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- The reporter next door - Mercer Island Reporter
Rachel Van Gelder, 12, has started her own newspaper and the entire neighborhood is involved. In late May, the first issue of The Hoot, a newspaper covering the events and personalities of Mercer Terrace Drive on the South end, went to press. Van ...
- Leonard Cohen (AskMen)
Why Is He Famous? Called the “godfather of gloom” and the ”poet laureate of pessimism,” Canadian-born singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is a living legend.
- A Bronx Tale: Tony Curtis (The New York Sun)
Many a highbrow raised a brow high last year when the critic Clive James, in his book "Cultural Amnesia," included just three movie actors among his selections of the most significant cultural figures of the century. They were Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and ... Tony Curtis. That's right. Not Brando or Olivier or even John Wayne, but the Jewish kid from the Bronx, Bernie Schwartz — the guy who ...
- Poetry power: Bob Dylan names Burns as inspiration - Herald
Music legend Bob Dylan has revealed his source of greatest inspiration - Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns. Dylan was asked to name the lyric or verse that has had the greatest impact on his life. He selected the 1794 love song A Red, Red Rose ...
- Baring their souls - Guardian Unlimited
Fifteen years ago the music world was turned upside down with the release of Liz Phair's album, Exile in Guyville. Written in response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (both were double albums, 18 tracks long), it matched that record in ...
- Jacqueline Karp - French News
This is me, with my journalist mum’s wartime typewriter, on which I learned to type before I even learned to write. She carted it all the way round the Middle East with her, and passed on to me the writing bug. I fought it for ages, making a career ...
- A call for young writers - Huntington Herald Dispatch
A call for young writersHuntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 2 hours agoCreative Communication is seeking young writers for the 2008 Essay and Poetry Contest. More than $3000 in prizes and awards will be awarded to poets, ...
- 'Encounters at the End of the World': Living in Antarctica - Buffalo News
Werner Herzog illustrates life in Antarctica in his film “Encounters at the End of the World.” One of the great and snotty East Coast jokes about California is that “it isn’t the end of the world, but you can see it from there.” Antarctica ...
- 'Latino Music Festival' Spans Time, Borders (HispanicBusiness.com)
It is good to see Chicago's Latino composers coming into their own.
- Alastair Reid: A life in books (Guardian Unlimited)
Culture: The celebrated prose writer and poet on his life, his literary friendships and his time at the New Yorker
- Community In Brief: 10/08/2008 (Grand Traverse Herald)
INTERLOCHEN -- Poet and playwright Cornelius Eady will give a reading on Thursday at the Writing House. Eady is the author of six books of poetry and the recipient of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
- Jazz, poetry help festival bid farewell - Daily Progress
Text size: small | medium | large By The Daily Progress Staff Published: July 31, 2008 The Wintergreen Summer Music Festival will wind up its season with jazz, poetry, theater and one last cup of coffee.
- New Home for an Artist, New Hope for American Ballet Theater - New York Times
New York TimesNew Home for an Artist, New Hope for American Ballet TheaterNew York Times, United States - 9 hours agoStill, he seems the finest Russian choreographer — in terms of dance poetry — since George Balanchine, who left Russia in 1924. ...
- Picasso's verbal artistry - guardian.co.uk
Picasso's verbal artistryguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoPicasso's interest in poetry comes as no surprise to those familiar with his life. From his earliest days in Paris, he liked to surround himself with poets, ...
- Hearst teacher-poet Duguay now a published prizewinner (Kapuskasing Northern Times)
Heeding a fellow English teacher’s suggestion that she enter her poetry in Northern Ontario competitions, Hearst bard Melanie Baschiera-Duguay has won first and third prizes, and is now published in two collections.
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