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- Every Investigator's Nightmare - Der Spiegel
Cows and goats graze in an open garbage dump surrounded by dusty high-rise buildings in Kubba, one of the poorer neighborhoods of Tripoli, a port city in northern Lebanon. On the seventh floor of the Madmun building in Kubba last Thursday, Shahid ...
- More of today's best - Detroit Free Press
More of today's bestDetroit Free Press, United States - Jul 4, 2008EchoVerse Poetry and Slam Series: Hosted by resident poet, JY-OBADELE aka Johnny Jenkins Jr. and weekly featured guest poets. With sounds by resident DJ ...
- It may take a French poet to enjoy absinthe - AZCentral.com
Arthur Rimbaud wrote complicated, gorgeous poetry in the mid-1800s. So gorgeous, in fact, that I found myself thinking of him and his work on Saturday night as I tried to choke down his favorite cocktail, absinthe. Rimbaud, a precocious, intense ...
- David Berman Finds Comfort In His Own Head (The New York Sun)
There are no simple conversations with David Berman. The singer-songwriter, whom indie-rock historians always will remember as the guy who started the 1990s hipster favorite Pavement as a side project, has an acutely analytical mind that can find multiple layers of meaning in everything. Chatting over bistro fare in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn during a recent visit to New York, ...
- Innovative Photography/Poetry Book Illustrates Universal Concerns - PR.com
Beams the glory of tomorrow’s memories. Each baby-alive digital canvas painting is created from a digital image and transformed into what resembles an oil painting when set to canvas. The book’s photographic art combined with Alexa’s visionary ...
- Of Emily Dickinson and Steve McQueen on the Smith River - Missoulian
“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.” The line from Emily Dickinson drifted through my consciousness again last week on the starlit evening of the summer solstice. The insistent roll of the Smith River had lulled us all for ...
- Travelogue, Poot Style - Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn RailTravelogue, Poot StyleBrooklyn Rail, NY - 5 hours agoLessons of Darkness desperately needed voice-over, but Herzog remained silent, trusting to the considerable poetry of his images to keep us enthralled. ...
- Can't Miss It: Weekend Edition, June 20-22 - Seattlest
SeattlestCan't Miss It: Weekend Edition, June 20-22Seattlest, Seattle - 2 hours agoThe International Rescue Committee is hosting a benefit night of poetry, music, dance and crafts from our local refugee community at the Seattle Center, ...
- Club's name is its goal for 110 years - Detroit Free Press
I still remember the rainy days and winter nights I used to spend as a teen, cuddled up with a book. Some of those characters became my friends, my advisers, my confidantes. If I could live that again with my daughter, I thought, we'd always have ...
- Posters, storybooks spread AIDS awareness in rural India - Mangalorean.com
Posters, storybooks spread AIDS awareness in rural IndiaMangalorean.com, India - Jun 1, 2008Some of them are also in poetry form, which readers find interesting," he said. Not all the characters in the storybooks have Hindu names, there are some ...
- Kate Summerscale wins the Samuel Johnson prize - Daily Telegraph Blogs
My brilliant former colleague Kate Summerscale has won the Samuel Johnson prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher . We are delighted for her. Hooray for Kate! It's customary when someone goes from being a well-kept secret, to a less well-kept ...
- The books have won - News & Observer
News & ObserverThe books have wonNews & Observer, NC - 10 minutes agoI bought fiction and poetry. And how-to books from the practical to the psychological, the religious, histories, mysteries, cookbooks, garden books, ...
- Father-daughter bond is a poignant page-turner - Charlotte Observer
Father-daughter bond is a poignant page-turnerCharlotte Observer, NC - Jun 15, 2008In 1969 when Plaza Methodist Church brought in an African American minister, the majority of white parishioners left to attend other churches. ...
- Friday, July 18 - Advocate Weekly
Friday, July 18Advocate Weekly, MA - 2 hours agoThe Triplex, Upstairs Live presents Taylor Mali, generally considered to be the most successful poetry slam strategist of all time, 9 pm Cost: $20. ...
- Walliams' stalker warned she faces jail - Wandsworth Guardian
A 29-year-old woman who stalked funny man David Walliams has been warned she faces jail. Sarah Bartholomew pleaded guilty to harassing the Banstead-born Little Britain star between October 2007 and this February at a hearing last month. She was ...
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