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- Loudon Wainwright 3rd is in 'Recovery' - New York Daily News
Loudon Wainwright 3rd talks to himself on his new album. Not his current self, mind you, but a much younger edition - the man/boy of his early 20s who wrote songs of such clarity, wit and poetry, you'd think he was much older way back when. On ...
- Branding? We Don’t Need No Stinking Branding - HorseRaceInsider.com
Branding? We Don’t Need No Stinking BrandingHorseRaceInsider.com, Canada - 28 minutes agoOf metrics, the dictionary says it’s “the art or study of using meters in poetry,†but there's nothing about contemporary usage, however. ...
- The Wit and Wisdom of the Ages - Times and Democrat
“The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones.†“We’re all worms but I do believe I’m a glow worm.†− Churchill “God will help those who help others.†“Lincoln was the best spokesman for our exceptionalism.†“We’d ...
- Heath Ledger in 'Dark Knight': Bravo! (Los Angeles Times)
Ledger's turn as the Joker shows how rare and fine a talent his was. Great actors, even those who have been blessed with longevity, often bear a tragic mark. It's not just the ups and downs of stardom that can make for a cruel career. Rough inner seas are typically the very reason someone seeks to be among what William Hazlitt, that lyrical witness of the early 19th century British stage, ...
- Poet who gave identity to Palestinians dies (CNN.com)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston, Texas. He was 67.
- The Browser: Socks, Books, Rock'N'Roll - and Jazz, Actually - RedOrbit
The Browser: Socks, Books, Rock'N'Roll - and Jazz, ActuallyRedOrbit, TX - 30 minutes agoThere are Thetre de Becherel Art'Comedia and Last Word productions tonight, Messiaen tomorrow at Wigtown Church, an Irish film season, Kinetic Poetry (think ...
- Bolivia in Dialogue: Between Hope and Civil War - Upside Down World
Upside Down WorldBolivia in Dialogue: Between Hope and Civil WarUpside Down World, NY - 8 hours agoHe has also written, edited or translated a half dozen other books of poetry, fiction, interviews and translations from Latin America. ...
- More of today's best bets in entertainment - Detroit Free Press
More of today's best bets in entertainmentDetroit Free Press, United States - 57 minutes agoCombo family pricing available. Additional $5 for IMAX. ByteThis Poetry Night: Featuring local comedy, monologues, poetry readings, performances, ...
- Not your usual English teacher - Southern Highland News
Not your usual English teacherSouthern Highland News, Australia - 2 hours agoAs a child she would often enter writing competitions conducted by the postal institute and frequently walked away with a prize. Her success as a wordsmith ...
- Film: Derek (15) - Metro
MetroFilm: Derek (15)Metro, UK - 26 minutes ago'He was crucial in my thinking about film as a form of poetry rather than just conventional narrative,' says Julien. Wed Aug 21, Broadway, ...
- Christian sues gallery over 'blasphemous' erection (Guardian Unlimited)
Representatives for a gallery in Gateshead appeared in court yesterday charged with outraging public decency, after featuring a statue of Jesus with an erection.
- In Person: 30 Poets, Edited by Neil Astley, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce (Independent)
Bloodaxe Books was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne 30 years ago by Neil Astley. Since then, it has published nearly 1,000 poetry books, quantities probably matched only by Michael Schmidt's Manchester-based Carcanet Press. Bloodaxe has reined in a more left-ward, experimental and internationalist stable, as distinct from Carcanet's conservative bent. Both publishers have recently become more ...
- When Music Was News to Me (Metro Santa Cruz)
Now that culture has been atomized into 18 million targeted niche markets, and anyone can program their personal menu of musical taste into their personal portable digital device, I guess the antique medium of radio can't be expected to provide the public with what it already thinks it wants to hear.
- Making Do and Mending - London Review of Books (subscription)
Making Do and MendingLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 55 minutes agoShe had less luck with the book she wanted to write about Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. It was a world she had known, and its later obscurity, ...
- Jacks: “Background Material†(Poetry) - Yale Daily News
are taking pictures. Hello, I tell myself. It's not easy hearing green Rich chords cresendoed beneath the emerald and gold ceiling of Woolsey Hall as Jessica French MUS ’08 struck at the ivory keys of the organ during her senior recital.... W ...
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