launched online ...
- Girl Scouts win $1,500 grant to fund troop's service project - Roanoke Times
Click the button above to see all of our community coverage, or go straight to your community's homepage with the menu below. The 11 members of Cadette Girl Scout Troop 33 of the Trefoil service unit recently earned a $1,500 grant for a project at ...
- How Gruffalo creator's career took off with a squash and a squeeze - Hampstead and Highgate Express
Hampstead and Highgate ExpressHow Gruffalo creator's career took off with a squash and a squeezeHampstead and Highgate Express, UK - 7 hours agoI'd just learned to read and my father gave me a poetry book - The Book Of A Thousand Poems. I loved it and started learning them all. ...
- The soul of Quebec - Canada.com
The soul of QuebecCanada.com, Canada - 8 hours agoPoetry transcends time, and it's not a question of being confined to one generation of fashion. FĂ©lix was never in style, and he will never go out of style. ...
- Kinky caps global vibe of pumping folk festival - Chicago Tribune
Kinky caps global vibe of pumping folk festivalChicago Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoPlenty of children's activities also had youngsters try out African drumming, urban poetry, Puerto Rican bomba and of course the pure pleasure of feeling an ...
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